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SPORT Sunday 2 December 2018 PAGE | 08 PAGE | 10 Lakers rally Woods avoids past Mavericks; penalty for double Rockets romp hitting a shot during over Spurs Hero Challenge QSL: Al Arabi get back to winning ways Al Arabi and Al Kharaitiyat THE PENINSULA QNB STARS LEAGUE Al Kharaitiyat had the for their second goal scored players vie for ball possession DOHA numerical advantage of by El Neel. during their QNB Stars Yesterday’s Result playing with 10 men for most Algerian midfielder League Round-14 match Al Arabi got back to winning Al Arabi 2-1 Al Kharaitiyat part of the game after Majed Jugurtha Hamroun was the played at the Al Arabi ways after beating Al Today’s Matches Aman was given his marching livewire among the Al Stadium yesterday. Kharaitiyat 2-1 in Week 14 of 4.00pm: Al Gharafa vs Al Sadd orders in the 42nd minute. Kharaitiyat ranks. He set the the QNB Stars League (QSL) at Al Gharafa Stadium Both teams fought it out stage for their goal netted by yesterday. in their bid to gain advantage. Valentin. Ahmed Ibrahim (43rd 6.30pm: Al Rayyan vs Al Duhail Al Kharaitiyat put up a Al Arabi defeated Al minute) and Mohammed at Al Gharafa Stadium gritty show. In fact they Kharaitiyat 1-0 in the first leg. Salah El Neel (49th) scored the 6.30pm: Al Shahania vs Al Khor enjoyed more ball possession Today, Al Sadd will meet goals for Al Arabi. at Al Arabi Stadium in the first half (53 per cent) Al Gharafa at the Al Gharafa Valentin Lazar pulled one although it was 50-50 at the Stadium. The venue will later back for Al Kharaitiyat in the end of the game. host the Round-14 clach 55th minute. points from the victory they Ahmed Ibrahim opened between Al Rayyan and table It was Al Arabi’s sixth registered against Al Gharafa. the scoring via a header off a leaders Al Duhail. victory. Tunisian coach Hatem The Thunders are precar- free-kick from Tareq Hamad. The final match of the day Al Moaddeb’s men took their iously placed at the bottom of Brazilian Diego Jardel, will take place at the Al Arabi points tally to 18, while Al league standings and face who held the Al Arabi mid- Stadium where Al Shahania Kharaitiyat stayed on three relegation. field together, gave the assist meets Al Khor. Villa unites with former River Plate say no to Mardid final Barca team-mate AFP 9, but River Plate said they “con- President Donald Trump and Russian complained about the effects of BUENOS AIRES firmed their rejection of the change leader Vladimir Putin are attending inhaling teargas. of location”. the G20 summit in the Argentine FIFA President Gianni Infantino Iniesta at Vissel Kobe River Plate said yesterday that they In a statement on the club’s capital this weekend. said yesterday that “idiots ruined the have refused to play the Copa Liber- website, River said it was “incompre- Several hours before River put party” for everyone at the Copa REUTERS tadores final against Boca Juniors hensible” that the game had been out their statement, Boca Juniors Libertadores. TOKYO in Madrid. moved to Spain. River said the club said they were going to appeal “I was here last Saturday,” The match between the bore no responsibility for the “faults against the decision to move the Infantino said at a press conference Former Barcelona Argentine arch-rivals has been in the security operation” for the high match to Madrid to the South at the G20 summit. It was a sad forward David moved to Real Madrid’s Santiago profile fixture in Buenos Aires. American football federation CON- moment for everyone. It is a football Villa announced Bernabeu Stadium after it was twice “It is incomprehensible that the MEBOL, and eventually to the Court match. It is not a war, not even a yesterday he will postponed last weekend after River superclasico cannot take place as of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). battle. We have to work to find out be joining Spanish Plate fans attacked the Boca Juniors normal in the same country where Several Boca Juniors players who are the people to blame. You compatriot Andres team bus. a G20 summit is currently taking including Pablo Perez needed hos- have to identify them and get them Iniesta and The match is due to be played place,” the club added. pital treatment for injuries caused out (of football).” German World Cup in the Spanish capital on December World leaders including US by shards of glass and others winner Lukas Podolski at J.League club Vissel Kobe next season. The 36-year- old, who won the 2008 European Barcelona’s Iniesta celebrates with Championship and team-mate David Villa after scoring a the 2010 World Cup goal in this file photo. with Spain, said he would be leaving New York City FC after scoring 80 goals in 124 games for the Major League Soccer side. Villa made the announcement on YouTube and the move was later confirmed by Kobe in a statement. “It’s decided,” he said in a video. “I have a new destination. A The general view of River great challenge awaits. Plate’s fans inside the “New country. New culture. New team-mates. Hello Japan. Antonio Vespucio Liberti Hello Vissel Kobe.” Stadium in Buenos Aires, Villa was Iniesta’s team mate during a very successful period Argentina before the for the Spanish giants and won two La Liga titles and the Cham- Copa Libertadores Final - pions League in 2011. Second leg match in this Iniesta scored on Saturday as Kobe wrapped up their J.League November 24, 2018 season with a 3-2 victory over Vegalta Sendai, finishing 10th in file photo. the 18-team league. Germany’s Benedikt Furk (left) and Pakistan’s Umar Bhutta fight Netherlands crush Malaysia as Pakistan for the ball during their group stage match of the 2018 Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, India, go down fighting at Hockey Worlds yesterday. FIH supplying a perfect pass for Mirco of his 200thsenior international the third quarter, with Germany BHUBANESWAR, INDIA Pruijser to score as the Dutch appearance even more memo- breaking the deadlock thanks to raced into a 3-0 half time lead. It rable. A further two goals were a wonderfully worked goal that Netherlands made a big was an advantage that would cer- scored by the rampant Dutch side was finished brilliantly by Marco statement against Malaysia and tainly have been bigger were it in the final quarter, with Thierry Miltkau, who dived at full stretch Germany edged to a narrow not for veteran Malaysia goal- Brinkman firing home a glorious to chip the ball over Pakistan victory over a well-organised keeper Kumar Subramiam, who backhand effort before Odisha goalkeeper Imran Butt and into Pakistan side on day four of the made numerous crucial saves to Player of the Match Jeroen Herz- the unguarded net. The Green Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup stop the Netherlands from berger completed his hat-trick in Shirts came close to levelling Bhubaneswar 2018. running riot. the final minute of the game. It moments later through a sliding The Netherlands were a cut The Dutch continued their was a terrific performance from Muhammad Zubair, but the above Malaysia in the first two dominance after half time, with the European champions, who Pakistan forward was unable to periods of the day’s opening Mirco Pruijser and Billy Bakker have given early indication that trouble Germany goalkeeper match, showing brilliant both hitting the frame of the goal they very much mean business Tobias Walter with his attempted movement to cause the team from before Mink van der Weerden here in Bhubaneswar. deflection. Asia no end of problems. Jeroen scored a penalty corner drag-flick In the next match, Germany Germany controlled the latter Herzberger’s remarkable return to make it 4-0. The score was and Pakistan could not be sepa- stages of the match to seal the from the international wilderness moved to 5-0 before the end of rated in the first two quarters of victory, with Mats Grambusch continued, with the 32-year-old the third quarter when Robbert game in which the defences of being named the Odisha Player forward scoring two wonderful Kemperman volleyed home from both teams excelled. of the Match for his fine per- backhand finishes either side of close range, making the occasion The match burst into life in formance in midfield. 08 SPORT SUNDAY 2 DECEMBER 2018 Cubs tender Lakers rally past Mavericks; contract to suspended Rockets romp over Spurs SS Russell REUTERS AFP NEW YORK LOS ANGELES The Chicago Cubs tendered a James Harden and Chris Paul contract on Friday to combined for 37 points as the suspended shortstop Addison Houston Rockets snapped a Russell to keep him from four-game losing streak by clob- becoming a free agent, but bering the rebuilding San president of baseball opera- Antonio Spurs 136-105 on Friday. tions Theo Epstein said that Harden delivered 23 points doesn’t guarantee his future and 10 assists while Paul put up with the club. 14 points and 10 assists for the Russell, who turns 25 in Rockets, who won the battle of January, was suspended for the struggling Lone Star State 40 games late in the 2018 teams. season after his ex-wife “We’re a confident group accused him of domestic vio- when we have all of our players. lence. He will miss the first When we’ve got a healthy roster, month of the season while we can compete with anybody serving the remainder of that in the league,” Harden said.