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Lantern edge NDC Bahrain Salah sends Egypt into TDT | Manama antern defeated NDC Bah- Cup of Nations last 16 Lrain by 26 runs in CBA Di- vision C Quarter Finals. NDC won the toss and elect- Mohamed Salah got his account up and running as Egypt made it two wins from two ed to bowl first. Lantern’s Ajay and Afsal scored half centuries that helped them AFP | Cairo to score 197 at the end of 16 overs. Vinu took four wickets Ajay - Lantern ohamed Salah scored for NDC. Chasing the target, his first goal of the Af- NDC managed to score 171 and Mrica Cup of Nations as Lantern won the match by 26 hosts Egypt secured a place in runs. Balaji became the top the last 16 on Wednesday with scorer with 49 runs for NDC a 2-0 win over the Democratic while Asif took two wickets Republic of Congo. for Lantern XI. Ahmed Elmohamady prod- Scores ded Egypt ahead on 25 minutes Lanterns 197/8 in 16 overs after a wicked Salah cross and (Ajay 65, Afsal 50, Vinu 4/21) the Liverpool star slammed in a beat NDC Bahrain 171/6 in 16 second shortly before half-time overs (Balaji 49, Asif 2/10) by Kiran - Modest to spark frenzied celebrations 26 runs at a packed Cairo International Karnataka Royals 104/4 in Stadium. 16 overs (Vasanth 26, Raghu Record seven-time champions 26, Nadeem 2/32) beat Mu- Egypt rode their luck at times dabbar CC 101/10 (Faisal 24, as DR Congo twice struck the Vasanth 4/26) by 6 wickets crossbar in the first half but the Pak CC 113/4 in 16 overs Group A leaders held firm to (Shoaib 60, Irfan 3/20) beat join Nigeria as the first teams G4S Legends 98/8 (Sumesh 29, through to the knockout phase. Shoaib 4/19) by 15 runs Egypt overcame the dis - Egypt forward Mohamed Salah scores against DR Congo COLTS CA 129/9 (Disbin 36, traction of Amr Warda being Siraj 4/19) beat RUCT 116/10 banished from the squad ear- team will be affected by the ab- pressure. ond straight game as Elmoham- (Anees 32, Nijo 5/20) by 13 Nijo - COLTS lier in the day over mounting sence of anyone.” After four days of small ady forced home after the ball runs 2/22) beat Kooheji Contrac- sexual harassment allegations. Mexican Aguirre fielded the crowds, another capacity 75,000 fell kindly to him following an Modest 168/5 in 16 overs tors 115/7 (Irfan 29, Rajeev The claims surfaced earlier this same side that defeated Zim- crowd turned out to cheer on aerial challenge with Christian (Kiran 112, Sunil 2/22) beat 2/20) by 6 wickets week on social media platforms. babwe 1-0, with centre-back the hosts in the capital, but they Luyindama. Bulls 89/9 (Imtiaz 23, Jazeer Falcon 186/5 in 16 overs ( Multiple women posted screen- Ahmed Hegazy sporting a mask were nearly silenced when Mar- Having created the opener 3/3) by 79 runs Bhasker 85, Antony 32, Ebin shots and testimonies of War- after breaking his nose in open- cel Tisserand slammed against with his vicious right-wing Tisca stars 116/4 in 15 overs 2/23) beat LuLu 172/8 (Nishad da’s alleged lewd comments. ing game of the tournament. the bar at a corner. cross, Salah then stung the (Sameer 55, Prem 32, Touseef 64, Deepak 4/23) by 14 runs. “I think the team is strong Salah was guilty of missing palms of Ley Matampi with a and the squad is strong but we a hatful of chances in the cur- Salah takes over powerful 25-yard free-kick. are not happy to lose a member tain-raiser and this season’s DR Congo came to Egypt as Egypt would be rescued by the of our family,” said coach Javi- Premier League joint top scor- one of the most unpredictable woodwork once more though er Aguirre. “The team focused er again threatened inside five qualifiers having finished third when a deep cross was nodded Rooney scores magical goal more on our match and played minutes here when an intercep- in 2015 only to make a timid back across goal by Bokadi Bope the 90 minutes in a serious man- tion broke his way only for the quarter-final exit two years ago, and Jonathan Bolingi’s looping from his side of midfield ner. I don’t think the Egyptian Egyptian to skew wide under and they fell behind for the sec- header bounced back off the bar.

Wayne Rooney celebrates his goal with his DC United teammates AFP | Los Angeles

ayne Rooney scored a Whighlight reel goal with Team members with officials at the end of Intra-Department Cricket event organised by Citi Bahrain. The event, themed over the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup, a moon shot blast from his own witnessed participation of approximately 100 Citi staff. Each of the eight participating teams adopted the colours of one of the team playing in the actual Cricket World Cup. After fourteen closely contested matches, it was defending champions Asset Sales ‘India’ won the title after defeating IPB & ICG Ops ‘Afghanistan’ in the half of the field to lift DC Unit- KNOW WHAT final. ed to a 1-0 victory over Orlando City on Wednesday. Former English star Roon- ey hammered a 68-yard strike Rooney will be part of over the head of Orlando goal- the league’s July All- Brazil’s Tite fears spectre of Paraguay penalty woe keeper Brian Rowe and into Star exhibition game AFP | Porto Alegre, Brazil the back of the net in the 10th where he will join ern neighbors in that exact “I’ll never feel calm in a pen- Cleber Xavier said the Sele - minute. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and manner, at this very stage of the alty shoot-out, I’ll never change cao “practised penalties to - Rooney got the ball off a de- Josef Martinez razil coach Tite admitted Copa America. my mind on that,” said Tite, at a day and tomorrow we’ll start flected clearance and when Bon Wednesday he feared In 2011, Paraguay edged Brazil press conference at the Gremio talking about the strategy for he realized Rowe was out of Rooney will be part of the the injustice of a penalty 2-0 on penalties and went on Arena in Porto Alegre, where that.” his 18 yard box he launched league’s July All-Star exhibi- shoot-out as the hosts pre - to reach the final in Argentina, yesterday’s match was to take ‘Collectively, Brazil as a na- a first-touch blast that will go tion game where he will join pared to face Paraguay in the losing to Uruguay in the title place. tion is paranoid at the prospect down as one of Major League Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Josef Copa America quarter-finals match. “Penalties are unfair, they per- of Paraguay turning up on the Soccer’s goals of the year. Martinez. late yesterday. And four years later in Chile, sonalize success or failure and bobbly Gremio Arena pitch and DC United goalkeeper Bill The MLS All-Stars will face Brazil are haunted by the they repeated the trick, 4-3 on that’s not fair,” he said. “I don’t playing for penalties, adopting Hamid posted his seventh 10-time La Liga champions spectre of penalty shoot-outs spot-kicks, although that time know how but they should find an aggressive and defensive ap- shutout of the year while Rowe Atletico at Orlando City’s Ex- against Paraguay having twice they were thrashed 6-1 by Ar- another way.” proach in the hope of reaching finished with three saves. ploria Stadium on July 31. been eliminated by their west- gentina in the semi-finals. Nevertheless, assistant coach the spot-kick lottery.