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Home , Anthony Stokes, Danny Gabbidon, Jack Colback, Steven Whittaker, Winston Reid

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 SPORTS19

Soccer results/standings English results Newport 1; Torquay 0 Hartlepool 0; Wycombe Gayle, O’Keefe get Cardiff City 0 Everton 0; Crystal Palace 3 2 Southend 1. (Gabbidon 9, Gayle 79-pen, O’Keefe 90) results 1 (Fletcher 64); Manchester City 2 Aberdeen 0 St Johnstone 0; Dundee Utd 0 (Negredo 65, Toure 90) Hull City 0; Newcastle Celtic 1 (Stokes 87); Hibernian 0 Ross County 0; United 1 (Ben Arfa 86) Fulham 0; Norwich City Inverness CT 2 (McKay 10, 32) Hearts 0; Palace off the mark 1 (Redmond 68) Southampton 0; West Ham Motherwell 2 (Anier 20, Sutton 45) Kilmarnock United 0 Stoke City 1 (Pennant 82). 1 (Barr 17); St Mirren 1 (McLean 50) Partick Playing today Thistle 2 (Higginbotham 81, Forbes 84). Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool v results Manchester Utd, West Brom v Swansea City. Championship results Cowdenbeath 3 Dumbarton 2; Falkirk 1 C Palace 3 Championship Hamilton 2; Morton 1 Raith 1; Queen of the Barnsley 2 Huddersfield 1; Birmingham 1 South 0 Alloa 0. Ipswich 1; Blackburn 4 Bolton 1; Blackpool 1 Division One Watford 0; Brighton 1 Millwall 1; Charlton 2 Arbroath 2 Brechin 1; Ayr 2 Airdrie 2; Leicester 1; Derby 0 Burnley 3; Doncaster 0 Sunderland 1 Dunfermline 3 Stranraer 1; Forfar 1 Bournemouth 1; Leeds 0 QPR 1; Stenhousemuir 2; Rangers 5 East Fife 0. Middlesbrough 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1; Division Two Wigan 2 Nottingham Forest 1; Yeovil 0 Reading 1. Albion 0 Montrose 2; Berwick 4 Annan Athletic LONDON: Late strikes from Dwight Gayle and Division One 2; East Stirling 1 Peterhead 4; Elgin 1 Clyde 0; Queen’s Park 0 Stirling 2. Stuart O’Keefe saw promoted Crystal Palace Brentford 0 Carlisle 0; Colchester 1 Leyton beat Sunderland 3-1 yesterday to claim their Orient 2; Gillingham 1 Bristol City 1; Notts German Bundesliga results County 0 Rotherham 1; Oldham 0 Tranmere 1; Borussia Moenchengladbach 4 (Arango 36, first victory of the Premier League season. Peterborough 0 Crawley 2; Port Vale 1 Wolves Raffael 53, Kruse 74, Herrmann 85) Werder gave hosts Palace a fortu- 3; Sheffield Utd 0 Milton Keynes Dons 1; Bremen 1 (Nordtveit og-69); Hanover 96 4 itous early lead, only for Steven Fletcher to Shrewsbury 1 Coventry 1; Stevenage 1 (Diouf 31, Sobiech 37, Ya Konan 80, Prib 83) mark his comeback from injury with an Bradford 1; Swindon 5 Crewe 0; Walsall 0 Mainz 05 1 (N. Mueller 12); VfL Wolfsburg 2 equaliser mid-way through the second peri- Preston 3. (Olic 42, Diego 45+2) Hertha Berlin 0; od. Division Two Nuremberg 0 Augsburg 1 (Vogt 84); Hamburg 4 Accrington 0 Burton 1; AFC Wimbledon 2 (van der Vaart 7, Zoua 17, Calhanoglu 80, 90+1) It looked like both teams would have to Fleetwood 0; Bristol Rovers 1 Northampton 0; Eintracht Braunschweig 0; Schalke 04 2 (Hoeger wait for their first victory of the campaign, Bury 4 Cheltenham 1; Exeter 2 York 1; 30, Farfan 83-pen) Bayer Leverkusen 0. only for Gayle to restore Palace’s lead with a Mansfield 3 Dagenham and Redbridge 0; Playing today 79th-minute penalty after Sunderland captain Morecambe 2 Plymouth 1; Oxford 1 Rochdale VfB Stuttgart v Hoffenheim; Eintracht Frankfurt John O’Shea was sent off for a last-man foul 1; Portsmouth 0 Chesterfield 2; Scunthorpe 1 v Borussia Dortmund. on the 23-year-old. English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals O’Keefe then curled a marvellous shot into against, points): the top-left corner from the edge of the box to further delight the home fans basking in Chelsea 3 2 1 0 4 1 7 the late-summer sunshine at Selhurst Park. Man City 3 2 0 1 8 3 6 Scottish Football League tables Ian Holloway’s Palace will now go into their LONDON: Sunderland’s English midfielder Jack Colback (left) vies with Crystal Liverpool 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 Championship daunting trip to Manchester United in two Tottenham 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 Hamilton 4 4 0 0 9 2 12 Palace’s Australian midfielder Mile Jedinak during the English Premier League foot- Stoke 3 2 0 1 3 2 6 Falkirk 4 2 1 1 8 4 7 weeks’ time with three points on the board, ball match. —AFP Man Utd 2 1 1 0 4 1 4 Dundee 4 2 1 1 7 4 7 while ’s Sunderland have taken rebounded into the net. header into the bottom-left corner. West Ham 3 1 1 1 2 1 4 Alloa 4 2 1 1 4 2 7 just one point from a possible nine. Fletcher made his return from a five-month Palace substitute Jonny Williams spurned a Norwich 3 1 1 1 3 3 4 Raith 4 1 2 1 5 5 5 Sunderland had conceded goals from set lay-off with an ankle injury as a half-time sub- good chance to restore the hosts’ lead when Southampton 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 Queen of South4 1 2 1 7 8 5 pieces in both their previous games, a 1-0 loss Cardiff 3 1 1 1 3 4 4 Dumbarton 4 1 1 2 7 9 4 stitute, but Palace continued to threaten. he screwed badly wide from the edge of the Newcastle 3 1 1 1 1 4 4 Morton 4 1 1 2 5 7 4 at home to Fulham and a 1-1 draw at Mile Jedinak shot narrowly over for the area, before Gabbidon almost put through his Arsenal 2 1 0 1 4 4 3 Cowdenbeath 4 1 0 3 7 11 3 Southampton, but Palace’s ninth-minute second time in the game, while Gayle almost own goal at the other end as he toed the ball Aston Villa 3 1 0 2 4 4 3 Livingston 4 0 1 3 3 10 1 opener suggested they had not learn their lobbed Sunderland goalkeeper Keiren away from Fletcher. Crystal Palace 3 1 0 2 4 4 3 lesson. Westwood after centre-back Modibo Diakite It was Sunderland who cracked first, Everton 3 0 3 0 2 2 3 Division One A left-wing corner from Jose Campana was sloppily allowed the ball to run across him. however, with close-season signing Gayle Fulham 3 1 0 2 2 4 3 Rangers 4 4 0 0 18 1 12 Hull 3 1 0 2 1 4 3 Dunfermline 4 3 0 1 11 8 9 allowed to land inside the six-yard box and However, the visitors survived, and in the drilling home from the penalty spot before West Brom 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 Stenhousemuir4 3 0 1 8 6 9 after bouncing off Sunderland defender 64th minute they drew level when Fletcher O’Keefe added a glorious third in stoppage Sunderland 3 0 1 2 2 5 1 Ayr 4 2 2 0 8 3 8 Ondrej Celustka, it struck Gabbidon and met Jack Colback’s left-wing cross with a time.—AFP Swansea 2 0 0 2 1 5 0 Brechin 4 2 0 2 6 7 6 Arbroath 4 2 0 2 6 8 6 English Football League tables East Fife 4 1 0 3 2 9 3 Championship Airdrie 4 0 2 2 5 12 2 Blackpool 5 4 1 0 7 2 13 Forfar 4 0 1 3 5 9 1 Stoke see off QPR 5 4 1 0 6 2 13 Stranraer 4 0 1 3 2 8 1 Burnley 5 3 1 1 8 4 10 Nottingham 5 3 1 1 7 3 10 Division Two West Ham Leicester 5 3 1 1 7 5 10 East Stirling 4 3 0 1 10 6 9 LONDON: Jermaine Bournemouth 5 3 0 2 6 12 9 Stirling 4 3 0 1 7 4 9 Watford 5 2 2 1 11 6 8 Berwick 4 2 1 1 9 4 7 Pennant came off the Wigan 5 2 2 1 10 6 8 Albion 4 2 1 1 6 4 7 bench to score an West Ham 0 Reading 5 2 2 1 7 6 8 Clyde 4 2 0 2 4 4 6 82nd-minute free- Leeds 5 2 2 1 5 4 8 Peterhead 4 1 2 1 8 7 5 kick that gave Stoke Blackburn 5 2 1 2 10 7 7 Annan Athletic4 1 2 1 7 8 5 City a 1-0 win at West Huddersfield 5 2 1 2 8 5 7 Montrose 4 1 1 2 5 5 4 Ham United in the Brighton 5 2 1 2 6 5 7 Elgin 4 1 1 2 4 7 4 Stoke 1 Derby 5 2 1 2 6 6 7 Queen’s Park 4 0 0 4 1 12 0 Premier League yes- Middlesbrough5 1 3 1 6 6 6 terday. Ipswich 5 1 1 3 6 6 4 German Bundesliga table The 30-year-old Charlton 4 1 1 2 5 6 4 Bayern Munich4 3 1 0 7 2 10 former Liverpool winger bent an unerring shot inside Doncaster 4 1 1 2 5 6 4 Borussia 3 3 0 0 7 1 9 the right-hand post to register his first league goal since Birmingham 5 1 1 3 4 6 4 Bayer Leverkusen 4 3 0 1 8 5 9 May 2011, having been brought back to Stoke by new Barnsley 5 1 1 3 6 13 4 Hanover 4 3 0 1 8 5 9 Sheffield 5 0 3 2 6 8 3 Mainz 4 3 0 1 8 7 9 manager after being released at the end Yeovil 5 1 0 4 1 7 3 Hertha Berlin 4 2 1 1 9 5 7 of last season. Millwall 5 0 2 3 3 8 2 Borussia 4 2 0 2 10 8 6 Victory ended West Ham’s unbeaten start to the sea- Bolton 5 0 2 3 3 10 2 VfL Wolfsburg 4 2 0 2 6 4 6 son and lifted Stoke up to fifth in the fledgling stand- Werder Bremen4 2 0 2 3 5 6 ings, one point behind leaders Chelsea. Division One Augsburg 4 2 0 2 3 6 6 Kenwyne Jones kept his place in the Stoke line-up Leyton Orient 5 5 0 0 13 2 15 Hoffenheim 3 1 2 0 10 6 5 Wolves 5 4 1 0 11 3 13 Hamburg 4 1 1 2 8 9 4 after netting a hat-trick against Walsall in the League Peterborough 5 4 0 1 12 5 12 Schalke 4 1 1 2 6 9 4 Cup in mid-week and he went close in the ninth minute Brentford 5 2 3 0 6 3 9 Eintracht 3 1 0 2 3 7 3 LONDON: Norwich City’s Scottish defender Steven Whittaker (left) vies with with a rising shot that whistled over the bar. Rotherham 5 2 3 0 8 6 9 Freiburg 4 0 2 2 6 9 2 Southampton’s English striker Jay Rodriguez during the English Premier League The visitors enjoyed the best of the first half and Milton Keynes 5 2 3 0 6 4 9 Nuremberg 4 0 2 2 4 7 2 football match. —AFP West Ham goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen had to pro- Bradford 5 2 2 1 10 5 8 VfB Stuttgart 3 0 0 3 3 6 0 duce a sharp double-save to parry a shot from Marc Colchester 5 2 2 1 5 4 8 Eintracht 4 0 0 4 1 9 0 Preston 5 1 4 0 9 6 7 Wilson before blocking Jon Walters’s follow-up. It took Swindon 5 2 1 2 8 5 7 Redmond fires Norwich the hosts until the 33rd minute to craft a meaningful Crawley Town 5 2 1 2 10 9 7 attempt on goal, but Modibo Maiga could only head Walsall 5 2 1 2 5 6 7 to first win of the season wide from Matt Jarvis’s right-wing cross. Oldham 5 2 0 3 8 8 6 There was a scare for West Ham early in the second Shrewsbury 5 1 3 1 5 6 6 Matches on TV start and he dispossessed James Ward- period when centre-back landed heavily Stevenage 5 1 1 3 5 7 4 (Local Timings) Prowse and burst down the left, cutting on his shoulder after an aerial duel with Jones, but the Port Vale 5 1 1 3 5 9 4 inside and unleashing a drive that went Sheffield Utd 5 1 1 3 4 8 4 Norwich 1 New Zealand international was able to play on. Tranmere 5 1 1 3 6 13 4 English Premier League just wide. West Ham manager introduced for- Southampton looked sloppy and were Crewe 5 1 1 3 5 12 4 Liverpool v Man United 15:30 mer Manchester United prospect Ravel Morrison from Bristol City 5 0 3 2 10 12 3 almost punished when Danny Fox, in at Aljazeera Sport HD 1 the bench in the 64th minute and he played a central Gillingham 5 0 3 2 4 9 3 left-back for Luke Shaw, gave away a sec- role as the hosts began to increase the pressure. Reid Arsenal v Tottenham 18:00 Southampton 0 Carlisle 5 0 2 3 2 14 2 ond free-kick in a matter of minutes. smashed the ball over the bar after Maiga saw a shot Notts County 5 0 1 4 4 9 1 ’s free-kick was nod- Aljazeera Sport HD 1 deflected behind for a corner, but it was Stoke who Coventry 5 2 2 1 16 12 -2 ded goalwards by Note: Coventry deducted 10 points for enter- made the breakthrough. Italian League NORWICH: Norwich secured their first and into the path of fellow Holland interna- ing administration tional Leroy Fer, who was unable to find a Pennant had only been on the pitch for six minutes AS Roma v Hellas Verona 19:00 Premier League win of the season as when he took charge of a direct free-kick 25 yards out teenage winger Nathan Redmond clinched way past from close range. Division Two Aljazeera Sport HD 3 and curled a fine shot past Jaaskelainen to give the visi- a 1-0 victory over Southampton yesterday. That escape appeared to act as a wake-up Chesterfield 5 4 1 0 10 3 13 tors all three points.—AFP Oxford Utd 5 3 2 0 12 6 11 Genoa v Fiorentina 21:45 ’s side had taken only one call for Southampton and they should have Burton Albion 5 3 2 0 9 6 11 Aljazeera Sport HD 4 point from their opening two matches, but had a 19th-minute penalty. Wimbledon 5 3 1 1 7 5 10 Catania v Internazionale 21:45 Redmond, a close-season signing from Lallana wriggled free of City’s defenders, Exeter 5 3 1 1 6 4 10 Aljazeera Sport HD 1 Birmingham, struck midway through the only for his strike goalwards to be batted Fleetwood Town 5 3 0 2 8 6 9 away by Johnson in the box. Southampton AC Milan v Cagliari 21:45 second half at Carrow Road to get the Southend 5 3 0 2 6 4 9 appealed but Webb, well placed to see the Newport County 5 2 2 1 8 6 8 Aljazeera Sport HD 3 Canaries off and running. The 19-year-old’s pace often had incident, turned down their claims. Mansfield 5 2 2 1 6 4 8 Udinese v Parma 21:45 Bury 5 2 1 2 10 7 7 Southampton on the back foot and his The visitors kept pressing and when Bristol Rovers 5 2 1 2 5 5 7 Aljazeera Sport +1 goal, a fierce drive from the edge of the Ward-Prowse’s floated free-kick was only Wycombe 5 2 1 2 5 5 7 Bologna v Sampdoria 21:45 penalty area, was just reward for a fine dis- cleared as far as Lallana, the Southampton Morecambe 5 2 1 2 5 6 7 Aljazeera Sport +2 play. captain’s volley struck a post. Ruddy had to Scunthorpe 5 1 3 1 6 5 6 Southampton were left frustrated by be at his best to deny Osvaldo early in the Plymouth 5 2 0 3 5 6 6 second half. Spanish League their first defeat of the campaign after a Torquay 5 1 3 1 5 6 6 penalty appeal was turned down when However, it was Redmond proving the Rochdale 5 1 2 2 6 5 5 Real Madrid v de Bilbao 13:00 Bradley Johnson clearly handled an Adam Canaries’ biggest threat and he crossed for Portsmouth 5 1 2 2 8 10 5 Aljazeera Sport HD 2 Johan Elmander, only for the Sweden inter- Dagenham 5 1 2 2 5 8 5 Lallana strike in front of referee Howard York 5 1 1 3 4 7 4 Espanyol v Real Betis 18:00 Webb. national to head wide. And Norwich finally made the break- Cheltenham 5 1 1 3 5 11 4 Aljazeera Sport +4 Southampton captain Lallana also saw a LONDON: Stoke City’s English midfielder Jermaine Northampton 5 1 0 4 4 7 3 through in the 68th minute when England Sociedad v Atletico 20:00 volley come back off a post and record Pennant (left) vies with West Ham United’s French- Hartlepool 5 0 2 3 0 5 2 signing Dani Osvaldo had a close-range Under-21 international Redmond cut inside Aljazeera Sport +2 born Ivorian defender Guy Demel (right) during the Accrington 5 0 1 4 3 11 1 effort saved by John Ruddy. and lashed home from the edge of the Sevilla FC v Malaga 22:00 Redmond was in good form from the area. —AFP English Premier League football match. —AFP Scottish Premier League table Aljazeera Sport +4 Inverness CT 5 4 1 0 10 2 13 Valencia v FC Barcelona 22:00 Celtic 4 3 1 0 7 3 10 Motherwell 5 3 0 2 5 6 9 Aljazeera Sport HD 2 Stokes helps Celtic scrape past Dundee Partick Thistle 5 2 2 1 6 4 8 St Johnstone 5 2 2 1 5 4 8 French League GLASGOW: Celtic left it late as Anthony Stokes the post. The Hoops, on a high after their midweek points behind Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who Aberdeen 5 2 1 2 6 6 7 Saint Etienne v Bordeaux 15:00 scored three minutes from time to earn the cham- qualification for the lucrative group stage of the stayed top thanks to Billy McKay after he scored a Dundee Utd 5 1 2 2 5 3 5 pions a 1-0 win over Dundee United at Tannadice Champions League, had started well with Mikael double and had a penalty saved in a 2-0 win over Aljazeera Sport HD 5 Hibernian 5 1 2 2 3 4 5 yesterday. Celtic, who had shown all the signs of Lustig, Virgil van Dijk and Stokes himself all coming Hearts. “It’s a great day’s work and a huge win after Ross County 5 1 1 3 5 9 4 OGC Nice v Montpellier 18:00 Kilmarnock 5 0 2 3 4 7 2 suffering from a European hangover following close early in the first half. the effort they put in on Wednesday and consider- Aljazeera Sport HD 5 St Mirren 4 0 1 3 2 9 1 their midweek exertions against Shakhter But they faded in a lacklustre second half and ing the efforts they put in today as well,” said Celtic Hearts 5 2 1 2 4 5 -8 Olympique v AS Monaco 22:00 Karagandy, looked to be heading for their second looked destined to have to settle for a point before manager , whose side needed a stop- Note: Hearts deducted 15 points for entering Aljazeera Sport HD 5 consecutive draw in the Stokes fired in his 50th Celtic goal late on to secure page-time goal in midweek to qualify for the administration before Stokes sent an 87th minute free-kick in off the win. Celtic remain second in the table three Champions League. —AFP