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City pay the penalty, Torres strikes for Reds, Bolton stun Blues

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Luke Young celebrates with Ashley Young

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Tevez misses his open goal

Fernando Torres and Gabriel

Torres tangles with Tamas

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Jaaskelainen slaps Johnson in the face

Darren Bent Aug 2010

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Sunderland inflicted big-spending Manchester City's first defeat of the season with a late 1-0 win at the Stadium of Light, while Liverpool recorded their first victory of the campaign with a 1-0 success over West Brom.

Elsewhere, Luke Young's early goal earned Aston Villa a 1-0 win over Everton at Villa Park and Bolton rallied from 2-0 down to earn a 2-2 draw with Birmingham despite playing the second half with ten men.

Darren Bent's last-gasp penalty earned Sunderland a dramatic win over Manchester City at the Stadium of Light.

The game looked set to be heading for a draw until Micah Richards was penalised for climbing on Bent inside the box deep into injury-time and Bent scored from the resulting penalty.

Earlier in the game Carlos Tevez had an early contender for miss of the season when he missed with the goal at his mercy on 16 minutes after being set up by Yaya Toure.

Simon Mignolet also produced a superb save to deny substitute Emmanuel Adebayor in the second half before Bent made City pay from the penaly spot four minutes into added time.

First win

Liverpool battled to their first Premier League win of the season with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over West Brom at Anfield.

After a goalless first half Fernando Torres broke the deadlock after 65 minutes with his first strike of the campaign.

Moments after West Brom went close to scoring themselves, Liverpool broke down the field and Torres combined with Kuyt as the Dutchman picked out the Spaniard on the edge of the box and he brilliantly volleyed past Scott Carson.

West Brom ended the game with ten men when James Morrison was sent off for a dangerous tackle on Torres.

Aston Villa ended a miserable week with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Everton to leave the Toffees stil searching for the first Premier League win of the season.

Luke Young combined with his namesake Ashley Young to break the deadlock after just nine minutes with a superb finish past Tim Howard.

Steven Pienaar went close to an equaliser in the first half when he saw his shot come back off the crossbar.

Howard kept Everton in the game in the second half when made a fine double save to keep out John Carew's cross shot and the follow-up attempt from Ashley Young.

Brad Friedel denied Everton substitute Louis Saha on three occasions in the second half to secure the three points for Villa.

Ten-man Bolton came from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw with Birmingham in an incident-packed game at the Reebok Stadium.

Roger Johnson gave Birmingham the ideal start with the opener after just four minutes with his first goal for the club.

Dismissal

Johnson was then involved in the incident that saw Jussi Jaaskelainen sent off for Bolton on 37 minutes.

Jaaskelainen was shown a straight red card after slapping Johnson in the face following a collision between the pair.

Bolton won a penalty on 71 minutes when Johnson was ajudged to have climbed all over Kevin Davies inside the box and Davies coolly slotted home the spot-kick.

Substitute Robbie Blake grabbed the equaliser nine minutes from time when curled home a superb free-kick from the edge of the box.