Latest / Best of: Features / Neto double earns Chelsea a win at Everton in Premier League amid head-injury concern for Martinez

Transcript

Neto double earns Chelsea a win at Everton in Premier League amid head-injury concern for Martinez · Best of: Features

• 0:05
  Ongoing bananas, Holland keeps on scoring as Scandal hit Man City wins
• 0:09
  again in Premier League. This article is being read
• 0:15
  by an automated voice generated by Everlett. The ongoing financial scandal
• 0:21
  enveloping Manchester City isn't affecting the team's results in the Premier League.
• 0:26
  Or Erling Holland's appetite for scoring goals. Playing in front of fans
• 0:31
  waving inflatable bananas, City became only the third team to open a
• 0:35
  Premier League season with seven straight wins by beating Ipswich three two
• 0:39
  at home on Saturday. Holland netted twice to move to a competition
• 0:43
  high eight goals for a campaign being played under a cloud of
• 0:46
  controversy. It made it back to back victories in The League for
• 0:50
  City, either side of a four two loss to Paris Saint Germain
• 0:54
  in the Champions League, since being found guilty of large scale financial
• 0:58
  wrongdoing in the Premier League for nearly a decade. The seismic verdict
• 1:03
  threatens the club's place in England's lucrative top flight, though City continues
• 1:07
  to protest its innocence and has appealed. City manager Enzo Maresca believes
• 1:12
  the saga has galvanized They squad, and the defiance among The
• 1:15
  fans, base continued, with many supporters bringing along inflatable bananas, a throwback
• 1:20
  to an item that fans brought to games in
• 1:22
  the nineteen eighties for fun, amid tough times for the team for
• 1:26
  Ipswich's visit. The also jeered the Premier League anthem before kickoff. The
• 1:32
  fans, the club, the players. We are all together in this journey,
• 1:35
  Moresca said of City's Defiance in troubled times. Going down with the
• 1:40
  City was the chant by some home fans in the first half
• 1:42
  at Eddy had Stadium as the watch their team extend their lead
• 1:46
  in the league to six points. Second place Arsenal will visit Nottingham
• 1:50
  Forest on Sunday. Hobbling Holland. Holland and second half substitute
• 1:56
  Antoine Semenyo’s were seen hobbling off the field at the end of
• 2:00
  the game, which finished with Ipswich grabbing its second goal in stoppage
• 2:04
  time, and piling on the pressure in the final minutes. Mareska said
• 2:08
  Holland, who had taken a blow to the foot late in the
• 2:11
  match, wasn't worried. We will see, Mareska said. I asked him and
• 2:15
  he said he was okay, so hopefully it is nothing serious. Moresca
• 2:20
  added that Semeno's injury might be more serious. Perfect seven. Maresca
• 2:26
  became the first manager to win his first seven Premier League games
• 2:30
  in charge of a team. I didn't expect to win seven out
• 2:33
  of seven, said Moresca, who replaced Pep Guardiola in the off season.
• 2:37
  But we are working well, working good. Chelsea, in two thousand five,
• 2:42
  and Liverpool
• 2:43
  in twenty nineteen are the other teams to win at least their
• 2:46
  first seven games of a Premier league season.
• 2:48
  And the both sent on to win the title. Liverpool rallies to
• 2:53
  beat Brentford but gets more injuries. Liverpool came from behind to win
• 2:57
  2 1 at nine man Brentford, but lost two more players to
• 3:01
  injury in a busy stretch of fixtures. Trailing to Keene Lewis Potter's
• 3:05
  forty fourth minute header, Liverpool found itself with a man advantage when
• 3:09
  Brentford midfielder Yehor Yarmoliuk was shown a red card in first half
• 3:14
  stoppage time for aiming a headbutt at Jeremy Jacquet. Liverpool took advantage,
• 3:19
  with Victor Munoz and Alexander Issach scoring after the break to consign
• 3:23
  Brentford to its first league defeat this season. Vitali Janelt became the
• 3:28
  second Brentford player sent off after getting a second yellow card in
• 3:32
  seconds half stoppage time. Isek has just returned from an injury sustained
• 3:36
  on international duty with Sweden, but two O players are back on
• 3:40
  the treatment table, with Dominik Soboslai and Jeremy Frimpong, a half time
• 3:44
  substitute, forced off with injuries. Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola said Soboslai's
• 3:51
  problem was the reoccurrence of the hamstring injury he got while playing
• 3:55
  for Hungary in the recent international break. Martinez head injury and Chelsea
• 4:00
  win. Pedro Neto scored early and late in the second half to
• 4:04
  lead Chelsea to a 2-0 win at Everton in a match marred
• 4:07
  by a serious looking head injury to Chelsea goalkeeper Amy Martinez. Neto
• 4:12
  slotted home the opening goal forty four seconds after the resumption, and
• 4:16
  the added the second in the ninetieth minute after pouncing on the
• 4:20
  loose ball following a blocked free kick. Chelsea handed Everton a first
• 4:25
  loss of the season after seven rounds, keeping a first clean sheet
• 4:28
  in nine months in the process. Martinez was conscious, and in the
• 4:33
  hospital, Chelsea manager Zabi Alonso said, after receiving ten minutes of treatment
• 4:38
  on the field, and then being carried off on a stretcher following
• 4:41
  a head on head collision, with Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite at a
• 4:45
  free kick. Monzombi Thriving for Villa. Johan Manzambi could easily have
• 4:51
  joined Newcastle in the off season. On Saturday he grabbed the winner
• 4:55
  against the team for Aston Villa. The twenty one year old Switzerland
• 4:59
  midfielder scored for the third time in four games to Seal Villa's
• 5:03
  one zero victory at Saint James Park. It would have been a
• 5:07
  painful sight for Newcastle, which reached an agreement with Freiburg to sign
• 5:11
  Monzombi after his impressive World Cup performances, but not with the player
• 5:15
  himself. Now he's thriving for Villa. Fulham win eases pressure on Arbaloa.
• 5:21
  Fulham eased the pressure on manager Alvaro Arbaloa by beating Hull 1
• 5:26
  0 for its first league win of the season. Alex Iwobi scored
• 5:30
  the goal in the thirty third minute, helping Fulham climb off the
• 5:33
  bottom of the table, much to the relief of Arbaloa, the former
• 5:36
  Real Madrid coach who arrived in the off season. Steve Douglas is
• 5:40
  at C the AP's full soccer coverage here.