SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2014 SPORTS

Soccer results/standings Welbeck rescues Arsenal

English results Stewart 59); Ross County 0 Celtic 5 (Guidetti 11, However, Arsenal goalkeeper Arsenal 2 (Sanchez 13, Welbeck 90) Hull 2 (Diame 17, McGregor 14, Stokes 29, 56, Denayer 35); St Johnstone Arsenal 2 Wojciech Szczesny had already Hernandez 46); Burnley 1 (Boyd 60) West Ham 3 1 (Davidson 10) Kilmarnock 2 (Magennis 19, 22); St made a save himself, getting (Sakho 49, Valencia 54, Cole 70); Crystal Palace 1 Mirren 0 Inverness CT 1 (Tansey 43-pen). behind Michael Dawson’s back-post (Campbell 90) Chelsea 2 (Oscar 6, Fabregas 51); Scottish Football League results header. Everton 3 (Jagielka 18, Lukaku 48, Coleman 76) Aston Championship Villa 0; Manchester City 4 (Aguero 13, 20-pen, 68-pen, Alloa 2 Cowdenbeath 3; Hearts 5 Dumbarton 1; Hull 2 Harper was soon back in action 75) Tottenham 1 (Eriksen 15) Newcastle 1 (Obertan 71) Queen of the South 3 Falkirk 0; Rangers 6 Raith 1. and the 39-year-old, deputising for Leicester 0; 8 (Vergini 12-og, Pelle 18, Playing later the injured Allan McGregor, dived 69, Cork 37, Bridcutt 63-og, Tadic 78, Wanyama 79, Livingston v Hibernian to stop Santi Cazorla’s shot from Mane 86) Sunderland 0. Division One : Danny Welbeck earned finding the top corner. Playing today Brechin 1 Stranraer 2; Dunfermline 0 Forfar 0; Morton Arsenal a point in a 2-2 Premier QPR v Liverpool, Stoke v Swansea 0 Ayr 1; Peterhead 1 Airdrie 1; Stirling 0 League draw at home to Hull yes- SANCHEZ OPENER Playing tomorrow Stenhousemuir 4. terday as the teams met for the first A goal was coming, though, and West Brom v Manchester United Division Two Alexis Sanchez was the man who results Albion 2 Clyde 2; Arbroath 4 East Stirling 0; Berwick 1 time last season’s FA Cup final. Championship Elgin 1; East Fife 1 Annan Athletic 1; Queen’s Park 2 At Wembley, Hull took a 2-0 lead scored it in the 13th minute. The Birmingham 0 Bolton 1; Bournemouth 1 Charlton 0; Montrose 0. before being beaten 3-2 in extra- former Barcelona man cut in from Brighton 1 Middlesbrough 2; Cardiff 2 Nottingham Spanish results time and this game saw them the right and beat Forest 1; Fulham 1 Norwich 0; Huddersfield 4 Levante 0 Real Madrid 5 (Ronaldo 12-pen, 61, almost take all three points at the before unleashing a low drive Blackpool 2; Ipswich 1 Blackburn 1; Millwall 3 Wolves Hernandez 38, Rodriguez 66, Isco 82). Emirates Stadium. across Harper and into the bottom 3; Reading 0 Derby 3; Sheffield Wednesday 0 Watford Playing later But the Tigers could not hold corner. 3; Wigan 0 Brentford 0. Athletic Bilbao v Celta Vigo, Barcelona v Eibar, out on this occasion either, with Hull’s response was to level four Division One Cordoba v Malaga. England forward Welbeck netting minutes later through Mohamed Chesterfield 1 Oldham 1; Coventry 1 Bristol City 3; Playing today Diame, who burst through the Fleetwood 3 Doncaster 1; Leyton Orient 0 Milton Atletico Madrid v Espanyol, Deportivo v Valencia, his eighth goal for club and country Keynes Dons 0; Notts County 5 Crawley 3; Elche v Sevilla, Villarreal v Almeria. since a £16 million ($26.6 million, home back-line before placing a Peterborough 2 Barnsley 1; Preston 2 Port Vale 0; Playing tomorrow 20.2 million euros) move from delicate chip over the advancing Rochdale 1 Gillingham 1; Scunthorpe 1 Colchester 1; v Getafe Manchester United on transfer Szczesny. Walsall 0 Crewe 1; Yeovil 1 Swindon 1. German Bundesliga results deadline day. Arsenal claimed Diame had Playing later Bayern Munich 6 (Lahm 20, 79, Xabi Alonso 27, Mueller Injuries had hit the home side pulled back Mathieu Flamini, who Bradford v Sheffield Utd 43-pen, Goetze 45, 86) Werder Bremen 0; Mainz 05 2 hard and there was the added com- had appeared to win the ball off Division Two (Hofmann 20, Jairo 23) Augsburg 1 (Werner 78); plication of Lukas Podolski, the him, but referee Roger East ignored Burton 0 Morecambe 2; Bury 3 Portsmouth 0; Hanover 96 0 Borussia Moenchengladbach 3 (Kruse 15, their protests and awarded the Cheltenham 3 Northampton 2; Dagenham and 90, Xhaka 49); Freiburg 1 (Kerk 90+1) VfL Wolfsburg 2 Germany forward, pulling out because of illness. goal. Redbridge 0 Newport 1; Hartlepool 1 Luton 2; (Caligiuri 8, 66); VfB Stuttgart 3 (Werner 57, Klein 67, LONDON: Hull City’s Abel Hernandez (left) jumps and misses the ball The Arsenal defence had a That deflated Arsenal but there Mansfield 0 Cambridge 0; Oxford 2 Tranmere 0; Harnik 76) Bayer Leverkusen 3 (Son 4, 9, Bellarabi 41); with Arsenal’s Nacho Monreal during the English Premier League soc- makeshift look about it with Nacho were more problems for Hull just Plymouth 1 Carlisle 0; Southend 1 Exeter 1; Stevenage Cologne 2 (Vogt 40, Zoller 74) Borussia Dortmund 1 cer match. —AP 2 Accrington 1; Wycombe 2 AFC Wimbledon 0; York 0 (Immobile 48). Monreal, normally a left-back, in before half-time when Harper was Shrewsbury 1. Playing later the centre and Hector Bellerin, the hurt and had to be replaced by Gaston Ramirez just just after the Cazorla picking up a booking for Scottish Premiership results Schalke 04 v Hertha Berlin 19-year-old Spanish right-back, Eldin Jakupovic, the former hour mark as Arsenal also made a catching the Egyptian late. Dundee Utd 1 (Ciftci 84-pen) Partick 0; Motherwell 1 Playing today handed a Premier League debut. Switzerland international. change by sending the fit-again Dawson was hurt again and (Ojamaa 62) Dundee 3 (Clarkson 3, Harkins 30, Hamburg v Hoffenheim, Paderborn v Eintracht Frankfurt Hull’s preparations were not The second half began in sensa- on for Flamini. finally had to go off, with Hull man- straightforward either however, tional style, with Hull taking the Then Wilshere was hurt when he ager ’s son Alex replac- English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals with striker Nikica Jelavic hurt in lead within 32 seconds as mis-timed a tackle on Ramirez, ing him at the back. Jakupovic did against, points): the warm-up and hastily replaced Hernandez out-jumped Per which earned him a yellow card, well to tip over a header from Chelsea 8 7 1 0 23 8 22 Rangers 9 6 1 2 24 10 19 by Abel Hernandez, the Uruguay Mertesacker to head home Tom and had to be replaced by Joel Sanchez but was beaten when the Man City 8 5 2 1 18 8 17 Queen of South 10 5 2 3 19 14 17 forward. Huddlestone’s cross from the right. Campbell. Chile international set up Welbeck Southampton 8 5 1 2 19 5 16 Raith 10 4 2 4 13 21 14 Arsenal started strongly with Hull had to defend for a while Twice Hull almost broke through for a final-minute equaliser that West Ham 8 4 1 3 15 11 13 Hibernian 9 3 2 4 11 11 11 after that, with Dawson timing his Man Utd 7 3 2 2 13 10 11 Falkirk 9 2 4 3 8 14 10 heading wide from a on the counter attack as Arsenal went in off a defender. Arsenal 8 2 5 1 13 11 11 Dumbarton 10 2 4 4 8 18 10 cross from Sanchez, who went tackle on Welbeck to perfection piled on the pressure and the home Arsenal pushed for a winner for Swansea 7 3 2 2 10 8 11 Cowdenbeath 9 2 2 5 12 21 8 close himself after Hull goalkeeper after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had fans were annoyed when Dawson the the remaining allocated time, Tottenham 8 3 2 3 10 11 11 Livingston 8 2 1 5 8 12 7 Steve Harper could only parry a found the striker in the box. and then Ahmed Elmohamady with Jakupovic again busy, but it Hull 8 2 4 2 13 13 10 Alloa 10 2 1 7 10 18 7 drive from Welbeck. Hernandez was replaced by required lengthy treatment, with finished all square. —AFP Liverpool 7 3 1 3 10 10 10 League One Aston Villa 8 3 1 4 4 12 10 Forfar 10 6 3 1 17 9 21 Everton 8 2 3 3 16 16 9 Dunfermline 10 6 2 2 14 5 20 Leicester 8 2 3 3 11 13 9 Ayr 10 5 1 4 14 12 16 West Ham in West Brom 7 2 2 3 8 9 8 Morton 10 5 0 5 16 13 15 Stoke 7 2 2 3 6 8 8 Stranraer 9 3 4 2 15 15 13 Crystal Palace 8 2 2 4 11 14 8 Peterhead 9 3 3 3 9 9 12 top four Sunderland 8 1 5 2 8 15 8 Brechin 10 3 3 4 16 17 12 Newcastle 8 1 4 3 8 14 7 Stenhousemuir 10 3 2 5 14 16 11 BURNLEY: West Ham Burnley 8 0 4 4 4 13 4 Airdrie 10 2 3 5 13 16 9 gave manager Sam QPR 7 1 1 5 4 15 4 Stirling 10 1 3 6 9 25 6 Allardyce an early 60th Burnley 1 English Football League tables League Two Championship Arbroath 8 7 0 1 18 6 21 birthday present by Watford 12 7 3 2 23 12 24 Queen’s Park 9 5 1 3 13 9 16 moving into the top Derby 12 6 5 1 22 10 23 Albion 8 4 2 2 11 7 14 four with a 3-1 win at Middlesbrough 12 7 2 3 18 9 23 Montrose 9 4 1 4 12 15 13 Burnley yesterday. West Ham 3 Norwich 12 6 3 3 21 11 21 East Fife 9 3 2 4 14 11 11 Diafra Sakho, Enner Nottingham 12 5 6 1 20 11 21 Berwick 9 2 4 3 16 15 10 Valencia and the much- Ipswich 12 5 5 2 17 11 20 Annan Athletic 8 2 3 3 9 10 9 maligned Carlton Cole Wolves 12 5 5 2 17 14 20 Clyde 9 2 3 4 12 16 9 Charlton 12 4 7 1 14 11 19 East Stirling 9 3 0 6 8 22 9 got on the scoresheet Bournemouth 12 5 3 4 17 14 18 Elgin 8 2 2 4 8 10 8 in the second half with George Boyd netting for the hosts, Brentford 12 5 3 4 15 16 18 Spanish La Liga table who remain one off the bottom. Sheffield 12 4 5 3 11 11 17 Barcelona 7 6 1 0 19 0 19 It was West Ham’s third win in their last four matches while Cardiff 12 4 4 4 15 15 16 Real Madrid 8 6 0 2 30 9 18 Burnley’s wait for a first victory since returning to the top Blackburn 12 4 4 4 17 19 16 Valencia 7 5 2 0 17 4 17 flight continues. With Allardyce turning 60 today, the Leeds 12 4 3 5 12 15 15 Sevilla 7 5 1 1 13 8 16 Hammers put in another sparkling performance, although Rotherham 12 4 3 5 11 14 15 Atletico Madrid 7 4 2 1 12 7 14 Reading 12 4 3 5 15 20 15 Celta Vigo 7 3 3 1 12 10 12 they were lucky in truth to reach half-time on level terms after Huddersfield 12 4 3 5 16 22 15 Villarreal 7 3 2 2 10 7 11 a goalless first period. Boyd rattled their bar early on with a Millwall 12 3 4 5 13 16 13 8 3 2 3 11 12 11 thumping volley after chesting down a cross from Kieran Wigan 12 2 5 5 12 14 11 Espanyol 7 2 3 2 9 8 9 Trippier. Burnley then had the ball in the net but Danny Ings’s Brighton 12 2 5 5 11 14 11 Eibar 7 2 3 2 8 7 9 close-range tap-in, after goalkeeper Adrian had saved from Birmingham 12 2 5 5 12 19 11 Almeria 7 2 3 2 7 7 9 LONDON: Leicester’s Leonardo Ulloa (top) and Newcastle United’s Steven Taylor battle Lukas Jutkiewicz, was ruled out for offside. Fulham 12 3 1 8 13 22 10 Malaga 7 2 3 2 5 7 9 for the ball during their English Premier League soccer match at St. Jamesí Park. —AP West Ham were next to strike the woodwork as Stewart Bolton 12 2 2 8 9 21 8 Granada 8 2 2 4 5 12 8 Downing curled a shot around goalkeeper Tom Heaton, only Blackpool 12 1 3 8 8 18 6 Getafe 7 2 1 4 4 11 7 League One Real Sociedad 7 1 2 4 8 11 5 to see it lick the outside of the post and fly away to safety. The Bristol City 13 9 4 0 28 13 31 Elche 7 1 2 4 7 16 5 Obertan the hero as breakthrough came just five minutes after the restart as Peterborough 13 8 2 3 22 13 26 Levante 8 1 2 5 4 20 5 Senegal striker Sakho headed in his sixth goal in his last six Swindon 11 6 4 1 23 12 22 Athletic Bilbao 7 1 1 5 4 11 4 games. Just four minutes after that Ecuador forward Valencia Preston 11 6 4 1 22 11 22 Cordoba 7 0 4 3 4 11 4 Newcastle win at last powered home ’s right-wing cross with his Keynes Dons 11 6 2 3 25 14 20 La Coruna 7 1 1 5 8 19 4 head. Cole almost made it three but just after his shot was Notts County 12 5 5 2 17 10 20 German Bundesliga table installed 60 square-metre LED big screen hacked off the line, Burnley struck, Boyd converting from close Chesterfield 12 5 4 3 22 18 19 Bayern Munich 8 6 2 0 21 2 20 at St James’ Park. range after Adrian made a hash of a corner. Yet 20 minutes Fleetwood Town 13 5 4 4 14 11 19 Moenchengladbach8 4 4 0 12 4 16 Newcastle 1 The problem was eventually solved, Oldham 13 4 7 2 17 15 19 Mainz 05 8 3 5 0 12 7 14 from time the Irons did score their third, with another header Bradford 12 5 3 4 16 14 18 VfL Wolfsburg 8 4 2 2 13 9 14 but it proved to be another testing as Cole was not denied this time around. —AFP Rochdale 12 5 2 5 20 13 17 Hoffenheim 7 3 4 0 11 6 13 episode for Martin Atkinson. The referee’s Sheffield Utd 11 5 2 4 17 18 17 Bayer Leverkusen 8 3 4 1 16 14 13 Leicester 0 previous game, between Serbia and Barnsley 12 4 3 5 18 19 15 Eintracht Frankfurt7 3 3 1 12 10 12 Albania, is the subject of an on-going Doncaster 11 4 2 5 12 18 14 Hanover 96 8 3 1 4 5 11 10 UEFA investigation after the Yorkshire- Saints destroy Crawley Town 13 4 2 7 12 23 14 Paderborn 7 2 3 2 10 10 9 Colchester 13 3 4 6 17 19 13 Cologne 8 2 3 3 6 7 9 based official had to abandon the Euro 2016 qualifier in Belgrade when a brawl Coventry 13 3 4 6 14 19 13 Augsburg 8 3 0 5 9 11 9 NEWCASTLE: ’s first goal Sunderland Gillingham 13 3 4 6 13 19 13 Schalke 04 7 2 2 3 11 12 8 broke out between the players. for almost two years eased the pressure Yeovil 13 3 4 6 12 21 13 Hertha Berlin 7 2 2 3 11 14 8 Newcastle’s preparations were further SOUTHAMPTON: on manager Alan Pardew as Newcastle Leyton Orient 12 2 6 4 13 15 12 Borussia Dortmund8 2 1 5 10 14 7 disrupted as they lost Cheick Tiote to an Southampton recorded Walsall 13 2 6 5 11 14 12 VfB Stuttgart 8 1 3 4 9 15 6 avoided their worst-ever start to a Southampton 8 accidental blow to the head in the warm- the biggest top-flight Port Vale 13 3 3 7 15 21 12 Freiburg 8 0 5 3 8 12 5 Premier League season thanks to a 1-0 up, the Ivory Coast midfielder replaced in victory in their history Scunthorpe 13 3 2 8 15 26 11 Hamburg 7 1 2 4 2 8 5 victory over Leicester City at St James’ Crewe 13 3 1 9 11 30 10 Werder Bremen 8 0 4 4 10 22 4 the starting line-up by Vurnon Anita. yesterday, thrashing Park yesterday. League Two It failed to prevent the Magpies from Sunderland 8-0 at St The north-east club remained in the Sunderland 0 Wycombe 13 8 4 1 19 8 28 making a bright start, although it was Mary’s to hold onto Bury 13 8 2 3 23 11 26 bottom three, but are only a point from Leicester who twice came closest to third place in the Burton 13 8 1 4 16 15 25 safety as 53-year-old Pardew celebrated Premier League. Matches on TV breaking the deadlock in a scoreless first- Luton 13 7 3 3 14 9 24 his 700th game in management with a The in-form Plymouth 13 7 1 5 14 8 22 (Local Timings) half. much-needed win, their first in the Graziano Pelle scored twice while Dusan Tadic, another of Morecambe 13 7 1 5 16 12 22 Fabricio Coloccini was guilty of the league this season. Obertan rounded off Ronald Koeman’s impressive summer signings, scored one Shrewsbury 13 6 3 4 16 10 21 English Premier League worst miss for the hosts inside the open- Southend 13 6 3 4 13 11 21 a length of the pitch move in the 71st and set up four more in a remarkable performance by the QPR v Liverpool 15:30 ing 10 minutes, side-footing wide from Newport 13 5 4 4 16 13 19 minute sparked by , contin- home side, who bounced back from a defeat at Tottenham beIN SPORTS 1 HD 12 yards after the pace of Obertan Cheltenham 13 5 4 4 13 13 19 beIN SPORTS 11 HD ued by Moussa Sissoko and sealed by the Hostpur in their last outing before the international break. caught the visitors on the break, with Cambridge 13 5 3 5 23 15 18 beIN SPORTS 1 HD Frenchman’s first goal since October Southampton have now won seven of their last eight Northampton 13 5 3 5 22 19 18 Sissoko providing an inviting cut-back Stoke City v Swansea City 18:00 2012 as the former Manchester United games in all competitions, while Sunderland remain with just AFC Wimbledon 13 5 3 5 20 21 18 beIN SPORTS 1 HD for the un-marked skipper to roll his shot one Premier League win this season after a miserable per- Portsmouth 13 4 5 4 11 12 17 midfielder found the bottom corner from beIN SPORTS 11 HD badly off-target. formance which included two own goals by Santiago Vergini Stevenage 13 5 2 6 16 19 17 beIN SPORTS 1 HD 18 yards to seal only a fifth league win Newcastle’s Welsh international and Liam Bridcutt. Mansfield 13 5 2 6 12 16 17 Spanish League this calendar year for the hosts. defender Paul Dummett forced a good Argentine defender Vergini set the ball rolling with an Exeter 13 4 4 5 14 17 16 Atletico v Espanyol 13:00 It looked like being another frustrat- Accrington 13 5 1 7 18 24 16 save from Schmeichel with a long-range extraordinary own goal in the 12th minute, inexplicably vol- beIN SPORTS 2 HD ing afternoon for Pardew as Papiss Cisse Dagenham 13 4 2 7 16 21 14 Deportivo v Valencia 18:00 shot, but the Foxes ended the half leying past his own goalkeeper from 18 yards. spurned a clear opening shortly before Oxford Utd 13 3 4 6 13 18 13 beIN SPORTS 2 HD strongly and ought to have gone into the However, nobody could have predicted at that point that Carlisle 13 3 3 7 15 22 12 Elche CF v Sevilla FC 20:00 Obertan’s telling strike. break ahead. Sunderland, having conceded just seven times in their open- Hartlepool 13 3 2 8 8 20 11 beIN SPORTS 6 HD The Senegal forward fired into the Leonardo Ulloa held-off Colback on ing eight games this season, would go on to collapse so dra- York 13 1 7 5 11 18 10 Villarreal v UD Almeria 22:00 side-netting after latching onto a poor Tranmere 13 2 3 8 11 18 9 beIN SPORTS 2 HD the edge of the box to put Matty James matically. They fell 2-0 down in the 18th minute when a low Paul Konchesky backpass to round keep- Scottish Premiership table Italian Calcio League through, only for the midfielder to scuff ball across goal by Steven Davis was turned into the net by er before running out Hamilton 10 7 2 1 19 5 23 Fiorentina v SS Lazio 13:30 his tame effort straight into the welcom- Italy striker Pelle for the 100th club goal of his career. Dundee United 10 7 1 2 19 12 22 beIN SPORTS 3 HD of angle. The Saints were well and truly on top and Jack Cork bun- ing arms of Tim Krul. Inverness CT 10 6 2 2 14 8 20 Verona v AC Milan 16:00 Leicester hit the woodwork before the dled in a Tadic ball from the left in the 37th minute to make it Newcastle’s Dutch keeper was then Kilmarnock 10 6 2 2 14 8 20 beIN SPORTS 3 HD break in a display that merited a point, 3-0 to the hosts at the interval. Celtic 9 5 2 2 20 7 17 Torino v Udinese 16:00 fortunate when he misjudged Marc but they were unable to respond to Things only got worse for Sunderland in the second half, Aberdeen 10 5 1 4 16 15 16 beIN SPORTS 7 HD Albrighton’s in-swinging cross, the Obertan’s goal despite throwing on with Bridcutt helping the ball into his own net in the 63rd Dundee 10 3 4 3 12 13 13 beIN SPORTS 2 HD FR swirling centre hitting the angle of post Partick Thistle 9 3 1 5 13 13 10 beIN SPORTS 2 FR FR attacking substitutes and minute after Mannone had spilled Pelle’s initial effort. and bar before bouncing to safety. St Johnstone 10 3 0 7 7 14 9 Atalanta v Parma 16:00 David Nugent early in the second half. And Pelle, the Premier League’s player of the month for Motherwell 10 2 1 7 6 18 7 beIN SPORTS 6 HD Colback and Dummett both came close September who scored Italy’s winner in a Euro 2016 qualifying St Mirren 10 2 1 7 8 16 7 Cagliari v Sampdoria 16:00 to putting Newcastle ahead after the DELAYED KICK-OFF play-off in Malta in midweek, swept home a Tadic through ball Ross County 10 1 1 8 7 26 4 beIN SPORTS 8 HD break but the hosts were indebted to Kick-off was delayed by an hour to for his second of the game to make it 5-0 on 69 minutes. Scottish Football League tables Inter v Napoli 21:45 Krul’s fine block to deny James and keep Tadic then got his name on the scoresheet with 12 min- Championship beIN SPORTS 3 HD allow time to repair wind damage to their lead intact as Leicester pushed for a utes remaining, curling into an empty net after Mannone had Hearts 10 9 1 0 31 5 28 dressing panels surrounding the newly- late leveller. —AFP somehow managed to give the ball straight to the Serb.—AFP