Arsenal Beats Liverpool at Anfield in English Premier League - 12-15-09

December 15 - It was an exciting week in the English Premier League, with a surprisingly high number of draws. Six out of ten games resulted in draws to be exact. But probably the most surprising result of all, was Liverpool's 0-2 loss to Arsenal despite playing in front of a capacity  home crowd at Anfield.

But Sunday's final result between the two top English Premier League football teams was more about Arsenal than Liverpool. Consider that about a month ago Arsenal were blitzed 3-0 by top-of-the-league Chelsea FC. In fact, after that game Arsenal were probably at the lowest point in their season.

The loss put Arsenal 11 points adrift of the leaders and not knowing which way was up. Which is why the past weeks have been so exciting, because whatever Arsenal's famously frown-lined manager Arsene Wenger told the Gunners to get their heads and hearts back in the premiership, has worked.

Arsenal have been steadily clawing their way back up the English Premier League standings, and when most of the frontrunners failed to capitalize in their Saturday games (including Man Utd who lost 0-1 to Aston Villa and Tottenham who lost 0-1 to the Wolves), the Gunners wanted to play their A-game.

However, it was Liverpool who scored the first and only goal of the first half, despite more than a few missed opportunities from both teams. But when the Gunners returned to the field for the second half, they were a totally different team, no doubt after a well-deserved bollocking from an angry Wenger.

Although they started the second half 0-1 down, by full time the visitors had made it 2-1 in their favor in front of the by now much quieter Liverpool fans. Said Arsenal captain, Cesc Fábregas, 'At half time the boss ... said we didn't deserve to wear the Arsenal shirt if we played like that. He was right.'

And while Arsenal probably partied the night away after the game, most of Chelsea FC were no doubt still nursing hangovers after drowning their sorrows the night before when they only managed a 3-3 draw against Everton, a team way down in the league standings, and one the Blues should have beaten.

Here are the full English Premier League Football results from the weekend of Saturday, December 12 and Sunday, December 13:

Liverpool 1-2 Arsenal
Stoke City 2-2 Wigan Athletic
Birmingham 1-0 West Ham Utd
Bolton 3-3 Manchester City
Burnley 1-1 Fulham
Chelsea 3-3 Everton
Hull City 0-0 Blackburn
Sunderland 1-1 Portsmouth
Tottenham 0-1 Wolves
Man Utd 0-1 Aston Villa