Liverpool rose up and crushed Bournemouth 9-0 in the first victory for Jurgen Klopp's team after faltering in the first three rounds of the English Premier League, while Manchester City came from behind against Crystal Palace with two goals to win 4-2 thanks to the brilliance of Norwegian striker Erling Haaland.
The fourth stage of the English Premier League, which started today, Saturday, was an opportunity for Liverpool to remove doubts when it hosted Bournemouth and beat it with a great result, deciding its first victory in the competition during this season after losing and two draws in the past two rounds.
The Brazilian Roberto Firmino and his colleague Luis Diaz scored twice, and the rest of the goals came through Harvey Elliott, Alexander Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Chris Mipham (against his own goal) and Fabio Carvalho.
Liverpool raised its score to 5 points, to rise to eighth place temporarily, pending the completion of the stage matches.
Haaland raised his score to 6 goals as the top scorer in the English Premier League (Getty)
At the Etihad Stadium, top scorer Erling Haaland performed a remarkable performance and scored a hat-trick that gave Manchester City a 4-2 victory over Crystal Palace.
Crystal Palace surprisingly advanced with two goals in the first half through John Stones (against his own net) and Joachim Andersen, and in the second half, Manchester City rose up first through Portuguese Bernardo Silva before Halland scored a hat-trick, his first this season, and raised his score to 6 goals solo. The English Premier League top scorer so far.
And Manchester City - the defending champion - raised its score to 10 points in the lead temporarily, and Arsenal could regain the lead if it beat Fulham at a later time.
Manchester United opened the fourth stage of the matches by defeating Southampton with a single goal scored by Bruno Fernandes in the second half.
United put an end to its loss in seven consecutive away matches since last season and moved to sixth place temporarily from four games.
Other matches saw Chelsea beat Leicester City 2-1, Brighton beat Leeds 1-0, and Brentford drew 1-1 with Everton.