Following are the results round-up of the Premiership games on Saturday with key relegation battles and the top of the table clash producing a thriller that keeps the title race alive going into the last two games of the season.

In the early kick-off, Chelsea beat defending champions Manchester United 2-1. Michael Ballack scored both goals for the Blues, sandwiching Wayne Rooney’s goal for the leaders. Both the teams are now equal on points, but the Red Devils have a better goal-difference.

Later, there were key relegation battles with Man City v Fulham seeing a fantastic rally from the Cottagers, who won 2-3 at the City of Manchester Stadium.

Man City (Ireland 10 & Benjani 21) 2-3 Fulham (Kamara 70 & 90, Murphy 79)

Birmingham (Forssell 34 & Larsson 55) 2-2 Liverpool (Crouch 63 & Benayoun 76)

Other Results:

Sunderland (Higginbotham 6, Chopra 45 & Pogatetz og 90) 3-2 Middlesbrough (Sanli 4 & Alves 73)

Tottenham (Malbranque 52) 1-1 Bolton (Giannakopoulos 46)

West Ham United (Noble 10 & Ashton 23) 2-2 Newcastle (Martins 42 & Geremi 45)

Wigan 0-0 Reading

Birmingham are still in the relegation zone with 32 points, above Fulham, who have 30 points. Derby are relegated.