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By all accounts, Charlton's winning goal and victory and were fortutious but manager Curbishley will take any win he can in March. In three of their four previous campaigns they have failed to win a game in this month and, as the chart shows, things only tend to get worse as the season winds down. Averaging 0.86 points per game over the concluding three months of the season, of teams that have survived more than two years in the top flight only Ipswich (0.80) have fared worse.
With fourth-place and a Champions league place up for grabs, there can be no excuse for a lack of effort which may account for previous seasons' lapses when relegation had been avoided but honours were out of reach. Closest rivals Newcastle, Birmingham, Aston Villa and Liverpool have all averaged at least a point every two games more than Charlton over the spring period
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Birmingham City 0–1 Leicester City Leicester fight back well from a dismal week off the pitch
to record their first victory in fourteen games. In his debut game of the season - but thirty-third overall - Benjamin recorded his first ever open-play assist
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Blackburn Rovers 0–2 Arsenal Henry and Pires score in same game for the fifth time this season, one shy of leading duo, van Nistelrooy and Scholes
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Bolton Wanderers 0–2 Chelsea Chelseas notch a club-record fifth away
win in the Premiership, tops for the league this season
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Charlton Athletic 1–0 Middlesbrough Charlton will hope that this
result will presage a better-than-average end to the season. Full Story
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Everton 1–0 Portsmouth Portsmouth lead the league with 35 players making it at
least as far as the subs bench. Fellow strugglers, Leeds, Wolves and Leicester are also in the top six of
a category that normally smacks of desperation
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Fulham 2–0 Leeds United Fulham seem to have stabilized the ship since Saha left for Manchester United.
Both teams have picked up eight points in six games since the transfer
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Manchester City 4–1 Manchester United United have now conceded more goals, twelve,
than they did in the entire pre-Christmas programme
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Southampton 2–0 Liverpool Liverpool join a posse of clubs who have suffered
eight one-goal defeats this season.
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Tottenham Hotspur 1–0 Newcastle United Tottenham's sequence of four-goal games ends at three, a unique stat
in Premiership history. Manchester United recorded four on the trot in late 1999/00 during a run in which they also set
all-time records of 3 goal (8) and 2 goal (10) games
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Wolverhampton Wanderers 0–4 Aston Villa Still with ten games to go, Angel's 13th league goal gives him
the best return by a Villa player since Joachim in 1998/9
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