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P19.E$S 2 Layout 1 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014 SPORTS Shafi Al-Hajri, Chairman of the Kuwaiti Disabled Sports Club. Group picture of the Italian team at the airport.—Photos by KUNA and Abdllatif Sharaa Nasser Al-Ajmi welcoming one of the Italian team members. Kuwait Disabled Club to host sports forum KUWAIT: The Kuwait Disabled Sports The forum is primarily intended to told Kuna. nity to make use of Arab and world pate in the forum which was received Club is poised to organize an interna- develop the level of Kuwaiti handi- The organizing committee has rivals’ experience, said Al-Hajri, the by Deputy Chairman Nasser Al-Ajmi. tional sports forum tomorrow, includ- capped athletes in preparation for boosted the number of competitions head of the committee. Al-Ajmi said the Egyptian team is due ing wheelchair basketball, table-ten- forthcoming championships, the and events during the forum in order Meanwhile, the Torino, Italy team in Kuwait today, in table tennis, bas- nis and fencing competitions. chairman of the club, Shafi Al-Hajri, to give Kuwaiti athletes the opportu- arrived Saturday evening to partici- ketball and fencing. Newcastle soar into top half Steven Taylor respectively. Sammy Ameobi nearly opened the scoring for West Brom 0 Newcastle in the 10th minute when his curling shot clipped the crossbar. Six minutes later, the Baggies had their first chance when new England call- Newcastle 2 up Saido Berahino had a shot pushed over the top by Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul. Berahino combined with strike part- WEST BROMWICH: Ayoze Perez’s ner Victor Anichebe in the 27th minute moment of individual brilliance provided but the Nigeria forward was denied by the catalyst for Newcastle’s 2-0 win away Paul Dummett on the edge of the box. to West Browmich Albion yesterday as the Magpies moved into the top half of Perez opened the scoring in spectacu- the Premier League after a fifth straight lar style shortly before half-time when he victory in all competitions. turned in a cross from the impressive The striker’s third goal in as many Daryl Janmaat with a sublime backheel. games saw him break the deadlock at It was a rare piece of skill in a mun- the Hawthorns on the stroke of half-time dane match but there was no denying with an outrageous backheel past that Newcastle deserved to double their stranded Baggies goalkeepeer Ben lead in the 62nd minute when Coloccini Foster. headed in another fine cross from Fabricio Coloccini’s second-half head- Janmaat. er secured victory for Alan Pardew’s side, Andre Wisdom could have made the who’ve now won their last four league closing 11 minutes a nervous time for LONDON: Swansea City’s Marvin Emnes (left) and Arsenal’s Mathieu Flamini battle for the ball during the English Premier League match at the games. But this result dropped West Newcastle when the West Brom defend- Liberty Stadium, Swansea Wales. —AP Brom down into 13th place following a er, on loan from Liverpool, was left with match where £10 million ($16 million, just Krul to beat following a pass from 12.8 million euros) club-record signing Anichebe. Brown Ideye was again not in the However, Wisdom took a touch and Swansea stun Arsenal Midlands club’s matchday squad. then shot wastefully wide from six yards For Newcastle, Perez started while out. That miss marked the end of Albion’s defensive lapses again proved costly and this time ately waved away the Swansea appeals. At the oth- Papiss Cisse, struggling with a knee bid to salvage a draw and they were there wasn’t even the consolation of a point. er end, Bony set up Marvin Emnes whose shot was injury, was on the bench. Meanwhile lucky not to lose 3-0, with Foster doing Swansea 2 Swansea captain Ashley Williams gave manager beaten away by goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny. Remy Cabella and Massadio Haidara well to deny Perez a second goal four Garry Monk a genuine scare when he stayed down Arsenal picked up the pace in the closing replaced the injured Gabriel Obertan and minutes from time. —AFP after twisting his left knee in the second minute. moments of the first half with Sanchez, Danny However, the Welsh international defender Welbeck and Oxlade-Chamberlain working their Arsenal 1 dusted himself down and was soon up and run- magic inside the Swansea box. ning, much to the relief of the home fans. When the ball broke back to Welbeck, he was Everton hold The first genuine chance of the game came in denied by a smart stop at his near post, by former the ninth minute after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski. SWANSEA: Second-half goals from Gylfi upended Jefferson Montero on the edge of the Ramsey fizzed a 25-yard volley past the far post Sigurdsson and Bafetimbi Gomis saw Swansea beat box. Sigurdsson swept in the free-kick but Calum in the final minute of the opening period before Sunderland Arsenal 2-1 at the Liberty Stadium yesterday to Chambers headed clear. Arsenal were strangely Per Mertesacker’s header from a corner flew wide. leapfrog the Gunners into fifth place in the Premier laboured and at times, painfully predictable. The second half was barely a minute old when dived blatantly in an effort to earn a League table and complete a miserable week for Oxlade-Chamberlain offered precious little on the Sanchez sent Oxlade-Chamberlain through on free-kick on the edge of the Arsene Wenger. right and Aaron Ramsey took an age to get into the goal. The England star hit the target but Fabianski Sunderland 1 Sunderland area as Phil Jagielka closed Alexis Sanchez’s 12th goal of the season gave contest. was equal to it. in on the Spaniard. Arsenal the lead in the 63rd minute in south Wales. As per normal, Swansea enjoyed a plentiful sup- A third yellow card for Swansea followed a Well-placed referee Lee Mason However, two goals in three minutes, in the final ply of possession and in the 22nd minute, the hosts rash challenge from Williams on Santi Cazorla, rightly chose not to penalise the quarter, left Wenger’s side with nothing to show for felt they had a decent claim for a penalty when whilst Mertesacker ended up in Dowd’s note- Everton 1 Chambers appeared to push Wilfried Bony in the book after tripping Emnes. It was far from a clas- blameless Everton defender, which led their troubles. Having given up a three-goal lead in back. sic contest. However, as Swansea tired, so to the question as to why he declined their midweek 3-3 Champions League draw at home to Anderlecht, the north London club’s Referee Phil Dowd was well-placed and immedi- Arsenal flourished. —AFP to punish Gomez for going to ground far too easily. SUNDERLAND: Leighton Baines’s late Clear-cut chances proved hard to penalty earned a point for Everton in a come by, Wickham heading a corner 1-1 Premier League draw at from the recalled Adam Johnson onto Stoke on the rise as Spurs slump Sunderland yesterday. the roof of the net from close range as Baines’s third goal of the season for Sunderland threatened from set- call of the club’s higher profile players including give Stoke a sixth-minute lead. Collecting a pass on Roberto Martinez’s mid-table side can- pieces. Emmanuel Adebayor, Roberto Soldado, Erik Lamela the halfway line, the former Barcelona man celled out Seb Larsson’s second-half Gomez almost cashed in on his Tottenham 1 and Mousa Dembele. advanced unchallenged until he was 20 yards out opener for the hosts, who remain in The clamor for Kane, 21, to be handed a first before drilling a low shot beyond Spurs and France trouble near the bottom. reprieve by nearly opening the scoring at the end of the first half. Darron Premier League start of the season has increased goalkeeper Hugo Lloris. Connor Wickham was fortunate to steadily while the striker has excelled in the cup It was the worst possible start for a side strug- escape a red card for tripping Seamus Gibson, on for Barry, was dispossessed Stoke 2 by Larsson in the area, the ball break- competitions during a run that had brought eight gling for confidence and, tellingly, north London Coleman as the defender ran onto a goals in his last eight appearances. club Tottenham looked incapable of mustering a ing for Gomez, whose low shot was Samuel Eto’o pass. With Adebayor desperately out of form-the response. Ryan Mason found the side-netting with Sunderland wrongly claimed well saved by the feet of Everton keep- Togo striker has scored just twice this season- a long-range shot and Christian Eriksen sent a free- Wickham won the ball, and Baines er Tim Howard. LONDON: The problems confronting Mauricio Pochettino gave Kane his chance and the forward kick narrowly over but Begovic remained largely exacted full punishment with a power- Romelu Lukaku had been a largely Pochettino continued to mount after the almost provided an immediate return for his man- untroubled. ful 76th-minute penalty straight down peripheral figure, but belatedly Tottenham Hotspur manager watched his side ager. The match was barely three minutes old It was a different story at the other end, howev- the middle that went underneath goal- imposed himself on the contest at the slump to a 2-1 home defeat by Stoke City in the when Chadli whipped in a right-wing cross towards er, with Stoke again exploiting Tottenham’s glaring Premier League yesterday.
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