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20 MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017 DT Sports Inter's Europa hope dented in nine-goal thriller • AFP Mauro Icardi hit a dramatic late brace to complete his hat-trick but Inter Milan's Europa League hopes were dented in a dramatic ninegoal thriller that saw Fiorentina prevail 5-4 in Florence on Saturday. Inter travelled to the Artemio Franchi already six points behind Lazio, who occupy fifth position in Serie A and the league's second Europa League qualifying position, and desperate for their first win in five league outings. But despite responding to Matias Vecino's 23rd minute opener with goals from Ivan Perisic and captain Icardi by the 34th minute, Stefano Pioli's men suffered a dramatic collapse in the space of 17 second-half minutes that saw them concede a penalty and concede three goals before launching a futile, last-gasp revival. Inter's third defeat in five-game winless run leaves them in seventh place but, less than a year after their takeover by the Chinese Suning group, their hopes of qualifying for Europe's second tier competition are now decidedly compromised. Inter host Napoli, in third and determined to battle for a top-two finish, next week and Pioli told Sky Sport: "There's no justification for our performance. We had an unexplainable blackout. • Matador Cavani sends PSG top • AFP RESULTS Atalanta 3-2 Bologna Conti 3, Freuler 14, Destro 16, Caldara 75 Di Francesco 61 Fiorentina 5-4 Inter Milan Vecino 23, 64, Astori 63, Perisic 29, Icardi 34, Babacar 70, 79 88, 90+2 A goal apiece from Edinson Cavani and Angel di Maria gave Paris Saint-Germain a 2-0 win over Montpellier to send the champions top of Ligue 1 for the first time this season on Saturday. PSG now have 80 points from 34 games to top Ligue 1 provisionally while second placed Monaco,. In hommage to the Parisian policeman murdered on the Champs Elysees in a terror attack on Thursday, two policemen symbolically took the kick off, while the players all wore black armbands in mourning. Given the reverse fixture was a resounding 3-0 win for Montpellier the star-studded Parisian outfit needed to be on their guard and occasionally rode their luck. But Unai Emery's charges have Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann scores the winning goal during their Spanish La Liga Santander match against Espanyol at RCDE Stadium on Saturday Griezmann Atletico's match winner once more • AFP Antoine Griezmann was Atletico Madrid's hero once more as he struck 17 minutes from time to snatch a 1-0 win away to Espanyol on Saturday. Atletico were outplayed for large spells and were also thankful to goalkeeper Jan Oblak as he made a brilliant save to deny Leo Baptistao salvaging a point for Espanyol. Victory restores Atletico's threepoint lead over Sevilla in the fight for third place behind Real Madrid and Barcelona, who faced off yesterday. Atletico boss Diego Simeone made just one change from the side that booked their place in a third now steamrollered to eight straight wins since their humiliating Champions League meltdown in Barcelona. • RESULTS PSG 2-0 Montpellier Cavani 29, Di Maria 48 Lorient 5-1 Metz Ciani 13, Waris 49, Diabite 32-P Cabot 60, 66, Moukandjo 78 Dijon 3-2 Angers Diony 5, 43, Mangani 68-P, Melou 17 Ekambi 69 Caen 0-2 Nantes Bammou 27, 35 Bordeaux 2-0 Bastia Malcom 55, Sankhare 69 Lille 3-0 Guingamp Preville 10, 35-P, Eder 66 Champions League semi-final in four years against Leicester. And their midweek exertions appeared to take their toll as neither side threatened before the break. However, the introduction of Kevin Gameiro alongside Griezmann gave Atletico an added dimension for the final 25 minutes. However, the former Real Madrid stopper could have done better when Griezmann volleyed home his 25th goal of the season after latching onto Niguez's deflected shot. Baptistao should have levelled seconds later when he bore down on goal, but Oblak made himself big to register his eighth clean sheet in 11 games. Paris St Germain’s Edinson Cavani celebrates after scoring against Montpellier during their French Ligue 1 match at Parc des Princes in Paris on Saturday REUTERS Malaga 2-0 Valencia Recio 36, Sandro Ramirez 40 Villarreal 2-1 Leganes Bakambu 68, 90+1 Guerrero 90 Osasuna 2-2 Sporting Gijon Mere 18-og, Kodro 71 Canella 79, Castro 81 Espanyol 0-1 Atletico Madrid Griezmann 73 Earlier, Villarreal moved back to within eight points of the top four in hugely controversial fashion as Cedric Bakambu punched home a stoppage time winner to cruelly deny Leganes. Bakambu had put Villarreal in front before Miguel Angel Guerrero looked to have salvaged a vital point in Leganes' battle to avoid the drop. However, Bakambu struck again seconds later and the goal was allowed to stand despite the Congolese striker having clearly used to hand to turn home Jonathan dos Santos's cross. Leganes were, though, handed a let-off as Osasuna and Sporting Gijon drew 2-2 which does little to aid either side's chances of beating the drop. Sporting are now four points adrift of Leganes in 18th with Osasuna five points worse off at the bottom of the table. Recio and Sandro Ramirez were on target as Malaga secured their place in La Liga for next season with a 2-0 win over Valencia. • Ibra suffers 'significant knee ligament damage' • AFP RESULTS REUTERS Zlatan Ibrahimovic's magical season with Manchester United appears over after the club announced he had suffered a serious knee injury in Thursday's Europa League clash with Anderlecht. The club revealed that both the 35-year-old Swedish striker and Argentinian defender Marcos Rojo had suffered knee injuries in the same match. "Detailed investigations on the injuries sustained by Marcos Rojo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic during Thursday's Europa League match have confirmed significant knee ligament damage in both players that requires specialist opinions over the coming days," read the United statement on their website. "Estimations of time to full recovery will only be possible once definitive treatment plans have been decided after these consultations." Ibrahimovic didn't have his finest game against Anderlecht - Marcus Rashford edging United through to the semi-finals on aggregate after extra-time - but his goals this season have been the main reason for an improvement in the club's fortunes, albeit without ever being title challengers. Ibrahimovic has defied many doubters since joining on a free transfer from Paris Saint-Germain last year, scoring 28 goals and inspiring United to victory in the League Cup. •
Sports 21 MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017 DT FOOTBALL TEN 1 12:40AM Italian Serie A Pescara v Roma TEN 2 9:00PM UEFA Youth League: Final 12:40AM Spanish La Liga DAY’S WATCH Eibar v Athletic Bilbao CRICKET TEN 3 8:30PM Pakistan Tour of West Indies 1st Test, Day 4 SONY SIX 8:30PM Indian Premier League Mumbai v Pune Britain’s Johanna Konta cries while leaving the tennis court during their Fed Cup Group II play-off against Romania in Constanta county, Romania on Saturday REUTERS Abusive Nastase banned as Fed Cup boils over • AFP Romanian tennis legend Ilie Nastase was sensationally kicked out of the Fed Cup on Saturday after a foulmouthed rant compounded his controversial racial slur over Serena Williams's unborn baby. The 70-year-old captain of Romania's Fed Cup team was escorted from the Constanta venue where a World Group play-off was taking place against Britain after swearing at the umpire, the British skipper and a visiting player who was even reduced to tears. He was heard to call pregnant captain Anne Keothavong and national number one Johanna Konta "fucking bitches". The day before, Nastase, a former world number one and two-time Grand Slam title winner, was overheard making derogatory remarks about US superstar Serena Williams's pregnancy. "Let's see what colour it (the baby) has. Chocolate with milk?," he said in Romanian, remarks then reported widely internationally, including by a British female reporter who he then berated, describing her as "stupid" and "ugly". The International Tennis Federation said Nastase had been expelled from the tie against Britain for "serious misconduct" and hinted at further punishment. After his slur against Williams, who will give birth in September, Nastase was still raging on Saturday. He was warned twice by the umpire for unsportsmanlike conduct as Konta took on Sorana Cirstea in the day's second rubber. Nastase screamed at the umpire: "It's not the opera, what's your fucking problem?" Konta broke down in tears after the abuse and the match was held up for 25 minutes before Nastase was banished to the stands and then escorted out of the venue by burly security guards. "His accreditation was removed and he will play no further part in the tie," said the ITF in a statement. • Amir gets five-wicket haul against West Indies • Reuters Pakistan left-arm paceman Mohammad Amir claimed his first five-wicket haul since returning from a fiveyear ban on a rain-shortened second day of the first Test against West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday. Only 11.3 overs were bowled, with the home team advancing to 278 for nine wickets at a soggy Sabina Park. Amir claimed the two wickets to fall, dismissing tail-enders Devendra Bishoo for 28 and Alzarri Joseph for a duck while captain Jason Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir unsuccessfully appeals for LBW on day two of the first Test against the West Indies at Sabina Park AFP Holder remained unbeaten on 55 at stumps. Amir (5-41) returned to the Pakistan test team last year after serving a five-year ban for spot-fixing. •
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MONDAY, APRIL <strong>24</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
DT<br />
Sports<br />
Inter's Europa<br />
hope dented<br />
in nine-goal<br />
thriller<br />
• AFP<br />
Mauro Icardi hit a dramatic late<br />
brace to complete his hat-trick but<br />
Inter Milan's Europa League hopes<br />
were dented in a dramatic ninegoal<br />
thriller that saw Fiorentina<br />
prevail 5-4 in Florence on Saturday.<br />
Inter travelled to the Artemio<br />
Franchi already six points behind<br />
Lazio, who occupy fifth position<br />
in Serie A and the league's second<br />
Europa League qualifying position,<br />
and desperate for their first win in<br />
five league outings. But despite responding<br />
to Matias Vecino's 23rd<br />
minute opener with goals from Ivan<br />
Perisic and captain Icardi by the<br />
34th minute, Stefano Pioli's men<br />
suffered a dramatic collapse in the<br />
space of 17 second-half minutes that<br />
saw them concede a penalty and<br />
concede three goals before launching<br />
a futile, last-gasp revival.<br />
Inter's third defeat in five-game<br />
winless run leaves them in seventh<br />
place but, less than a year after their<br />
takeover by the Chinese Suning<br />
group, their hopes of qualifying for<br />
Europe's second tier competition<br />
are now decidedly compromised.<br />
Inter host Napoli, in third and<br />
determined to battle for a top-two<br />
finish, next week and Pioli told Sky<br />
Sport: "There's no justification for<br />
our performance. We had an unexplainable<br />
blackout. •<br />
Matador Cavani sends PSG top<br />
• AFP<br />
RESULTS<br />
Atalanta 3-2 Bologna<br />
Conti 3, Freuler 14, Destro 16,<br />
Caldara 75 Di Francesco 61<br />
Fiorentina 5-4 Inter Milan<br />
Vecino 23, 64, Astori 63, Perisic 29, Icardi 34,<br />
Babacar 70, 79 88, 90+2<br />
A goal apiece from Edinson Cavani<br />
and Angel di Maria gave Paris<br />
Saint-Germain a 2-0 win over<br />
Montpellier to send the champions<br />
top of Ligue 1 for the first time this<br />
season on Saturday.<br />
PSG now have 80 points from 34<br />
games to top Ligue 1 provisionally<br />
while second placed Monaco,.<br />
In hommage to the Parisian policeman<br />
murdered on the Champs<br />
Elysees in a terror attack on Thursday,<br />
two policemen symbolically<br />
took the kick off, while the players<br />
all wore black armbands in mourning.<br />
Given the reverse fixture was<br />
a resounding 3-0 win for Montpellier<br />
the star-studded Parisian outfit<br />
needed to be on their guard and occasionally<br />
rode their luck.<br />
But Unai Emery's charges have<br />
Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann scores the winning goal during their Spanish La Liga Santander match against Espanyol at RCDE Stadium on Saturday<br />
Griezmann Atletico's match winner once more<br />
• AFP<br />
Antoine Griezmann was Atletico<br />
Madrid's hero once more as he<br />
struck 17 minutes from time to<br />
snatch a 1-0 win away to Espanyol<br />
on Saturday.<br />
Atletico were outplayed for<br />
large spells and were also thankful<br />
to goalkeeper Jan Oblak as he made<br />
a brilliant save to deny Leo Baptistao<br />
salvaging a point for Espanyol.<br />
Victory restores Atletico's threepoint<br />
lead over Sevilla in the fight<br />
for third place behind Real Madrid<br />
and Barcelona, who faced off yesterday.<br />
Atletico boss Diego Simeone<br />
made just one change from the side<br />
that booked their place in a third<br />
now steamrollered to eight straight<br />
wins since their humiliating<br />
Champions League meltdown in<br />
Barcelona. •<br />
RESULTS<br />
PSG 2-0 Montpellier<br />
Cavani 29, Di Maria 48<br />
Lorient 5-1 Metz<br />
Ciani 13, Waris 49, Diabite 32-P<br />
Cabot 60, 66,<br />
Moukandjo 78<br />
Dijon 3-2 Angers<br />
Diony 5, 43,<br />
Mangani 68-P,<br />
Melou 17 Ekambi 69<br />
Caen 0-2 Nantes<br />
Bammou 27, 35<br />
Bordeaux 2-0 Bastia<br />
Malcom 55, Sankhare 69<br />
Lille 3-0 Guingamp<br />
Preville 10, 35-P, Eder 66<br />
Champions League semi-final in<br />
four years against Leicester.<br />
And their midweek exertions<br />
appeared to take their toll as neither<br />
side threatened before the<br />
break.<br />
However, the introduction of<br />
Kevin Gameiro alongside Griezmann<br />
gave Atletico an added dimension<br />
for the final 25 minutes.<br />
However, the former Real Madrid<br />
stopper could have done<br />
better when Griezmann volleyed<br />
home his 25th goal of the season<br />
after latching onto Niguez's deflected<br />
shot. Baptistao should have<br />
levelled seconds later when he<br />
bore down on goal, but Oblak made<br />
himself big to register his eighth<br />
clean sheet in 11 games.<br />
Paris St Germain’s Edinson Cavani<br />
celebrates after scoring against<br />
Montpellier during their French Ligue<br />
1 match at Parc des Princes in Paris on<br />
Saturday<br />
REUTERS<br />
Malaga 2-0 Valencia<br />
Recio 36, Sandro Ramirez 40<br />
Villarreal 2-1 Leganes<br />
Bakambu 68, 90+1 Guerrero 90<br />
Osasuna 2-2 Sporting Gijon<br />
Mere 18-og, Kodro 71 Canella 79, Castro 81<br />
Espanyol 0-1 Atletico Madrid<br />
Griezmann 73<br />
Earlier, Villarreal moved back to<br />
within eight points of the top four<br />
in hugely controversial fashion as<br />
Cedric Bakambu punched home<br />
a stoppage time winner to cruelly<br />
deny Leganes. Bakambu had put<br />
Villarreal in front before Miguel<br />
Angel Guerrero looked to have salvaged<br />
a vital point in Leganes' battle<br />
to avoid the drop.<br />
However, Bakambu struck again<br />
seconds later and the goal was allowed<br />
to stand despite the Congolese<br />
striker having clearly used to<br />
hand to turn home Jonathan dos<br />
Santos's cross.<br />
Leganes were, though, handed<br />
a let-off as Osasuna and Sporting<br />
Gijon drew 2-2 which does little to<br />
aid either side's chances of beating<br />
the drop. Sporting are now four<br />
points adrift of Leganes in 18th<br />
with Osasuna five points worse off<br />
at the bottom of the table.<br />
Recio and Sandro Ramirez were<br />
on target as Malaga secured their<br />
place in La Liga for next season<br />
with a 2-0 win over Valencia. •<br />
Ibra suffers 'significant<br />
knee ligament damage'<br />
• AFP<br />
RESULTS<br />
REUTERS<br />
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's magical<br />
season with Manchester United<br />
appears over after the club announced<br />
he had suffered a serious<br />
knee injury in Thursday's Europa<br />
League clash with Anderlecht.<br />
The club revealed that both the<br />
35-year-old Swedish striker and Argentinian<br />
defender Marcos Rojo had<br />
suffered knee injuries in the same<br />
match. "Detailed investigations on<br />
the injuries sustained by Marcos<br />
Rojo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic during<br />
Thursday's Europa League match<br />
have confirmed significant knee ligament<br />
damage in both players that<br />
requires specialist opinions over the<br />
coming days," read the United statement<br />
on their website.<br />
"Estimations of time to full recovery<br />
will only be possible once definitive<br />
treatment plans have been<br />
decided after these consultations."<br />
Ibrahimovic didn't have his<br />
finest game against Anderlecht -<br />
Marcus Rashford edging United<br />
through to the semi-finals on aggregate<br />
after extra-time - but his<br />
goals this season have been the<br />
main reason for an improvement in<br />
the club's fortunes, albeit without<br />
ever being title challengers.<br />
Ibrahimovic has defied many<br />
doubters since joining on a free<br />
transfer from Paris Saint-Germain<br />
last year, scoring 28 goals and inspiring<br />
United to victory in the<br />
League Cup. •
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