Sterling Hat-Trick Inspires City Rout
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2015 SPORTS EPL results/standings Chelsea 2 (Costa 34, Hutton 54-og) Aston Villa 0; Crystal Palace 1 (Cabaye 25-pen) West Ham 3 (Jenkinson 22, Lanzini 88, Payet 90); Everton 0, Manchester United 3 (Schneiderlin 18, Herrera 22, Rooney 62) Manchester City 5 (Sterling 7, 29, 45+3, Bony 11, 89) Bournemouth 1 (Murray 22); Southampton 2 (Fonte 21, Van Dijk 37) Leicester 2 (Vardy 66, 90) Tottenham 0, Liverpool 0; Watford 0 Arsenal 3 (Sanchez 62, Giroud 68, Ramsey 74); West Brom 1 (Berahino 54) Sunderland 0. English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): Man City 9 7 0 2 24 8 21 Chelsea 9 3 2 4 14 17 11 Arsenal 9 6 1 2 16 7 19 West Brom 9 3 2 4 7 11 11 Man Utd 9 6 1 2 15 8 19 Swansea 8 2 4 2 10 10 10 West Ham 9 5 2 2 20 12 17 Watford 9 2 4 3 6 10 10 Leicester 9 4 4 1 19 17 16 Norwich 8 2 3 3 12 14 9 Crystal Palace 9 5 0 4 12 10 15 Stoke 8 2 3 3 8 10 9 Tottenham 9 3 5 1 11 7 14 Bournemouth 9 2 2 5 11 17 8 Southampton 9 3 4 2 15 12 13 Aston Villa 9 1 1 7 8 15 4 Everton 9 3 4 2 12 11 13 Sunderland 9 0 3 6 8 19 3 Liverpool 9 3 4 2 8 10 13 Newcastle 8 0 3 5 6 17 3 Hammers win at Palace Ham, Diafra Sakho started up front with Enner Valencia, back from a knee injury, C Palace 1 and Andy Carroll on the bench. West Ham had the better of the early exchanges and took a deserved lead through right-back Jenkinson, who slotted West Ham 3 home a pass from former Palace man Victor Moses. The lead lasted only three minutes, though, as Jenkinson then gave away a LONDON: West Ham United went up to penalty after clattering into Gayle. Cabaye MANCHESTER: Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling (left) scores his side’s fourth goal of the game to complete his hat-trick, past Bournemouth’s third in the Premier League as late goals scored from the spot but was ordered to Andrew Surman, during their English Premier League soccer match at The Etihad Stadium. —AP from Manuel Lanzini and Dimitri Payet gave retake it, with the outcome the same the them a 3-1 victory at 10-man Crystal Palace second time. However, the hosts shot yesterday. themselves in the foot just before the break The Eagles dropped to sixth with the as Gayle was sent off for a second booking. defeat as they struggled after Dwight Gayle First he lunged in needlessly on Payet Sterling hat-trick was dismissed before half-time. Carl and then he was late on Cheikhou Kouyate Jenkinson had given the Hammers a first- and saw red a minute before half-time. half lead but France midfielder Yohan Midway through the second period, West Cabaye equalised from the spot with a Ham went a lick of paint away from retak- retaken penalty. Gayle was given his ing the lead as Sakho’s header came back inspires City rout marching orders for two yellow cards but off the base of the upright. Palace held out until two minutes from And the hosts cracked late on as Carroll time when Lanzini struck. Payet put the headed a cross back into the danger zone serious knee injuries. Manager Eddie Howe has penalty area. The home side responded quickly, gloss on the victory in stoppage time. where Argentine Lanzini swept home from also lost captain Tommy Elphick for the next 10 though, as Sterling broke on to De Bruyne’s per- Palace boss Alan Pardew had named an close range. And in stoppage time, Lanzini Man City 5 weeks because of ankle trouble, and suffered fectly-weighted pass, left Steve Cook and former unchanged side from the 2-0 win over West sent Payet clear to chip goalkeeper Wayne another setback with Boruc. City captain Sylvain Distin on the floor with a Bromwich Albion last time out. For West Hennessey.—AFP Howe’s side were positive despite all of those couple of neat feints, and steered in his second problems, and had a very strong penalty claim goal. Bournemouth 1 rejected in the first five minutes, as Nicolas Federici did brilliantly to tip a De Bruyne shot Vardy double stuns Saints Otamendi caught Dan Gosling with a sliding on to the bar after that, but his first half ended challenge after Matt Ritchie’s shot had been with more misery, as he got into a mix-up with Southampton before they appointed Ronald blocked. Andrew Surman in dealing with a long ball, and MANCHESTER: Raheem Sterling’s first-half hat- Koeman last year, sent on Nathan Dyer and Yet City survived that scare and were 2-0 up Jesus Navas nipped in. Federici denied Navas, trick ensured Manchester City stayed top of the Southampton 2 Riyad Mahrez for the second half and the inside the first 11 minutes as Federici endured a but Sterling steered the rebound between the Premier League with a 5-1 mauling of Foxes were a different team. forgettable Premier League debut for the keeper’s legs for a first-half hat-trick. In the 66th minute, Dyer crossed for Vardy, Bournemouth yesterday. Cherries. Sterling had two more chances to add goals, under little pressure, to head almost casually Sterling, who had previously scored just twice Federici was blameless as Sterling touched in but his first-half composure failed him, hitting beyond slow-to-react goalkeeper Kelvin Davis. for City since his £49 million (66.6 million euros) a seventh minute opener-possibly from an off- the side netting with one opening and rolling Leicester 2 Leicester grew in confidence as Southampton summer move from Liverpool, took advantage side position-after Pablo Zabaleta had charged another wide. lost theirs. of uncertainty in the visitors’ ranks after they lost forward to head Fernandinho’s diagonal pass Midfielder Yaya Toure’s half-time withdrawal Vardy, looking to seal a place in England goalkeeper Artur Boruc to an injury in the warm- across goal, and Bony had touched on. checked City’s momentum, and their fans will be manager Roy Hodgson’s squad for Euro 2016, up. The Australian goalkeeper, though, made a hoping that manager Manuel Pellegrini was SOUTHAMPTON: Premier League top scorer wasted a golden opportunity when he sent Adam Federici, Boruc’s replacement, was bad- horrendous mistake four minutes later, fumbling being nothing more than cautious in taking him Jamie Vardy hit two second half goals to help Mahrez’s left-wing cross over from close range. ly at fault as Wilfried Bony scored only his third a straightforward Bacary Sagna cross delivered off. There was, though, one more goal before the Leicester City steal a 2-2 draw with another But in the first of five minutes of stoppage City goal since arriving from Swansea in January. from the left, and allowing Bony to run the ball afternoon was over, as Bony turned cleverly on dramatic fightback at Southampton yesterday. time, Leicester threw everything forward. And although Glenn Murray did pull into the net. It was to Bournemouth’s credit that to Navas’ cross for his second in the final minute. Defensive lynchpins Jose Fonte and Virgil Mahrez sent a through-ball towards Vardy, Bournemouth back to 2-1 midway through the they did not fold there and then. There might have been another, but substi- Van Dijk put Southampton ahead at half time. who shot into the top-right corner to complete first half, Sterling struck twice more, completing Federici made a fine flying save to tip aside a tute Kelechi Iheanacho was ruled offside after But they could not resist the brilliant Vardy-led Leicester’s latest great escape under Ranieri. his hat-trick following a mix-up involving Kevin De Bruyne shot moments later, before running through to chip Federici in stoppage fightback which kept Leicester in fifth place. The 28-year-old Vardy’s lethal finishing should Federici and midfielder Andrew Surman before Murray took advantage of some slack City time. England international Vardy now leads the help raise his value and profile even higher. Bony added another late on. defending to pull a goal back. For Pellegrini, this was the strong perform- Premier League charts with nine goals-eight Only three years ago he was playing in League Bournemouth have suffered a series of injury Murray, once of City’s lower-league neigh- ance needed ahead of major tests against Sevilla coming in the last six games. He could easily Two with Fleetwood Town. setbacks since winning promotion to the top bours Stockport and Rochdale, strode forward as and the Champions League on Wednesday, and have had a hat-trick against a Saints side look- Ranieri has acknowledged that Leicester flight, losing top scorer Callum Wilson and sum- defender Eliaquim Mangala backed off, and Manchester United in the Premier League next ing for a third straight league win. After the might be forced to sell Vardy if the right offer mer signings Tyrone Mings and Max Gradel to drove a shot past Joe Hart from the edge of the Sunday.—AFP goals from Southampton skipper Fonte and came. But he said before the game that it £13 million (17.5 million euro) signing Van Dijk, would take “a lot, a lot, a lot.” “We want to the home side seemed to be cruising.