Fagundez, Revs pot historic goal
Diego Fagundez became the youngest player to score 25 career MLS goals and the Revolution beat the Philadelphia Union, 1-0, last night in Chester, Pa., for their third straight victory.
Fagundez, who is 20
Man City rolls on
years, 6 months, 15 days old, signed with the Revolution on Nov. 15, 2010, and is in his fifth MLS season.
The Revolution scored in the 51st minute when Charlie Davies flicked a leading pass to Fagundez, who drove to the top of the area and cut it back inside the left post.
Referee Chris Penso showed the Union’s Cristian Maidana a red card for violent conduct in the 94th minute.
The Union missed an opportunity to move into an Eastern Conference playoff position, starting the game one point behind three teams tied for the sixth and final slot.
The Revs stayed even on points with fourth-place Toronto FC, which beat the visiting Montreal Impact, 2-1, behind goals by Michael
Bradley and Jozy Altidore, to match their franchise season record with 11 victories. Also, at Yankee Stadium, Justin Meram scored in the 83rd minute to give the Columbus Crew a 2-1 win over New York City FC and move into second place in the Eastern Conference.
Breaking a 103-year club record, Manchester City reeled off its 10th straight English Premier League victory. For Jose Mourinho, a landmark day produced an unwelcome result, with his 100th home league game in charge of Chelsea ending in only a second loss.
City’s fourth success of the new season was a 2-0 victory over Watford, with $76-million signing Raheem Sterling scoring his first league goal for Manuel Pellegrini’s side, which looks irresistible in its quest to regain the trophy from Chelsea.
Fortunately for City, whose other goal was scored by Fernandinho, Chelsea appears to be imploding. A 2-1 loss to Crystal Palace left the Blues with only four points from four games heading into the international break.
Although Radamel Falcao canceled out Bakary Sako’s Palace opener by heading in his first Chelsea goal in the 79th minute, the south London visitors were back in front inside two minutes through Joel Ward. Chelsea is already eight points adrift of early leader City.
Liverpool also took a stunning blow, as West Ham took a 3-0 win for its first victory at Anfield since 1963. Manuel Lanzini and Mark Noble sent West Ham into a halftime lead. Although Liverpool had Philippe Coutinho sent off at the start of the second half, Noble was also dismissed before Diafra Sakho completed West Ham’s second away win of the season.
Arsenal relied on Fabricio Coloccini’s own goal to win 1-0 at Newcastle despite the hosts playing for 75 minutes with 10 men after Aleksandar Mitrovic was dismissed.
There were two red cards at Stoke, shown to two home players — Ibrahim Afellay and Charlie Adam — within seven minutes against West Bromwich Albion. Despite playing with nine men from the 31st, West Brom only edged a 1-0 win through Salomon Rondon’s header.
Madrid romps
Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez scored two goals each to fuel Real Madrid’s 5-0 rout of Real Betis in its home opener, while Barcelona edged Malaga, 1-0, on defender Thomas Vermaelen’s first score for the defending champions. . . .
Two of AC Milan’s new forwards, Carlos Bacca and Luiz Adriano, combined to give the Rossoneri a 2-1 win at Empoli in Italy’s Serie A, their first win under new coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, but Mario Balotelli remained on the bench following his return from Liverpool last week. . . .
Thomas Mueller celebrated his 200th German Bundesliga match with two goals as defending champion Bayern Munich powered past Bayer Leverkusen, 3-0.