Wrap: Southampton squanders lead, Newcastle hammers West Ham, Palace and Norwich win

WRAP: Southampton squander two-goal lead against Sunderland while Yohan Cabaye stars for Newcastle against West Ham.

SOUTHAMPTON manager Mauricio Pochettino revealed Gaston Ramirez and Dejan Lovren needed hospital treatment after suffering injuries in his side's 2-2 draw at Sunderland on Saturday.

Pochettino's team squandered a two-goal lead at the Stadium of Light and to add to the Argentine's frustration he is now sweating on the fitness of two key players.

News_Image_File: Southampton's Croatian defender Dejan Lovren is stretchered off the pitch.

News_Rich_Media: Sunderland and Southampton played out a 2-2 draw, lifting the home side off the bottom of the table - just

Uruguay forward Ramirez, the club's record $22.38 million signing, was caught by a strong challenge by Sunderland defender Wes Brown and moments later Croatia defender Lovren, who had scored Southampton's second goal, was injured while trying to tackle Adam Johnson.

Both players were carried from the pitch and Pochettino admitted the initial signs were not good.

"I am quite disappointed with a point. I think we actually deserved to win the game, but in the end we leave with one point and two injuries," Pochettino said.

"You could see that they were in a lot of pain. I saw them before going to hospital and both of them were in a lot of pain."

News_Image_File: Yohan Cabaye put in a classy display against West Ham.

News_Rich_Media: Newcastle United pulled off an away win over an out-of-sorts Westham to solidfy themselves in the top half of the Premier League.

NEWCASTLE midfielder Yohan Cabaye sent West Ham back into the relegation zone as his double strike inspired a 3-1 defeat at Upton Park on Saturday.

Alan Pardew's team remain in the hunt for a Europa League berth after French midfielder Cabaye struck either side of a Loic Remy goal.

Mike Williamson's own goal had cut Newcastle's two-goal lead, but there was no comeback from Sam Allardyce's side, who slip to third bottom of the table.

News_Image_File: Crystal Palace's English midfielder Jason Puncheon can celebrate this week.

News_Rich_Media: Crystal Palace managed a crucial home win over draw specialist Stoke City.

FORMER Stoke City manager Tony Pulis claimed victory over his former employers after Jason Puncheon earned Crystal Palace a 1-0 success.

Culpable for a dreadful penalty miss in last weekend's 2-0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur, Puncheon scored the game's only goal to fire Palace off the foot of the table and out of the relegation zone.

Palace finished the day two points and two places above the bottom three, with Stoke only two points better off in 13th place after a fifth successive league game without a win.

Stoke manager Mark Hughes had excluded striker Kenwyne Jones following his refusal to play in last weekend's 5-3 defeat by Liverpool.

News_Rich_Media: All the action from Norwich's home victory over Hull City in their mid-table clash.

RYAN Bennett scored his first goal for Norwich, his late header delivering a valuable 1-0 win over Hull at Carrow Road on Saturday to end his club's six match winless run.

Chris Hughton's side, who started the game two points above the relegation zone, moved up to 12th, level on points with 10th placed Hull after this tense sixth win of the season.

Hull's new arrival from Everton, Nikica Jelavic, almost got his new career off to the perfect start in the second minute, hitting a left-footed shot from inside the box against the woodwork.

Norwich, who gave a start to their new loan signing Jonas Gutierrez, had a half decent shout in the 12th minute only for Ricky van Wolfswinkel's volley to fly wide.

Shortly after Hull manager Steve Bruce was forced into an unscheduled change with injured James Chester replaced by Maynor Figueroa.

It was more of the same after the restart, with lots of effort with no result, until Bennett popped up to break the gridlock with three minutes left on the clock.

The decisive goal came off a corner delivered by Robert Snodgrass, with centre back Bennett heading past Hull keeper Allan McGregor to open his account for the club he joined in 2012.

Hull ended the game with 10 men after Tom Huddlestone picked up a red card for a second booking.

Norwich hung on for the win, their first at home since November, although Hull went close to snatching an injury-time equaliser with a Curtis Davies header which went wide.