England
The Premier League continued to produce shock results this
past weekend with Manchester United and Liverpool the biggest culprits. The duo
had a weekend to forget in their travels out of North West England. Liverpool
were hammered 3-1 by West Ham on Saturday through goals from Winston Reid,
Diafra Sakho and substitute Morgan Amalfitano with Raheem Sterling grabbing the
consolation for the Reds. Manchester United collapsed with less than half an
hour to go as they surrendered a 3-1 lead in a shocking 5-3 loss to promoted
side Leicester City. Robin Van Persie, Angel di Maria and Ander Herrera netted
for Louis van Gaal’s men while Leicester had Leonardo Ulloa grabbing a brace
including an 83rd minute penalty with Jamie Vardy, Esteban Cambiasso
and David Nugent also scoring. Frank Lampard returned to haunt his former club
Chelsea as he netted the equalizer for Manchester City who had fallen behind to
an Andre Schurrle goal for the Blues. Everton were beaten 3-2 by visiting
Crystal Palace while Arsenal handed Aston Villa their first defeat of the
season in a 3-0 win. Kenyan international Victor Wanyama scored his first goal
for Southampton who beat Swansea 1-0.
Spain
Barcelona and Real Madrid were both in fine goal-scoring
form with the two sides scoring 13 goals between them. Cristiano Ronaldo netted
his first hat-trick of the new La Liga season to help Real maul Deportivo la
Coruna 8-2 in Riazor. Gareth Bale and Javier Hernandez both hit a brace to add
to James Rodriguez’s stunner for Carlo Ancelloti’s men. Madrid however failed
to keep a clean sheet with the hosts scoring twice through Haris Medunjanin and
Toche. Lionel Messi inspired Barcelona to a dominating 5-0 capitulation of
Levante on Sunday. The Argentine assisted Neymar and Sandro Ramirez’s goals
before scoring himself in the 77th minute. Ivan Rakitic scored the
other goal. Defending champions Atletico Madrid were held to 2-2 draw by
visiting Celta Vigo while Sevilla moved up to second with a 3-1 win at Cordoba.
Germany
Bundesliga top two, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund both
had a frustrating weekend with Bayern failing to score in a 0-0 stalemate at
Hamburger. Two second half goals from Shinji Okazaki and German international
Matthias Ginter condemned Dortmund to a 2-0 defeat against Mainz who moved to
second on the log. Promoted side Paderborn kept their unbeaten start to their
topflight life with a 2-0 win over Hannover SV to move top of the log locked on
8 points with four other sides including Hoffenheim who won with a similar
scoreline at Stuttgart. Wolfsburg crushed Bayer Leverkusen 4-1 for their first
win of the season while Augusburg made it two wins out of their last two
matches after edging Werder Bremen 4-2 at the SGL Arena.
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