Reds batter Palace to go top as City bounces back
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Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge tore Crystal Palace apart to send Liverpool top of the English Premier League with a 3-1 victory yesterday as Manchester City bounced back from its Bayern Munich mauling by beating Everton by the same score.
Suarez, making his first Anfield appearance of the season after completing a suspension for biting, set Liverpool on way to its fifth league victory with an early improvised finish.
England forward Sturridge, who has now scored or assisted in 16 goals in his last 11 league appearances, made it two with a fine solo goal, and Steven Gerrard’s penalty — his 99th Premier League goal — made it three before halftime. Substitute Dwight Gayle replied for Palace with a late header.
Brendan Rodgers’s side is now a point clear of Arsenal, which can reclaim top spot if it wins at West Bromwich Albion today.
In the early kickoff at the Etihad Stadium, Alvaro Negredo and Sergio Aguero scored to help City come from behind to beat Everton, easing the disappointment of its home loss to Bayern in the Champions League last Wednesday.
Everton took a 16th-minute lead through prolific on-loan Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku, who broke the offside trap to collect Phil Jagielka’s pass and deftly nutmegged Joleon Lescott before beating Joe Hart with a low shot.
It was his third goal in two games but City replied within two minutes, Negredo squeezing the ball past Tim Howard from Yaya Toure’s pass. City was dealt a blow in the 34th when captain Vincent Kompany went off with an injury, but it moved ahead on the stroke of half-time, with Aguero scoring.
A foul by Seamus Coleman on Pablo Zabaleta gave Aguero a chance to extend City’s lead from the penalty spot in the 69th and although Howard turned his shot onto the post, the ball bounced against the American goalkeeper and into the net for an own goal.
French striker Loic Remy gave Newcastle United’s under-pressure manager Alan Pardew some relief by scoring twice in a 2-1 win at Cardiff City and Fulham did the same for manager Martin Jol, edging past Stoke City 1-0 after Darren Bent’s 83rd-minute winner.
Hull City and Aston Villa played out a goalless draw.
Champion Manchester United will aim to avoid a third successive defeat when it faces Sunderland in the late kickoff.
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