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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2018

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United fightback spares Mourinho Man Utd’s first win in five games in all competitions

MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s French midfielder (R) takes a shot during the English football match between Manchester United and Newcastle at in Manchester, north west England, yesterday. — AFP

LONDON: Jose Mourinho was given a stay of execution as results. Despite that vote of confidence, it was looking defence with alarming ease, running onto Ayoze Perez’s McTominay to play at centre-back. Manchester United staged a stirring fightback to beat increasingly bleak for Mourinho when winless Newcastle pass and turning away from Ashley Young before firing Jeers rang around Old Trafford at half-time and Newcastle 3-2 thanks to Alexis Sanchez’s last-gasp winner, raced into a two- in the first 10 minutes at Old Trafford. home as Mourinho gestured furiously on the touchline. Mourinho, looking increasingly desperate, made more while Tottenham recovered from their European misery But United clicked into gear and Chile forward Sanchez, There was worse to come for Mourinho three minutes changes at the interval with Marouane Fellaini sent on for with a 1-0 victory over Cardiff yesterday. Mourinho had who had been dropped by Mourinho, came off the bench later as Newcastle punished more shambolic defending, McTominay. United finally responded to Mourinho in the presided over United’s worst seven-game start to a season to bag the winner after goals from and Anthony Young and his team-mates failing to get in a challenge as second half, playing with far more passion as Mata reduced for 29 years amid the breakdown of his relationship with Martial dragged the hosts level. Japanese forward Yoshinori Muto scored on his first the deficit with a fine 70th minute free-kick before Martial star midfielder Paul Pogba and several other key players. United’s first win in five games in all competitions could Premier League start. Rafael Benitez’s side were the first fired the equaliser six minutes later. A report on Friday evening claimed United’s hierarchy buy Mourinho some much-needed breathing space head- visiting team ever to score two goals in the first 10 minutes That set the stage for Sanchez to apply the finishing had lost patience with the toxic atmosphere and would ing into the international break. Mourinho was in typically of a Premier League game at Old Trafford. touch in the 90th minute as Mourinho celebrated while his sack Mourinho regardless of the Newcastle result. But sen- combative mood when he walked to the bench before kick- Mourinho responded by making a bizarre 19th minute name was sung by relieved United fans at full-time. ior United sources strongly denied the suggestion off, squirting a television camera with a water bottle, and substitution as he hauled off defender Eric Bailly-one of the Elsewhere, Wolves won 1-0 at Crystal Palace, Everton beat Mourinho would be dismissed this weekend, insisting he within seven minutes the mood turned even more fractious. group said to be unhappy with the manager-and sent on Leicester 2-1, Bournemouth routed Watford 4-0 and retains the board’s support following a series of abysmal United fell behind when Kenedy parted Mourinho’s Mata, once again moving young midfielder Scott Burnley drew 1-1 with Huddersfield. —AFP

Real troubles deepen Embattled Ronaldo with loss at Alaves scores as Juventus

VITORIA: Real ’s miserable run of results con- tinued as they slid to a shock 1-0 defeat at beat Udinese Alaves by conceding a goal deep in stoppage time yesterday, marking their longest run without scoring UDINE: Cristiano Ronaldo shrugged off damaging rape allegations to in over 33 years. score for Juventus as the Italian champions beat Udinese 2-0 to Veteran midfielder Manu Garcia headed home after stretch their lead at the top of Serie A yesterday. The Portuguese for- the ball hit crossbar following a corner in the fifth ward lashed in the second goal in the 37th minute from Mario Mandzukic’s pass, four minutes after Rodrigo Bentancur’s opener. minute of added time to send the raucous home crowd It was Ronaldo’s fourth goal this season for Juventus, with the 33- into ecstasy as Alaves climbed to third in the standings. year-old celebrating wildly with his teammates. Juventus-with a maxi- The triple European champions had been shackled mum 24 points from eight games-opened up a nine-point lead on sec- by Alaves for most of the match and they were fortu- ond-placed Napoli who host Sassuolo later. nate not to concede before Garcia struck when Ronaldo showed no sign of being under pressure despite the accu- Alaves’s Jony fired narrowly wide on the break. sations made against him which threaten his multi-million euro sport- Alaves are the fourth team in a row to stop Real ing empire. US police on Monday re-opened an investigation into scoring and coach Julen Lopetegui will face further accusations by former American model Kathryn Mayorga that the scrutiny with this defeat, which came after a 1-0 loss five-time Ballon d’Or winner raped her in a Las Vegas hotel in June at CSKA Moscow in the Champions League, a 3-0 2009. Ronaldo has strenuously denied the claims, and Juventus have thrashing at Sevilla and a goalless draw with Atletico so far stood behind their superstar, who moved to Turin in the summer Madrid. in a 100-million-euro ($115 million) deal from Real Madrid. He arrived Real are still joint top of the standings with 14 at Udinese’s compact Stadio Friuli and was greeted by the enthusiastic points after eight games but they could drop down if VITORIA: Real Madrid’s Spanish-Dominican forward Mariano (L) vies with Alaves’ Spanish defender Ximo cries of dozens of children waiting for the two team buses. During the leaders Barcelona, Sevilla and Atletico Madrid all win Navarro during the Spanish league football match between Deportivo Alaves and Real Madrid CF at the warm-up before the game he was even approached by a child who today. — Mendizorroza stadium in Vitoria yesterday. —AFP came onto the pitch to ask for his autograph. —AFP