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Red Devils maintain perfect record

Manchester United made it three wins out of three in the new Premier League season with a battling 2-1 win over promoted Watford on Saturday.

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Manchester United made it three wins out of three in the new Premier League season with a battling 2-1 win over promoted Watford on Saturday.

Defender Mikael Silvestre and winger Ryan Giggs scored the goals that ensured United are the only side with a 100 percent record and kept them two points clear of second-placed Everton.

United were lucky to take all three points at Watford, their winning goal coming in a counter-attack following a near miss at the other end.

Everton, down to 10 men for an hour following a red card for Kevin Kilbane, fully deserved a 2-0 win over a pale Tottenham Hotspur side at White Hart Lane with an own-goal by Calum Davenport and an Andy Johnson strike.

There were two red cards and two penalties at the Valley where home side Charlton Athletic spent more than an hour a man short after Hermann Hreidarsson was sent off for violent conduct but still beat Bolton Wanderers 2-0 for their first win.

Striker Darren Bent scored both goals, the first from a penalty in the 65th minute, nine minutes after El-Hadji Diouf had his saved by Scott Carson and six before Davies became the second player dismissed for another elbowing incident.

In the day’s early match Liverpool scored twice in four minutes to come from behind and beat West Ham United 2-1 in a re-match of May’s FA Cup final.

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Striker Bobby Zamora scored his fourth goal in three matches to give Hammers an early lead, Danish defender Daniel Agger equalised in the 42nd minute with a fine shot from 30 metres and Peter Crouch struck the winner four minutes later.

The two other promoted sides also lost on their travels. Wigan Athletic beat Reading 1-0 while Fulham defeated Sheffield United by the same score.

Rex Gowar

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