Steve Cherundolo's club, Hannover 96, shocked host Bayer Leverkusen and won its first game of the season in Germany's Bundesliga. Greg Vanney, meanwhile, saw his first action of the season for Bastia in France.
ENGLAND
* Brad Friedel (Blackburn, PL) at Manchester City, 2-2.
Started: 90 minutes. Blackburn surrendered another late goal and thereby allowed the 10-man hosts to rally from a two-goal deficit to tie. Mancheseter City's Danny Tiatto was red carded in the 68th minute, just seven minutes after entering as a substitute. But Nicolas Anelka scored in the 80th minute and Shaun Goater sent the tying goal in off Blackburn defender Lucas Neill and Friedel.
* Kasey Keller (Tottenham, PL) vs. West Ham, 3-2.
Started: 90 minutes. Tottenham defender Anthony Gardner capped a thrilling final 30 minutes of play which featured all five goals and a red card to West Ham defender Ian Pearce.
* Joe-Max Moore (Everton, PL) vs. Middlesbrough, 2-1.
DNP – injured.
* Jovan Kirovski (Birmingham, PL) vs. Aston Villa, Monday.
* Claudio Reyna (Sunderland, PL) vs. Fulham, 0-3.
Started: 90 minutes. Wire reports seemed to exonerate Reyna from blame for this devastating home loss, but his coach, Peter Reid, is again under fire from the fans and media.
* Marcus Hahnemann (Reading, D1) vs. Wimbeldon, 0-1.
Started: 90 minutes. Hahnemann had a good showing, but Joel McAnuff's stoppage-time blast beat him to the upper corner of the goal.
* Eddie Lewis (Preston North End, D1) vs. Sheffield Wednesday, 2-2.
Started: 74 minutes. Lewis started his first league game with his new team. Richard Creswell scored the 84th minute equalizer to give Preston its fifth tie in seven games so far this season.
GERMANY
* Gregg Berhalter (Energie Cottbus, D1) vs. Werder Bremen, 0-1.
Started: 71 minutes. Berhalter started his second consecutive game with his new club, but came out as his team tried to recover a 51st minute own goal by defender Tomislav Piplica.
* Conor Casey (Hannover 96, D1) at Bayer Leverkusen, 3-1.
DNP.
* Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96, D1) at Bayer Leverkusen, 3-1.
Started: 90 minutes. Promoted Hannover's first win of the season came at a most unlikely location: the home of last year's Bundesliga and Champions League runner-up. The loss dropped rebuilding Leverkusen to 1-2-2 and moved Hannover into a tie with Tony Sanneh's Nuremberg for second-to-last in the league.
* Tony Sanneh (Nuremberg, D1) vs. Bayern Munich, 1-2.
Started: 90 minutes. Nuremberg held strong against the league favorites but were unable to reward their 44,000 fans with an equalizer to Michael Ballack's second goal of the game. Sanneh received a poor (D-) rating from Kicker magazine.
* Mike Duhaney (Mainz, D2) vs. SSV Reutlingen, 1-3.
DNP.
* Cory Gibbs (St. Pauli, D2) at FC Union Berlin, 2-4.
DNP.
* Grover Gibson (Mainz, D2) vs. SSV Reutlingen, 1-3.
Started: 65 minutes. Kicker magazine gave Gibson, who was moved back from central midfield to defense for this game, its next-to-lowest rating.
* Jacob Thomas (Braunschweig, D2) vs. Freiburg, Monday.
FRANCE
* David Regis (Troyes, D1) vs. Le Havre, 1-1.
DNP – not on bench.
* Greg Vanney (Bastia, D1) vs. AC Ajaccio, 1-3.
Started: 90 minutes. Vanney made his first appearance of the season under new coach Gerard Gili. After seven games, Bastia sits in the lower half of the standings with seven points.
* Oguchi Onyewu (Metz, D2) vs. Noisy-le-Sec, 0-0.
DNP.
NETHERLANDS
* John O'Brien (Ajax, D1) vs. FC Zwolle, 2-0.
Started: 90 minutes. Ajax kept pace with PSV Einhoven, which also has four wins in four games so far this season.
* Earnie Stewart (NAC, D1) at Heerenveen, 2-0.
Entered as a substitute: 85th minute. Breda secured its first win of the season, to go along with three ties and a spot in the middle of the standings.
NORWAY
* Robbie Russell (Sogndal, D1) at Viking, 1-1.
DNP.
BELGIUM
* Alex Yi (Antwerp, D1), vs. Anderlecht, 2-1
DNP: not on bench.
SWITZERLAND
* Frankie Hejduk (St. Gallen, D1), at FC Zurich, 1-2.
Started: 90 minutes. St. Gallen lost it second game in a row since Hejduk stepped into the lineup and remains tied for ninth place — only the top eight teams advance to the championship phase. St. Gallen president president Thomas Mueller said his players were paid only two-thirds of their salaries for August and face further wage cuts because of the club's sinking fortunes. Just two years ago, it was Swiss champion.
HONDURAS
* David Castellanos (Motagua, D1), vs. Marathon, 2-2.
Entered as substitute: 80th minute.
CHILE
* Jonny Walker (Universidad Catolica, D1) no games – player strike.