18 Sunday, March 10, 2019 Sports AL DUHAIL & RAYYAN PREPARE FOR AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCHES Youssef El Arabi (centre) with Mehdi Benatia and teammates during a training session at the club’s training ground in Duhail on Al Rayyan players with their trainer during the team’s practice session at Al Rayyan stadium in Doha on Saturday, Saturday. Al Duhail face Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia in their AFC Champions League match in Riyadh on Tuesday. ahead of their AFC Champions League Group B match against Locomotic of Uzbekistan on Monday. Bayern go top with Saints stun Spurs, big victory, Dortmund Newcastle win also win to stay close AFP DPA LONDON BERLIN TOTTenham’s winless run in BAYERN Munich went top of the Premier League stretched the Bundesliga on goal differ- to four games as Mauricio Po- ence after a 6-0 home thrash- chettino’s men threw away an ing of Wolfsburg on Saturday early lead through Harry Kane as long-time leaders Borussia to lose 2-1 at Southampton on Dortmund scraped a 3-1 home Saturday. The Saints’ spirited win over VfB Stuttgart. second-half comeback ensured Dortmund had been top of they remain two points above the Bundesliga since matchday the relegation zone despite Car- six but a run of just one win diff’s 2-0 win over West Ham. in their previous five leagues Brighton also boosted their games has allowed Bayern to survival hopes thanks to Antho- overhaul what was a 9-point ny Knockaert’s brilliant strike to gap. win 2-1 at Crystal Palace, while With just nine games left Newcastle battled back from 2-0 and a meeting between the down to beat Everton 3-2. sides in Munich on April 6, Despite their poor domestic Bayern now look favourites form of late, Spurs were boosted for a seventh straight title af- by victory at Borussia Dort- ter Serge Gnabry, Robert Le- mund in midweek to reach the wandowski (2), James Rod- quarter-finals of the Champions riguez, Thomas Mueller and League. But Tottenham are now Joshua Kimmich all got on the in grave danger of missing out scoresheet. on Champions League football Dortmund prevailed Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski during the German Bundesliga match next season. Pochettino’s side thanks to a scrappy Paco Al- in Munich on Saturday. (AFP) remain in third but their lead Southampton’s James Ward-Prowse (left) celebrates scoring his team’s second goal during the English cacer goal on 84 minutes and a over Manchester United, Arse- Premier League match at St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton on Saturday. (AFP) late Christian Pulisic strike af- Bayern, who host Liverpool League exit to Tottenham Hot- nal and Chelsea is a precarious ter Marc-Oliver Kempf’s head- in their Champions League spur, and it showed. one with all three chasers in ac- Brendan Rodgers secured er cancelled out a Marco Reus last 16 second leg on Wednes- Spain forward Alcacer was tion on Sunday. his first win as Leicester boss penalty. day with the score locked at drafted into Dortmund’s start- Dele Alli made his return af- thanks to Jamie Vardy’s second- In Saturday’s other two 0-0, soon doubled their lead ing line-up to try to boost their ter seven weeks out with a ham- half double to beat Fulham 3-1, early kick-offs, third-placed RB through Lewandowski after a attacking verve from the off, string injury and the England who are now 13 points adrift of Leipzig drew 0-0 with Augs- flowing move. but the hosts barely mustered international duo combined to safety. burg and Freiburg beat Hertha He went ahead of Werder a chance in the first quarter of great effect for Kane’s opener Huddersfield also look dead Berlin 2-1. Bremen’s Claudio Pizarro as the game. on 26 minutes. and buried as Bournemouth Borussia Moenchenglad- the Bundesliga’s all-time top Mario Goetze shot well Kane freed Alli in behind cruised to their first away win bach, in the fourth and final non-German scorer. over before Stuttgart’s Nicolas the Southampton defence and since October with a 2-0 victory Champions League spot, visit James curled in a delightful Gonzalez fluffed arguably the he then returned the favour to at the John Smith’s Stadium. Mainz in the late game. third early in the second half as best chance of the first period. pick out the England captain Callum Wilson opened the Bayern, who started with rampant Bayern embarrassed a England winger Jadon Sancho at the back post, who con- scoring on his return from a Mats Hummels, Jerome seventh-placed Wolfsburg side then went close as Dortmund trolled and slotted low past two-month injury layoff to aid Boateng and Mueller in the otherwise enjoying a surpris- gradually improved in the rain. Angus Gunn for his 200th ca- his chances of making Gareth week they were permanently ingly strong season. It was Sancho who was reer goal. Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy celebrates scoring a goal during the Premier Southgate’s England squad lat- axed from the Germany set- Mueller then got a deserved felled for the penalty on the However, Spurs wasteful- League match at King Power Stadium in Leicester on Saturday. (AFP) er this week before Ryan Fraser up, have now won five on the goal with a cute finish, Kim- hour and Reus dispatched ness in failing to add to their doubled the Cherries’ advan- bounce in the Bundesliga. mich scored on 82 minutes and it with aplomb, but instead lead came back to cost them as a stunning free-kick curled into Pickford pulled down Salomon tage 24 minutes from time. Coach Niko Kovac over- Lewandowski completed the of kicking on Dortmund left Southampton improved after the top corner to leave Hugo Rondon. A penalty was award- Cardiff, though, gave them- came a sticky spell at the be- rout soon after to take his tally themselves exposed. the break and secured a vital Lloris helpless. ed, but the England number selves hope as early goals in each ginning of his first season in to 197 Bundesliga goals. Former Dortmund mid- three points in their attempt to Newcastle remain six points one was not sent-off and then half from Junior Hoilett and charge to reel in and overtake Rivals Dortmund in con- fielder Gonzalo Castro sent in beat the drop. above the relegation zone and saved Matt Ritchie’s resulting Victor Camarasa gave the Welsh Dortmund, with Saturday’s trast put on another nervous a teasing free-kick and Kempf Fresh from scoring his first moved up to 13th thanks to a spot-kick. side a precious three points over display easily their best of the display at home to a Stuttgart was allowed the space to power professional goal away to Man- thrilling fightback of their own Richarlison soon put Ever- a hugely disappointing West season. team in the relegation play-off in a header on 71 minutes. chester United last weekend, to beat Everton. ton 2-0 in front, but Newcastle Ham. Mueller quickly showed spot. Alcacer eventually spared right-back Yan Valery levelled Dominic Calvert-Lewin struck three times in 19 second- Brighton also secured a he is still of use in Bavaria by In all competitions, Lucien Dortmund’s blushes following from Stuart Armstrong’s cross. put the visitors in front on 18 half minutes through Rondon much-needed win to move level squaring for Gnabry to poke in Favre’s side had managed only a spot of pinball in the box and James Ward-Prowse then minutes before a moment of and Ayoze Perez’s double for a on points with rivals Palace, five amid indecisive Wolfsburg de- one win in their last eight out- Pulisic’s injury-time goal flat- completed the comeback with high controversy when Jordan deserved win. above the drop zone. fending on 34 minutes. ings, including a Champions tered the hosts. Women In Sport Qatar, new association set up to shine spotlight on women TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK mal meeting, brought together social and professional net- move closer to the staging of the DOHA both local and international res- working group for women IAAF World Championships ident female professionals who working and playing in sport and the 2022 World Cup, it is FOR the first time in Qatar, a all work in the field of sport. in Qatar and was conceived by increasingly evident that Qatar newly-formed association for Many of the women hold Karen Webb Moss who was a also can, and should be, proud women working in sport has senior positions in sport and co-founder of the successful of the many impressive women been launched. together, they represented or- Women in Sport network set up now leading and working in the The roll out of the initiative ganisations such as the Qatar in the UK in the run up to the business of sport. was held at the Shangri-La Ho- Olympic Committee (QOC), London 2012 Games and who Our association aims to tel, Doha and coincided with the Aspire, Aspetar, Al Jazeera, now lives and works in Qatar as bring together a network of International Women’s Day, Qatar Women’s Sport Com- the ICSS Group Chief Operating women living here in Qatar who celebrated annually on the 8th mittee, local sport event man- Officer. are from diverse cultures and of March. This new group, to agement companies and the Speaking at the event, Ka- backgrounds but who all have be named Women n Sport Qa- International Centre for Sport ren Webb Moss, said: “As Qa- a common personal or profes- tar (WISQ), has met for the first Security (ICSS).