Premier League round-up:Luis Suarez scored his second hat-trick at Carrow Road in the space of five months as Liverpoolcrushed a sorry Norwich5-2 to record their first Premier League win under Brendan Rodgers.
Suarez scored a memorable treble on his last visit to Carrow in April and he took just 67 seconds to open his account in Norfolk this season, scoring from the edge of the box to make it 1-0.
He then capitalised on a terrible mistake by Michael Turner to make it 2-0 before laying on Nuri Sahin, who made it 3-0 just after the break.
The former PSV Eindhoven forward then took his tally for the season to six when he curled home from the edge of the box and Steven Gerrard scored Liverpool’s fifth after Steve Morison had pulled one back for Norwich.
Substitute Grant Holt overpowered his marker to score another consolation for Norwich with three minutes to go, but there was no doubt who the bossed the game at the final whistle, as the home fans booed their team off following a poor display.
A lot had been made of Liverpool’s poor start to the season under Rodgers before today’s game, but the Merseysiders were a class apart at Carrow Road.
Teenage trio Raheem Sterling, Suso and Andre Wisdom all performed brilliantly and Sahin proved the perfect foil to Suarez’s penetrating runs through the Norwich defence.
They played with fluency, pace and brutal finishing that will give Rodgers hope that he can deliver success at Anfield during his first term in charge.
Manchester Citystriker Edin Dzeko struck a late winner as the defending champions came from behind to win 2-1 at Fulham.Dzeko slotted home the decisive goal three minutes from time after Sergio Aguero had cancelled out Mladen Petric's early penalty.
Aguero, who damaged his knee against Southampton on the opening weekend of the season, tapped home the follow-up after Mark Schwarzer had parried Carlos Tevez’s deflected shot two minutes before the interval.
Petric had sent England goalkeeper Joe Hart the wrong way from the spot after Pablo Zabaleta’s foul on John Arne Riise.
Everton'simpressive start to the season continued, as did striker Nikica Jelavic's goalscoring run, against a Southamptonside whose top-flight inexperience was exposed at Goodison Park as the home side won 3-1 to jump ahead of Manchester United ahead of their evening kick-off against Tottenham.
David Moyes’s team equalled their best points haul of 13 from six Premier League matches from the 2004-05 season to cement their place just three points behind leaders Chelsea.
Jelavic scored twice to take his tally to 10 in his last 11 league matches after Leon Osman had cancelled out Gaston Ramirez’s early opener.
Steven Fletcher fired Sunderlandto their first Premier League victory of the season with his fifth goal in four games in a 1-0 victory over Wiganat the Stadium of Light.
The 25-year-old turned James McClean’s 51st-minute cross-shot past goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi to win a match of little quality as 10-man Wigan were made to pay almost instantly for Jordi Gomez’s rush of blood.
Gomez was sent off just two minutes into the second half for a dangerous lunge at defender Danny Rose and a game in which his side had enjoyed the better of the opening 45 minutes turned on its head.
Reading'shome clash with Newcastleburst into life after the break after a goalless first 45 minutes, Demba Ba maintaining his impressive start to the campaign with two more goals in a 2-2 draw.
The Royals opened the scoring in fortuitous fashion when Jimmy Kebe miscued a shot into the bottom corner in the 58th minute, but Ba’s sublime volley restored parity for the Magpies a minute later.
Noel Hunt’s header in the 62nd minute from Jobi McAnuff’s cross put the hosts ahead for the second time, but again Ba equalised, the Senegal forward’s header allowed to stand despite a hint of handball.
Stoke'sPeter Crouch was at the double to give his team a 2-0 triumph against Swanseaat the Britannia Stadium.
The 6ft 7in frontman headed home the opener after 12 minutes and then tapped in a second nine minutes before the break.
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