20 Thursday, April 6, 2017 SPORTS SPORTS Thursday, April 6, 2017 21 Liverpool fined London iverpool were hit with an academy transfer Lban and ordered to pay £100,000 ($124,000, Messi double, 117,000 euros) after admitting their part in the ‘tapping up’ of a promising Stoke youngster. The Premier League club won’t be able to sign Leipzig trim any academy players who have been registered with a Premier League or Football League team in the last 18 months. Although the ban is for two years, the second 12 months has been suspended for a three-year Suarez stunner period and will only be activated in the event of any further similar breach by the club. A brief statement from Liverpool said: “The club accepts the sanction.” Bayern lead take Barca top Olympic synchro Berlin Werner then added Leipzig’s Germany star Sami, on 89 the hosts’ deserved win. Madrid Messi fired an early warning as he blasted a Sevilla’s misery aby Keita’s superb solo second, his 15th league goal minutes. Hertha are now sixth, 10 ionel Messi scored twice on his return from shot off the underside of the bar from outside was complete when champion retires goal settled second-placed this season, four minutes later Japan’s Yoshinori Muto points from the Champions Lsuspension as Barcelona piled the pressure the area after just three minutes. Spanish international Moscow RBN Leipzig’s frantic 3-2 win when he got on the end of then headed Mainz’s second League places with seven on Real Madrid yesterday by moving top of La Sevilla had two glorious chances to open Vitolo was sent off ussia’s five-time Olympic synchrohized at 10-man Mainz yesterday to a Forsberg cross to leave the goal in the dying stages, but games left, while Gladbach are Liga with a 3-0 win over Sevilla. the scoring as Steven N’Zonzi fired too close in stoppage time for a swimming champion Natalia Ishchenko trim Bayern Munich’s lead to visitors in control at 2-0 up. Leipzig held on. ninth. Messi was banned for his last two outings for to Marc-Andre ter Stegen when clean through second yellow card after chopping announcedR her retirement from the sport 10 points in the Bundesliga. But Mainz sprang into The win keeps RB on course Bayer Leverkusen pulled club and country but looked rested rather than before Vitolo headed over when unmarked down Neymar. (AFP) yesterday, diving into the murky waters of After runaway leaders life with 30 minutes to go as for a Champions League place away from the relegation mire rusty as he took his tally for the season to 43 inside the area. politics instead, the R-Sport agency reported. Bayern had their 20-match their Spanish midfielder Jairo next season, but Mainz are just to go 10th with a 2-0 win over goals in 41 games. Suarez made no such mistake as he caught Spanish La Liga: “I will not return to sports as an athlete,” the unbeaten run ended by a converted a penalty on 69 above the relegation places. bottom side Darmstadt thanks The Argentine also played his part in setting Messi’s deflected cross flush with an overhead Barcelona 3 Sevilla 0 to goals by Germany pair Julian up Luis Suarez’s stunning overhead kick to kick to break the deadlock with his 31st goal of agency quoted Ishchenko as saying. 1-0 defeat at Hoffenheim on minutes. This was Mainz’s fourth Deportivo La Coruna 0 Granada 0 “But I’m not going to leave synchronized Tuesday, RB were made to Mainz’s Levin Oztunali had straight defeat to increase the Brandt and Kevin Volland. open the scoring. the season. Alaves 0 Osasuna 1 swimming completely. It has been a considerable work for the win at Mainz to the ball in the RB net again pressure on coach Martin Wolfsburg, the 2009 Barca lead Real by a point, but Zinedine Barca’s star front three were all involved for part of my life for a long time and of course it will narrow the gap. seconds later, but the effort was Schmidt. champions, are now just a Zidane’s men have two games in hand, starting their second on the counter-attack as Suarez Sporting Gijon 0 Málaga 1 always remain with me.” Striker Timo Werner, who ruled offside. Hertha Berlin’s Champions point from the relegation at Leganes later Wednesday. turned Neymar’s cross back into Messi’s path Leganes 2 Real Madrid 4 Reports said that Ishchenko, who won Olympic made his Germany debut in last Keita, who scored twice on League ambitions suffered places after their 1-0 defeat Madrid, though, will have to do without to slot low past Sergio Rico. Bundesliga: gold in Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro, month’s friendly win against his return at the weekend after another set-back as they to Freiburg thanks to striker Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale after they Messi doubled his tally for the night six Borussia has been appointed as an acting deputy chief England, and midfielder suffering a circulatory collapse, crashed to a third straight Florian Niederlechner’s were rested by Zidane. minutes later when he volleyed home a loose Moenchengladbach 1 Herth Berlin 0 of Kaliningrad enclave’s administration with Marcel Sabitzer scored for then dribbled through the defeat in losing 1-0 at Borussia second-half winner. Defeat continues Sevilla’s slump and a sixth ball inside the Sevilla area. Mainz 2 RB Leipzig 3 responsibility for sports policy. Leipzig early in the second half. Mainz team and slotted home Moenchengladbach. Ingolstadt, 17th in the table, straight game without a win sees them remain The five-time World Player of the Year then Wolfsburg 0 Freiburg 1 Sweden’s Emil Forsberg on 81 minutes. Gladbach’s 19-year-old boosted their survival chances three points behind Atletico Madrid in the passed up a huge chance for his hat-trick just Augsburg 2 Ingolstadt 3 with a 3-2 win at Augsburg battle for third place. after the break when he didn’t get enough loft assisted both goals including However, in a frantic finish, defensive midfielder Laszlo Darmstadt 0 Bayer Leverkusen 2 a deft backheel from a cross Mainz had Jean-Philippe Benes gave the hosts an early to leave them just four points A visit to the Camp Nou offered Sevilla boss on an attempted chip to beat Rico. from which Sabitzer gave RB Gbamin sent off for a foul lead and Thorgan Hazard hit from safety as midfielder Jorge Sampaoli a final chance to make his case Sevilla had a series of chances to at least Foreman sees the lead on 48 minutes. on Rani Khedira, brother of the post in the second half in Almog Cohen scored twice. for the Barca job at the end of the season. claim a consolation as Pablo Sarabia twice Italian Cup semi-final, second leg: Sampaoli was one of the leading candidates tested Ter Stegen with fierce efforts. Napoli 3 Juventus 2 Joshua as favourite when Luis Enrique announced his decision to Barca could afford the luxury of replacing French Ligue 1: step down at the end of the season last month. Suarez, Gerard Pique and Ivan Rakitic in the Metz 0 Lyon 3 However, Sampaoli was left to rue another final half hour to keep them fresh for a huge French Cup quarter-finals: night of missed chances as a three-goal blitz in month with both legs of their Champions Angers 2 Bordeaux 1 eight first-half minutes secured the three points League quarter-final against Juventus and a Avranches 0 Paris SG 4 for the hosts before half time. trip to Real Madrid to come in the next 18 days. Kohli, Misbah, Younis get Wisden honours London edition of the respected Wisden Wars halting its print run -- the ndia Cricketers’ Almanack, -- ‘cricket’s Five Cricketers of the Year is a captain bible’ -- published this week. tradition that dates back 128 years. ViratI Kohli has Meanwhile Pakistan’s Misbah-ul- Veteran batsmen Misbah and been named as Haq and Younis Khan were named Younis were both honoured in the Leading Cricketer as two of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the context of their performances in the World in the 2017 the Year. during Pakistan’s 2-2 Test series According to editor Lawrence draw in England -- a result that Berlin Booth, Kohli had “the year of his saw Pakistan, under Misbah’s oxing legend George Foreman says Britain’s dreams” in 2016, “averaging more with captaincy, briefly rise to number Anthony Joshua is his favourite to win this the bat in each of the three formats one in the world Test rankings. month’sB clash of the heavyweight giants against than anyone: 75 in Tests, 92 in one-day England all-rounder Chris Wladimir Klitschko. internationals and 106 in Twenty20 Woakes was also one of “If I were a gambler, I’d see Joshua as a 6-5 internationals”. Under Kohli, India Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Misbah-Ul-Haq favourite. So I’d put him just in front,” the 68-year- won series trophies in all three formats Year. old Foreman told German magazine Sport Bild. against England in 2016/17. opener Virender Sehwag won twice, in Middlesex’s Toby Roland- Londoner Joshua will fight Hamburg-based Booth said the star batsman’s 235 2008 and 2009, with Tendulkar himself Jones, whose hat-trick against Klitschko at Wembley Stadium on April 29 with in the fourth Test against England at awarded the title in 2010.