Two Ashley Young goals helped Manchester United to a clinical 3-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur and sliced Manchester City's lead at the top of the Premier League back to two points Sunday. England winger Young scored twice in nine minutes at White Hart Lane after Wayne Rooney's 44th-minute header had given United a fortunate halftime lead against third-placed Spurs who worked tirelessly throughout the game but lacked a cutting edge. Substitute Jermain Defoe scored a late consolation for Tottenham which suffered its second convincing defeat in eight days after last week's 5-2 thrashing at north London rivals Arsenal. With 11 games remaining champions United has 64 points to the 66 of City with Tottenham on 53, four ahead of Arsenal in the race for an automatic Champions League spot. Newcastle United's hopes of challenging for a top-four spot suffered a blow with a 1-1 draw against 10-man Sunderland, Shola Ameobi scoring a stoppage-time leveller for Newcastle. Sunderland took the lead through Nicklas Bendtner in a bad-tempered north-east derby but the visitors had Stephane Sessegon sent off for an elbow. Wolverhampton Wanderers slipped into the relegation zone after a 5-0 drubbing at Fulham, for whom Russian Pavel Pogrebnyak scored a hat trick and Clint Dempsey two. Lazio beat 10-man Roma Lazio secured a controversial 2-1 derby win over bitter-rival AS Roma who had goalkeeper Marten Stekelenburg sent off after eight minutes in Serie A on Sunday. Hernanes put Lazio ahead from the penalty awarded as a result of Stekelenburg's foul on Miroslav Klose only for Fabio Borini to level six minutes later. However, a 62nd minute goal from Stefano Mauri enabled Lazio to go third in the table and complete the double over its neighbor after winning by the same score earlier in the competition. Ezequiel Lavezzi scored an 86th minute goal to give Napoli a 2-1 win at Parma in another of Sunday's games while Udinese dropped to fourth after being held 0-0 at home by Atalanta. Lazio, in the Champions League playoff spot, has 48 points from 26 games, two ahead of Udinese. AC Milan leads with 54 points while Juventus, which has a game in hand, have 51. In other games, Fiorentina beat bottom club Cesena 2-0, Lecce drew 2-2 at home to Genoa, Siena beat Cagliari 3-0 and Bologna beat Novara 1-0. Nuremberg stuns ‘Gladbach Nuremberg stunned Borussia Moenchengladbach with a late goal to claim a 1-0 win and deny the visitors the chance to move second in the Bundesliga Sunday. Albert Bunjaku scored the winner three minutes from time — and three minutes after coming on as a substitute — when Alexander Esswein pulled the ball back for the Swiss striker to crash a shot under the crossbar. Philipp Wollscheid instigated the move by dispossessing Moenchengladbach midfielder Juan Arango and sending Esswein through on the left. “When you score the winner in the 87th minute, it's a lucky punch,” Nuremberg coach Dieter Hecking said after his side consolidated its midtable position. Lukas Podolski salvaged a 1-1 draw for Cologne at Hoffenheim when he scored his 16th goal of the season in the 81st minute to break his side's three-game losing streak. Hoffenheim defender Marvin Compper had put the home side in front in the 33rd with a powerful header from a corner, 20 minutes after Hoffenheim midfielder Boris Vukcevic's strike was ruled offside. Sven Schipplock should have scored for Hoffenheim in the 63rd, when Christian Eichner blocked his shot on the line and then he crashed the rebound off the crossbar. Podolski has now scored more than half of Cologne's 31 league goals, with Miso Brecko crossing for the Germany international to score with a glancing header inside the far post.
