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Spain’s Pablo Andujar celebrates after defeating Austria’s Dominic Thiem in their fi rst round match of the French Open tennis tourna- ment at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. (AP) – See Page 14 Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Chelsea crowned ‘kings’ of Europe again, shatter Man City Champs League dreams

Chelsea’s team captain Cesar Azpilicueta lifts the trophy at the end of the Champions League final soccer match between Manchester City and Chelsea at the Dragao Stadium in Porto, Portugal. Chelsea won the match 1-0. (AP)

Havertz the hero 76ers take 3-0 lead as Trail Blazers even series PORTO, Portugal, May 30, (AP): Chelsea won the Champions League for the Bucks sweep Heat, advance to 2nd round second time, beating Man- MIAMI, May 30, (AP): Turns out, chester City 1-0 thanks to there was a reason the Milwaukee Bucks weren’t worried about a playoff Kai Havertz’s first-half rematch with the Miami Heat in Round goal as Pep Guardiola’s 1 this year. overthinking proved costly The last four games proved why. Brook Lopez scored 25 points, Giannis again in the all-English fi- Antetokounmpo had a triple-double - 20 nal. points, 12 rebounds and 15 assists - and Havertz ran onto Mason Mount’s the Bucks became the fi rst team to ad- perfectly weighted through-ball vance in this year’s playoffs, beating the Heat 120-103 on Saturday and fi nishing and skipped by City goalkeeper Colombia’s Egan Bernal celebrates off a fi rst-round sweep over last season’s Ederson Moraes before slotting the kissing the trophy on podium after Eastern Conference champions. ball into an empty net in the 42nd completing the final stage to win Bryn Forbes scored 22 points, Khris minute. the Giro d’Italia cycling race, in Mi- Middleton had 20, Bobby Portis 13 Chelsea added to the first European lan, Italy, on May 30. (AP) and Jrue Holiday 11 for Milwaukee. Cup it won in 2012 and become the – See Page 14 The third-seeded Bucks will face the 13th multiple winners of world soc- Brooklyn-Boston winner. cer’s biggest club competition. Chel- sea manager Thomas Tuchel got his NE keeps lead in hands on the trophy a year after losing BASKETBALL Left: Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) shoots as Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo (13) in the 2020 final with Paris Saint Ger- East Conference defends during the second half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series in Miami. Right: Portland main. Bam Adebayo had 20 points and 14 Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic, left, drives to the basket on Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon, right, during the first City’s long, often-painful and lav- CINCINNATI, May 30, (AP): Adam rebounds for Miami. The Heat became half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series in Portland, Ore. (AP ) ishly funded journey to the summit of Buksa scored on a header in the 70th the second team in this playoff format minute and New England beat FC Cin- Russell Westbrook had 26 points, European soccer remains incomplete to go from sweeping in the fi rst round 12 rebounds and 10 assists for a tri- and Guardiola might regret tinkering cinnati 1-0 on Saturday to remain atop one year to being swept in the fi rst ple-double for Washington after be- Teams begin arriving in Kuwait with his settled team that had swept the Eastern Conference standings. round the next. The only other team to City to their first Champions League The Revolution (5-1-2) extended endure that was then-New Jersey Nets, ing a game-time decision because of final and to the verge of another trophy their unbeaten streak to four games. who swept New York in 2004 and lost a sprained right ankle. Bradley Beal treble. Cincinnati is 1-4-1. 4-0 to Miami in 2005. added 25 points. China thrash Guam to Columbus 2, Toronto FC 1 76ers 132, Wizards 103 Jazz 121, Grizzlies 111 SOCCER In Columbus, Ohio, Luis Diaz and In Washington, Joel Embiid set a In Memphis, Tenn, Donovan Mitch- Gyasi Zardes scored in the first half career playoff high with 36 points and ell scored 10 of his 29 points in the and Columbus held off Toronto FC for Philadelphia routed Washington to fourth quarter and top-seeded Utah keep WC dreams alive The innovative Spanish coach, a 2-1 win . take a 3-0 series lead. beat Memphis to take a 2-1 series lead. seeking to win the Champions Diaz opened the scoring in the 12th Embiid scored 25 points in the fi rst Mike Conley, in Memphis where he League for the third time and first SUZHOU, China, May 30, (Agencies): All the remaining games will take minute and Zardes gave Columbus (3- half, and fi nished 14 of 18 from the fl oor started his career, matched his regular- Naturalized Brazil-born stars Elkeson place in Suzhou as the Asian Foot- since 2011, has been guilty in recent 2-2) a 2-0 lead nine minutes later just in 28 minutes before resting the entire season and playoff career highs with years of overthinking his tactics in and Alan helped China thrash Guam ball Confederation (AFC) ruled after he’d had a goal waved off for fourth quarter. The top-seeded 76ers will seven 3-pointers and fi nished with 27 7-0 in Suzhou on Sunday to keep their that each group in the second round the big games and he might have offside go for the sweep in Game 4 on Monday. points. done it again here. World Cup dreams alive. of qualification will be held in one Starting without a striker was ex- The win puts China, which are hop- centralized venue in order to reduce pected – Guardiola has preferred that well behind City’s full backs, had al- Meanwhile, Chelsea’s players Dragão, the replacement venue for the ing to add to their single World Cup travel. in the Champions League knockout ready squandered two great chances raced to their fans who made up an at- final at the end of a pandemic-affected appearance in 2002, fi ve points be- China are not the only Asian heavy- matches – but going without a spe- before the goal, first miskicking from tendance of 14,110 at the Estádio do season. hind Group A leaders Syria with three weights to struggle. On Thursday, cialist holding midfielder in Fernand- Havertz’s cut-back and then shooting games remaining in the second round when a number of other teams resume inho or Rodri was a major surprise and tamely at Ederson from close range. of qualifi cation. their qualifi cation campaigns for the seemed to destabilize City. City faced the colossal task of Wu Lei, who plays for Spanish club fi rst time since November 2019, Iran is It meant Ilkay Gundogan, City’s top breaching Chelsea’s well-drilled de- Espanyol, opened the scoring after 20 also in need of a win. scorer this season and a revelation in fense twice in the second – one that minutes from the penalty spot and Jin his attacking-midfield role, dropped in became much tougher when City’s Jingdao added a second goal shortly SOCCER as the anchorman in midfield and he star player Kevin De Bruyne, who had before the break. struggled to protect City’s defense. little impact in the false nine role, was Goals from Wu Lei and Wu Xi in- Indeed, for Chelsea’s goal, Mount forced off in the 60th after a clash of creased the lead shortly after the inter- Meanwhile Asian teams have begun had time and space to thread a superb heads with Antonio Rudiger. val and China ran riot late in the game arriving in Kuwait for the qualifying pass from inside his own half through Fernandinho finally came on in the with Elkeson, who signed for Guang- games for the World Cup 2022 and the center of City’s defense – which 64th, by which time Chelsea had re- zhou FC in 2013 and became a Chi- Asia Cup 2023 due in China. was opened up by Timo Werner’s de- treated and was looking to hit on the nese citizen in 2019, heading a fi fth. First to arrive were the Chinese Tai- coy run – for Havertz to run onto. Ed- counterattack. From one, substitute Alan, who joined Guangzhou from pei national football team who are the erson came flying out of his area and Christian Pulisic – the first Ameri- Red Bull Salzburg in 2015, added two fi fth in the group with no points. They got the slightest of touches to the ball can player to feature in a Champions more. will play Nepal, which are fourth with with his hand, but Havertz regained his League final – ran onto Havertz’s pass Only the eight group winners and four points on Thursday. balance and applied the easy finish. but slipped a shot just wide. the four best-placed runners-up prog- The teams and their coaches will City never had the control Guardiola Not even a 15-minute cameo from ress to the third stage of qualifi cation, observe anti-Covid precautions during so craves and, in that respect, Tuchel – Sergio Aguero in the last match of due to start in September. That means their presence in the country. another tactically astute manager – was his 10-year career at City could sal- Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling, (right), duels for the ball with Chel- China still have work to do against The second group also includes the the winner in his coaching duel with a vage anything for the Premier League sea’s Reece James during the Champions League final soccer match Maldives on Thursday and in subse- hosts, Kuwait, second with 10 points, rival he describes as “the benchmark.” champions, whose players slumped to between Manchester City and Chelsea at the Dragao Stadium in Porto, quent matches against Philippines and Australia, fi rst with 12 points and Jor- Werner, who worked the channels the ground at the final whistle. Portugal. (AP) Syria on June 9 and 15, respectively. dan, the third with 10 points.

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