SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2018 16 United fightback with star midfielder Paul Pogba when he walked to the bench on for McTominay. English Premier League The Red Devils and several other key players. before kick-off, squirting a tel- United finally responded to • A report on Friday evening evision camera with a water Mourinho in the second half, Burnley 1 - 1 Huddersfield Town come from behind to claimed United’s hierarchy bottle, and within seven min- playing with far more passion as Crystal Palace 0 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers give under-pressure had lost patience with the tox- utes the mood turned even more Mata reduced the deficit with a Leicester City 1 - 2 Everton manager victory ic atmosphere and would sack fractious. fine 70th minute free-kick be- Mourinho regardless of the United fell behind when Ke- fore Martial fired the equaliser Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Cardiff City Sanchez seals Newcastle result. nedy parted Mourinho’s de - six minutes later. Watford 0 - 4 Bournemouth • But senior United sources fence with alarming ease, run- That set the stage for Sanchez Manchester United 3 - 2 Newcastle United dramatic comeback strongly denied the suggestion ning onto Ayoze Perez’s pass to apply the finishing touch in against Newcastle Mourinho would be dismissed and turning away from Ashley the 90th minute as Mourinho this weekend, insisting he re- Young before firing home as celebrated while his name was English Championship Eric Dier fires tains the board’s support follow- Mourinho gestured furiously sung by relieved United fans at Leeds United 1 - 1 Brentford Tottenham• to 1-0 ing a series of abysmal results. on the touchline. full-time. Birmingham City 3 - 1 Rotherham United Despite that vote of confi - There was worse to come for victory over Cardiff dence, it was looking increas- Mourinho three minutes later Spurs move third Middlesbrough 0 - 2 Nottingham Forest ingly bleak for Mourinho when as Newcastle punished more At Wembley, Tottenham recov- Millwall 2 - 1 Aston Villa AFP | London winless Newcastle raced into a shambolic defending, Young and ered from Wednesday’s damag- Norwich City 0 - 1 Stoke City two-goal in the first 10 minutes his team-mates failing to get in ing 4-2 Champions League loss ose Mourinho was giv - at Old Trafford. a challenge as Japanese forward to Barcelona. Preston North End 4 - 0 Wigan Athletic en a stay of execution as But the Red Devils clicked into Yoshinori Muto scored on his Lionel Messi had tormented Queens Park Rangers 1 - 1 Derby County JManchester United staged gear and Chile forward Sanchez, first Premier League start. Tottenham with a mesmerising Sheffield United 1 - 0 Hull City a stirring fightback to beat who had been dropped by Mour- Rafael Benitez’s side were the display, capped by two goals, Newcastle 3-2 thanks to Alex- inho, came off the bench to bag first visiting team ever to score that left the north Londoners in Swansea City 2 - 3 Ipswich Town is Sanchez’s last-gasp winner, the winner after goals from two goals in the first 10 min - danger of missing the knockout West Bromwich 4 - 1 Reading while Tottenham recovered Juan Mata and Anthony Martial utes of a Premier stage. Bolton Wanderers 0 - 1 Blackburn Rovers from their European misery dragged the hosts level. League game at But Mauricio Pochettino’s side with a 1-0 victory over Cardiff United’s first win in five Old Trafford. made amends against Cardiff yesterday. games in all competitions Mourinho to move into third place in the Italian Serie A Mourinho had pre- could buy Mourinho some responded table. Cagliari 2 - 0 Bologna sided over United’s much-needed breathing by making a Cardiff boss Neil Warnock Udinese 0 - 2 Juventus worst seven-game space heading into the bizarre 19th joked he would play 10 defend- start to a season for international break. minute sub- ers in a bid to stifle Tottenham Empoli 10 1 Roma 29 years amid the Mourinho was in stitution as and he might have regretted not breakdown of his typically combat- he hauled off doing exactly that as the hosts German Bundesliga relationship ive mood defender Eric went in front after eight min- 1. FSV Mainz 05 0 - 0 Hertha BSC Bailly -- one of utes. the group said to Davinson Sanchez saw his Borussia Dortmund 4 - 3 FC Augsburg be unhappy with header blocked by Joe Bennett Fortuna Dusseldorf 0 - 2 FC Schalke 04 the manager -- and and the ball span into the path of Hannover 96 3 - 1 VfB Stuttgart sent on Mata, once Eric Dier, who swept home from again moving close-range for his first club goal Bayern Munich 0 - 3 Borussia Monchengladbach young midfield- since April 2017. Cardiff were reduced to 10 Spanish La Liga men when Joe Ralls was sent off for chopping down Lucas Moura Girona 2 - 3 Eibar in the 58th minute, with War- Getafe 0 - 1 Levante nock incensed after Tottenham’s Alaves 0 - 0 Real Madrid players, including England cap- tain Harry Kane, surrounded Leganes 1 - 0 v.Rayo Vallecano the referee to demand a red Alexis Sanchez celebrates card. French Ligue 1 scoring the third “I don’t think it helped being Lille 3 - 1 St Etienne surrounded by 15 white shirts. I er Scott McTominay to play don’t think he (Kane) needs to Amiens 1 - 0 Dijon at centre-back. do that,” Warnock moaned. Angers 1 - 2 Strasbourg Jeers rang around Old Traf- “After Barcelona on Wednes- Guingamp 1 - 1 Montpellier ford at half-time and Mourinho, day, the most important thing looking increasingly desperate, was to win. We created a lot of Nîmes 0 - 0 Reims made more changes at the inter- chances but we didn’t kill the val with Marouane Fellaini sent game,” Pochettino said. *Scores as of closing Ronaldo scores to keep Juventus perfect Real Madrid slip to AFP | Udine, Italy claims by former American dren waiting for the team buses, model Kathryn Mayorga that with one child running onto the ristiano Ronaldo shrugged the five-time Ballon d’Or winner pitch during warm-up to ask for shock Alaves defeat Coff damaging rape allega- raped her in a Las Vegas hotel in his autograph. tions to score for Juventus as June 2009. “Stronger than the mud,” AFP | Vitoria, Spain Karim Benzema, out of form the Serie A champions beat Ronaldo has strenuously de- headlined Turin daily Tutto- and bereft of confidence, was Udinese 2-0 under the rain in nied the accusations, and Ju- sport, a traditional backer of eal Madrid sank to a shock off too after being substituted northeastern Italy to stretch ventus have so far stood behind Juventus, above a photograph R1-0 defeat by Alaves yester- at half-time but it was Thi - their lead at the top of Serie A the player who moved to Turin of Ronaldo dining with the team day after a 95th-minute win- baut Courtois at fault for the yesterday. in the summer in a 100 million this week, and a bigger picture ner from Manu Garcia con - goal. He came for the cross but The Portuguese forward euro ($115 million) deal from of the star smiling. signed the European champi- failed to claim. lashed in the second goal after Real Madrid. “CRSexe,” was the front-page ons to a fourth game without It means Barcelona can go 37 minutes from the left follow- “It could have been a risky headline on Rome-based Corri- victory. three points clear if they win ing a cross from Croatia’s Mario game, but we showed great ma- ere dello Sport yesterday, refer- It is four games without a their game in hand against Va- Mandzukic, four minutes after turity and determination,” said ring to the allegations. Another goal too for Julen Lopetegui’s lencia on Sunday while Alaves’ Rodrigo Bentancur’s opener. Juventus coach Massimiliano headline said “World of Juve side, their longest scoring excellent start to the season It was Ronaldo’s fourth goal Allegri. shaken” after the club’s share drought since 1985, as Gar- continues. They move up to this season for Juventus, with price plunged almost 10 percent cia headed home to send the third, level on points with the 33-year-old celebrating ‘Stronger than the mud’ on Friday. Mendizorrotza Stadium wild. Real. wildly with his teammates, as With the eyes on the world Ronaldo has hired David Alaves fans ran onto the Lopetegui had been asked Juventus claimed their tenth on Ronaldo the match against Chesnoff, known as the lawyer pitch to celebrate their famous on Friday if he felt under pres- consecutive win in all compe- lowly Udinese in a small town of the stars, to defend him. win and the chants continued sure at the club he left Spain titions. not far from the border with The Las Vegas-based crimi- long after the final whistle for on the eve of the World Juventus -- with a maximum Slovenia, attracted journalists nal lawyer has already worked blew. Cup. Talk of change is per - 24 points from eight Serie A Juventus’ Portuguese forward Cristiano from as far afield as China. with well-known athletes like For Madrid this was another haps premature but it will games -- also opened up a nine- Ronaldo drives the ball But the ‘Ronaldo affair’ ap- Shaquille O’Neal, Mike Tyson body blow and to make matters certainly increase if Madrid point lead on second-placed peared to have in no way and Andre Agassi. worse, Gareth Bale, their chief cannot find fluency soon and, Napoli who host Sassuolo on sations made against him and dented the player’s popularity After initially dismissing the forward threat, had hobbled in particular, if Barca pull Sunday. which threaten his multi-mil- among the fans who packed the rape accusations as “fake news” off injured late on. He missed away. The superstar showed no sign lion euro sporting empire. 25,000-seater Stadio Friuli. on Instagram, Ronaldo took to the Champions League loss The Clasico at the Camp of the immense pressure he is US police on Monday re- He was greeted by the enthu- social media during the week to to CSKA Moscow on Tuesday Nou looms at the end of the under amid damaging accu - opened an investigation into siastic cries of dozens of chil- “firmly deny” the accusations. with a groin strain. month.