Premier League: Wednesday night's action - in pictures

After their New Years Eve defeat to Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City's victory over Liverpool , Sir Alex Ferguson will have been hoping for three points to keep United's title ambitions on track Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images Demba Ba finds his progress impeded by the extended leg of Phil Jones Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images The new year sees a new sponsor for Newcastle United with Virgin Money, who bought Northern Rock from the government, replacing the local bank on their shirts. If you look closely you'll see that in keeping with these austere times, the club have stuck the new sponsor's logo over the old one rather than get new shirts Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images Midway through the first half Demba Ba gets behind Rio Ferdinand, and the United defender clumsily sticks out a leg, bringing the forward down inside the area, but the referee waves play on Photograph: Ian Horrocks/Newcastle Utd via Getty Images Just after the half-hour mark Newcastle get the lead they deserve and it's no surprise it comes from the right boot of Ba. A long clearance by Krul is knocked on by Ameobi and from the edge of the area Ba hooks a delicate first-time volley over Ferdinand and Anders Lindegaard and into the net. Photograph: Graham Stuart/AFP/Getty Images Just two minutes into the second half Newcastle double their lead with another stunning goal. After Phil Jones bodychecks Ba – collecting a yellow card for his trouble – 30 yards out, Yohan Cabaye whips a curling effort over the United wall and into the top corner off the underside of the bar Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images With a strike of that quality, Cabaye has every reason to be happy Photograph: Ian Horrocks/Newcastle Utd via Getty Images After celebrating with Cabaye, Cheick Tioté gets back into the action, challenging Nani Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Reuters Just when United thought it couldn't get any worse, in the last minute of normal time they concede a third in the most comical of manners. Krul hoofs a long ball downfield which Lindegaard comes out to collect, but for some reason Phil Jones decides to interfere, stooping to head the ball clear but mistiming his intervention and deflecting the ball into an empty net. The Newcastle manager Alan Pardew celebrates Photograph: Ian Horrocks/Newcastle Utd via Getty Images Over at Goodison Park, Everton fans show their support for Landon Donovan, returning for another stint on loan from LA Galaxy Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images The returning forward skips past a flailing Sam Ricketts Photograph: Tim Hales/AP This time Ricketts gets a bit closer as the players chase the ball into the penalty area, where Donovan goes to ground under the defender's challenge … Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images … and Ricketts lets Donovan know that he thinks that he went down a bit too easily. No penalty is given Photograph: Tim Hales/AP The rather turgid affair is livened up just after the hour mark with a goal from the most unlikely of sources. The Everton keeper Tim Howard launches a clearance from inside his area which catches the wind in dramatic fashion, bouncing around 25 yards from the Bolton goal before sailing over Adam Bogdan and in Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images John Heitinga is the first to congratulate the goalscorer Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images Just four minutes later the Everton keeper finds himself picking the ball out of his own net when a smart finish from David Ngog makes it 1-1 Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images With twelve minutes to go, Bolton find the net for the second time when Eagles evades Baines and slips the ball forward to his captain Gary Cahill, who fires a first -time shot into the far corner and give the visitors a 2-1 victory. Time will tell whether or not this is Cahill's last goal for Bolton Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters