SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2018 15 Madrid scrape past Valladolid English Premier League AFP | Madrid Bournemouth 1 - 2 Manchester United antiago Solari tasted victory Cardiff City 0 - 1 Leicester City in his first La Liga match in Everton 3 - 1 Brighton and Hove Albion charge of Real Madrid but S Newcastle United 1 - 0 Watford he had the 18-year-old Vinicius Junior to thank for their 2-0 win West Ham United 4 - 2 Burnley over Real Valladolid yesterday. Arsenal 0 - 0 Liverpool Solari threw Vinicius on with the score goalless and tension Wolverhampton v. Tottenham Hotspur building at the Santiago Berna- beu but the teenage striker de- English Championship livered, before Sergio Ramos’ Blackburn Rovers 1 - 0 Queens Park Rangers late penalty gave the scoreline a deceptively comfortable look. Brentford 2 - 0 Millwall The opener in the 83rd minute Derby County 3 - 1 Birmingham City was an own-goal, deflected off Hull City 1 - 0 West Bromwich Albion Kiko Olivas, but prompted by Vinicius’ weaving run and shot, Ipswich Town 1 - 1 Preston North End the kind of exuberance Madrid’s Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Sheffield United toothless attack has been so be- Reading 3 - 2 Bristol City reft of in recent weeks. Vinicius celebrated by running Rotherham United 2 - 1 Swansea City over to the bench and hugging Sheffield Wednesday 0 - 4 Norwich City Solari. He knows the youngster Stoke City v. Middlesbrough better than anyone at the club, having managed him with Cas- Real Madrid’s Welsh forward Gareth Bale (C) vies with Real Valladolid’s Spanish midfielder Ruben Alcaraz (L) tilla this season. Scottish Premier League Julen Lopetegui had, under- dence boosted and momentum whistles and returned to whis- 18-year-old was high but he de- St. Mirren 0 - 2 Rangers standably, decided Madrid’s enhanced. tles either side of half-time but livered, dribbling in from the left Celtic 5 - 0 Heart of Midlothian B team was the best place for They had started well. Their there was fresh impetus from and unleashing a shot from the Vinicius to settle but with every best chance of the first half ar- the hosts after the restart. angle. It took a cruel deflection Hamilton 1 - 0 Livingston chance missed, the youngster’s rived in the third minute, Marco In the space of a minute, Ben- off Olivas and crept inside the Hibernian 0 - 1 St. Johnstone reputation has swelled. Asensio slipping in Karim Ben- zema’s shot was blocked by the corner. Motherwell 1 - 0 Dundee He started as Madrid thrashed zema, who dragged his finish midriff of Fernando Calero, With the tension lifted, Ma- Melilla in the Copa del Rey on wide of the far post. Casemiro’s was palmed away drid made sure in the 88th min- Wednesday but those were op- Gareth Bale, Casemiro and and Bale missed with another ute as Benzema was brought Italian ponents from the Spanish third Benzema all went close with header. down. Ramos chipped the pen- Internazionale 5 - 0 Genoa tier. This was Solari’s first prop- headers, two of them swung in Again, Valladolid survived and alty down the middle. er test. from 21-year-old left-back Ser- again, they came back strong. Earlier, Antoine Griezmann Fiorentina 1 - 0 Roma It could so easily have been gio Reguilon but Valladolid sur- They hit the crossbar, twice. scored a brilliant free-kick but Juventus v. Cagliari different, as Valladolid twice vived. Then, as Madrid faded, Ruben Alcaraz’s looping ef- Atletico Madrid missed the hit the crossbar and looked on they took control. fort plopped off the top but Toni chance to go top after drawing German Bundesliga course for a well-deserved point. Antonito was sent clear but Villa’s left it quivering. Madrid 1-1 at struggling Leganes. There were whistles at half-time lifted his finish over both Thi- were shaking too. Griezmann’s bending effort in Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1 - 4 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim from the home crowd, and dur- baut Courtois and the crossbar. For the second weekend run- the second half looked likely to FC Augsburg 2 - 2 1. FC Nürnberg ing the second half too. Enes Unal nipped in front Nacho ning, Bale came off when his prove the difference in a contest FC Bayern München 1 - 1 Sport-Club Freiburg Instead, Solari and Madrid but headed wide from six yards. team needed a goal. Isco and short on chances at Butarque but head into Wednesday’s Cham- Vinicius came on, the latter to Guido Carrillo’s 82nd-minute FC Schalke 04 3 - 1 Hannover 96 pions League game against Madrid ride their luck an explosion of cheers. equaliser earned Leganes a de- VfL Wolfsburg 0 - 1 Borussia Dortmund Viktoria Plzen with their confi- The Real players departed to The expectation on the served point. Hertha BSC v. RB Leipzig

Spanish La Liga Zarco moves up Inter thump Genoa in warm up for Barca Leganes 1 - 1 Atletico de Madrid to pole position Real Madrid 2 - 0 Real Valladolid in Malaysia after AFP | Milan Tuesday’s game in the Valencia CF v. Girona after Inter lost 2-0 to Barcelona Rayo Vallecano v. Barcelona Marquez penalty oberto Gagliardini scored in the away leg. Ra brace as But the team shrugged off French Ligue 1 crushed Genoa 5-0 to reclaim the absence of their skipper When I left second spot in Serie A yesterday as Gagliardini scored in either Gagliardini out Lyon 1 - 1 Bordeaux and flex their muscles ahead of half. Portuguese midfielder against Lazio, he was next week’s Champions League Joao Mario capped an impres- clearly disappointed. *Scores as of closing blockbuster against Barcelona sive individual performance by He is off the in the San Siro. scoring the fourth goals and Champions League ’s side setting up three others, includ- squad list too but he Khachanov destroys Thiem to Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Johann notched up their seventh ing for Matteo Politano and fit- showed how much Zarco takes a corner straight Serie A win to move again Radja Nianggolan. make Paris Masters final three points behind champi- “After a difficult start to the he wants to help the AFP | Sepang, Indonesia ons Juventus, who host Cagliari season, I needed a boost,” said team Reuters | Paris later yesterday, and equal on Gagliardini. “I’ll try to continue LUCIANO SPALLETTI amaha’s Johann Zarco points with Napoli who eased like this. It is tough not play- aren Khachanov showed Ywas yesterday bumped past Empoli 5-1 on Friday. ing often, but Inter are doing Kwhy he is one of the finest up to pole position for the Top scorer Mauro Icardi was well and we are all happy about The Italian fired in the first young talents in tennis as he Malaysian MotoGP, taking rested with an eye towards that.” from close range after 14 min- powered into the final of the Marc Marquez’s spot after utes after a cross from Mario Paris Masters with a thunder- the world champion was who then found a way through ous 6-4 6-1 victory over Dom- penalised for an incident in- for Politano to sneak in a second inic Thiem yesterday. volving Italian rider Andrea two minutes later. The 22-year-old, 6ft 6in Rus- Iannone. Gagliardini followed his first sian, already the owner of two Honda’s Marquez clocked goal of the season with his first indoor hard court titles this up the fastest lap and looked Serie A brace just after the year, moved one step away to have secured the 80th break. The second came from a from the biggest title of his ca- Russia’s Karen Khachanov celebrates pole position of his career in rebound after Genoa goalkeep- reer at the Bercy indoor arena, winning his semi final match against a rain-hit qualifying session er Andrei Radu had cleared an crushing his Austrian friend in Austria’s Dominic Thiem at Sepang, in which he had Ivan Perisic effort off the line. 70 one-sided minutes. a minor crash. Mario then broke through to Khachanov will now play I’m becoming a better player,” But after the race, he was score in injury time drilling a his first Masters 1000 final Khachanov said. hit with a hefty six-place low shot into the corner of the today against the winner of The 18th ranked Muscovite grid penalty, meaning he net before setting up late substi- the blockbuster second semi overpowered a third top-10 will start in seventh. tute Nainggolan, back from an between Novak Djokovic, who player in successive days, The Spaniard was sanc- ankle injury, who headed in the will be back to world number having hammered Alexander tioned over an incident final action of the night. one on Monday, and Roger Zverev in the quarters and involving Suzuki rider “The most satisfying thing Federer, who is seeking a 100th negotiated John Isner’s huge Iannone, in which he was was to see the 70,000 in the career title. serves in the last-16. judged to have been riding stadium today applauding and “It was one of my best Meanwhile, Federer and irresponsibly and to have pleased with our performance,” matches, and what I’m happy Djokovic has won one set each got in the Italian’s way on a said Spalletti who praised about is that I was increasing in their semi final match at the sharp corner. Inter Milan’s Portuguese midfielder Joao Mario (C) runs with the ball Gagliardini’s attitude. my level, which shows that tine of closing.