It was another difficult weekend for the Premier League’s bottom sides.
Only Wigan Athletic and Wolverhampton Wanderers managed to salvage a point as the rest fell to another damaging defeat.
It looks like punters who bet on relegation have a choice between five sides at the bottom – with Wigan, Wolves, Queens Park Rangers, Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers - all scrapping it out for survival.
Wigan after favourites to go down in the relegation betting as they remain rock bottom despite a 0-0 draw at home to Aston Villa. The hosts dominated large parts of the contest but created little. The
result stretched Wigan’s winless home run to 11 games.
Bolton came up against a Chelsea side low on confidence and headed into the break on level terms.
However, second-half goals from David Luiz, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard consigned Bolton to a third successive away league defeat.
Steve Kean’s Blackburn side also fell to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of one of the big boys. Mario Balotelli gave Manchester City a first-half lead before striker partners Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko rounded off a comfortable win in the second half. The defeat left Blackburn in the bottom three.
Mark Hughes suffered defeat to former club Fulham as QPR’s dismal home record continued.
Indiscipline again cost his side. The Rs were already up against it by the time Samba Diakite saw red just after the half hour mark. Pavel Pogrebnyak’s early strike proved to be the only goal of the game.
Terry Connor took charge of Wolves for the first time and will have been impressed with his side’s character after going two down at Newcastle United. Matt Jarvis and Kevin Doyle scored second-half goals to secure a valuable point for the Black Country outfit.
Just two points separate Wolves in 16th from Wigan at the bottom. The relegation battle is going to the wire.
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