Manchester City offered its supporters something to cheer in its first game since being deposed as Premier League champions with a 2-1 home win over West Ham United on Saturday. A well-worked passing transfer led to Sergio AgAeroas first-half opener, and Yaya Toure sent an unstoppable shot in to the place of the web from just outside the field late in the game. Second-place City, which lost its name to Manchester United last Monday, took a step to getting a computerized Champions League berth with four games remaining. West Ham isn't mathematically safe from relegation in 10th invest the standings. MANCHESTER UNITED TO aKICK ONa Manchester United is likely to be supported by its owners to akick ona after acquiring its 20th group title, Manager Alex Ferguson said. United clinched the Premier League name with a 3-0 win over Aston Villa last Monday, and Ferguson has already been making plans to protect it next season with the assistance of the clubas American owners. aHaving spoken with the Glazer family, there's every intention to end on,a Ferguson told reporters. aWe maybe need two people. It depends. If your person came along who met our requirements, we would get him and push the boat out, irrespective of exactly how many participants we have.a United has been linked with Borussia Dortmundas Polish striker Robert Lewandowski and Portoas Colombian midfielder David RodrAguez. His team is taken by ferguson to Arsenal on Sunday hoping to finish the growing season with a League record for details. United will surpass Chelseaas 2004-5 total of 95 if its last four games are won by it. DRY RUN AT MARACANA Rio delaware Janieroas Maracana Stadium was to reopen Saturday for an match that was to serve as a first test ahead of the Confederations Cup in the Planet Cup and June next year. Built for the 1950 World Cup, the stadium underwent 2 yrs of restoration be ready to host four Confederations Cup matches along with eight World Cup games next year, such as the finals of both events. Wednesday, friends of the former stars Ronaldo and Bebeto, who equally won the World Cup with the national group, were to handle off in the arena before an estimated 25,000 viewers, including President Dilma Rousseff and 21,000 employees involved in the reconstruction as well as their relatives. It's the very first of three checks in the renovated 78,838-seat sporting complex before the Confederations Cup kicks off in Brasilia on June 15. The initial Confederations Cup game in Rio would be the Mexico-Italy game on June 16. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) ALTIDORE HITS The American striker to 30 Jozy Altidore elevated his goal-scoring total to 30 in 2013 in all games for AZ of the Netherlands in the clubas 4-0 win at Heerenveen. Altidore scored two aims, one on a thundering free kick. Altidore, 23, has scored the most goals this year of any American playing for a team away from United States Of America. Terrence Boyd of Rapid Vienna is third with 16, while Clint Dempsey (Tottenham/England) and Herculez Gomez (Santos Laguna/Mexico) each have 11. (NYT)
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