Soccer News of Sunday, 12 September 2010

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Essien leads Chelsea on cakewalk...

Gyan scores on debut, Yeboah scores on Return, Quincy complete rout

Chelsea made it four wins out of four and left West Ham United rooted to the bottom of the Premier League with four defeats as the champions strolled to a 3-1 victory at their London rivals on Saturday. Two goals for Michael Essien and a fortunate one for Salomon Kalou left Chelsea four points better off than Manchester United.

WIGAN 1 - SUNDERLAND 1: Antolin Alcaraz broke Sunderland’s hearts with a brilliant last-gasp goal. Record buy Asamoah Gyan had handed ten-man Sunderland a shock lead on his debut after bad-boy Lee Cattermole had been sent off early on. And that looked enough to secure Sunderland back-to-back wins until the Paraguay defender struck with less than four minutes left. John Mensah (Sunderland) came on as a substitute 10 minutes to the end

Fulham 2-1 Wolves: John Paintsil(Fulham) started but was substituted at the start of the second half.

Spain

Quincy Owusu-Abeyie was on the mark in the Spanish La Liga on Sunday, scoring in an eight-goal thriller to hand Malaga a 5-3 victory over Real Zaragoza.

Germany

Bundesliga leaders Hoffenheim won 2-0 on Friday, consigning Schalke 04 to their third successive league defeat. Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer conceded a late own goal, which followed Ghana defender Isaac Vorsah's first-half header. Sarpei(Schalke) played 90mins

Italy

Promoted Cesena stunned AC Milan 2-0. Tiny Cesena, which has made some smart acquisitions including Ghana World Cup midfielder Stephen Appiah, had served warning of its confidence by drawing 0-0 at AS Roma in its opener. The Former Ghana captain expressed joy at playing his first full-time competitive match in three years

Inter Milan had struggled to a 2-1 win over Udinese. Kwadwo Asamoah played 90min on the losing side. Sulley Muntari came on in the 81min for Inter

Isreal

Maccabi Petah 2-1 Beitar Jerusalem : Samuel Yeboah scored on his debut for Israeli side Beitar Jersulasem on Saturday night in their 2-1 defeat at Maccabi Petah Tikva. Yeboah completed a one-year loan spell with the capital club early this week after a difficult spell in the Belgian top flight with RKC Genk and took him little time to adjust.

Hapoel Ashkelon 1-1 Hapoel Gamat
90 mins for Goalie Stephen Ahorlu(Hapoel Ashkelon) 90 mins for Eric Gawu(Hapoel Ashkelon)

Hapoel Akko 2-2 Hapoel Tel Aviv
90 mins for Abdul Razak Ibrahim(Hapoel Akko)

Hapoel Shmona 3-1 Hapoel Petah 90 mins for Daniel Addo(Hapoel Petah)

SCOTLAND

Dundee utd 3-1 Aberdeen
90 mins for Prince Buaben(Dundee Utd)

Hibernian 1 - 1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Francis Dickoh played his first competitive match for his new club (Hibernian)