LONDON -- Manchester City beat Aston Villa 4-1 on Saturday to move two points ahead of rival Manchester United atop the Premier League standings after the defending champions were held to a 1-1 tie at Liverpool. wholesale jerseys . Mario Balotelli scored in the first half before Adam Johnson, Vincent Kompany and James Milner replied in the second as City improved to 22 points. With injured Argentina striker Sergio Aguero missing, Balotelli scored for the fourth consecutive game with an impressive overhead bicycle kick as City shrugged off the drama surrounding Carlos Tevezs future, while Edin Dzeko was confined to the bench for the second straight match. Stephen Warnock scored for Villa as City gave up a goal for the first time this season at Eastlands knowing it could take top spot with a win. The capacity gathering of 45,065 spectators at Anfield included two-time NBA MVP LeBron James, who watched Liverpool play live for the first time since becoming a minority owner of the club. James did well not to grab a nap in a first half when chances were sparse as United manager Sir Alex Ferguson left Wayne Rooney out with the England striker "devastated" by a three-match Euro 2012 ban for kicking out at a Montenegro opponent in a 2-2 draw earlier this week. Steven Gerrard -- making his first start in seven months -- scored off a 68th-minute free kick before Rooney and Nani came off the bench to spark United. Javier Hernandez secured the tie with his 81st-minute header. "I didnt think they were really threatening until they scored the goal but then the game opened up and we took the chance," Ferguson said. "In the context of today the result is fair." City has 22 points from eight matches while United has 20. Chelsea stayed third and three points behind the leaders with a 3-1 win over Everton. Going in on a six-game winless run against Everton, Chelseas nerves were settled in the 31st when Daniel Sturridge headed in Ashley Coles cross. Captain John Terry made it 2-0 before halftime with another header after Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard flapped at a cross. Ramires tapped in the third goal in the 61st before substitute Apostolos Vellios scored with his first touch to give Everton a consolation. Chelsea maintained an unbeaten home record since Andre Villas-Boas took over as manager in the off-season. "We have done nothing else than our responsibilities in winning the games that we have won at home," Villas-Boas said. "We have not done anything special. "We just have to continue to win until we find a position of comfort at the top of the Premier League, because thats what we want." Chelsea gets a chance to close the gap at the top when it faces QPR next weekend, with the Manchester clubs facing each other. Liverpool has 14 points in fifth while Stoke improved to 12 points after a 2-0 win over Fulham. Villas first defeat of the season saw it stay on 11 points, tied with Norwich after its 3-1 victory over Swansea. 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"Today my goal was just to ski like I do in training," said Mielzynski. "I was a little nervous to do that because its a little different than the way I race. I think that made the difference. I kind of let go of everything else and it was just me and the course." Mielzynskis two-run total of one minute 53.59 seconds came in warm conditions. Resi Stiegler of the United States finished second, while Marlies Schild of Austria placed third to win her fourth overall World Cup slalom title. Marie-Michele Gagnon of Lac-Etchemin, Que., finished fifth while Anna Goodman of Pointe-Claire, Que., was 17th. Mielzynskis previous best results were a pair of 13th-place finishes last year -- in a slalom in December in Courchevel, France, and another slalom in February in Zwiesel, Germany. The womens ski team had been looking desperately for this kind of breakthrough. During a meeting with the skiers on Saturday, coach Hugues Ansermoz wrote "Go For The Win" on the top of a sheet featuring their start times. Sitting fifth after the first heat, Mielzynski found herself in position to do just that. She made up a deficit of 0.60 seconds by going smoothly down the course and jumping ahead of Stiegler. "Erin believed in herself," said Ansermoz. "What she did in the second run was amazing. Because after being fifth in the first run, I thought: OK, shes going to be so nervous, iits going to be so tough to manage all those emotions. Maso... Crosby Jersey. "That was absolutely incredible what she did." Mielzynski and Stiegler gave the podium an unexpected North American flavour and prevented Schild from tying Vreni Schneiders record of 34 career slalom wins. Schild had won six of seven previous slalom races this season. The podium finishers benefited from a pair of mistakes by first-run leader Tina Maze of Slovenia. Maze missed a gate on the slushy course and failed to finish. That mistake delivered the slalom title to Schild. Maze also failed to make up any ground on overall leader Lindsey Vonn of the United States, who straddled a gate in the first heat and crashed out. Vonn leads by 494 points, with six races remaining. A win is worth 100 points. Stiegler, whose promising career was set back by several serious injuries, had a pair of fourth-place finishes in 2007, in a slalom and super-combined. "Im ecstatic, I almost have no words for it," Stiegler said. "I dont know why it all came together today, but maybe it could have come together all year and was just waiting for this one day." The Canadians could identify. Gagnon joked that she never expected a fifth-place finish to fly under the radar. The Canadian women train together year-round and Mielzynski made it clear that she viewed the victory as one for the entire team. They were all in tears in the finish area after she completed her winning run. "Just seeing Erin doing that, it was so inspirational," said Gagnon. "She does everything perfectly. "She might almost be an over-thinker. She eats perfectly, she trains and does everything that it takes ... shes just an incredible athlete." An incredible performance on Sunday left the entire team hoping there would be a carry-over affect in the weeks ahead. "I think therell be a lot more to come," said Mielzynski. "We were saying today I broke the ice. But now the ice is broken." ' ' '