Sunderland cheers turned to relief when Florent Malouda struck the crossbar with a sweetly struck strike but Anelka was not to be denied as he found the top corner with an angled drive to claim the Premier League's golden boot award with 19 goals.
The visitors were level four minutes from time, however, when substitute Gomis struck a stunning strike high into the net after David Robertson's cross was only partially cleared.
The visiting side had hardly had time to adjust to their new shape before Long's strike struck Williamson and deflected into the Toon goal with keeper Krul completely wrong-footed.
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Al Habsi had to fend away a well-struck 22-yard Pienaar strike and gratefully gather a flicked shot by Phil Jagielka before Cahill sent an angled effort wide.
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Snodgrass then struck the crossbar with a curling strike but Forest would not lie down and McCleary, who replaced Anderson in the opening half, wrong-footed Barry Bannan before hitting an exquisite strike from a tight angle that found the top corner.
Eagles went close to a hat-trick with a strike from 18 yards that struck the underside of the crossbar but was ruled to have not crossed the line.
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First US international Clint Dempsey struck the bar with a 30-yard strike and then Murphy repeated the trick with a curling shot from just outside the area.
Suzuki reached out to hook an RBI double to right and Nix struck out, but Overbay fouled off three two-strike pitches and singled softly to center, driving in two runs.
Then came the controversial moment when Lampard's strike from the edge of the penalty area struck the underside of the bar and bounced down about two feet over the goal-line, only for Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda and his assistants to fail to award a goal.
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Michael Chopra and Joe Ledley twice put Cardiff ahead with crisp strikes but a Charlie Adam free-kick and a close-range finish from Gary Taylor-Fletcher drew the Lancashire side level on each occasion - before Brett Ormerod struck the winner shortly before the interval with a low strike.
Jayson Nix struck out, and Lyle Overbay fouled off three two-strike pitches and singled softly to center, driving in two runs.
It was the home team who had made the early running but Spurs gave an indicator of their attacking quality when a strike from a tight angle by Giovani dos Santos struck the crossbar.
Stacy Long's strike took a wicked deflection off Mike Williamson before Michael Bostwick struck from distance.
Within seconds, Portsmouth swept downfield and struck the woodwork twice when Sulley Muntari's thunderous left-foot strike was pushed onto the right-hand post by Hart before Utaka smashed the resulting deflection onto the left-hand post.
Wolves were stunned and things soon got worse when Davies slid an astute pass through to Lee on the right flank and his cut back found Scottish-born American Holden who drilled a sweetly struck drive from 15 yards into the corner, his first Premier League strike.
Tom Huddlestone forced a decent save from Lonergan with a controlled low strike across goal and the Preston keeper also parried a well-struck shot from substitute Aaron Lennon, who came on as a first-half replacement for the injured Santos.
Counago's strike partner Richard Naylor was equally unlucky after 33 minutes when he also struck the woodwork with a left-foot volley.
Prop Paul James foraged well at a ruck to tee up the young outside-half for a smashing strike from distance, and he punished Alan Quinlan with another well-struck effort on the half hour, setting up a 6-3 half-time lead.
When the first bolt struck, he immediately moved to a position where he would be able to record another strike.
Cano went 0 for 4 and struck out looking in the seventh, arguing with plate umpire Mark Wegner over the third strike.
Keane somehow managed to better that strike with six minutes remaining when, with the minimum of backlift, he struck an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net.
But it was Oxford who struck the first blow, taking the lead in the 15th minute with Green's stunning strike.
Miguel Veloso's close-range strike and Pedro Mendes's deflected 22-yard shot beat Tim Howard before Matias Fernandez struck in injury-time.
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