Sports Sunday, May 31, 2020 11 Salzburg win Austrian Uniqa OFB Cup at a special premiere BeIN SPORTS beams final live & exclusively

Agencies ensured clear conditions ear- Klagenfurt (Austria) ly (21st). Noah Okafor (53.), Majeed Ashimeru (65.) and Defending champions our screens, which will bring Sekou Koita (79.) increased Red Bull Salzburg won the much needed joy and excite- tally after the break. Uniqa OFB Cup 2019/20 fi- ment to households all across While the Vorarlberg- nal against second division the world.” ers also lost their second Austria Lustenau 5-0 (HT In the first official soccer cup final, Salzburg not only 2-0) on Friday. game on Austrian soil after defended the title, but were beIN Media Group had a 78-day break due to the crowned the cup winners secured exclusive rights coronavirus pandemic, and for the seventh time and across multiple internation- in front of empty stands, at equalled with FC Tirol - only al territories for final of the the Worthersee Stadium in Rapid (14 ) and Austria (27) OFB Cup. Klagenfurt, Salzburg made are leading. In the past six Richard Verow, Chief the preliminary decision in years, the series master have Sports Officer at beIN Me- the first half. not won the title since 2018. dia Group, said: “After an Dominik Szoboszlai gave incredibly challenging few the big favourite a free kick in Red Bull Salzburg’s players cel- Red Bull Salzburg’s coach Jesse months for everyone, we’re the special premiere (19th), ebrate winning the Austrian Cup Marsch holds the trophy in Kla- absolutely delighted that live and two minutes later an own final against Austria Lustenau in genfurt, Austria, on Friday. (AFP) sport is returning safely to goal by Dominik Stumberger Klagenfurt, Austria, on Friday. (AFP) La Liga clubs to resume full training Lewandowski hits brace from Monday AFP divisions began training in as Bayern Munich go 10 Madrid groups of up to 10 from May 18 and then 14 shortly after, hav- La Liga have confirmed play- ing initially begun working in- ers will be allowed to return to dividually at training grounds full training on Monday, giving from May 4. La Liga suspended points clear them 10 days to work together fixtures due to the coronavirus before the season restarts in pandemic on March 12, mean- Spain on June 11. ing the break between games AFP After some high pressing, “We have to stand up for This is the final phase of stopping and restarting will be Berlin the Canadian teen won the ball what we believe in and I believe La Liga’s staggered training almost exactly three months. in the Duesseldorf area, barged that it is time that we are heard.” programme as teams get set Matches will be held behind Bayern Munich opened a past a succession of defenders George Floyd died in Min- to complete the remaining 11 closed doors, with the Seville 10-point lead at the top of the and fired home to make it 5-0 neapolis in an arrest by a police rounds of the season, which will derby between Sevilla and Real Bundesliga on Saturday with on 52 minutes. officer who pinned him to the finish on July 19. Betis expected to be the first a 5-0 drubbing of relegation- Werder Bremen boosted ground for several minutes by European competitions, in- game back on June 11. threatened Fortuna Dusseldorf their survival hopes with a 1-0 kneeling on his neck. cluding the Champions League, Barcelona, who are two behind closed doors with the win at Schalke, who are win- could then resume in August. points clear at the top of the league’s top-scorer Robert Le- less in 11 games and continue to Hertha on the rise “La Liga clubs will start table, will resume away at Real wandowski scoring twice. plummet. Hertha remain unbeaten collective training on Monday, Mallorca while their closest Duesseldorf defender Midfielder Leonardo Bitten- with three wins and a draw June 1,” the league said in a challengers Real Madrid are at Mathias Joergensen scored an court scored a first-half winner. since Bruno Labbadia took statement on Saturday. home against Eibar. early own goal before Benjamin “This is a very, very impor- charge during the lockdown “The fourth phase, which Madrid have the approval Pavard, Lewandowski (2) and tant away win,” said Bremen after their 2-0 win at home to starts next Monday, is the last of La Liga to stage their remain- Alphonso Davies hit the target. coach Florian Kohfeldt. Augsburg thanks for goals by step in this protocol that will ing home games at their Valde- With five games left, Bay- “We have taken seven points Javairo Dilrosun and Krzysztof lead to clubs starting competi- bebas training ground to allow ern, who have won their last from the last three games, but if Piatek. tion on June 11.” construction work to go ahead eight league games, are com- you look at the table, we are still Having routed Leverkusen La Liga president Javier at the Santiago Bernabeu. fortably on course for an eighth behind.” Bremen have spent 4-1 away on Tuesday, Wolfs- Tebas has said the plan is for All games will be played ac- straight league title. more seasons in the Bundesliga burg crashed to a 2-1 defeat games to be played every day. cording to strict medical pro- However, second-placed than any other club, but cur- at home to 10-man Eintracht The Spanish football federation tocol, with players and officials Borussia Dortmund could trim rently sit second from bottom. Frankfurt. (RFEF) gave its permission last undergoing tests for coronavi- their lead on Sunday at bottom However, Saturday’s victory Japan midfielder Daichi week for matches to be staged rus the day before games and side Paderborn. leaves them just three points Kamada scored the winner 10 on all days of the week. having their temperatures tak- Lewandowski, who had from guaranteed safety with six minutes from time while Frank- Players in Spain’s top two en before entering stadiums. never previously scored in six games left. furt had replacement midfielder games against Duesseldorf, They are two points behind Lucas Torro sent off in the dying made amends with goals either Duesseldorf in 16th, which car- stages for a second yellow card. side of half-time. ries a relegation play-off at the Frankfurt took the lead Quick read Fortuna, who were unbeat- end of the season. when striker Andre Silva con- en in their three games since Werder could climb out of verted a penalty on 27 minutes, Italy’s Fognini has surgery on both ankles the league resumed after a two- the relegation places for the Bayern Munich’s Polish forward Robert Lewandowski (right) is now the but Wolfsburg equalised when month coronavirus-enforced first time since December on league’s top-scorer with 28 goals to his name. (AFP) right-back Kevin Mbabu head- MILAN: Italy’s Fabio Fognini an- hiatus, were humbled at the Wednesday if they beat Eintra- ed home on 58 minutes. nounced on Saturday he will take Allianz Arena where they last cht Frankfurt at home. Sunday Fixtures Hoffenheim are seventh advantage of the coronavirus- poached a 3-3 draw in Novem- Bittencourt hit a stunning Borussia Moenchengladbach v Union Berlin (4.30pm Qatar time) after their 1-0 win at Mainz enforced break from tennis to un- ber 2018. strike from just outside the box Paderborn v Borussia Dortmund (7pm) thanks to Ihlas Bebou who dart- dergo surgery on both his ankles. They fell behind on 15 min- which beat Schalke’s Bayern- ed into the area, swept past two “After a medical examination utes when Joergensen turned bound goalkeeper Alexander Bundesliga Points Tally defenders, and fired home on and a long discussion with my the ball into his own net after Nuebel on 32 minutes. 43 minutes. team, I decided to have arthrosco- Pavard mishit his shot. Schalke succumbed to their Team P W D L GF GA Pts py surgery on both ankles,” Fognini Right-back Pavard then fourth straight defeat, piling Bayern Munich 29 21 4 4 86 28 67 Results said on Twitter. grabbed the second with a pow- pressure on head coach David Borussia Dortmund 28 17 6 5 74 34 57 “I will undergo surgery in Italy erful header on 29 minutes be- Wagner. In the same game, Bayer Leverkusen 29 17 5 7 54 36 56 Hertha Berlin 2 (Dilrosun 23, today (Saturday). Italy’s Fabio Fognini won the fore Lewandowski made it 3-0 Schalke’s American midfielder RB Leipzig 28 15 10 3 70 29 55 Piatek 90+3) bt Augsburg 0 “I believe it’s the right thing 2019 Monte Carlo Masters. (AFP) just before the break after be- Weston McKennie wore a ‘Jus- Bor. Moenchengladbach 28 16 5 7 53 34 53 Mainz 0 lost to Hoffenheim 1 to do while the Tour is on this ing presented with a tap-in by tice for George’ armband as part VfL Wolfsburg 29 11 9 9 41 36 42 (Bebou 43) enforced break,” continued Fognini, with the season on hold since Thomas Mueller. of the growing protests over the Hoffenheim 29 12 6 11 40 48 42 Schalke 0 lost to Werder Bremen March, and not set to return before August. Duesseldorf were floored death of an unarmed black man Freiburg 29 10 8 11 38 41 38 1 (Bittencourt 32) The 11th-ranked Fognini, who won the Monte Carlo Masters last with two goals in as many min- during a police arrest in the Hertha Berlin 29 10 8 11 43 50 38 Wolfsburg 1 (Mbabu 58) lost to year, said he has been suffering with ankle problems for years. utes as Lewandowski profited United States. Schalke 29 9 10 10 34 46 37 Eintracht Frankfurt 2 (Silva 27- “I’ve been having a problem with my left ankle for three and a half again with another poacher’s “To be able to use my plat- Cologne 28 10 4 14 44 52 34 pen, Kamada 85) years now, it’s an issue I’ve learned to cope with,” he explained. “Then goal after Serge Gnabry’s good form to bring attention to a Eintracht Frankfurt 28 9 5 14 46 53 32 Bayern Munich 5 (Joergensen my right ankle started playing up in the last two years as well. “I had work. problem that has been going on Union Berlin 28 9 4 15 33 48 31 15-og, Pavard 29, Lewandowski hoped that the various problems would go away during my two-month Davies then scored the too long feels good!!!,” tweeted Augsburg 29 8 7 14 40 56 31 43, 50, Davies 52) bt Fortuna break because of the lockdown, but when I resumed training, they game’s best goal. 21-year-old McKennie. Duesseldorf 0. were still there,” he said. “I can’t wait to be back playing again.” (AFP)

Bayern Munich players accept salary cuts until the end of season Thiem, Kyrgios to play July grass, hard-court events in Berlin

BERLIN: Bayern Munich players have accepted salary cuts until the AFP “I am curious to see The matches will be end of the season because of the coronavirus outbreak, club presi- Berlin where I stand with my ten- broadcast with prize money dent Herbert Hainer told Saturday’s edition of the Bild paper. nis,” said Germany’s Al- of €200,000 ($222,000) at It was so far only known that the players had agreed to earn 20 Dominic Thiem, Nick Kyr- exander Zverev, who joins stake -- 100,000 each for the per cent less in April, after the league was suspended in mid-March. gios, Elina Svitolina and Kiki Austria’s Thiem, the highest men’s and women’s events. “It is very gratifying that our team has complete understanding Bertens will compete in grass ranked at third in the world, The ATP and WTA tours of the situation and will continue to forego salary until the end of and hard-court events in and Australia’s Kyrgios in are both suspended until late the season,” Hainer said. Berlin in July featuring both the men’s event. July due to the global health The president did not say how much money the players will men’s and women’s fields. “I’ve been practising crisis. forego and it is also not clear when their season will end. The behind-closed-doors hard, but it’s going to be my The Steffi Graf Stadium The Bundesliga which resumed on May 16 runs until June 27 competition will be held on first time playing a competi- was due to host the first but Bayern could be in the German cup final which is set for July grass at the Steffi Graf Sta- tive event in a long time. WTA event of the grass sea- 4, and they are also still in the Champions League which the ruling dium from July 13-15 and “It’s going to exciting to son from June 13-20, but body UEFA aims to complete by the end of August. then switch to hard court in a play on two different surfac- this year’s tournament was While the players are helping the club, Bayern have also donat- hangar at Berlin’s Tempelhof es in seven days.” cancelled following the virus ed more than €800,000 ($888,000) to football clubs and sports in Airport from July 17-19. In the women’s field, outbreak. general in their home state of Bavaria, money from fans who waived With Wimbledon can- Germany’s Julia Goerges Historic Tempelhof Air- refunds for tickets for matches now played behind closed doors. celled for the first time since and Andrea Petkovic will Australia’s Nick Kyrgios will be playing next month in Berlin, which port has been closed since And together with the other three Champions League teams World War II due to the cor- join Svitolina of Ukraine and will host men’s and women’s events on grass and hard court behind 2008, but the grounds re- Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern have onavirus pandemic, this will Bertens of the Netherlands, closed doors. (AFP) main open as a public park also created a solidarity fund of €20 million to help professional be the first grass-court ten- who are both in the top 10. and was where planes landed teams affected by the outbreak. (DPA) nis of 2020. Six men and six There will be no live spec- be used instead of judges and over two sets with a possible during the Berlin Airlift in women are set to take part. tators, electric line-calling will the matches will be played third as a tie-breaker. 1948-49.