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LIVERPOOL: Everton’s English striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin (center) heads the ball to score their fifth goal during the English football match between Everton and West Bromwich Albion at Goodison Park in Liverpool yesterday. — AFP

LONDON: Dominic Calvert-Lewin hit a hat-trick Everton’s lead and Calvert-Lewin sealed the points James, who is doing really well. I’m satisfied in front, restored Leeds’ advantage with a 40th minute as Everton crushed 10-man West Bromwich Albion with his second and third goals. we have to do better at the back.” If West Brom are spot-kick. In the 51st minute, Klich’s fine pass into 5-2, while Leeds earned their first Premier League Ar 23, Calvert-Lewin is the youngest Englishman to avoid an immediate return to the Championship, the area carved Fulham’s defense open and win since 2004 with a 4-3 victory over Fulham yes- to score a Premier League hat-trick for Everton. they will have to improve their defense rapidly after steered a right-footed finish into terday. On the second weekend of the new cam- After a summer spending spree, Ancelotti is under shipping eight goals in successive defeats. the bottom corner. paign, Carlo Ancelotti’s side fell behind to Grady pressure to deliver a big improvement on last sea- Leeds struck again six minutes later with a Diangana’s early goal at Goodison Park. But son’s 12th place finish and the early signs are prom- Free-scoring Leeds superb second goal for Costa, who slammed home Calvert-Lewin equalised and James Rodriguez put ising. Having beaten Tottenham in their opening At Elland Road, promoted Leeds were involved following Bamford’s superb run and cross. Fulham Everton ahead with his first Premier League goal game last weekend, Everton have started a Premier in another eye-catching encounter in their first top- pulled one back in the 62nd minute through Bobby before Albion imploded. League season with consecutive victories for the flight home match for 16 years. After losing 4-3 at Decordova-Reid and Mitrovic’s towering header Kieran Gibbs was dismissed for pushing James in first time since 2012-13. champions Liverpool on the opening weekend, four minutes later set up a tense finale, but the pro- the face in first half stoppage-time, a rash reaction Calvert-Lewin already has four goals and Helda Costa fired ’s free-scoring side moted Cottagers fell to a second successive defeat. that prompted him to issue a post-match apology Colombia midfielder James, making his first home ahead in the fifth minute, blasting home from a tight Leeds’ opening games have seen 14 goals, which is taking “full responsibility” for his mistake. Then appearance since his £12 million ($15.5 million) from angle following Kalvin Philips’ corner. the most for a top-flight side’s first two matches Albion boss Slaven Bilic was sent to the stands after Real Madrid, looks a quality addition. “Of course Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic equalised since Wolves in 1962-63. Later yesterday, storming onto the pitch for a furious rant at referee today Dominic was the top scorer but also from the penalty spot in the 35th minute after a Manchester United played their first game of the Mike Dean. Matheus Pereira equalised for Albion Richarlison did really well, the combination in front foul on Joe Bryan. Bryan was penalized himself for season against Crystal Palace before Arsenal hosted after the interval, but Michael Keane restored was good,” Ancelotti said. “They are supported by his shove on Patrick Bamford and Mateusz Klich West Ham.— AFP

Bayern finished their season in August Bayern deliver message when they added the Champions League to German team Ripdorf their and German Cup titles and then had only a short preparation for the with 8-0 rout in opener new season. Last season’s top scorer thrash opponents 37-0 found the net with a BERLIN: German amateur side SG Patrick Ristow told ESPN. “That’s a lot of MUNICH: Bayern Munich delivered a challengers. With the biggest opening win 31st-minute penalty to become the first Ripdorf/Molzen II sacrificed a tight money for us, especially amid the pan- message to the rest of the Bundesliga that in Bundesliga history, Bayern showed they player to score in 10 successive appear- defense for social distancing as they demic.” Holdenstedt showed no mercy the treble winners are in superb form, had lost none of sharpness that helped them ances against the same Bundesliga oppo- fielded only seven players as a coron- and scored a goal nearly every two min- coach Hansi Flick said on Friday following to lift the Champions League trophy less nents. Gnabry then scored twice from avirus precaution in a 37-0 loss to local utes, while their opponents watched on an 8-0 demolition of Schalke 04 in their than a month ago in dominant fashion. Sane’s assists in the 47th and 59th before rivals SV Holdenstedt II. The prepara- from a safe distance. season opener. Bayern started their league Gnabry grabbed his first goal for the Thomas Mueller made it half a dozen after tions for the match in Lower Saxony’s 3 “When the game kicked off, one of campaign with a bang as they scored three hosts with a fine turn and shot in the fourth Lewandowski set him up with an impressive Kreisklasse - the 11th tier of German our players passed the ball to the oppo- times by the 31st minute to kill off the game minute in what turned out to be a one-sided rabona kick. football - were complicated when it nent and our team walked to the side- with their stunning pace and deadly finish- affair that stretched Bayern’s unbeaten run to Sane then capped his superb Bayern emerged that Holdenstedt players had lines,” Ristow said. “The Holdenstedt ing. “It was superb from us. Before the 31 games this year, having now won the last debut with a fine finish from a counter been in contact with an opponent infect- players did not understand. But we did game we wanted this to be a game that 22 matches in a row. Schalke, without a attack in an empty Allianz Arena, after the ed with COVID-19 in a previous match. not want to risk anything. For the rest of would define where we are at this stage and league win in 17 consecutive matches since city banned spectators due to rising coro- While all members of the Holdenstedt the match, our players returned to the my players did it very well,” Flick said. “We January, were helpless against Bayern’s light- navirus infection numbers in the region. A squad later tested negative for the virus, field but they only stood on the pitch.” wanted to show that in this season again we ning-quick game and Leon Goretzka found little later substitute Jamal Musiala drilled Ripdorf, from Uelzen in Lower Saxony, The match result has since created a stir are here.” plenty of space to drive a low shot past in goal number eight to become the did not feel the conditions were safe and on social media but Ristow said Ripdorf The treble winners Bayern Munich keeper Ralf Faehrmann in the 19th minute. youngest ever Bayern scorer in the league were able to field only seven players - the only focused on what was best for the crushed Schalke 04 with a hat-trick from “You can see that the team was already at 17 years old. The result piled more minimum number required for a match. wellbeing of all the players on the pitch. Serge Gnabry and a superb debut from strong last season,” said Sane, who joined pressure on already-embattled Schalke “We are thankful those seven players “There is no perfect solution for it. Leroy Sane on Friday as they made a sen- from Manchester City. “The team is still hun- coach David Wagner, who has been under volunteered, otherwise the club would And we went down this route,” he sational start to the new Bundesliga season gry despite winning the treble last season intense scrutiny during their winless run have faced a 200 euros ($235.88) fine for added. “We wished Holdenstedt no and sent an ominous warning to potential and to have such a start is outstanding.” this year. — Agencies abandoning the match,” Ripdorf co-chair harm.” — Reuters