Sport WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2020 Djokovic wins opener in Vienna, edges closer to Sampras record A few points here and there can change the momentum of the match. In the second set, I stepped it up, I played better against Filip Krajinovic and I am just pleased with the way I finished the match. Novak Djokovic Sport |08 VUELTA A ESPANA LEADERS: STAGE 7 Michael Woods (CAN) 3hrs 48mins 16sec, OVERALL: Richard Carapaz (ECU) 28hrs 23min 51 sec Bayern Munich’s German midfielder Leon Goretzka scoring his team's first goal against Lokomotiv Moscow yesterday. Liverpool and City claim victories as Real snatch a draw Bayern extend winning run in CL REUTERS – MOSCOW Barcelona Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich volleyed in a President 79th-minute winner yesterday as they battled past hosts Loko- resigns motiv Moscow 2-1 in their Champions League Group A REUTERS – BARCELON match to extend their record winning run in the competition YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Barcelona president Josep to 13 consecutive games. GROUP STAGE Maria Bartomeu resigned from Leon Goretzka headed the club yesterday ahead of a them in front in the 13th minute FC Bayern Munich 2-1 Lokomotiv vote of no confidence that was but they squandered a string Moscow due to be held next month of chances to double their lead Shakhtar Donetsk 0-0 Inter Milan after some 20,000 fans signed and also hit the post before Atlético Madrid 3-2 Red Bull a petition demanding that he Anton Miranchuk punished Salzburg step down. their wastefulness following a The rest of the board of Borussia M’gladbach 2-2 Real quick break from Ze Luis. directors also resigned. Bayern, winners of five tro- Madrid "It's a thought-out, serene, phies in 2020, are top of their Olympique de Marseille 0-3 informed decision" to resign, group on six points, after also Manchester City Bartomeu said in a televised beating Atletico Madrid 4-0 last FC Porto 2-0 Olympiacos speech. week in their opener. Atalanta 2-2 Ajax Bartomeu, 57, has been fac- The Russians, who have Liverpool’s Portuguese striker Diogo Jota (right) ing growing resentment in the Liverpool FC 2-0 Midtjylland one point, had the first good shoots to score against Midtjylland yesterday. last year due to the club’s wors- chance through Fyodor ening finances and the team’s Smolov’s third-minute header decline on the pitch, which came but Bayern’s Goretzka did and with his back to the goal, Pep Guardiola's side stayed top the European tournament on Also yesterday, Real Madrid to a head with their 8-2 defeat better, heading in a perfect flicked it up, pivoted and vol- of the standings on six points, November 3. scored two goals in the final to bayern Munich in the Cham- Benjamin Pavard cross. leyed in the winner. three ahead of Porto and Also yesterday, lacklustre minutes to rescue a 2-2 draw pions League quarter-finals in Kingsley Coman then Bayern next visit Salzburg Olympiakos. Liverpool beat Midtjylland 2-0 at Borussia Moenchengladbach August. He has been widely crit- struck the foot of the post 10 while Lokomotiv, who have Marseille are bottom of the yesterday to make it two wins in their Champions League icised after talisman forward minutes later after an identical lost six of their last seven home table on zero points after their out of two in the Champions Group B match and snap a Lionel Messi requested a trans- assist from Pavard with the games in the Champions 10th consecutive loss in the League but their defensive three-game losing run in the fer following the Champions Russians clearly struggling League group stage, host competition since two defeats problems mounted as Fabinho competition. League humiliation and was with Bayern’s pace down the Atletico. in the quarter-finals against limped off injured. Marcus Thuram fired in for facing a vote of no confidence wings. Meanwhile, Manchester Bayern Munich in 2012 and The Premier League cham- the lead with the hosts' first from the club's 'socios'. Kimmich should have done City were barely troubled as after six defeats in the group pions were toothless in the first chance of the game in the 33rd He had tried to convince the better when he fired at a they claimed their second stage in 2013-14, in their last half but finally clicked 10 minute and tapped in on the Catalan government to scrap the defender from two metres out victory in Champions League appearance. minutes after the break when rebound in the 58th just as censure vote due to the corona- early in the second half but the Group C by beating Olympique OM, who lost 1-0 at Olym- the impressive Trent Alex- Real were pushing for an virus pandemic but it would not midfielder then made amends de Marseille 3-0 at the Stade piakos on their return to the ander-Arnold set up Diogo Jota equaliser. budge. Bartomeu called the gov- 11 minutes from the end. Velodrome, yesterday. Champions League after a for a tap-in. But Karim Benzema cut the ernment's decision irresponsible With Lokomotiv pressing Ferran Torres, Ilkay Gun- seven-year hiatus, travel to A late penalty scored by sub- deficit in the 87th minute and in his speech, while thanking for a second goal, he picked up dogan and Raheem Sterling Porto and City host Olympiakos stitute Mohamed Salah gave the Casemiro got the equaliser in the club and saying he could not the ball on the edge of the box found the back of the net as in the next round of matches of scoreline unwarranted gloss. stoppage time. have resigned earlier. Sprint star Coleman to miss Olympics after 2-year ban AFP – PARIS Olympic Games in Japan, where he However, Coleman had success- by bank statementsents and receipts.receipts. would have been among the favourites fully argued that the first missed case “I was morere than ready and World champion sprinter Christian to win 100m gold. should have been backdated to the available for testingesting and if I had Coleman (pictured) is set to miss next Coleman, who is also the 60m first day of the quarter -- April 1, 2018 received a phonee call I could’ve taken year’s Tokyo Olympics after being world record holder, only ran in the -- meaning the three failures fell just the drug test andd carried on with my banned from athletics for two years 4x100m relay heats in his first Olympic outside the required 12-month period. night,” he said. for anti-doping violations, the appearance in Rio de Janeiro four But now the missed test on Coleman lastt competedcompeted at Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) years ago. December 9, 2019, added to the two the US Indoor Champion-hampion- announced yesterday. The AIU charged Coleman for failures in January and April, have ships in February,bruary, The American, who won the men’s missed tests in January and December seen Coleman suspended. running a world-world- 100 metres at last year’s World Cham- 2019, as well as for a “filing failure” “I think the attempt on December leading 6.37 secondsonds pionships in Doha, was provisionally last April. 9th was a purposeful attempt to get in the 60m, justjust suspended for three ‘whereabouts To prove an anti-doping violation, me to miss a test,” Coleman said after three hundredthsths failures’ in June. an athlete has to have committed three he was charged in June. of a second slowerwer World Athletics’ Disciplinary Tri- whereabouts failures within 12 “Don’t tell me I ‘missed’ a test if than his worldld bunal upheld the charge and banned months. you sneak up on my door (parked record. Coleman for two years, backdated to Coleman previously escaped sus- outside the gate and walked through... He alsoo 14 May, 2020. pension on a technicality ahead of last there’s no record of anyone coming posted the bestt The 24-year-old has 30 days to September’s World Championships. to my place) without my knowledge.” 100m time lastt appeal the decision at the Court of Those three whereabouts failures Coleman said testers had visited year -- thee Arbitration for Sport. were recorded on June 6, 2018, when he was out shopping for 9.76sec he ran toto He is set to miss next year’s January 16, 2019 and April 26, 2019. Christmas presents nearby, verifiable win the world title.le. WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2020 SPORT 11 Al Sadd's Rodrigo Tabata celebrating after scoring against QSL: Al Sadd's goal fest Al Ahli on Sunday. the highlight of Round 5 THE PENINSULA – DOHA last places following Al Sadd's 7-1 hammering of Al Ahli lifts the result. Al Sadd's 7-1 hammering of Al Ahli was the high- the former champions to the top of the Al Sailiya made it light of Round 5 of the QNB Stars league this big as they beat Al weekend. QSL standings as the League heads to a Gharafa by a 4-2 margin The dominant win lifted the former cham- brief break which is enforced due to the and occupied the seventh pions to the top of the standings as the League hosting of the AFC Champions League’s spot, whereas Al Gharafa heads to a brief break which is enforced due to lost the third position to be the hosting of the AFC Champions League’s East East Zone matches. placed fourth. Zone matches. The East Zone matches will take Mohanad Ali (two goals), place in Doha from November 18- December 19.