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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016 SPORTS Dzeko adds to Roma woes ahead of Sassuolo trip MILAN: Misfiring Bosnian striker Edin injury lay-off. “Dzeko won’t be travelling Iago Falque his only available strikers. likely to be kept on a tight rein on 2 draw at the Stadio Olimpico. Dzeko has added to Roma’s injury crisis because he received a knock on Saturday Although Nigerian starlet Umar Sadiq Tuesday night. Spalletti said Sassuolo coach Eusebio after being ruled out of the matchday and it quickly flared up. To play him scored twice during a handful of appear- Sassuolo are enjoying a great season Di Francesco deserved praise for helping squad for their league trip to Sassuolo would be too risky,” said Spalletti yester- ances under Garcia, Spalletti played so far and sit in seventh place, 17 points raise the game’s standard in Italy. today. Roma claimed their first win in five day. down his possible inclusion. behind leaders Napoli but only a handful “He is one of the coaches who has league games with a 3-1 defeat of Totti came off the bench to replace “We only have Sadiq left to us as a of points adrift of the European places. helped improve our level of football,” Frosinone on Saturday, their first under Dzeko 14 minutes into the second half at lone striker. He doesn’t have great tech- Part of that success is down to their added Spalletti. new coach Luciano Spalletti. the weekend but has “a problem with his nique, but he knows how to get in formidable form at home, where they “Sassuolo, Fiorentina, Empoli and But Spalletti, in his second spell at gluteus”, according to Spalletti. “We’re behind the opposition defence,” said suffered their first defeat of the season to Napoli all have coaches who have made Roma following the recent sacking of monitoring his condition, but we’ll let Spalletti. Bologna eight days ago. At their Mapei significant contributions to our game. Rudi Garcia, faces a forwards crisis with the doctors decide if he can play,” he El Shaarawy hit his maiden Roma goal Stadium, Sassuolo have so far beaten “Sassuolo is a really organised club and club captain Francesco Totti ruled as said. It could force Spalletti into some on Saturday with a deft flick that he said Napoli, Lazio and Juventus and drawn everyone knows it. They’ve beaten a lot doubtful after suffering a muscle prob- last-minute tinkering, with on-loan AC was inspired by Sweden striker Zlatan with Fiorentina, and on their travels have of big teams and so they deserve to be lem on his comeback from a lengthy Milan forward Stephan El Shaarawy and Ibrahimovic, but the Italy international is beaten Inter Milan and held Roma to a 2- complimented.”— AFP In-form Rooney seeks to keep heat off Van Gaal LONDON: Wayne Rooney can help ease maintained their form since and sit three the pressure on beleaguered Manchester points clear of Manchester City and Arsenal United manager Louis van Gaal and move after 23 matches. closer to Bobby Charlton’s club scoring Arsenal, without a win in their last three record if he maintains his hot streak against league games, face Southampton at the Stoke City in the Premier League today. Emirates and their long injury list is finally United forgot their league woes on showing signs of shrinking with striker Friday when they won 3-1 at Championship Alexis Sanchez scoring in the 2-1 FA Cup side Derby County in the FA Cup with win over Burnley on Saturday. Rooney’s superb curling shot taking his tal- City, with 13 goals in their last four ly to six in six games and 243 for the club, league and Cup games face relegation- six behind Charlton. threatened Sunderland while Spurs, round- Van Gaal’s team return to league action ing out the top four on 42 points, will seek for the first time since losing 1-0 at home to to extend their 10-match unbeaten league Southampton, lying fifth in the table on 37 away run at Norwich. —Reuters points — 10 adrift of leaders Leicester City and five away from the top four. Leicester will continue their unlikely push for a first-ever title when they face 18- Matches on TV times champions Liverpool at the King (Local Timings) Power. Second-placed Manchester City go to Sunderland, third-placed Arsenal host English Premier League Southampton and fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur visit Norwich City. Arsenal v Southampton 22:45 The spotlight will be on Van Gaal, how- beIN SPORTS 2 HD ever, and Rooney is hoping he can take the Sunderland v Man City 22:45 heat off his Dutch manager when they face beIN SPORTS 3 HD a Stoke side managed by former United beIN SPORTS 2 HD striker Mark Hughes. Leicester v Liverpool 22:45 Stoke have lost all seven Premier League beIN SPORTS 11 HD matches they have played at Old Trafford beIN SPORTS 3 HD and have not won there for almost 40 years. West Ham v Aston Villa 22:45 beIN SPORTS 8 HD MADRID: Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, right, heads the ball to score his side’s fifth goal past Espanyol’s Giedrius Arlauskis “Arla” during the CLUB RECORD Norwich City v Tottenham 22:45 Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Espanyol at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Sunday. Ronaldo scored a hat- Rooney overtook Charlton’s record of 49 beIN SPORTS 5 HD trick in Real Madrid’s 6-0 victory. —AP goals for England this season and he told beIN SPORTS 11 HD the United website (www.manutd.com) he Man United v Stoke City 23:00 could not help but have one eye on the beIN SPORTS 7 HD Ronaldo hits 35th hat-trick club record now. West Bromwich v Swansea City23:00 “Of course, I’m well aware of it” he said. beIN SPORTS 9 HD “Like the England record, when it was Crystal Palace v Bournemouth 23:00 getting closer, it was coming up every as Real crush Espanyol week, so I’m sure it will now.” Rooney said it beIN SPORTS 13 HD beIN SPORTS 2 HD was unfair to lay all the blame for the MADRID: Prolific Cristiano Ronaldo hit a 35th 19 goals with Barcelona’s Luis Suarez. season.” Valencia manager Gary Neville’s wait for team’s struggles on the manager. Italian Calcio League hat-trick for Real Madrid who swept aside Espanyol’s misery was complete with an own- a first La Liga win continued after a 1-0 home “The players have to take a lot of Espanyol 6-0 in a ruthless attacking display in La goal from Oscar Duarte. defeat by lowly Sporting Gijon. responsibility for performances and results,” Sassuolo Calcio v AS Roma 22:45 Liga on Sunday. Barca are three points clear, on 51 points, Former England and Manchester United he said. beIN SPORTS 4 HD The Portuguese led the way as Real sought to after their 2-1 victory in the top of the table defender Neville, who took on his first head “We have to stand up and take criticism keep in the title chase after an inconsistent sea- clash with Atletico Madrid on Saturday. coaching job at the start of December, has gone when it’s there.” French League son so far that still leaves them in third place, Ronaldo gave his backing to coach Zinedine eight league games without a victory. Leicester have confounded expectations AS Monaco v Bastia 21:00 four points behind leaders Barcelona. Zidane with the side having scored 16 goals in Valencia have slipped to 12th place and have to move to top spot, losing only twice in beIN SPORTS 6 HD Karim Benzema headed in a whipped cross three home games since he took over from Rafa not won in 11 La Liga games in total, including the league all season. Liverpool inflicted from James Rodriguez after seven minutes and Benitez. under previous coach Nuno Espirito Santo, their their last league defeat with a 1-0 win at Montpellier v Olympique 23:00 beIN SPORTS 6 HD then Ronaldo won and struck home a penalty. “Zidane is doing well and you can see the worst run since 1986. Anfield on Boxing Day, but Leicester have A Rodriguez strike was deflected in after 16 results on the pitch,” Ronaldo told reporters. Antonio Sanabria’s 50th-minute penalty gave minutes and Ronaldo showed a sublime touch “Zidane has come with a different idea of Sporting victory. to beat two players and curl a 20 yard shot into work and the atmosphere is better. We are win- Kevin Gameiro, Vicente Iborra and Yevhen the corner before halftime. ning by big margins. Konoplyanka were on target for in-form Sevilla Ronaldo headed in from close range after 82 “We will keeping chasing Barcelona and who moved up to fifth with a 3-1 victory over Milan stun Inter minutes and is now joint top scorer in La Liga on Atletico, and see where we are at the end of the Levante. —Reuters in derby thriller MILAN: Carlos Bacca and M’Baye Niang hit and ended up doing what I did,” he said, “I Guardiola to succeed second half goals as AC Milan ended their don’t agree with a lot of the referee’s deci- long wait to celebrate victory in the city sions tonight, some of them were disas- derby with a crushing 3-0 win over Inter trous. In saying that, we lost 3-0 and so we Milan on Sunday.