Manchester City, led by Sergio Aguero masterfully (scoring a hat-trick), celebrated at the expense of the humble Huddersfield Town (6-1) and captured first place in the Premier League.
Without Kevin De Bruyne, who is missing for the next three months with a ligament injury on his right knee, the side of Pep Guardiola once again showed that he is the best seed to confirm the last season's competition title again.
The resilience of David Wagner's team (fell into the hands of Chelsea on the first day 0-3) lasted 25 minutes in Etihad Stadium, the time it took for Ederson to wait for the defense and Agüero with a long ball, so the Argentine revolviera very good for the exit of Hamer and the picara with the left.
With the 1-0 City played with great pleasure and quickly expanded their lead. Exactly five minutes, this time with a left-wing attempt by the Brazilian Gabriel Jesus.
No time for the response from the & # 39; Terriers & # 39; came the third, when Agüero, the smartest of them all, picked up the 35th Mendy center and sent it to the back of the net.
Against all odds, he discounted the visit before the break: in a specific play Mounié combed a corner from the right and the ball was left to Stankovic, who only had to push and push his foot.
As the first half full domain of the & # 39; Citizens & # 39; The second was no less, and in 45 minutes those from home again to see the goal three times.
First it was & # 39; The wizard & # 39; David Silva (48 & # 39;), then Agüero completed his & # 39; triplet & # 39; and finally own Kongool's own goal.
Inter starts with defeat in Sassuolo and EDiN Dzeko gives victory to Roma with goal
Inter Milan started the new Italian Serie A with a 0-1 victory over the Sassuolo field, on a first day in which a volleyball goal from the Bosnian Edin Dzeko Roma yielded 3 points in the Torino field (0-1).
After a marketing session of a million dollars, Inter came out in the new campaign with great ambitions and maximum enthusiasm, but the team of coach Luciano Spalletti was stuck for a Sassuolo with a penalty goal of Domenico Berardi to win the victory.
The "Nerazzurri" were defeated and will have to react next week against Torino to keep up with teams like Juventus, Napoli or Roma.
In the Olympic Stadium of Turin in Turin, Rome won with a 0-1 thanks to a great goal from Dzeko, who solved the game with a left foot volley after a center from the Dutchman Justin Kluivert, son of the former Barcelona striker Patrick Kluivert
The Romans, in which the Argentine Javier Pastore made their debut, won the game in a complicated game, shooting three times in the forest: twice with Dzeko and in another with the Serbian Aleksandar Kolarov.
Nimes defeats Marseille and there is a crisis in the Girondins
Nimes, recently promoted to Ligue 1 of France, clearly defeated Olympique Marseille (3-1) while Toulouse increased the Girondins crisis, which admits its second defeat of the season as a trainer three days after the abandonment of Uruguayan Gustavo Poyet.
Nimes, who won in Angerse on the first day (3-4), became the most goalscorer in the two opening games of the league. It costs much more than the champion, Paris Saint Germain, leader of the competition.
It was the Gabonese Denis Bouanga who opened the score after half an hour. Marseille reacted and made the start of the second half via Florian Thauvin.
Sada Thioub, in 62 & # 39 ;, and Renaud Ripart, in 87 & # 39 ;, decided the triumph of Nimes and led to the first defeat of Olympique.
Toulouse accentuated the crisis of the Girondins, who won 2-1. The Bordeaux club, which stopped the Uruguayan Gustavo Poyet on Thursday, was prey to instability in the field and could not do so with the colero, who brought his first triumph off the track.
On the edge of the rest, Aaron Leya Iseka waited for the hosts. It tied at the beginning of the second half Francois Kamano, but in minute 67 Mathieu Dossevi gave the three points to Toulouse and left Girondins on the bottom, with two losses in their first games.
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