Overcoming turmoil

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updated 3:37 p.m. ET Oct. 1, 2011

LONDON - Manchester City moved on from the turmoil of Carlos Tevez's apparent refusal to play with a resounding 4-0 victory at Blackburn in the Premier League on Saturday.

City remained tied top of the standings alongside crosstown rival Manchester United, which struggled to a 2-0 win over Norwich.

Adam Johnson, Mario Balotelli, Samir Nasri and Stefan Savic scored second-half goals to ensure City kept pace with United, which welcomed Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez back from injury but needed late strikes by Anderson and Danny Welbeck to secure a club record 19th straight league win at Old Trafford.

The two Manchester clubs have 19 points from seven games, though United has the better goal difference. Newcastle is third with 15 points after a 2-1 win over Wolverhampton stretched its unbeaten start to the season.

Luis Suarez largely ensured Liverpool won the 216th Merseyside derby 2-0 at Everton by scoring a goal and being involved with an opponent's red card.

In other matches Saturday, Aston Villa earned its first home victory of the season with a 2-0 win Wigan and Nicklas Bendtner sparked Sunderland to a 2-2 draw with West Bromwich Albion.

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MILAN (AP) ? AS Roma finally found its footing under new coach Luis Enrique in a 3-1 win over an Atalanta.

Newly signed forwards Bojan Krkic and Pablo Osvaldo scored in the 20th and 31st minutes and surprise starter Fabio Simplicio sealed the match in the 81st after German Denis had pulled one back for Atalanta in the 48th.

Roma has won two straight after having been eliminated from the Europa League and gone winless in its first three Serie A matches to start the season.

The victory drew Roma level with league leaders Juventus and Udinese with eight points each, although Juventus still leads on goals scored.

Atalanta is four points back, having begun the season with a six-point penalty from a match-fixing scandal.

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MADRID (AP) ? Giuseppe Rossi and Hernan Perez scored as Villarreal twice rallied to rescue a 2-2 draw against 10-man Zaragoza in Spain.

Zaragoza twice took the lead through Luis Garcia and Pablo Barrera, but Italy striker Rossi chipped a penalty to level the scores for the first time in the 41st minute before Perez found space at a corner in the 84th, four minutes after Maurizio Lanzaro was sent off for Zaragoza.

Also Saturday, Osasuna had a 2-2 draw at home against Mallorca, while Racing Santander remained winless after a 1-1 draw with Rayo Vallecano.

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BERLIN (AP) ? American forward Edson Buddle scored two goals in Ingolstadt's 5-3 defeat to visiting Bochum in the German second division.

Buddle fired his side ahead in the ninth minute before adding another in the 20th before Ingolstadt blew a two-goal leads twice.

In the top division, Robert Lewandowski's hat trick led defending champion Borussia Dortmund to a 4-0 win over Augsburg in the Bundesliga, and Hoffenheim ended Bayern Munich's winning run in a 0-0 draw.

Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer now has gone 1,018 minutes without conceding a goal, but the league leader was unable to build on its run of 10 wins in all competitions.

Freiburg beat third-place Borussia Moenchengladbach 1-0 for only its second win of the season when Johannes Flum's effort from 20 meters took a heavy deflection off Thorben Marx to give Marc-Andre ter Stegen no chance in the 19th.

Elsewhere, Bayer Leverkusen beat Wolfsburg 3-1, and Nuremberg drew 3-3 with Mainz.

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GLASGOW, Scotland ? Kyle Lafferty scored the winner as a Rangers team featuring three Americans in the starting lineup beat Hibernian 1-0.

Maurice Edu, Carlos Bocanegra and Alejandro Bedoya ? making his first start ? helped the Scottish leaders stay nine points up on Motherwell, which beat Dundee United 3-1.

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Overcoming turmoil

Manchester City moved on from the turmoil of Carlos Tevez's apparent refusal to play with a resounding 4-0 victory at Blackburn in the Premier League on Saturday.

Striking out

Opinion: In 2009, Carlos Tevez was hailed with a giant billboard reading: "Welcome to Manchester." Now, it could be time for a new poster: "Good Riddance."

Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/44741946/ns/sports-soccer/

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