Sport SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 2020 Manchester City held by Leeds United That was good, huh? When both teams want to attack, it's a good game. We made an incredible first 30 minutes: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says of the showdown with his managerial mentor Marcelo Bielsa. Pep Guardiola Sport |07 : NBA FINALS (Game 2) Los Angeles Lakers 124, Miami Heat 114 (Anthony Davis 32 pts, LeBron James 33) * Lakers lead series 2-0 Sanchez announces Qatar squad for Ghana friendly THE PENINSULA – DOHA Rayyan) are also among the players included in the QATAR SQUAD national squad. Head coach Felix Sanchez yesterday announced a The national team’s training for the upcoming Saad Al Sheeb, Pedro Miguel, Tareq Salman, Abdelkarim 25-member Qatar squad for the one-off interna- friendly match started in Doha yesterday, and will Hassan, Boualem Khoukhi, Hassan Al Haydos, Akram Afif, tional friendly against Ghana to be played on continue until team's departure to Turkey. Musab Khusar, Muhammad Waad and Ahmed Suhail (Al Sadd). October 12 in Antalya, Turkey. The friendly encounter will serve as prepa- Muhammad Al Bakri, Almoez Ali, Karim Boudiaf, Ismail Sanchez named a full strength Qatari squad ration for Qatar ahead of their 2023 Asian Cup Muhammad, Abdullah Abd Al Salam (Duhail), Mahdi Ali, that includes 10 players from Al Sadd. These include qualifying campaign. Ahmad Alaa Al Din, and Humam Ahmad the current and former AFC Players of the Year, The Asian Cup qualifiers, which also act as joint Akram Afif and Abdelkarim Hassan, captain Hassan qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, were (Al Gharafa). Muhammad Salah Al Nil and Al Haydos, Saad Al Sheeb, Pedro Miguel, Tareq originally scheduled to be held this year but were Ahmed Fathy (Al Arabi), Khaled Munir Salman and Boualem Khoukhi. postponed until next year due to the COVID-19 and Ahmed Moein (Al Wakrah), Abdelaziz In addition, the Qatar coach also named hero pandemic. Hatem and Fahd Younis (Al Rayyan), Issa at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, Almoez Ali and his Al Qatar, ranked 55th according to latest FIFA Ahmed (Qatar SC) Duhail team-mate Karim Boudiaf. statistics, have won four of their last five matches Coach: Felix Sanchez Felix Sanchez Ahmed Fathy (Al Arabi) Abdelaziz Hatem (Al while Ghana won three out of five. Persepolis’ forward Mehdi Abdi Persepolis win shootout to reach ACL final celebrates his goal during the AFC – DOHA Nassr’s half and lined a low drive that Ghannam was stretchered off with a Playing with a numerical disad- AFC Champions crept wide. Ten minutes from the persistent groin injury, following his vantage for the remaining quarter of League semi-final Ten-man Persepolis FC reached the half-time whistle, Al Nassr were namesake into the treatment room an hour, Persepolis showed some against Saudi’s final of the 2020 AFC Champions awarded a penalty after Resan as coach Rui Vitoria introduced resilient defending in the face of an Al Nassr in Doha, League after overcoming Al Nassr 5-3 brought Khalid Al Ghannam down Osama Al Khalaf in his place. avalanche of Saudi attacks and were yesterday. on penalties after 120 minutes of the inside the box. Hamdallah stepped Hamdallah got on the end of able take the game to the penalty semi-final ended in a 1-1 draw at up confidently and chipped it into the several crosses in the final 20 minutes shootout. Jassim bin Hamad Stadium yesterday. back of the net ‘Panenka’ style for his but was unlucky not to convert; first Hossein Kanaani and Abdullah Persepolis goalkeeper Hamed seventh goal of the 2020 AFC Cham- the Moroccan controlled Abdullah Al Madu converted from the spot then Lak was the hero as he saved An pions League. Khaibari’s cross with his chest and Siamak Nemati and Martinez fol- Nassr’s fourth spot-kick - taken by Persepolis needed just six struck on the half-volley, but his lowed suit. Milad Sarlak made it 3-2 Maicon - as the Islamic Republic of minutes to restore parity after Vahid attempt went wide, then minutes for Persepolis and substitute Abdul- Iran side advanced to their second Amiri dispossessed left-back Awad later he headed Pity Martinez’s set- rahman Al Obaid ensured the score AFC Champions League final in three Khamis deep into Al Nassr’s half and piece off the ground and behind for was level after three shots each. years and denied Saudi Arabia’s Al fed Resan who whipped in a cross a goal kick as the game headed for It was the turn of the other two Nassr a maiden appearance in the for Qara who guided his header past extra time. centre-backs; Shojae Khalilzadeh continental final. goalkeeper Brad Jones to make it 1-1 Persepolis were reduced to 10 scored for Persepolis but goalkeeper Play was centred around the in the 42nd minute. men in the final minute of an oth- Lak saved from Maicon to hand his pitch with a relative advantage for Al Al Nassr were dealt a blow at erwise quiet first half of extra time as side the advantage. Substitute Ali Nassr in the opening quarter of an half-time with Khalid Al Ghannam midfielder Ehsan Pahlavan received Shojae sealed the Iranian side’s hour, but it took 18 minutes for the withdrawn through injury to be his second yellow card of the night victory with the final spot-kick to first chance of the match to arrive as replaced by Ayman Yahya. following a challenge on Al Nassr send them into the final with a 5-3 Bashar Resan found space inside Al With 20 minutes left, Sultan Al substitute Abdulrahman Al Dossari. win. Djokovic storms into last 16 as IPL: Delhi beat KKR in thriller; qualifier Altmaier stuns Berrettini Kohli's RCB win IANS – SHARJAH AFP – PARIS FRENCH OPEN RESULTSS Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates after faceface worldwo number 63 Marton winning his third round match against Fucsovics,Fucsov the first Hungarian Delhi Capitals (DC) yesterday beat Novak Djokovic demolished manman in the second week since Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 18 runs MEN'S SINGLES: THIRD ROUND Colombia’s Daniel Elahi Galan Riveros during Colombian lucky loser Daniel the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris, Balazs Taroczy in 1984. in another high scoring thriller and Galan to reach the Roland Andrey Rublev (13), Russia, def. Kevin Anderson,n, yesterday. Tunisia’sTu Ons Jabeur climbed to the top of the table with six Garros last 16 for a record- South Africa, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. becamebecam the first Arab woman points from four matches. equalling 11th successive year Daniel Altmaier, Germany, def. Matteo Berrettini to makemak the last 16 with a 7-6 KKR scored 210/8 in reply to DC’s yesterday as unheralded (7), Italy, 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-4. (9/7),(9/7), 2-6,2 6-3 win over Bela- 228/4 at the Sharjah International Daniel Altmaier struck Pablo Carreno Busta (17), Spain, def. Roberto rusianrusian eighth seed Aryna Cricket Stadium. another blow for the Bautista Agut (10), Spain, 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Sabalenka.S Kolkata's Nitish Rana anchored the underdogs. Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, def. Thiago Monteiro, Jabeur, seeded 30, first half of the innings with a well World number one Brazil, 7-5, 6-1, 6-3. who made the quarter- crafted 58 off 34 balls scoring four fours Djokovic swept past 153rd- Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), Greece, def. Aljaz Bedene,ne, finalsf at the Australian and as many sixes. KKR were brought ranked Galan 6-0, 6-3, 6-2, his Slovenia, 6-1, 6-2, 3-1, ret. OpenO in January, faces back into the game by a 78-run stand most challenging moment Grigor Dimitrov (18), Bulgaria, def. Roberto Carballess eithereit 2016 champion for the seventh wicket between Eoin coming when he helped GarbineGa Muguruza from Morgan (44) and Rahul Trupathi (36). Baena, Spain, 6-1, 6-3, ret. groundstaff lay more clay on SpainSp or Danielle Collins However, Anrich Nortje came in for the surface of Court Philippe Karen Khachanov (15), Russia, def. Cristian Garin ofof thet United States for a the penultimate over and pulled things Chatrier after rain had made (20), Chile, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. placeplac in the last-eight. back for DC, accounting for the wicket it treacherous. Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Daniel Elahi AmericA an fourth seed of Morgan in the process. Tripathi “I played pretty solid Galan, Colombia, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2. and AustralianAu Open champion started the last over bowled by Marcus today, I’m happy about that,” Sofia KeninK eased through with Stoinis, in which KKR needed 26 runs, said Djokovic, the 2016 WOMEN'S SINGLES: THIRD ROUND a 6-2,6-2, 6-06 defeat of Romanian with a four but was dismissed off the champion who is chasing an Sofia Kenin (4), United States, def. Irina Bara,a, qualifierqualifie Irina Bara. very next ball. Only three more runs 18th Grand Slam title, after his Romania, 6-2, 6-0. ZhangZha Shuai became the were conceded in the rest of the over 71st win in Paris. Zhang Shuai, China, def. Clara Burel, France, 7-6 (2),(2), 7-5. firstfirst ChineseCh woman to reach as DC took the victory. Djokovic, who has Ons Jabeur (30), Tunisia, def. Aryna Sabalenka (8), Belarus, thethe lastla 16 since former Earlier, DC captain Shreyas Iyer’s dropped just 15 games in three 7-6 (7), 2-6, 6-3. championchamp Li Na in 2012.