Gillespie blasted over with five minutes left and Colin Nixon then volleyed a glorious chance wide after a misdirected Garrett back-header.
The Blues had an early scare as William Murphy's misdirected back-header put Scannell in the clear but the Reds striker failed to get full purchase on his shot.
Just before the break, McEwan produced a top class save to stop Boyd's looping back-post header.
Bottom-of-the-league Hamilton's woes continued when Rooney added his second with a fine back-post header from close range on the hour.
Later, Carson was forced to scramble back to palm a Leon Barnett back-pass header past the post and away from the on-rushing Johnson.
Just as it seemed Hibs could stage a fightback, Deuchar scored a third for Saints with a back- post header from Sheridan's cross.
Alert Steed Malbranque ran round the back of slumbering marker Carlos Cuellar but, though Bardsley's deep cross cleared the Spaniard, the Black Cats midfielder steered his back-post header wide.
Unfortunately for John Toshack's side the big defender, who had stayed up after a corner, was unable to get much power on his back-post header and Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev collected comfortably.
At the other end, Schmeichel had to tip a Sears drive over the bar, but Leeds were in total command by this point and Howson underlined that with his second, a back-post header after a Gradel cross.
Kilmarnock, who had brought in Iain Flannigan and Tim Clancy for injured pair Jamie Hamill and Simon Ford, emerged as an attacking force in the 26th minute when John Ruddy pushed wide Craig Bryson's 25-yard volley and then touched over Kevin Kyle's back-post header from Flannigan's corner.
Another testing centre from Wallace led to Clarets centre-back Bikey thumping a header against the post, while at the other end Jensen produced an eye-catching double save from Gary O'Neill.
Striker Junior Hoilett opened the scoring with a 58th-minute volley to record his third goal in two games before a late Yakubu header sealed back-to-back wins for Rovers, who moved six points clear of the drop zone.
Villa's pressure came close to forcing a breakthrough just before the break as Milner's floated cross to the far post invited Cuellar to restore parity but the right-back's downward header was pushed aside by Howard.
Norwich continued to press after the interval and a deep cross from Drury found fellow full-back Martin but he could not direct his 12-yard header on target.
In the last action of the opening 45 minutes, Cardiff centre-back Dekel Keinan had a header blocked on the line by Corry Evans.
Left-back James Brewerton flashed a header inches wide on 72 minutes.
Sprinting from the midfield, Lloyd connected on a dead-aim header into the back of the net.
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Scholes, who came out of retirement this season at the age of 37, opened the scoring in the seventh mimute with a close-range header at the back post.
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Soon after half-time it was all over as a lightning-quick Croatia break led to Mandzukic's header coming back off the post, hitting Given on the back of his head and -- unfortunately for the Ireland goalkeeper -- rolling into the net, though the Wolfsburg forward was given the goal.
His replacement Michael Owen's off-target header rebounded into the net off the body of hapless center-back Zat Knight in just the fifth minute, and summer signing Antonio Valencia scored his first goal for the club just after half an hour.
Craig Thomson, back in the Hearts defence along with fit-again Ismael Bouzid, was proving a threat from left-back and his curling cross found Suso, but the Spaniard's front-post header flew wide from 16 yards.
With a combination of bad luck and poor defending, Accies contributed to United's second goal when Dixon reacted quicker than Imrie to Andy Graham's defensive header and the left-back's low drive from 20 yards deflected off Martin Canning and past Cerny.
However, the home side were back in the tie within seconds of the restart when Graham broke down the right, his cross found Antoine-Curier at the back post and the powerful header flew past Pernis.
Toffees centre-back Sylvain Distin could only loop a clearing header back towards his own goal to let in Cameron Jerome but the Blues striker controlled on his thigh only to half-volley wide from just inside the area.
Shortly after the restart, Gary Caldwell powered in a short-range header that worked its way back out of the Dons defence, but Aiden McGeady flighted flighted in a searching cross for Samaras to double Celtic's tally with a cute header from six yards out.
Brown ghosted in at the Rangers back-post after 32 minutes, latching on to Samaras' weak header, but he was again thwarted by McGregor.
Meanwhile, Mancini was going apoplectic on the sidelines, as well he might have done when Javier Garrido, brought in at left-back in place of Wayne Bridge, was forced to clear a Sidibe header from under the bar.
And in first-half injury time Clarets substitute Gudjonsson almost connected with a Steven Thompson header back across the face of goal.
Kyle Walker's long-range strike put the hosts back in front only for Clint Dempsey's late header to give the visitors a share of the spoils.
The home side went two goals up through a Luis Gonzalez header and a Diego shot before Peter Petras pulled a goal back in first-half injury time.
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