SPORTS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2013 Giggs confident of United revival Matches on TV MANCHESTER: believes “We’ll get a better idea in the new year calf problem. (Local Timings) December gives Manchester United the and hopefully we can start picking up points United can at least draw confidence from opportunity to get back into the title race as again. We’ve had a few disappointing results the fact they have not been beaten at home ENGLISH David Moyes’s team prepare to face but the performances have not been that by Newcastle since 1972. Newcastle. United slipped to ninth in the bad,” said Giggs. “We’re just not getting the revealed how his Newcastle squad was left Man United v Newcastle 15:45 Premier League after suffering a fourth loss of rub of the green or taking our chances when shaken after their return flight following the Aljazeera Sport 1 HD the season with the 1-0 defeat by Everton on we should. If you don’t do that, you are going defeat at Swansea was hit by severe turbu- Wednesday. The Old Trafford side, who won to get punished like we did against Everton. lence as storms battered much of Britain. Southampton v Man City 18:00 a 20th league title last season, are now 12 “It’s a quick turnaround but we’ve got to pick The north-east club travel by aeroplane to Aljazeera Sport 1 HD points behind leaders Arsenal. Although the ourselves up. We cannot feel sorry for our- all but one of their away league games due end of United’s 12-match unbeaten run, selves for too long. It’s a home game and to the distances involved. “It was a little bit Sunderland v Tottenham 20:30 against Moyes’s former club, is a significant hopefully it will be a different result,” he hairy and there was a bit of applause at the Aljazeera Sport 1 HD setback, the coming weeks offer the champi- added of today’s match at home to back of the plane when we landed,” said ons plenty of opportunities. Newcastle. Pardew. After hosting Newcastle, United play “We need to get on a run, before this we The 3-0 defeat at Swansea’s Liberty ITALIAN LEAGUE Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League were on a 12-game unbeaten run. We have Stadium ended a run of four consecutive and also face Stoke in the League Cup during to get over this disappointment now.” The victories for Newcastle. “We’re expecting a AS Livorno v AC Milan 20:00 a run of league games up to the turn of the champions’ hopes of solving their problems reaction from Manchester United after their year that include meetings with Aston Villa, in front of goal against Newcastle are not loss,” said Pardew, who has an injury doubt Aljazeera Sport 3 HD West Ham, Hull and Norwich. United veteran helped by the fact that is over Senegal forward Papiss Cisse (heel). “I Napoli v Udinese 22:45 Giggs, who recently turned 40, feels a lack of absent through suspension. Moyes also said think they’d gone 12 unbeaten before that composure in front of goal is a key reason for after the Everton defeat he is unsure when so it’s not as though they’re in crisis after Aljazeera Sport 3 HD the club’s recent problems. But the player- star , who has been out one result, but there is a little bit of pressure coach maintains it would be wrong to write since November 10, will return from a groin on them and we’ve got to try and capitalize off United’s title chances before the new year. injury, while Michael Carrick is still out with a on that.” —AFP GERMAN LEAGUE Stuttgart v 17:30 Cardiff’s IPO hits Rodgers wants Suarez Dubai Sport Hamburger v Augsburg 17:30 snag in Malaysia to remain at Liverpool Dubai Sport KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian billionaire Vincent Werder Bremen v Bayern 17:30 Tan could list British football team Cardiff City LIVERPOOL: Brendan Rodgers does not believe pre-season move to West Ham in the summer. Dubai Sport in Singapore next year after plans for a Liverpool need to finish in the top four of the Premier “West Ham will be a difficult team to play against, Malaysian IPO hit a regulatory snag over the League to ensure Luis Suarez remains at the club. they have talented players like Stewart Downing,” E Frankfurt v Hoffenheim 17:30 team’s weak cash flow, people with direct Suarez netted four sublime goals on Wednesday to Rodgers added. “We just need to finish the week on a knowledge of the matter said. The Welsh team, help Liverpool easily dispatch Norwich 5-1 and they high and get to 30 points that has been the aim. Thus Dubai Sport which is now in 15th place out of 20 in the cur- are now preparing to welcome West Ham to Anfield far at home in 2013, we have been exceptional.” The Borussia M v Schalke 17:30 rent Premier League season, may list on on Saturday knowing they have a world-class player relief that followed the home victory over fellow Singapore’s small-cap Catalist exchange, the brimming with confidence. Uruguay forward Suarez strugglers Fulham last weekend quickly disappeared Dubai Sport sources said. will have only two years left in his contract when this when Sam Allardyce’s West Ham side lost at Crystal Borussia Dortmund v Bayer 04 20:30 The deal - the size of which has not been season ends and wanted to leave Anfield in pre-sea- Palace, allowing the Selhurst Park club to move off determined - would follow Manchester son in a bid to get Champions League football only the foot of the table. Dubai Sport United’s $233.2 million listing on the New York for Liverpool to reject two bids from Arsenal. After experiencing such disappointment, a visit to Stock Exchange in 2012, the largest sports Liverpool sit fourth in the Premier League head- face an in-form Suarez is that last thing West Ham team initial public offering (IPO) ever. “They are ing into this weekend’s fixtures and their early-sea- need but centre back James Tomkins insists his side FRENCH LEAGUE appealing to Malaysia’s Securities Commission son form has many believing they can remain in the will travel to Anfield without fear. “Everybody defi- but it seems they are not proceeding any- battle to reach the Champions League. But Rodgers nitely wants to play against the top players and it’s Paris Saint-Germain v Sochaux 19:00 more,” one of the people said, declining to be insists it will not be pivotal in keeping their star man, no different for myself,” said Tomkins. “That’s how Aljazeera Sport 5 HD identified as details of the deal remain confi- who has scored 13 Premier League goals so far you test yourself, by playing against world-class play- dential. Tan, who owns 36.1 percent of the despite missing five games through suspension, at ers, and that’s what Liverpool have got. “We know Saint Etienne v Evian Thonon 22:00 club, had initially planned for an IPO this year the club despite the striker’s pre-season pleas. “Luis is we have got a good away result this season at Spurs, Aljazeera Sport +1 on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, but extremely happy here at Liverpool,” Rodgers said. so we know it can happen against a team like Cardiff City’s negative operating cash flow has “We don’t want to regurgitate everything from the Liverpool. Lorient v Stade Rennes 22:00 fallen short of the exchange’s minimum past. That was a difficult summer for everyone. We “They are doing well, but they are certainly a Aljazeera Sport 5 HD requirements, the sources said. Local bank stood firm as a club. He understood where we were team we can beat on our day, don’t get me wrong. CIMB is expected to lead the listing. Tan, a for- at. Our thinking was to keep our best players. We’re going to stay positive for the weekend.” The Valenciennes v Guingamp 22:00 mer chairman of local conglomerate Berjaya “Hopefully, he certainly feels he is vindicated for stay- return of striker Andy Carroll to training at the club Aljazeera Sport +2 Group, was not available for comment and ing. This is the perfect club for him, the whole profile after three months rehabilitation in Belgium and the requests by Reuters for comment from his pub- suits Luis down to the ground and hopefully in the Netherlands has provided a timely boost. Former lic relations department were not answered. coming years he can achieve everything he wants to Liverpool forward Carroll is still some way short of a SPAIN COPA DEL REY Officials at the Securities Commission were also achieve, which is to play at the top level of the game. return to action but he said: “It has been a long, hard not immediately available for comment. His talent deserves that and this is a club that process but now I can see the light at the end of the Cartagena v Barcelona 0:00 deserves that.” The Reds will be looking for their fifth tunnel. “It felt great to be out on the pitch jogging IN THE TOP LEAGUE straight home win on Saturday as Stewart Downing and kicking a ball in the open air, even if it was a bit Aljazeera Sport +8 Tan, Malaysia’s ninth-richest person with a returns to Anfield for the first time since his £5 million cold!” —AFP net worth of $1.3 billion according to Forbes, Aljazeera Sport 2 HD bought the stake in Cardiff City for an undis- Sant Andreu v Atletico Madrid 18:00 closed sum in 2010. He helped finance the Cahill has faith in Chelsea resolve team, managed by Malky Mackay and popular- Aljazeera Sport 2 HD : Gary Cahill reckons Chelsea are show- believes his side is now showing the resilience to ly known as the Bluebirds, to get into Britain’s Girona v Getafe 20:00 top football league last year for the first time in ing the character required to pull off a second pull off the away victories that could determine half a century. successive away victory at Stoke City today and the destiny of the title. Aljazeera Sport 4 HD so increase the pressure on Premier League lead- “It’s something that we have spoken about Promotion to the Premier League is esti- Celta v Athletic de Bilbao 22:00 mated to be worth at least 120 million pounds ers Arsenal. Jose Mourinho’s side came from before and it’s something that we have looked to ($196 million) to a club in the first five years behind at Sunderland on Wednesday to pull off a address,” said the England defender. “Our home Aljazeera Sport 4 HD thanks to lucrative television rights deals. 4-3 victory that kept them in second place, four form has been so good and if we can do the same Olimpic Xativa v Real Madrid 0:00 Although revenues will rise, clubs like Cardiff points behind London rivals Arsenal. With Arsene away as we have done at home then it will be need to invest heavily in new players to ensure Wenger’s side due to face in-form Everton at great. “We went behind against Sunderland early Aljazeera Sport 2 HD they are competitive. The Cardiff City IPO home 24 hours after Chelsea have visited the on and it’s not ideal, but again we showed char- would follow Tan’s listing of two companies Britannia Stadium, the clash with Stoke presents acter. It was a tough game, especially after (play- Recreativo de Huelva v Levante 0:00 this year which raised a combined 100 million an opportunity for the Blues to close the gap, ing Southampton on) tomorrow, but it’s all about Aljazeera Sport +2 ringgit ($31 million). —Reuters however temporarily. And after struggling on the trying to win games and we did that in the end, road at times this season, centre-back Cahill so we’re pleased.” —AFP