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20<br />
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, <strong>2017</strong><br />
DT<br />
Sports<br />
Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery celebrates with the trophy after winning the DFL-Supercup Final against Borussia Dortmund in Dortmund on Saturday<br />
REUTERS<br />
Bayern beat<br />
Dortmund to<br />
win German<br />
Super Cup<br />
• Reuters<br />
German champion Bayern Munich<br />
beat Cup holder Borussia Dortmund<br />
5-4 on penalties to win a record<br />
sixth Super Cup after the entertaining<br />
curtain-raiser to the new<br />
season finished 2-2 in regular time<br />
on Saturday.<br />
Bayern goalkeeper Sven Ulreich<br />
saved Marc Bartra’s sudden-death<br />
spot kick to settle a riveting tie at<br />
Dortmund’s packed Signal Iduna<br />
Park.<br />
Dortmund looked to have<br />
done enough after top scorer<br />
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<br />
scored a superb 71st-minute goal<br />
to give the home side a 2-1 lead but<br />
they were undone by a late Lukasz<br />
Piszczek own-goal.<br />
American forward Christian<br />
Pulisic fired Dortmund ahead in the<br />
12th minute when he robbed Javi<br />
Martinez and steered the ball past<br />
Ulreich after Robert Lewandowski<br />
fired over the bar at the other end. •<br />
PSG will make<br />
Neymar best<br />
in world, says<br />
Pastore<br />
• AFP, Paris<br />
Paris Saint-Germain midfielder<br />
Javier Pastore has pledged Neymar<br />
that his new club will help him become<br />
the best player on the planet.<br />
Neymar became the most expensive<br />
player in history when the Ligue<br />
1 giants snatched the 25-year-old<br />
Brazilian from Barcelona after paying<br />
the 222m euros release clause.<br />
Neymar was joyously welcomed<br />
at Parc des Princes on Saturday<br />
night at his official unveiling before<br />
PSG’s opening Ligue 1 win over Amiens.<br />
“He’s one of the best players in<br />
the world. He’s a decisive player,<br />
who scores goals. The whole team<br />
are going to help him become the<br />
best player in the world,” vowed<br />
Pastore.<br />
“For us it’s fantastic, we’re<br />
thrilled that he’s come here,” added<br />
Pastore, who has relinquished<br />
his No.10 shirt to the Brazilian star.<br />
“We’re waiting now for him<br />
to play to start to help us win<br />
everything this season.”<br />
Red tape forced Neymar to skip<br />
his hoped for debut in Saturday’s<br />
2-0 win as his international transfer<br />
certificate wasn’t lodged in time<br />
with the French league, meaning he<br />
had to watch Pastore and his new<br />
team-mates from the stands. •<br />
Neymar watches as PSG beat Amiens<br />
• Reuters<br />
Neymar’s Paris St Germain debut<br />
was put on ice as red tape reduced<br />
him to the world’s most expensive<br />
spectator but his ineligibility<br />
proved no problem for the hosts as<br />
they beat Amiens 2-0 in their Ligue<br />
1 opener on Saturday.<br />
The 25-year-old Brazilian, who<br />
cost PSG a world-record doubling<br />
222m euros ($261.32m) from Barcelona<br />
this week, had hoped to be<br />
making his debut but his transfer<br />
was not registered in time and he<br />
will have to wait until next week.<br />
RESULTS<br />
Paris SG 2-0 Amiens<br />
Cavani 42, Pastore 80<br />
Lyon 4-0 Strasbourg<br />
Diaz 23, 61, Fekir 59-P, 90+1<br />
Metz 1-3 Guingamp<br />
Roux 14 Briand 39-P, Blas 71, Diallo 84<br />
Montpellier 1-0 Caen<br />
Camara 58<br />
Saint-Etienne 1-0 Nice<br />
Bamba 4<br />
Troyes 1-1 Rennes<br />
Grandsir 46 Tell 69<br />
PSG’s Neymar watches their Ligue 1 game against Amiens from the stands in Paris on Saturday<br />
He still stole the limelight though<br />
as he was paraded before kickoff in<br />
front of tens of thousands of ecstatic<br />
fans who hope the striker can turn<br />
them into kings of Europe. Neymar,<br />
who was joined by the club’s CEO<br />
Nasser Al-Khelaifi on the pitch an<br />
hour before kickoff, delighted his<br />
new fans with some ball skills and<br />
threw his shirt into the crowd.<br />
He also addressed the fans, saying<br />
he wanted to win trophies for<br />
the club. Neymar, whose salary is<br />
reported to be 45m euros, meaning<br />
he earned around 123,000 euros for<br />
his pre-match ball juggling. •<br />
REUTERS<br />
Klopp delighted<br />
by cut-price<br />
Liverpool stars<br />
• AFP, Dublin<br />
Liverpool’s German boss Jurgen<br />
Klopp will keep an open mind on<br />
the Reds’ participation in the transfer<br />
market, after signing off on an<br />
unbeaten pre-season with a 3-1 win<br />
over Spanish top-flight side Athletic<br />
Bilbao.<br />
The Reds boss watched 19-yearold<br />
summer signing Dominic<br />
Solanke score again, along with<br />
17-year-old Ben Woodburn, while<br />
Alberto Moreno impressed at full<br />
back.<br />
Klopp shelled out a club record<br />
£34m to Roma for Mohamed Salah<br />
this summer, and £8m for Scottish<br />
full back Andy Robertson from Hull<br />
but he’s been enthused by the impressions<br />
made by those who cost<br />
little or nothing.<br />
“We’ve always said that until<br />
<strong>August</strong> 31 we’ll run through the<br />
world with open eyes, that’s clear,<br />
but it’s not us alone who decides<br />
about these things. It’s all about<br />
other clubs [too],” said Klopp.<br />
“I thought today and this<br />
pre-season brought us new players,<br />
if you want. Alberto Moreno is 100<br />
per cent back, which is very nice after<br />
a really difficult year.<br />
“Andrew Robertson shows all<br />
the skills he has, of course he still<br />
has to adapt to our way of playing<br />
but you can already see what a<br />
threat he can be offensively. •
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