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20 WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017 DT Sports EPL POINTS TABLE Teams P W D L GD Pts Chelsea 34 26 3 5 43 81 Tottenham 34 23 8 3 49 77 Liverpool 35 20 9 6 29 69 Man City 34 19 9 6 28 66 Man Utd 34 17 14 3 26 65 Arsenal 33 18 6 9 22 60 Everton 35 16 10 9 20 58 West Brom 34 12 8 14 -4 44 Southampton 33 11 8 14 -5 41 Bournemouth 35 11 8 16 -13 41 Leicester 34 11 7 16 -12 40 Stoke 35 10 10 15 -13 40 Watford 34 11 7 16 -18 40 Burnley 35 11 6 18 -14 39 West Ham 35 10 9 16 -15 39 Crystal Palace 35 11 5 19 -10 38 Hull 35 9 7 19 -31 34 Swansea 35 9 5 21 -29 32 Middlesbrough 35 5 13 17 -19 28 Sunderland 34 5 6 23 -34 21 Free-scoring Monaco face Juventus wall • Reuters, Paris Liverpool's Emre Can scores their first goal against Watford during their EPL match at Vicarage Road on Monday Monaco have scored plenty of goals this season and boast one of European football’s most exciting newcomers in Kylian Mbappe but that might not be enough to break down the defensive wall of Juventus in the Champions League semi-finals. Mbappe, 18, has scored 18 goals in his last 18 competitive games, including three in the 6-3 aggregate win over Borussia Dortmund in the last eight. The pacy forward provides a symbol for the rise of a fine counter-attacking team featuring other dangerous players such as Colombian marksman Radamel Falcao. It takes more than that, however, to impress Juventus, the tightest defence in Europe's top club competition with just two goals conceded in this campaign. "Even Barcelona could not score in two games against them so it will be complicated for us", Monaco's Poland defender Kamil Glik said ahead of today’s first leg in the principality. The Italian champion, who advanced to the last four with an aggregate 3-0 win over Barca, were held to a 2-2 draw at Atalanta in a rare defensive mix-up in Serie A on Friday. Their pedigree and record for REUTERS being impregnable when it matters, however, suggest Juventus should be regarded as the favourites. "Monaco have technical and tactical qualities as well as talented young players," Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. "They do not have the same history as Juventus but that does not mean it will be easy for us to make it to the final", he added. While Allegri can rely on a fully-fit squad, his Monaco counterpart Leonardo Jardim, criticised for fielding a B-team in a 5-0 French Cup semi-final thrashing by Paris St Germain last week, has a defensive worry with midfield dynamo Tiemoue Bakayoko doubtful due to a broken nose. Monaco have shone in Europe and at home this season and their domestic title hope received a welcome boost when a nervous PSG side lost 3-1 at Nice on Sunday, leaving the club from the French Riviera three points clear at the top with a game in hand. Juventus, meanwhile, are closing in on a record sixth straight Serie A title and can turn to their European history for inspiration, having won the showcase club competition twice, in 1985 and 1996. • Can: Best goal I have scored • AFP, Watford Emre Can admitted his sensational bicycle kick that secured Liverpool a crucial 1-0 win over Watford in their Premier League clash on Monday was his best ever goal. The 23-year-old German international - who took his tally to five for the season - produced his moment of magic in time added on in the first-half. Victory kept Liverpool in third place in the table but in terms of Champions League qualification it pushed them four points clear of fifth-placed Manchester United, who have a game in hand. The top four only qualify for Europe's premier club competition. "I have never scored a goal like that - maybe when I was younger. That is the best goal I've ever scored," Can told Sky Sports. "I saw the space and I ran behind and my first thought was that I wanted to head it, then I didn't think too much. "But the most important thing was three points after knowing what happened yesterday. It was a big game for us. "Everything is in our hands. If we win the three games we are in the Champions League. We are confident. If we perform how we can perform then we can do it." Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was in awe of what he termed the “spectacular” goal. "Emre has played really well in the past few weeks but he could still play better... However I don't think he can ever score a better goal than that," Klopp told Sky Sports. • Napoli sight second after Callejon winner • AFP, Milan A first-half winner from Jose Callejon handed Napoli the points from a 1-0 win at Inter Milan on Sunday that closed the gap on Roma in second to a point. Maurizio Sarri's men travelled to the San Siro buoyed by Roma's earlier 3-1 derby defeat to Lazio that left the capital contender nine points adrift of Juventus. By the end of a San Siro sizzler that saw Stefano Pioli's outplayed hosts stage a brief, second-half comeback, Callejon's 43rd minute opener proved the difference to a win that put Napoli in firm contention for the second automatic Champions League qualifying place. Roma remain second at nine points behind Juventus with four games to play but Luciano Spalletti's men are now just one point ahead of Napoli, who remain seven points ahead of Lazio, in fourth. • Napoli’s Dries Mertens shoots at goal during their Serie A match against Inter at San Siro on Sunday REUTERS SERIE A Roma 1-3 Lazio De Rossi 45-P Keita 12, 85, Basta 50 Bologna 4-0 Udinese Destro 2, 59, Taider 45+2, Danilo 68-og Caglari 1-0 Pescara Pedro 23-P Crotone 1-1 AC Milan Trotta 8 Paletta 50 Empoli 1-3 Sassuolo Pucciarelli 24-P Peluso 20, Matri 34, Duncan 57 Genoa 1-2 Chievo Pandev 43 Bastien 60, Birsa 70 Palermo 2-0 Fiorentina Diamanti 32, Aleesami 90 Inter Milan 0-1 Napoli Callejon 43 POINTS TABLE Teams P W D L GD Pts Juventus 34 27 3 4 48 84 Roma 34 24 3 7 44 75 Napoli 34 22 8 4 43 74 Lazio 34 20 7 7 24 67 Atalanta 34 19 7 8 19 64
Sevilla upset by Malaga in Andalusian thriller • Reuters, Madrid Malaga stunned Sevilla with two late strikes in a 4-2 win on Monday to leave Jorge Sampaoli's side still at slight risk of slipping out of the top four in La Liga. Despite two goals from Franco Vazquez, Sevilla's defeat leaves them on 68 points, three behind third-placed Atletico Madrid, but now only five clear of fifth-placed Villarreal - and they still have to visit Real Madrid on May 14. Vazquez opened the scoring at La Rosaleda in the 30th minute after breaking through from midfield, before playmaker Pablo Fornals equalised for the hosts eight minutes later with a rocket from outside the area. Sandro Ramirez put Malaga ahead early in the second half but Vazquez levelled in the 57th minute of a fiercely contested clash after latching on to a loose ball in the box. Malaga moved back ahead in the 77th when Diego Llorente planted a header into the top corner before substitute Juankar added the decisive fourth, snapping up the rebound after Sandro's late penalty was saved. • LA LIGA Malaga 4 -2 Sevilla Fornals 38, Ramirez 51, Vazquez 30, 57 Llorente 77, Carlos 90+3 POINTS TABLE Teams P W D L GD Pts Barcelona 35 25 6 4 71 81 Real Madrid 34 25 6 3 53 81 Atletico Madrid 35 21 8 6 4 71 Sevilla 35 20 8 7 18 68 Villarreal 35 18 9 8 34 63 PSG hope dented in Nice defeat • Reuters, Paris Nice dealt Paris St Germain's Ligue 1 title hope a huge blow by beating them 3-1 in a stormy match on Sunday which ended with the losing side receiving two red cards. Second-placed PSG, who have three games left, were left three points behind leader AS Monaco who also have a game in hand. Nice trail PSG by another three points in third. Mario Balotelli and Ricardo Pereira scored to put Nice 2-0 ahead before Marquinhos pulled one back. Anastasios Donis scored Nice's third in the 90th minute, in between red cards for Thiago Motta and Angel di Maria. Tempers had flared several times before that, with PSG forward Edinson Cavani in the thick of the trouble. Nice went ahead in the 26th minute after Ricardo Pereira broke out of his half and charged down the right. He seemed to have run into a dead end but turned back and laid the ball off to Balotelli, who held off Marco Verratti and curled a low Sports shot under Kevin Trapp's hands and into the corner from 20 metres for his 14th goal of the season. Shortly afterwards, there was a flare-up when Paul Baysee and Cavani tangled in the Nice penalty area but the referee let the feuding pair off with a warning. Nice extended their lead three minutes after halftime, Pereira cutting inside and curling the ball past Trapp after Younis Belhanda had led a quick counter-attack. That was followed by more trouble, firstly when Cavani pushed Nice coach Lucien Favre out of the way to retrieve the ball and then when Balotelli angered Blaise Matuidi by show-boating near the corner flag. Marquinhos pulled a goal back in the 64th minute and a PSG equaliser looked on the cards until Motta was sent off for an incident in the Nice penalty area after the ball had been cleared. From the resulting free kick, Nice goalkeeper Yoan Cardinale sent Pereira away down the right and his cross was headed in by LIGUE 1 Nice 3-1 Paris SG Balotelli 26, Pereira 48, Marquinhos 64 Donis 90+2 Dijon 0-0 Bordeaux Caen 1-5 Marseille Santini 9 Thauvin 2, 63, 89, Lopez 5, 27 POINTS TABLE Teams P W D L GD Pts Monaco 34 26 5 3 66 83 Paris SG 35 25 5 5 46 80 Nice 35 22 11 2 30 77 Lyon 34 18 3 13 26 57 Bordeaux 35 15 11 9 10 56 Donis at the far post. PSG's frustration boiled over when Di Maria recklessly scythed down Arnaud Souquet and was sent off. Florian Thauvin scored a hattrick to lead sixth-placed Marseille to a 5-1 win at relegation-threatened Caen while Maxime Lopez scored the other two for the visiting side. • 21 WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017 Bangladesh clinch 7th South Asia Karate • Tribune Report DT Bangladesh became the champion in the 7th South Asia Hakukai Karate Championship that was held in Meerut, India and organised by the All India Karate Association. Bangladesh won a total of 10 medals including eight golds, one silver and as many bronze in the two-day long event. India finished runners-up while Nepal became third out of eight countries from south Asia. Ten players from Bangladesh took part in the event and will return home today. • Siegemund wins Stuttgart title • AFP, Stuttgart Germany's Laura Siegemund was the shock winner of Stuttgart's WTA tournament on Sunday after her three-set win over France's Kristina Mladenovic in the final. Siegemund, ranked 49th in the world and a wild card entry for the main draw, sealed a 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 (7/5) win over Mladenovic, who had beaten Maria Sharapova in the semi-final, ending the Russian's comeback from a 15-month doping ban. The 29-year-old converted her first match point after nearly two and a half hours to claim only her second WTA win after victory at Bastad, Sweden, last July. Siegemund made a strong start, charging into a 4-0 lead after twice breaking Mladenovic's serve in what proved to be a topsy-turvy first set. The Frenchwoman broke Siegemund in the fifth game, but the German returned the compliment breaking Mladenovic, then serving out to take the first set. • DAY’S WATCH FOOTBALL TEN 1 10:45 PM UEFA Europa League 2016/17 SF: Ajax v Lyon TEN 2 11:30 PM UEFA Champions League 2016/17 SF: Monaco v Juventus CRICKET TEN 1 HD Pakistan Tour of West Indies 2017 9:00PM 2nd Test, Day 4 SONY SIX 8:30 PM Indian Premier League 2017 Kolkata v Pune Rafael Nadal of Spain poses with a number 10 after winning the Barcelona Open title for the 10th time, against Austria’s Dominic Thiem REUTERS Murray stays top, Nadal fifth despite record Barcelona triumph • AFP, Paris Andy Murray stays top of the latest ATP rankings released on Monday, which remain unchanged despite the success of Rafael Nadal in Barcelona at the weekend. A week after his Monte Carlo Masters success, the Spaniard also claimed a tenth title in the Catalan capital but remains fifth behind Swiss Roger Federer, who did not play. Budapest winner Lucas Pouille of France moves into a career-best 14th position as 20-yearold Russian Karen Khachanov soars 14 places to 42nd after reaching the Barcelona quarter-finals. ATP rankings 1. Andy Murray (GBR) 11,870 pts 2. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 8,085 3. Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 5,695 4. Roger Federer (SUI) 5,125 5. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 4,735 6. Milos Raonic (CAN) 4,165 7. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 4,010 8. Marin Cilic (CRO) 3,565 9. Dominic Thiem (AUT) 3,535 10. David Goffin (BEL) 2,975
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