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September 25, 2011, Sunday
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MANCHESTER City went top of the English Premier League, at least until Manchester United played at Stoke City later yesterday, when it beat Everton 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium with goals from second-half substitutes Mario Balotelli and James Milner.
The 21-year-old Balotelli came off the bench to score after 68 minutes following good work by Sergio Aguero who created the move for the Italian's first league goal of the season.
Balotelli shot from the edge of the box, which took a deflection off defender Phil Jagielka and evaded Tim Howard in the Everton goal.
Milner scored his first goal of the season after 88 minutes when he raced on to a through ball from David Silva and poked the ball home.
Two minutes after City went ahead, the home side, which dominated for most of the game, almost went 2-0 ahead but Silva's left-foot shot bounced back off a post. Silva also had a goal disallowed for offside five minutes from time.
City, with 16 points from its six matches, will lead the standings at least until United, which has 15 points from five games, finishes its game.
City's victory ended a run of four straight home defeats to Everton, which has been the host's bogey team in recent years.
"We never have an easy game against Everton," City captain Vincent Kompany said. "But with the quality we have, it was just a matter of patience. Today, we did exactly what we needed to do."
Everton, which had started the day in sixth place, was threatening an all too familiar shut-out at Eastlands before Balotelli's goal.
In Germany, early season pacesetter Borussia Moenchengladbach moved top of the Bundesliga yesterday with a 1-0 win over FC Nuremberg courtesy of a Filip Daems penalty while Borussia Dortmund snatched a last-gasp win 2-1 at Mainz 05.
Expert penalty-taker Daems converted from the spot for his third goal of the season in the 76th to lift 'Gladbach, which had to come through a relegation playoff last season to stay up, to 16 points, one ahead of Bayern Munich.
The Bavarians can reclaim top spot later with a win over Bayer Leverkusen.
Last season's champion Dortmund needed a 90th-minute goal from Lukasz Piszczek to beat battling Mainz and snap its two-game losing streak to move up to eighth.
Piszczek, whose poor backpass was to blame for Mainz's 33rd-minute lead through Nicolai Mueller, made amends and rifled in from outside the box, seconds before the final whistle.
Dortmund, which had playmaker Mario Geotze back from suspension and welcomed back striker Lucas Barrios from injury for the first time this season, had leveled in the 64th with Ivan Perisic's first Bundesliga goal, a clever low drive.
Schalke 04 came good on its promise to put in a stellar performance against SC Freiburg for coach Ralf Rangnick who surprisingly stepped down last Thursday citing exhaustion, winning 4-2.
VfL Wolfsburg, playing with 10 men for the entire second half following the dismissal of defender Sotiris Kyrgiakos, beat Kaiserslautern 1-0 with Ashkan Dejagah's diving header on the hour securing the points for Felix Magath's team.
Werder Bremen, third on 13 points, entertains Hertha Berlin today.
The 21-year-old Balotelli came off the bench to score after 68 minutes following good work by Sergio Aguero who created the move for the Italian's first league goal of the season.
Balotelli shot from the edge of the box, which took a deflection off defender Phil Jagielka and evaded Tim Howard in the Everton goal.
Milner scored his first goal of the season after 88 minutes when he raced on to a through ball from David Silva and poked the ball home.
Two minutes after City went ahead, the home side, which dominated for most of the game, almost went 2-0 ahead but Silva's left-foot shot bounced back off a post. Silva also had a goal disallowed for offside five minutes from time.
City, with 16 points from its six matches, will lead the standings at least until United, which has 15 points from five games, finishes its game.
City's victory ended a run of four straight home defeats to Everton, which has been the host's bogey team in recent years.
"We never have an easy game against Everton," City captain Vincent Kompany said. "But with the quality we have, it was just a matter of patience. Today, we did exactly what we needed to do."
Everton, which had started the day in sixth place, was threatening an all too familiar shut-out at Eastlands before Balotelli's goal.
In Germany, early season pacesetter Borussia Moenchengladbach moved top of the Bundesliga yesterday with a 1-0 win over FC Nuremberg courtesy of a Filip Daems penalty while Borussia Dortmund snatched a last-gasp win 2-1 at Mainz 05.
Expert penalty-taker Daems converted from the spot for his third goal of the season in the 76th to lift 'Gladbach, which had to come through a relegation playoff last season to stay up, to 16 points, one ahead of Bayern Munich.
The Bavarians can reclaim top spot later with a win over Bayer Leverkusen.
Last season's champion Dortmund needed a 90th-minute goal from Lukasz Piszczek to beat battling Mainz and snap its two-game losing streak to move up to eighth.
Piszczek, whose poor backpass was to blame for Mainz's 33rd-minute lead through Nicolai Mueller, made amends and rifled in from outside the box, seconds before the final whistle.
Dortmund, which had playmaker Mario Geotze back from suspension and welcomed back striker Lucas Barrios from injury for the first time this season, had leveled in the 64th with Ivan Perisic's first Bundesliga goal, a clever low drive.
Schalke 04 came good on its promise to put in a stellar performance against SC Freiburg for coach Ralf Rangnick who surprisingly stepped down last Thursday citing exhaustion, winning 4-2.
VfL Wolfsburg, playing with 10 men for the entire second half following the dismissal of defender Sotiris Kyrgiakos, beat Kaiserslautern 1-0 with Ashkan Dejagah's diving header on the hour securing the points for Felix Magath's team.
Werder Bremen, third on 13 points, entertains Hertha Berlin today.
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