City lose perfect record, Barca cruise

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Leaders Manchester City lost their 100 percent Premier League record with a 2-1 home loss to West Ham United while Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan all won to stay top.

Premier League leaders Manchester City suffered a surprise 2-1 home defeat by West Ham United that ended their 100 percent record and cut their advantage over second-placed local rivals Manchester United to two points.

West Ham became the first team to score a league goal versus City this term when Victor Moses struck after six minutes and they doubled their lead through Diafra Sakho before 55 million pounds ($85.44 million) man Kevin de Bruyne pulled a goal back.

Struggling champions Chelsea are eight points off the pace after winning 2-0 against visitors Arsenal, who finished a fiery match with nine men, after goals by Kurt Zouma and Eden Hazard.

Manchester United’s newly-signed French teenager Anthony Martial scored twice in a 3-2 win at Southampton that took them above a West Ham side in third place and level on 12 points with Leicester City, who drew 2-2 at Stoke City.

Lionel Messi struck twice and missed a penalty as Barcelona thrashed Levante 4-1 to maintain their 100 percent record in La Liga.

Barca struck three times in 11 second-half minutes thanks to goals from defender Marc Bartra, Neymar and a penalty from Messi. Victor pulled one back for Levante before Messi fired another spot-kick over the bar but the Argentine striker made amends with his second goal in the 90th minute.

A Karim Benzema header gave Real Madrid a narrow 1-0 win at home to Granada who were left angry that a Youssef El-Arabi goal was wrongly ruled offside.

Real are two points behind Barcelona and level with Villarreal and Celta Vigo on 10 points.

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