An injury-time winner by Nicklas Bendtner on Saturday put Arsenal back in title contention with a 1-0 Premier League triumph over lowly Wolves at Emirates Stadium.
Wolves, unbeaten in four previous games, looked set for a point even though defender Karl Henry was sent off in the 66th minute for an ugly foul on Tomas Rosicky.
But substitute Bendtner header the winner from Bacary Sagna’s cross to keep his team within three points of Chelsea and one of United.
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“It’s kept us well in the title race,” said Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, whose team travels to Barcelona in a Champions League quarterfinal on tomorrow.
“For us, it was important for us to forget Barcelona for 24 hours and focus on today’s game and that was not easy,” he said.
“At the end of the day, we left it late, as many other times, but overall we deserved to win the game,” the Frenchman said.
Manchester City scored three goals in the first seven minutes and led 5-0 at halftime on the way to a 6-1 victory at Burnley.
Emmanuel Adebayor scored twice and other goals came from Craig Bellamy, Carlos Tevez, Patrick Vieira and Vincent Kompany before Steven Fletcher replied for Burnley.
Tottenham went down 3-1 at Sunderland while Aston Villa won 1-0 at Bolton.
Portsmouth were held 0-0 at home by Blackburn and Hull lost 2-0 at Stoke.
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