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BALTIMORE: New England Patriots running back Stevan Ridley (center) attempts to rush past Baltimore Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb (left) and linebacker Dannell Ellerbe in the first half of an NFL football game. — AP BALTIMORE: Justin Tucker kicked a 27-yard field goal as time expired, giving the Baltimore Ravens a 31-30 victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday night in a rematch of the AFC championship game. When the teams met in January, the Patriots squeezed out a three-point win at home to advance to the Super Bowl. The stakes weren’t nearly as high in this one, yet the game was eerily similar. In the previous meeting, Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal in the closing seconds. In the encore, Tucker - who took the job away from Cundiff in training camp - drove his kick inside the right upright. The game-winning kick followed a pass interference call against Devin McCourty on Jacoby Jones. Torrey Smith, who was playing less than 24 hours after the death of his 19-year-old brother, had six catches for 127 yards and two touchdowns for the Ravens. Baltimore (2-1) won its 12th straight at home behind Joe Flacco, who went 28 for 39 for 382 yards and three touchdowns. Tom Brady completed 28 of 41 passes for 335 yards and a score for the Patriots (1-2). Titans 44, Lions 41 In Nashville, Rob Bironas kicked a 26-yard field goal in overtime, and the Titans stopped backup quarterback Shaun Hill on fourth-and-1 at the Tennessee 7 to pull out a win over Detroit. The Titans (1-2) blew a 20-9 halftime lead in a crazy game featuring big plays, scoring swings and some suspect officiating. Detroit scored 18 straight points, then Tennessee answered with 21 points before the Lions scored the final 14 of regulation. Detroit recovered an onside kick and got an assist from officials who did not review a possible turnover. In overtime, Bironas’ third field goal put Tennessee ahead to stay. The Lions (1-2) lost their second straight when coach Jim Schwartz decided not to let Jason Hanson attempt to connect on a fifth field goal. Hill, in for injured Matthew Stafford , was stopped by defensive tackles Jurrell Casey and Sen’Derrick Marks on his sneak, and Tennessee escaped with its first win of the season. Chiefs 27, Saints 24 In New Orleans, Ryan Succop kicked six field goals, one to force overtime in the final seconds and another from 31 yards to lift Kansas City to its first win and keep New Orleans winless. Succop’s 43-yard field goal with 3 seconds left completed a methodical comeback by Kansas City (1-2) after the Saints (0-3) had cashed in on a pair of Chiefs turnovers to go ahead 24-6 in the third quarter. Kansas City needed only one touchdown to win, a 91-yard run by Jamaal Charles, who finished with 233 yards rushing and 55 yards receiving. The Chiefs also got a safety in the fourth quarter on Justin Houston’s third sack of the game. Drew Brees passed for 240 yards and three touchdowns, but missed all six of his passes through the fourth quarter and overtime. Vikings 24, 49ers 13 In Minneapolis, Christian Ponder threw two touchdown passes to tight end Kyle Rudolph and ran for another score to help the Vikings hand the 49ers their first defeat. After a dominant start to their NFC North tour by decisively beating playoff teams Green Bay and Detroit, the 49ers (2-1) were beaten in every way by a team least likely to do so. The Vikings (2-1) began the game boldly with a fourth-and-goal touchdown pass by Ponder to Rudolph. They finished strong by forcing three turnovers and two punts by the 49ers in the fourth quarter. Playing against his former team in the regular season for the first time, Randy Moss had three catches for 27 yards. Alex Smith’s franchise-record interception-free streak ended at 249 straight passes. Falcons 27, Chargers 3 In San Diego, Matt Ryan threw touchdown passes to three different receivers and safety Thomas DeCoud had two interceptions and a fumble recovery for unbeaten Atlanta. Ryan completed 30 of 40 passes for 275 yards, with his first interception of the season, and a passer rating of 107.8 for the Falcons (3-0), who improved to 6-0 all-time in San Diego. DeCoud’s three takeaways, plus William Moore’s fourthquarter fumble recovery, extended the Falcons‘ NFL-high turnover differential to plus-10. San Diego (2-1) was the third straight AFC West team to lose to Atlanta. Ryan Mathews made his season debut for San Diego and looked good until fumbling inside the Falcons’ 5-yard line on a hit by Sean Witherspoon, with DeCoud recovering. Texans 31, Broncos 25 In Denver, Matt Schaub outplayed Peyton Manning, throwing four touchdown passes against a confused Denver defense. Schaub finished 17 for 30 for 290 yards to help Houston move to 3-0 for the first time in franchise history. Six days after throwing three interceptions in the first quarter of a loss to Atlanta, Manning didn’t throw any against the Texans. But just as happened last week, the Broncos fell behind by 20 and lost by six. Manning did get the ball with 20 seconds left this time but didn’t get the Broncos close to the end zone. Raiders 34, Steelers 31 In Oakland, Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 43yard field goal on the last play as Oakland scored the final 13 points after wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey was knocked out and hospitalized by a scary hit. The game turned somber early in the fourth quarter when Heyward-Bey was knocked unconscious by a helmet-to-helmet hit in the end zone by Steelers safety Ryan Mundy. The hit was not called a penalty by the replacement officials. Heyward-Bey was taken to the hospital with a neck injury. Carson Palmer then threw his third touchdown pass for Oakland (1-2) and Janikowski kicked two field goals to beat the Steelers (1-2) and give coach Dennis Allen his first win. Cardinals 27, Eagles 6 In Glendale, Kevin Kolb threw for 222 yards and two touchdowns and James Sanders returned one of Michael Vick’s two fumbles 93 yards for a touchdown, and Arizona is off to its best start in 38 years. Arizona (3-0) sacked Vick five times in winning its seventh straight home game, the second-longest streak in franchise history. Philadelphia (2-1) became the first NFL team to open a season with two one-point wins. The Eagles didn’t give themselves a chance to rally for another victory, picked apart by the quarterback SPORTS they cast away and hounded by Arizona’s attacking defense. Jets 23, Dolphins 20 In Miami, Nick Folk received a reprieve when his blocked field-goal attempt was negated by a timeout, and his second try was a successful 33yarder with 6:04 left in overtime. Mark Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes for a 38yard gain to set up the kick. Two plays later, Folk’s try was blocked, but officials whistled the play dead as the ball was snapped because the Dolphins had called timeout. Folk then made the winner. On the previous possession, the Dolphins’ Dan Carpenter was wide left on a 48-yard fieldgoal attempt that would have given them the victory. New York improved to 2-1, and Miami dropped to 1-2. The Jets’ Darrelle Revis and Miami’s Reggie Bush left the game with left knee injuries. Jaguars 22, Colts 17 In Indianapolis, Blaine Gabbert connected with Cecil Shorts III on an 80-yard touchdown pass with 45 seconds left to lift Jacksonville to its first win of the season. Maurice Jones-Drew ran for 177 yard, but Jacksonville (2-1) needed Gabbert’s big play. The Colts (1-2) had taken the lead 17-16 after Andrew Luck drove them 48 yards in five plays to set up Adam Vinatieri’s 37-yard field goal with 56 seconds left. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 DENVER: Houston Texans tight end Owen Daniels (81) dives over the goal line for a touchdown as he is hit by Denver Broncos strong safety Chris Harris (25) and outside linebacker Von Miller (58) in the third quarter of an NFL football game. — AP Ravens soar over Patriots COLOMBO: Ireland’s batsman Niall O’Brien plays a shot as West Indies’ wicket keeper Denesh Ramdin watches during an ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match. — AP LANDOVER: Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Carlos Dunlap sacks Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and forces a fumble during the first half of an NFL football game.—AP American Football Conference AFC East W L T OTL PF PA PCT NY Jets 2 1 0 0 81 75 .667 Buffalo 2 1 0 0 87 79 .667 New England1 2 0 0 82 64 .333 Miami 1 2 0 1 65 66 .333 AFC North Baltimore 2 1 0 0 98 67 .667 Cincinnati 2 1 0 0 85 102 .667 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 0 77 75 .333 Cleveland 0 3 0 0 57 75 0 AFC South Houston 3 0 0 0 88 42 1.000 Jacksonville 1 2 0 1 52 70 .333 Tennessee 1 2 0 0 67 113 .333 Indianapolis 1 2 0 0 61 83 .333 AFC West San Diego 2 1 0 0 63 51 .667 Oakland 1 2 0 0 61 88 .333 Denver 1 2 0 0 77 77 .333 Kansas City 1 2 0 0 68 99 .333 NFL results/standings Dallas 16, Tampa Bay 10; Chicago 23, St. Louis 6; Minnesota 24, San Francisco 13; Tennessee 44, Detroit 41 (OT); Cincinnati 38, Washington 31; Kansas City 27, New Orleans 24 (OT); NY Jets 23, Miami 20 (OT); Buffalo 24, Cleveland 14; Jacksonville 22, Indianapolis 17; Arizona 27, Philadelphia 6; Atlanta 27, San Diego 3; Houston 31, Denver 25; Oakland 34, Pittsburgh 31; Baltimore 31, New England 30. National Football Conference NFC East Dallas 2 1 0 0 47 54 .667 Philadelphia 2 1 0 0 47 66 .667 NY Giants 2 1 0 0 94 65 .667 Washington 1 2 0 0 99 101 .333 NFC North Chicago 2 1 0 0 74 50 .667 Minnesota 2 1 0 0 70 59 .667 Green Bay 1 1 0 0 45 40 .500 Detroit 1 2 0 1 87 94 .333 NFC South Atlanta 3 0 0 0 94 48 1.000 Tampa Bay 1 2 0 0 60 67 .333 Carolina 1 2 0 0 52 79 .333 New Orleans 0 3 0 1 83 102 0 NFC West Arizona 3 0 0 0 67 40 1.000 San Francisco 2 1 0 0 70 65 .667 Seattle 1 1 0 0 43 27 .500 St. Louis 1 2 0 0 60 78 .333 COLOMBO: The West Indies qualified for the Super Eights stage of the World Twenty20 after their Group B match against Ireland was abandoned due to rain yesterday. Ireland made 129-6 in their 19 overs before heavy rain at the Premadasa stadium prevented the West Indies from starting their innings. Both teams gained one point each, but the West Indies joined Group B winners Australia in the next round due to a superior net run-rate over the Irish. The West Indies will be placed alongside defending champions England, New Zealand and hosts Sri Lanka in group one of the Super Eights which starts on Thursday. The other half has Australia, South Africa, India and either Pakistan or Bangladesh, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the semi-finals. The match, watched by barely 1,000 fans, was reduced to 19 overs per side after an hour’s interruption midway through Ireland’s innings due to rain. Chris Gayle turned star performer with the ball with two wickets as the Ireland innings failed to gain any momentum after the West Indies won the toss and elected to field. Niall O’Brien made 25 and Gary Wilson scored 21, before both batsmen fell to Gayle’s off-spin. Irish captain William Porterfield was dismissed off the first ball of the match for the second time in a row, bowled by Fidel Edwards. He had also fallen to Australian Shane Watson’s first delivery in Ireland’s previous match last week.The West Indies, who had lost to Australia in a rainaffected match, endured another wet outing as rain lashed the ground during the innings break. — AFP But on the next snap, Shorts got behind Colts safety Sergio Brown and Gabbert hit him in stride. Shorts sprinted free, diving into the end zone for the score. Indianapolis had a chance to win it at the end, but Luck’s pass into the end zone was broken up by Aaron Ross. Cowboys 16, Buccaneers 10 In Arlington , DeMarco Murray had an 11-yard touchdown run, Dan Bailey kicked three field goals and Dallas won its home opener. A week after the Buccaneers’ big push against the Giants in their victory formation, Tampa Bay used a pair of timeouts in the final 40 seconds after a failed onside kick attempt. The Cowboys (2-1) scored twice in the first half when starting in Tampa Bay territory after turnovers. They overcame three turnovers by Romo - two on plays reversed by replay - with a defense that held Tampa Bay to 166 total yards. Romo’s interception on the game’s fourth play set up Tampa Bay (1-2) for Josh Freeman’s 1-yard TD to Luke Stocker. The Cowboys drew even on Murray’s run after Sean Lee’s interception. Bailey had kicks of 32, 26 and 22 yards. Bengals 38, Redskins 31 In Landover, Andy Dalton completed 19 of 27 passes for 328 yards and three touchdowns for Cincinnati. The Bengals blew a 24-7 first-half lead, but two touchdown passes by Dalton in the fourth quarter made the difference. A 6-yard throw to tight end Jermaine Gresham broke a 24-24 tie, then Dalton hit Andrew Hawkins for a 59-yard score to give the Bengals a two-touchdown cushion with 7:08 left to play. Robert Griffin III’s 2-yard run cut the lead to seven points with 3:35 remaining, but he threw incomplete on a third-and-50 on the game’s last play. Cincinnati’s A.J. Green caught nine passes for a career-high 183 yards. The Bengals improved to 2-1. The Redskins fell to 1-2. Bears 23, Rams 6 In Chicago, major Wright returned an interception 45 yards for a touchdown and Chicago’s defense had six sacks on Sam Bradford and held St. Louis to 160 total yards. That was enough on a day when Jay Cutler struggled, and the Bears (2- 1) came away with the win after an ugly loss to Green Bay the previous week. The Rams fell to 1- 2. The Bears had just kicked a field goal to extend their lead to 13-6 in the fourth quarter when Wright came up with his big return. He caught the ball at the 45 and ran untouched to the end zone, making it a 14-point game and finally giving the Bears some breathing room. Bills 24, Browns In Cleveland, Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three touchdown passes and Buffalo overcame the loss of running back C.J. Spiller in snapping an eightgame road losing streak. Fitzpatrick finished 22 of 35 for 208 yards as the Bills (2-1) turned to their passing game after Spiller, the NFL’s leading rusher, was lost in the first quarter with a shoulder injury. The Bills hadn’t won outside Buffalo since the 2011 season opener at Kansas City. Before he got hurt, Spiller scored on a 32-yard screen pass from Fitzpatrick, who also threw a 9-yard TD to T.J. Graham in the first quarter and hooked up with Stevie Johnson from 9 yards in the fourth for a 24-14 lead. The Browns are 0-3. —AP West Indies enter next round in World T20 SCOREBOARD COLOMBO: Scoreboard of the World Twenty20 Group B match between Ireland and the West Indies at the Premadasa stadium yesterday. Ireland: W. Porterfield b Edwards 0 P. Stirling c Gayle b Sammy 19 E. Joyce b Narine 17 N. O’Brien b Gayle 25 G. Wilson c Ramdin b Gayle 21 K. O’Brien b Rampaul 13 T. Johnston not out 15 N. Jones not out 14 Extras: (lb2, w2, nb1) 5 Total (for six wickets, 19 overs) 129 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Porterfield), 2-33 (Joyce), 3-37 (Stirling), 4-70 (Wilson), 5-96 (N. O’Brien), 6-107 (K. O’Brien). Bowling: Edwards 3-0-23-1, Rampaul 4-0-20-1, Sammy 3-0-23-1, Narine 4-0-21-1 (nb1), Russell 2-0-19-0 (w1), Gayle 3-0-21-2 (w1)

LONDON: England would be keen to stage the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020 if UEFA president Michel Platini’s plan to hold the tournament across Europe became a reality, English FA chairman David Bernstein said yesterday. Platini’s idea of having matches in 12 or 13 European countries with the final stages in one venue will be discussed by UEFA’s executive board in December with a decision made early next year. Bernstein told a media briefing at Wembley: “Clearly Wembley is incredibly highly thought of by UEFA and it is something we will probably push for. “UEFA want to hold the semi-finals and the final on the same ground, or in the same city and I think we would be on their shortlist - but there would be some strong competition.” Turkey have expressed their wish to stage what will be a 24-team tournament in 2020, but their bid will be dropped if Istanbul is awarded the Olympic Games in the same year. Scotland, Wales and Ireland have also declared their interest in staging the finals. Platini was in London last week and discussed his idea of staging the finals across the continent with the FA, who would be keen to stage what would effectively be a “finals week”. Platini was so impressed with Wembley’s staging of the 2011 Champions League final between 19 SPORTS England keen to stage 2020 Euro finals BUENOS AIRES: River Plate’s Leonardo Ponzio (left) and Racing Club’s Luciano Vietto struggle for the ball during an Argentina’s league soccer match.—AP Lanus topple Boca Juniors BUENOS AIRES: A blunder by goalkeeper Oscar Ustari paved the way for Boca Juniors’ 2-0 defeat at Lanus that allowed Newell’s Old Boys to overtake them as Argentine championship leaders on Sunday. It was a fine result for Lanus coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto, a Boca idol in his days as a winger who masterminded the victory against his old club. “I didn’t enjoy it fully like I would beating another team,” the former Columbus Crew forward told reporters. “We were always in control, we deserved to win.” Ustari spilt a high ball into his penalty area, defender Rolando Schiavi’s attempted clearance hit the bar and striker Mario Regueiro put Lanus ahead after half an hour. Despite Uruguayan Regueiro’s red card in the 81st minute for a second booking, Lanus increased their lead in the 86th through Diego Valeri in a counter-attack. Former Paraguay World Cup coach Gerardo Martino’s unbeaten Newell’s team, who won 2-1 at Colon, lead the Inicial championship standings with 18 points from eight matches. Velez Sarsfield, who won 2-1 at San Lorenzo on Saturday, have 17 points and Boca 16. Big guns River Plate, Independiente and San Lorenzo are struggling in the lowers reaches of the standings, desperate for points early in the season to stave off the threat of relegation. River lost 1-0 at home to Racing Club and are one from bottom of the relegation points averages with Independiente, who were held 1-1 at home by All Boys on Saturday, below them. Fans are demanding a change of coach at River where they see the inexperienced Matias Almeyda struggling to build a solid team and chanted at the end of Sunday’s defeat for the return of the highly successful Ramon Diaz. Independiente, having handed the reins to Americo Gallego at the end of last month, have gone 15 matches without a league win. San Lorenzo’s coach Ricardo Caruso Lombardi, who normally finds something to complain to the referee about, tried to put a lid on his frustrations after a second successive defeat, saying: “I look like Snow White I’m so calm, but inside I’m a volcano. “At big clubs, time is shorter (but) while I feel good with the players, I’ll carry on. They support me.” —Reuters Toluca defeat Atlante 1-0 MEXICO CITY: Luis Tejada scored in the 84th minute as Toluca beat Atlante 1-0 Sunday to take the lead in Mexico’s Apertura football tournament after nine rounds of matches. The victory improved Toluca to 20 points, ahead of second-placed Tijuana on goal difference, after Tijuana drew 1-1 against Atlas on Saturday. In third, four points behind, is Monterrey, which won 3-2 against Queretaro. In other results, Chivas drew 0-0 with Pumas, Cruz Azul held America 1-1, Puebla drew 1-1 with Leon, Santos Laguna and Jaguares drew 0-0 with San Luis defeated Pachuca 1-0 and Morelia and Tigres drew 1-1. Panamanian Tejada scored with a right foot finish from inside the area for Toluca when it seemed the game was heading for a scoreless draw. Colombian Duvier Riascos got the equalizer in the 75th minute for Tijuana with a simple finish, after Chilean Hector Mancilla had weaved through the Tijuana defense and finished to give Atlas the lead in the 30th minute. Mexico international Angel Reyna got the winner for Monterrey eight minutes from the final whistle. Queretaro took the lead in the 15th minute when Carlos Bueno scored and held it until Nery Cardozo headed in the equalizer in the 50th. Abraham Carreno then put Monterrey ahead in the 69th, but Diego Guastavino pulled Queretaro level two minutes later before Reyna’s winner. Luis Perez hit the post from the penalty spot for Chivas in the third minute of second half injury time and Emanuel Villa spawned a good chance for Pumas minutes before. In Saturday’s Mexico City derby, America’s Christian Benitez latched onto a long pass to open the scoring in the 18th, before Javier Aquino responded three minutes after halftime for Cruz Azul. Leon’s goal came via a header from Sebastian Maz in the 28th. Argentine Matias Abelairas brought the scores level in the 67th. Current champions Santos Laguna couldn’t score against Jaguares, but had the better chances. San Luis got its second win of season, with Jaime Correa getting the only goal of the game in the 38th against Pachuca. Lucas Lobos scored from the penalty spot top to put Tigres in front after 66 minutes on Friday, before Miguel Sabah equalized for Morelia in the 72nd.—AP Manchester United and Barcelona that UEFA awarded the 2013 final to Wembley as well, which coincides with the FA’s 150th anniversary celebrations. Bernstein continued: “One of the major factors is whether Turkey get the Olympic Games or not. If Turkey do not get the Olympic Games then I think they are in a pretty good position to stage the Euros. “If we believed there was a real opportunity of having the tournament here of course we would look at it. “Of course there would be an intent, the public want it and we’d want it and it would be wonderful to have it here. “If Michel Platini’s current views prevail and it becomes a pan- Preview MILAN: The San Siro has become a burden for AC Milan and Inter Milan with neither side managing a win at the stadium in eight attempts between them this season, piling pressure on both their managers. Tomorrow, it will be troubled Milan’s turn to try to break the jinx when they face Cagliari in a midweek Serie A match. Milan have failed to score in three attempts at the San Siro this season, losing 1-0 to Sampdoria and Atalanta in Serie A, and drawing 0-0 with Anderlecht in the Champions League. Rivals Inter have lost to AS Roma and Siena in the league at home and Hadjuk Split in the Europa League where they have also drawn with Vaslui and Rubin Kazan. Another defeat for Milan tomorrow will keep the heat on coach Massimiliano Allegri, whose side have taken only three points from four Serie A games. “We need to break the San Siro taboo tomorrow. The fans, who have been exceptional so far, need to stay close to the team tomorrow as well,” Allegri told reporters after Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at Udinese. Allegri has been left to pick up the pieces after Milan dismantled their team in the close season by selling the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva to try to balance the books. They are also plagued by injuries but Allegri, who led Milan to the 2011 title, has remained remarkably unruffled in the face of mounting pressure and some ragged performances by his side. European competition, then the focus needs to be on the semi-finals and final.” After England’s unsuccessful bid to FIFA in 2010 to stage the 2018 World Cup finals, Bernstein said the FA would not want to get into any kind of bidding war to stage the tournament. “We would not want to be involved in a World Cup-style bidding process,” he remarked. “We do not want to spend a lot of money on something that fell flat.” But, he said, he could see the attraction of Platini’s idea although there were two ways of looking at it. “What you would lose is the individuality and the national flavor that you get from, (Euro 2012 co-hosts) Poland “At the moment I think it’s just Juventus who are doing really impressive things as it was logical to expect,” said Allegri. “The other teams are not going at 120 kilometres an hour and there’s time to get back the positions that we’ve lost now. I was and I am calm.” Rookie Andrea Stramaccioni’s Inter, who have a 100 percent away record in all competitions and have yet to concede a goal on their travels, visit Chievo in another of Wednesday’s matches (1845). “We’re united. We’re behind this coach who’s trying to do the best he can, and so are we,” said midfielder Esteban Cambiasso after Sunday’s 2-0 home defeat by Siena. “The season is long and we hope that our luck will turn. We’re sorry to have lost at home, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 and Ukraine or anywhere else. “On the other hand, it is very European-democratic across a wide range of countries.” Apart from July and August’s London Olympics and the Paralympics which followed, England last hosted a major soccer tournament when they staged the first 16-team Euros in 1996. In a sense Platini’s idea takes the Euros back to how they were staged from the first finals in 1960 through to 1976 when a continental-wide qualifying competition ended with four teams playing the two-semi-finals, a playoff and a final in the same country. That format was dropped when the tournament was expanded to eight teams in 1980.—Reuters Milan’s turn to face San Siro jinx Preview BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund aims to bounce back from its first Bundesliga loss in just over a year when the defending champion visits high-flying Eintracht Frankfurt today. Dortmund’s 31-game unbeaten streak came to a halt on Saturday with Hamburg’s first win, and Juergen Klopp’s side already finds itself five points behind pacesetting Bayern Munich. “The season has only begun. Last season we were eight points behind Bayern and we still won the German championship,” Dortmund midfielder Ivan Perisic told the Bundesliga website. “So I’m not worried about it.” Frankfurt, in contrast, set a Bundesliga record by becoming the first promoted side to win its opening four games. “I’d be disappointed if we don’t finish German champions now,” Frankfurt coach Armin Veh joked after the third win. Bayern - enjoying its best ever start to the league - hosts misfiring Wolfsburg. “We can’t deny it’s a good start but a good start is only of any use if you keep marching on,” said Bayern sporting director Matthias Sammer after his side’s seventh consecutive win across all competitions. Also Tuesday, Schalke hosts Mainz and Fortuna Duesseldorf visits Greuther Fuerth. Tomorrow, Borussia Moenchengladbach hosts Hamburg, Hoffenheim visits Stuttgart, Hannover welcomes Nuremberg, Freiburg hosts Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen visits Augsburg. “It’s not nice to be reacquainted with how losing feels,” Dortmund captain Sebastian Kehl said after the 3-2 defeat. “It has to be said that we really only have ourselves to blame.” Dortmund was just five games shy of Hamburg’s record of 36 games unbeaten set in January, 1983. “Such a thing is incidental, although the record would have been nice of course,” Perisic said. “Maybe in a couple of weeks we’ll get angry about the record because we could have managed it with a draw (in Hamburg).” Defensive lapses were to blame for the AC Milan’s Urby Emanuelson, of the Netherlands (left) in action in this file photo. Kehl in this file photo. —AP loss, though coach Juergen Klopp said his team played badly in “the beginning, the middle and the end.” “If we learn the right lessons from Hamburg it should be our last defeat for a while,” said Klopp, whose side began last season with three defeats from six games. Klopp said Sunday that he never had a team that played its best football in the first five games and that “our real capability will always come to light over the course of a season.” The outspoken 45-year-old coach is yet to find his ideal lineup behind striker Robert Lewandowski, with Perisic, Mario Goetze and offseason signing Marco Reus all switching positions during Saturday’s loss, when the middle became too crowded. “Mario, Marco and Ivan didn’t allow the space they needed to play their game,” Klopp said. Dortmund ended the game with because we can’t manage to satisfy our fans, but we’re sure the wins will come.” Titleholders Juventus, the only team to have won their first four games, take their perfect record to Fiorentina for the only match late yesterday. Tomorrow Napoli, second with 10 points, host Lazio, who have nine after a shock home defeat by Genoa on Sunday. —Reuters Dortmund aims to bounce back against Frankfurt GERMANY: Leverkusen’s goalkeeper Bernd Leno jumps over Dortmund’s Sebastian Goetze playing alongside substitutes Julian Schieber and Jakub Blaszczykowski behind Lewandowski. Now questions are being asked about how Reus - a Ä17.1 million ($22.2 million) purchase - fits in a midfield still adapting to the departure of Shinji Kagawa for Manchester United. “Our game is different to (Reus’ previous club) Moenchengladbach’s,” said Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc. “He simply needs time to get used to it.” Jupp Heynckes has no such problems at Bayern, where the 67-year-old coach has been rotating his squad with the summer’s new arrivals all contributing. “You have to compensate for the energysapping program by rotating the squad,” Heynckes said. “Every player has to forget his ego and drop to the bench sometimes. I’ll organize it so it works.”—AP

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