adminLONDON. — Leaders Manchester City lost their 100 percent English Premier League record with a 2-1 home loss to West Ham United while Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan all won to stay top in Spain, Germany and Italy respectively.
In England, Premier League leaders Manchester City suffered a surprise 2-1 home defeat by West Ham United that ended their 100 percent record and cut their advantage over second-placed local rivals Manchester United to two points.
West Ham became the first team to score a league goal versus City this term when Victor Moses struck after six minutes and they doubled their lead through Diafra Sakho before 55 million pounds ($85,44 million) man Kevin de Bruyne pulled a goal back.
Struggling champions Chelsea are eight points off the pace after winning 2-0 against visitors Arsenal, who finished a fiery match with nine men, after goals by Kurt Zouma and Eden Hazard.
Manchester United’s newly-signed French teenager Anthony Martial scored twice in a 3-2 win at Southampton that took them above a West Ham side in third place and level on 12 points with Leicester City, who drew 2-2 at Stoke City.
In Spain, Lionel Messi struck twice and missed a penalty as Barcelona thrashed Levante 4-1 to maintain their 100 percent record in La Liga. Barca struck three times in 11 second-half minutes thanks to goals from defender Marc Bartra, Neymar and a penalty from Messi. Victor pulled one back for Levante before Messi fired another spot-kick over the bar but the Argentine striker made amends with his second goal in the 90th minute. A Karim Benzema header gave Real Madrid a narrow 1-0 win at home to Granada who were left angry that a Youssef El-Arabi goal was wrongly ruled offside.
In Germany, Borussia Dortmund cruised past Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 to reclaim top spot in the Bundesliga and stretch their perfect start to five wins out of five league games.
Champions Bayern beat Darmstadt 98 3-0 to move to 15 points with a fifth win but Dortmund’s victory, their 11th consecutive in all competitions, put them ahead on goal difference.
In Italy, Inter Milan kept up their perfect Serie A record when Mauro Icardi gave them a 1-0 win at unbeaten Chievo to leave them as the only team with 12 points from their opening four games.
In France, Paris St Germain retained their Ligue 1 lead despite being held for the second time in a row in a 1-1 stalemate at Stade de Reims on Saturday.
With 14 points from six games, the champions lead Stade Rennais and St Etienne by one point.
Ten-man Olympique de Marseille and Olympique Lyonnais shared the points in a 1-1 draw in the clash of the weekend on Sunday with the game interrupted for 23 minutes by crowd trouble.
In Portugal,Porto midfielder Andre Andre scored with four minutes left to snatch a dramatic 1-0 win over Benfica in a full-blooded Classico full of incident at the Dragao stadium. — Reuters.
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