SPORTS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2013 Soccer results/standings Real late show salvages English Rochdale 0; Scunthorpe 2 Cheltenham 0; Cardiff 1 (Odemwingie 58) Newcastle 2 Torquay 0 York 3; Wycombe 1 Burton 2. (Remy 30, 38); Fulham 1 (Bent 83) Stoke 0; Hull 0 Aston Villa 0; Liverpool 3 (Suarez 14, Scottish Premiership victory against Levante Sturridge 17, Gerrard 38-pen) Crystal Palace Celtic 2 (Stokes 21, Commons 49) 1 (Gayle 77); Manchester City 3 (Negredo Motherwell 0; Dundee Utd 1 (Ciftci 56) 17, Aguero 45, Howard 69-og) Everton 1 Kilmarnock 0; Hearts 0 St Mirren 2 MADRID: Real Madrid salvaged their faltering title (Lukaku 16); Sunderland 1 (Gardner 5) (McGinn 42, McGowan 58;) Ross County 1 hopes with two goals in stoppage time to win 3-2 Manchester United 2 (Januzaj 55, 61). (Quinn 52) Aberdeen 0; St Johnstone 4 away at Levante yesterday. (May 18, Mackay 27, MacLean 73, 82) After a flat first-half from the visitors, Baba Inverness CT 0. Diawara fired the hosts into a deserved lead 12 min- Championship utes after the break. Birmingham 1 Bolton 2; Bournemouth 5 Scottish Football League Sergio Ramos levelled four minutes later for Carlo Millwall 2; Brighton 1 Nottingham Forest 3; Championship Ancelotti’s men, but Nabil El Zhar looked to have Burnley 2 Reading 1; Charlton 0 Blackpool 0; Cowdenbeath 0 Dundee 2; Dumbarton 2 clinched all three points for Joaquin Caparros’ men Derby 3 Leeds 1; Doncaster 1 Leicester 0; Raith 4; Falkirk 2 Queen of the South 1; when he finished brilliantly four minutes from time. 1 Watford 2; Middlesbrough 4 Hamilton 2 Livingston 0; Morton 0 Alloa 2. However, substitute Alvaro Morata slotted home Yeovil 1; QPR 2 Barnsley 0; Sheffield the equaliser as the game entered stoppage time Wednesday 1 Ipswich 1. Division One and Cristiano Ronaldo’s effort deflected in off the Airdrie 3 Brechin 1; Forfar 4 Dunfermline inside of the post with virtually the last kick of the Division One 0; Stenhousemuir 1 East Fife 1; Stranraer 3 game to hand Madrid victory. Brentford 0 Rotherham 1; Colchester 0 Arbroath 2. Real were again without world record signing Wolves 3; Gillingham 3 Milton Keynes Dons Gareth Bale due to a thigh injury, but Ancelotti did 2; Notts County 4 Crewe 0; Oldham 1 German League make five changes to the side that had beaten FC Leyton Orient 1; Peterborough 2 Preston Schalke 04 4 (K.P. Boateng 16-pen, Szalai Copenhagen 4-0 in the Champions League on 0;Port Vale 1 Bristol City 1; Shrewsbury 2 28, 78, Meyer 86) FC Augsburg 1 (Moelders Wednesday. Carlisle 2; Stevenage 0 Coventry 1;Swindon 10); Borussia Moenchenglad-bach 2 (Kruse And the number of changes seemed to affect the 1 Tranmere 0; Walsall 0 Bradford 2. 82-pen, Raffael 86) Borussia 0; visitors as they made a very slow start. It took half an VfB Stuttgart 1 (Harnik 6) Werder Bremen 1 hour for Madrid to force Keylor Navas into a save Division Two (Petersen 37); VfL Wolfsburg 0 Eintracht and even when they did the Costa Rican comfort- AFC Wimbledon 0 Northampton 2; Braunschweig 2 (Bellarabi 30, Kumbela 86); ably turned behind Ronaldo’s deflected free-kick. Bristol Rovers 1 Fleetwood 3; Bury 0 Mainz 05 2 (Choupo-Moting 82, Noveski Baba was the main threat for Levante and the Newport 0; Exeter 3 Plymouth 1; Mansfield 90+2) Hoffenheim 2 (Volland 14, Roberto Senegalese was unfortunate when his rasping drive VALENCIA: Levante’s Jordi Xumetra (left) vies with Real Madrid’s defender Alvaro 1 Hartlepool 4; Morecambe 4 Chesterfield 3; Firmino 22); Bayer Leverkusen 1 (Sam 31) from the edge of the area flew just over moments Arbeloa (right) during the Spanish League football match. — AFP Oxford 0 Southend 2; Portsmouth 3 Bayern Munich 1 (Kroos 29). later. Luka Modric then had Madrid’s best opening of the half when he skewed wide after his initial their next attack Levante caught Madrid short at the it was Levante who retook the lead on 86 minutes English Premier League effort had been blocked by David Navarro. back on the counter-attack as Jordi Xumetra’s float- remaining when El-Zhar withheld pressure from a English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals However, it was the hosts who came closest to ed cross was swept home by Baba at the back post. number of Madrid defenders to turn and fire across against, points): opening the scoring just before half-time when However, the lead only lasted four minutes as Lopez into the far corner. another piledriver from Baba this time forced Lopez Ramos outmuscled Xumetra to bundle home Angel Madrid responded moments later with another Liverpool 7 5 1 1 11 5 16 Scottish Football League into a stunning save a minute before the break. di Maria’s corner. Navas then parried Karim equaliser when Jese teed-up Morata to slot low past Arsenal 6 5 0 1 13 7 15 Championship Lopez had to be alert again at the start of the sec- Benzema’s drive from the edge of the area and the helpless Navas. And the comeback was com- Man City 7 4 1 2 17 8 13 Hamilton 8 6 1 1 12 3 19 ond period to turn Pape Diop’s fierce effort from Tottenham 6 4 1 1 6 2 13 Marcelo somehow turned Di Maria’s cut-back over as plete deep into added time when Ronaldo received Raith 8 4 3 1 15 10 15 outside the area over. Madrid piled on the pressure. Modric’s pass at the edge of the area and saw his Everton 7 3 3 1 10 9 12 Falkirk 8 4 2 2 14 8 14 Chelsea 6 3 2 1 7 3 11 Ronaldo then clipped the outside of the post as Ancelotti threw on young strike duo Morata and left-footed strike deflect off Juanfran and into the Dundee 8 4 2 2 13 8 14 Southampton 6 3 2 1 5 2 11 the game became increasingly stretched. And with Jese Rodriguez in a bid to find a winner. But instead net via the woodwork. — AFP Hull 7 3 2 2 6 7 11 Alloa 8 4 1 3 10 8 13 Man United 7 3 1 3 10 9 10 Dumbarton 8 3 1 4 14 17 10 Aston Villa 7 3 1 3 9 8 10 Queen of South 8 2 2 4 11 13 8 Newcastle 7 3 1 3 9 12 10 Livingston 8 2 2 4 12 16 8 Monaco clear West Brom 6 2 2 2 6 5 8 Cowdenbeath 8 2 0 6 9 19 6 Cardiff 7 2 2 3 7 9 8 Morton 81258165 Swansea 6 2 1 3 8 9 7 at the top Norwich 6 2 1 3 4 6 7 Division One Stoke 721447 7 Rangers 7 7 0 0 32 2 21 Fulham 7 2 1 4 5 9 7 Dunfermline 8 5 1 2 19 15 16 PARIS: Monaco went three points clear at the top of Ligue 1 West Ham 6 1 2 3 4 5 5 Stenhousemuir 8 4 2 2 14 19 14 yesterday after a late Lucas Ocampos winner gave them a Crystal 7 1 0 6 5 13 3 priceless 2-1 victory over Saint-Etienne at the Louis II stadium. Sunderland 7 0 1 6 5 16 1 Ayr 7 2 4 1 12 11 10 Brechin 8 2 3 3 11 14 9 Substitute Ocampos was the hero for Claudio Ranieri’s Cote English Football League Arbroath 8 3 0 5 15 20 9 d’Azur outfit, when he latched onto a low cross from the right Championship Stranraer 8 2 2 4 10 14 8 and pounced inside a crowded penalty box to shoot past Burnley 11 8 2 1 21 7 26 Airdrie 8 2 2 4 12 18 8 Stephane Rufier with just three minutes remaining. The win QPR 10 8 2 0 12 2 26 Forfar 8 2 1 5 12 14 7 keeps Monaco unbeaten with six victories from nine matches Leicester 11 7 2 2 17 11 23 East Fife 8 2 1 5 5 15 7 and lifts them three points clear of Paris Saint-Germain who Nottingham 11 6 4 1 19 11 22 travel to arch rivals Marseille today. “We’re very happy, we Watford 11 6 3 2 22 11 21 played well, created chances against a very strong Saint- Blackpool 11 5 5 1 13 9 20 German League Reading 11 5 4 2 15 10 19 Etienne team,” said Monaco captain Eric Abidal. Dortmund 8 6 1 1 21 7 19 Bournemouth 11 5 1 5 18 24 16 “We had to find a way to open up the match which we did Blackburn 10 4 3 3 16 11 15 Bayern Munich 7 6 1 0 14 2 19 by changing the system and it came down to mental strength Derby 11 4 3 4 21 18 15 Leverkusen 7 6 0 1 17 7 18 at the end. Everyone’s happy,” continued the French defend- Ipswich 11 4 3 4 18 15 15 Borussia 8 4 1 3 19 13 13 er.Belgian international Yannick Ferreira Carrasco gave the Huddersfield 11 3 5 3 13 10 14 Hanover 96 8 4 1 3 11 11 13 Ligue 2 champions the lead after 15 minutes with a cool finish Leeds 11 4 2 5 10 13 14 Hertha Berlin 8 3 3 2 14 9 12 LEVERKUSEN: Bayern Munich’s Dutch midfielder (right) and Leverkusen’s after a 30 metre pass from James Rodriguez put him behind Brighton 11 3 4 4 11 12 13 VfB Stuttgart 8 3 2 3 16 10 11 midfielder Simon Rolfes vie for the ball during the German First Division foot- the back four before the visitors equalised just inside the sec- M’ brough 11 2 6 3 17 18 12 Schalke 04 8 3 2 3 14 17 11 ball match. — AFP ond half.Saint-Etienne coach Christophe Galtier could be Doncaster 10 3 3 4 10 12 12 Werder Bremen 8 3 2 3 9 12 11 heard blasting his players at half-time and his motivational Wigan 8 3 2 3 12 9 11 Hoffenheim 8 2 4 2 20 20 10 Millwall 11 3 2 6 12 23 11 Mainz 05 8 3 1 4 12 17 10 Bayern go top, Dortmund crash talk initially did the trick. Birmingham 11 3 1 7 13 15 10 Augsburg 8 3 1 4 9 15 10 A good move down the left wing allowed Renaud Cohade Bolton 11 1 5 5 9 18 8 BERLIN: European champions Bayern Germany midfielder Bastian to feed fellow Frenchman Romain Hamouma with a long pass Charlton 10 1 4 5 8 14 7 VfL Wolfsburg 8 3 0 5 9 11 9 Eintracht 7 2 2 3 10 12 8 Munich went top of the Bundesliga for the Schweinsteiger had a late header cleared off which the 26-year-old midfielder controlled perfectly, before Sheffield 10 0 6 4 10 16 6 sliding the ball past Croatian goalkeeper Danijel Subasic.Saint- Yeovil 11 1 2 8 6 18 5 Nuremberg 7 0 5 2 9 12 5 first time this season yesterday after a pulsat- the line, while Leverkusen’s Son Heung-Min Barnsley 11 1 2 8 11 27 5 Hamburg 7 1 2 4 12 19 5 ing 1-1 draw at Bayer Leverkusen. blasted wide with the final shot of the game. Etienne had a golden chance to take the lead in the dying Braunschweig 8 1 1 6 5 18 4 Bayern extended their unbeaten run to 33 The single point was enough to send moments when Ivory Coast and former Leeds winger Max Division One Freiburg 7 0 3 4 8 17 3 Bundesliga games and are closing in on Bayern top, with Leverkusen third, behind Gradel was alone through on goal but Subasic came to their Leyton Orient 10 8 2 0 25 7 26 Hamburg’s record of 36, set in January 1983, . Fresh from their impres- rescue with a fine stop from close range. The match appeared Peterborough 10 8 1 1 22 8 25 as the Bavarians returned to the site of their sive 3-0 Champions League win over heading for a draw before the Ocampos winner lifted home Wolves 10 8 1 1 20 6 25 last league defeat in October 2012. Previous Marseille, Dortmund were set to claim an fans and kept the pressure on Paris Saint-Germain and Bradford 10 6 3 1 21 8 21 Marseille, the latter side being four points back ahead of the Preston 10 5 4 1 17 10 19 Matches on TV leaders Borussia Dortmund lost top place away point until a disastrous final 10-minute Rotherham 10 5 4 1 16 11 19 after suffering a shock 2-0 defeat at Borussia spell. Velodrome showdown. — AFP Milton Keynes 10 4 4 2 17 12 16 (Local Timings) Moenchengladbach earlier in the day. Germany defender Mats Hummels earned Crawley Town 10 4 4 2 17 14 16 In a high-tempo clash at Leverkusen’s a red card on 81 minutes with a reckless chal- Walsall 10 4 3 3 11 10 15 English Premier League BayArena, Germany midfielder Sidney Sam’s lenge on ‘Gladbach’s Norway midfielder Brentford 10 4 3 3 12 13 15 31st-minute equaliser for the hosts came Havard Nordtveit in the area which left refer- Swindon 10 4 2 4 16 13 14 Port Vale 10 4 2 4 13 15 14 Southampton v Swansea 15:30 straight after Toni Kroos’ opening goal for ee Manuel Graefe reaching for the red card. Carlisle 10 3 3 4 10 19 12 Al Jazeera Sport Bayern. Germany striker Max Kruse netted the Colchester 10 2 5 3 9 13 11 Leverkusen goalkeeper Bernd Leno guar- resulting penalty, then Brazilian forward Shrewsbury 10 1 6 3 10 13 9 Norwich City v Chelsea 15:30 anteed a point for his side by denying Franck Raffael hit their second four minutes from Gillingham 10 2 3 5 13 17 9 Al Jazeera Sport Ribery twice in as many second-half minutes, time to see ‘Gladbach move up to fourth. Oldham 10 2 2 6 13 16 8 then Mario Goetze, while Thomas Mueller “That was an unusual game, we had our Coventry 10 5 2 3 23 18 7 Albion v Arsenal 18:00 had a penalty appeal turned down. opponents under brutal pressure for long Notts County 10 2 1 7 13 19 7 “Congratulations to my team, we played periods of play, but didn’t score,” admitted Bristol City 10 0 6 4 15 21 6 Al Jazeera Sport Crewe 10 1 3 6 8 25 6 excellent football and we’re top of the table,” Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp. Sheffield Utd 10 1 2 7 6 16 5 Tottenham v West Ham 18:00 said Bayern coach Pep Guardiola. “We played our part in the defeat, we left Stevenage 10 1 2 7 7 18 5 Al Jazeera Sport “Leverkusen had 11 players and one of the game too open and allowed ‘Gladbach to Tranmere 10 1 2 7 9 21 5 them was Leno, he may have let one in, but it come to life when they took their chances.” Note: Coventry deducted 10 points for enter- Italian League could have been many more than that. Dortmund dropped to second in the ing administration Parma v Sassuolo 13:30 “We had 27 shots on goal, but that’s foot- league, a point behind Bayern, and level on Al Jazeera Sport ball, the most important is that we’re top.” 19 points with third-placed Leverkusen. Division Two Chesterfield 10 7 1 2 17 8 22 Bayern took the lead when France wing Dortmund midfielder Sven Bender is an Fleetwood 10 7 0 3 19 11 21 Udinese v Cagliari 16:00 Ribery found Kroos on the edge of the area injury doubt for Germany’s World Cup quali- Exeter 10 6 2 2 14 10 20 Al Jazeera Sport and the attacking midfielder blasted home. fiers against Republic of Ireland on Friday and Oxford Utd 10 5 3 2 19 12 18 Leverkusen drew level when Germany Sweden four days later after being left Mansfield 10 5 3 2 14 10 18 Napoli v Livorno 16:00 goalkeeper Manuel Neuer parried Poland bruised by a second-half challenge. Schalke Morecambe 10 5 3 2 17 14 18 Al Jazeera Sport defender Sebastian Boenisch’s shot, but the 04 came from behind to claim a 4-1 win over Scunthorpe 10 4 5 1 13 8 17 rebound fell to Sam to tap home into an 10-man Augsburg in Gelsenkirchen to move Rochdale 10 5 2 3 13 11 17 Newport 10 4 4 2 15 11 16 Sampdoria v Torino 16:00 empty net. up to eighth. Dagenham 10 4 4 2 14 13 16 Al Jazeera Sport Bayern, fresh from Wednesday’s 3-1 VfB Stuttgart dropped to seventh after Wimbledon 10 5 1 4 12 11 16 Champions League win at Manchester City, their 1-1 draw at home to Werder Bremen Burton Albion 10 4 3 3 15 16 15 Bologna v Verona 16:00 again dominated possession-nearly 80 per- while Hoffenheim, who narrowly avoided rel- FRANCE: Monaco’s Joao Moutinho (below) jumps for the ball Wycombe 10 4 2 4 14 12 14 Al Jazeera Sport cent-but were continually frustrated by some egation last season, stayed 10th with a 2-2 with Saint Etienne’s Moustapha Sall (right) and Faouzi Southend 10 4 2 4 11 10 14 determined defending. draw at Mainz.—AFP Ghoulam during their French League One soccer match. —AP Portsmouth 10 3 3 4 17 18 12 Catania v Genoa 16:00 York 10 3 2 5 13 14 11 Plymouth 10 3 1 6 7 13 10 Al Jazeera Sport Bury 10 2 3 5 13 13 9 Hartlepool 10 2 3 5 10 14 9 Juventus v AC Milan 21:45 Burnley down promotion rivals Reading Bristol Rovers 10 2 3 5 9 14 9 Al Jazeera Sport2 Torquay 10 2 3 5 11 18 9 LONDON: Surprise promotion contenders Burnley on Burnley’s heels in second place after a 2-0 win end Peter, inexplicably punched a corner into his Cheltenham 10 2 3 5 12 21 9 SS Lazio v Fiorentina 1:45 consolidated their position on top of the over bottom of the table Barnsley at . own net in the 17th minute. Northampton 10 2 2 6 8 13 8 Al Jazeera Sport Championship with a 2-1 win over Reading yester- Harry Redknapp’s team are behind Burnley only on Czech Republic defender Daniel Pudil capped Accrington 10 0 2 8 6 18 2 day. The Clarets have emerged as challengers for a goal difference after setting a new club record by Watford’s fightback as Gianfranco Zola’s team won Scottish Premiership Spanish League place in the Premier League thanks to their best keeping an eighth consecutive clean sheet. 2-1 at Huddersfield. Pudil was first to react when Celtic 8 7 1 0 19 7 22 Atletico v Celta 13:00 start to a season since 1961, when they finished as scored from close range after Huddersfield keeper spilled Lewis Inverness CT 9 6 1 2 15 8 19 Al Jazeera Sport runners-up in the English top-flight. being set up by substitute as QPR McGugan’s free-kick on 44 minutes. Watford had Motherwell 9 5 1 3 11 11 16 Sean Dyche’s side maintained that fine form by finally broke Barnsley’s resistance in the 66th fallen behind on 17 minutes when Danny Ward Aberdeen 9 4 2 3 11 8 14 Sevilla v Almeria 18:00 seeing off promotion rivals Reading at Turf Moor minute. And Austin sealed the points for unbeaten glanced a header in unmarked. But Watford’s Dundee Utd 9 3 4 2 12 7 13 Al Jazeera Sport for their eighth win in 11 league matches. QPR five minutes from the end when he slotted Argentina-born Italian Fernando Forestieri St Johnstone 9 3 3 3 12 9 12 bagged his seventh league goal of home from the penalty spot after he was tripped equalised with a fine strike just one minute later. Hibernian 8 3 2 3 7 8 11 Partick 8 2 4 2 8 9 10 Getafe v Betis 20:00 the season to open the scoring in the 21st minute by Martin Cranie. Third placed Leicester lost for just Elsewhere, Derby, with former England manag- Ross County 9 3 1 5 11 17 10 Al Jazeera Sport before Vokes doubled the hosts’ advantage with his the second time in the league this season as an er Steve McClaren in charge for the first time, beat St Mirren 81255135 fifth in four league games with 10 minutes remain- own-goal from goalkeeper con- Leeds 3-1 at Pride Park. The Rams went 2-0 up Kilmarnock 9 0 3 6 8 16 3 Bilbao v Valencia 22:00 ing. Jason Shackell’s own goal two minutes later demned Nigel Pearson’s men to a 1-0 defeat at through Chris Martin and Johnny Russell and after Hearts 9 2 2 5 6 12 -7 Al Jazeera Sport gave Reading hope, but the hosts held on to earn Doncaster. Jason Pearce pulled a goal back, Will Hughes Note: Hearts deducted 15 points for entering their fifth successive league win. QPR remain hot Schmeichel, the son of Manchester United leg- wrapped up the victory.—AFP administration