Happenings in Europe.

First off, I'd like to go out of my regular order and extend my thoughts and prayers to the friends, family, and team of Piermario Morosini after he suffered a heart attack and passed away earlier today in the middle of his team's (AS Livorno Calcio) Serie B match with Pescara Calcio. He was 25. As a symbol of respect for the former Under-21 Italian international midfielder, the Italian Football Federation postponed all league matches for this weekend. There were matches elsewhere in Europe though, as England saw Manchester City score 6 while conceding only one in their travel to Norwich. Carlos Tevez got things started in the 18th minute while Sergio Aguero added City's 2nd in the 27th minute. Norwich's Andrew Surman scored the first goal of the 2nd half, in the 51st minute, while Tevez struck again in the 73rd and 80th minutes to give himself a hat-trick. Sergio Aguero struck between those goals for a total of 5-1 with 10 minutes remaining. Adam Johnson made it 6 for the Manchester side as he struck in the 3rd minute of stoppage time of the 2nd half. Sunderland and Wolves finished a goalless draw unenthusiastically while Swansea defeated visiting Blackburn 3-0. Last but not least, West Brom were able to edge QPR 1-0 thanks to Graham Dorrans' 22nd minute strike! Over in Germany, Bayern and Mainz somehow finished their match goalless while Hamburg were able to put one over Hannover in their 1-0 clash thanks to Heung-Min Son's 12th minute goal. Kaiserslautern continued their fall with a 0-2 loss to Nurnberg after Daniel Didavi and Tomas Pekhart sank the home side in the 43rd and 73rd minutes respectively. Leverkusen and Hertha Berlin ended their match 3-3 despite the fact that Andre Schurrle and Stefan Kiessling gave Bayer Leverkusen an early 2-0 lead. Hertha fought back though! Scoring in the 63rd minute through Pierre-Michel Lasogga, Berlin were able to maintain themselves despite going down a man in the 65th minute when Levan Kobiashvili was sent off. In fact, they scored 6 minutes later! Tunay Torun was the man who equalized and then upped the ante: after another 6 minutes he had given Hertha the lead! Were it not for the prodigious talent of Stefan Kiessling, who scored in the 84th minute to make it 3-3, Leverkusen would have lost quite remarkably. The same can not be said of Schalke in their 1-2 loss to Dortmund in the grudge match of the weekend. Jefferson Farfan gave Schalke the lead in the 9th minute only to see his side lose it in the 17th through Lukasz Piszczek and then the game in the 63rd as a result of Sebastian Kehl's goal. Wrapping up in Germany, Wolfsburg suffered a similar fate in their match against Augsburg. While Torsten Oehrl gave the visitors the lead in the 13th, Patrick Helmes made it all level in the 27th. With the match thus poised throughout the 1st half and half-time, the break only came in the 88th minute of the 2nd half when Sebastian Langkamp won it all for the visiting Augsburg side. Finally, in Spain Real Madrid defeated Sporting Gijon comfortably 3-1 while Levante are actually leading Barcelona as I post this following their 23rd minute penalty strike from the foot of Barkero. Have a good weekend!