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Punjab defeated Lazio blank Milan, reignite CL race Kolkata ends Napoli down Torino 2-0 to move into Champions League spots 4-match skid AHMEDABAD, India, April 27, (AP): carved MILAN, April 27, (AP): out a convincing fi ve- win Joaquín Correa scored Punjab Kings to end their four-match twice as Lazio beat AC Mi- losing streak in the Indian Premier lan 3-0 in Serie A to boost League. After losing successive games at its chances of qualifying for Mumbai and Chennai, Kolkata’s move the Champions League. to Ahmedabad saw them produce a Correa scored his fi rst after just dominant display and jump to fi fth 77 seconds and doubled his tally with a second win in six games. in the 51st minute. Ciro Immobile Punjab was strangled for 123-9 completed the scoring three min- against the pace and spin of Kolkata, led by ’s 3-30 and pairs utes from time. Lazio closed to from and . within fi ve points of fourth place fi nally came and the fi nal Champions League good with the bat with his best score of berth, having played a match less the season, an unbeaten 47, as Kolkata than the teams above it. raced to 126-5 with more than three “The lads were really great, it was overs to spare. a fi nal for us,” Lazio coach Simone “We’ve worked incredibly hard but Inzaghi said. “It was our last hope to didn’t perform as well as we would stay in touch with the top four. have liked,” Morgan said. “Today, our “We usually play fi nals in this way, performance was really impressive, it was a clear and overwhelming vic- especially from our bowlers, and the tory.” way we started and kept the pressure Third-placed Napoli, which ear- throughout.” lier beat relegation-threatened Torino 2-0, has the same amount of points as Juventus and Milan, which dropped to fi fth. Second-placed Atalanta has two points more. The early four-over spell of Shivam Head-to-head record is the fi rst de- Mavi, 1-13, didn’t allow Punjab to get ciding factor in Serie A, followed by away. The fast bowler conceded just goal difference. one boundary and got the key wicket “I expected more from my team,” of , who was caught be- hind off the fi rst he faced. SOCCER (31) and Nicho- las Pooran (19) couldn’t capitalize Milan coach Stefano Pioli said. “We on good starts, falling to the guile of have the technical and physical qual- Narine and Varun Chakarvarthy re- ity to do better. We must do more, spectively. now we must show that we are as hit three sixes in the strong as I think we are. We need to last two overs, his quickfi re 30 off 18 react immediately because this is a balls lifting Punjab’s total past 100 be- heavy defeat. fore he was clean bowled by Krishna “The Champions League race has in the last over. become a lot more diffi cult.” Kolkata’s problems up front Milan was looking to move back continued as Punjab took three into second place but was without in the fi rst three overs and reduced it to 3-17. top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimović and got But Morgan and , off to the worst possible start when 41, combined for 66 to ensure vic- Correa played a quick one-two with tory. Tripathi survived a close run-out Immobile, rounded Gianluigi Don- off a direct throw from Gayle and hit narumma and deposited into the seven boundaries. Morgan’s 40-ball empty net. AC Milan’s Mario Mandzukic, (right), fi ghts for the ball with Lazio’s Francesco Acerbi during the Serie A soccer match between Lazio and AC Milan at knock included four boundaries and It was Lazio’s quickest goal in Se- Rome’s Olympic stadium, on April 26. (AP) two sixes. rie A since statistics supplier Opta started collecting that data in 2004. Correa almost doubled his tally immediately but Donnarumma pulled Sociedad strengthen hold on Europa League spot World Athletics rejects Leeper’s off a fantastic save to deny him at point-blank range. MADRID, April 27, (AP): Alexander League berth next season. the relegation zone. Isak scored a fi rst-half winner as It was only the second win for Isak scored at Eibar’s Ipurúa Sta- bid to compete in Tokyo Games Napoli goalkeeper Pepe Reina Real Sociedad defeated Basque Sociedad in its last seven league dium with a shot from close range in also performed in the fi rst half and Country rival Eibar 1-0 to strength- matches. the 26th minute. MONACO, April 27, (AP): Ameri- passive-elastic carbon-fi ber running his side doubled its lead six minutes en its hold on fi fth place in the Span- Sociedad next visits Huesca, can runner Blake Leeper has been specifi c prostheses” gave Leeper “an after the break when Correa burst ish league. while Eibar hosts Alavés, another into the area, rode an attempt at a SOCCER prevented from competing at the To- overall competitive advantage over The win left Sociedad three points relegation-threatened team. kyo Olympics because his two pros- an athlete not using such aids.” tackle from Milan defender Fikayo ahead of sixth-placed Real Betis Atlético Madrid has a two-point Tomori and blasted into the roof of and four points in front of seventh- It was the fi fth consecutive loss lead at the top of the standings. thetic legs have been ruled as giving Under the rules governing maxi- the net. placed Villarreal with fi ve rounds re- for last-placed Eibar, which is win- Barcelona can move to fi rst place if him an unfair advantage. mum allowable standing height, Immobile’s lob hit the post 10 min- maining. The teams fi nishing in fi fth less in 16 straight league games. It it wins its home match against Gra- Leeper is “running unnaturally Leeper should not be permitted to utes from time but the Italy forward and sixth places secure a Europa stayed seven points from escaping nada on Thursday. tall” with his prosthetic legs, the run at a height greater than 174.4 got on the scoresheet seven minutes World Athletics mechanical aids re- centimeters. later when Lazzari rolled the ball view panel determined on Monday. Monday’s decision means Leeper, across to him and he drilled it into the could have scored more in a domi- Last October, the Court of Arbitra- who was born bottom left corner. nant victory. tion for Sport upheld a previous de- with no legs Napoli moved back into the Cham- Two goals in as many minutes cision by World Athletics that ruled below the knee, pions League places in Serie A and from Tiémoué Bakayoko and Victor can’t compete Osimhen had Napoli fi rmly in control ATHLETICS with his pros- by halftime. The visitors also hit the theses at World Liverpool report post twice, while Torino midfi elder Athletics’ ma- Rolando Mandragora was sent off Leeper gets a competitive advantage jor interna- loss of $64 mln four minutes from time for a second against able-bodied runners because tional events yellow card. of the added height his prostheses or the Olympic give him. Games. LIVERPOOL, England, April 27, Torino remained above the relega- Leeper tion zone thanks only to a better head- “The difference in this new appli- The case was (AP): Liverpool reported a pre-tax loss cation by Mr Leeper is that he now of 46 million pounds ($64 million) for to-head record against 18th-placed similar to the one lodged by Oscar the last fi nancial year, mainly because Benevento, although it has played a seeks approval to use (prostheses) Pistorius. The South African run- of the impact the coronavirus outbreak match less than the teams around it. that are set so that his standing height ner was cleared to compete in able- had on the English champion’s media Napoli got off to a great start when is approximately 184 centimeters, bodied events after CAS found his revenue and matchday income. Bakayoko curled a stunning strike which is approximately 5 centim- carbon-fi ber blades did not give him The losses for the fi nancial year into the far bottom corner from 20 eters less than the standing height an advantage. ending May 2020, a period covering yards out. of 189.2 centimeters for the (pros- Pistorius went on to compete at the the fi rst three months of the pandemic The lead was doubled following a theses) that were the subject of the 2012 London Olympics and reached when the Premier League was sus- rapid counterattack. Osimhen sprint- application ruled upon by the CAS,” the semifi nals in the 400 meters. pended, equated to a negative swing of ed from just inside his own half and Torino’s Andrea Belotti heads the ball during the Serie A soccer match World Athletics said. One month later, at the Paralympics, 88 million pounds ($122 million) from his effort was defl ected past Torino between Torino and Napoli, at the Olympic Stadium in Turin, Italy, on April The panel ruled that the use of Leeper took silver behind Pistorius in Liverpool’s position a year ago. goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu. 26. (AP) the mechanical aids “in the form of the 400.