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KUWAIT: The victorious Kuwait Sports Club team holding the Amir’s Cup after beating Al-Arabi Sports Club 3-1 in the final held ta the Jaber International stadium yesterday. (Inset) HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah hands over the Cup to the winners. — KUNA Kuwait trounce Al-Arabi to lift Amir’s Cup

KUWAIT: Kuwait Sports Club won His Highness Amir second just two minutes later but the referee Al-Mosawi scored his team’s lone goal in the 52nd were determined since the beginning of the season to Football Cup for 11th time in the club’s history after declared the player was off-side. Rocky Talal Jazea’s minute. Al-Arabi tried hard to close the gap despite achieve positive results, and indeed honored their beating Al-Arabi Sports Club in a thrilling 3-1 final, held unstoppable kick from outside the box in the 8th relentless pressing. Al-Mosawi missed a penalty kick, promises. Salehi, scoring two of the three goals, said he at Jaber International Stadium and attended by His minute pushed Kuwait’s lead to two goals to none. saved by Al-Kanderi in the 82nd minute. was really happy to win the cup. He said the players Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Kuwait’s Jordanian international Hamza Dardoor Qadsia leads with His Highness the Amir Cup’s titles, were determined to do everything they could through- Sabah. was tripped in the box in the 20th minute. Salehi’s winning the competition 16 times in its history. It is fol- out the final game. Goalie Al-Kanderi, who saved a Kuwait began the clash offensively attempting to penalty kick secured Kuwait’s three-goal difference lowed by Al-Arabi with 15 times. Kuwait won it 10 penalty kick, said the win boosted confidence of the score first, and indeed scoring the first goal in the 3rd lead. times. players for future competitions. minute by Moroccan international Yasseen Salehi who Al-Arabi replaced Yusuf Al-Enezan In statements to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Defender Fahad Al-Hajri said he was happy with the converted a crossover and the ball passed by Al-Arabi with striker Hussain Al-Mosawi, who missed many Kuwait SC Chairman Abdulaziz Al-Marzouq commend- victory although the team was not successful in win- goalkeeper Hameed Al-Qallaf’s right hand side. chances to score and many attempts were saved by ed the spirit of the players who showed great confi- ning Kuwait League and His Highness the Crown Salehi, posing a real threat on Al-Qallaf, scored the Kuwait’s goalkeeper Musab Al-Kanderi. dence throughout the final match. He said the players Prince’s Cup. — KUNA Barca comes back to beat 10-man Atletico

BARCELONA: Luis Suarez scored two second- Barcelona’s attacks until got half goals to lead Barcelona to a 2-1 comeback its first shot. While his effort was off-target, victory over 10-man Atletico Madrid in the first Torres didn’t miss a minute later to continue his leg of their Champions League quarterfinal yes- great scoring record against Barceona. terday. Gabi Fernandez led Atletico forward by pass- opened the scoring in the ing to Jorge “Koke” Resurreccion, who in turn 25th minute, but quickly went from hero to vil- slipped a through ball to meet Torres’s run. The lain for Atletico when two reckless tackles saw striker did the rest by sending a first-time shot him sent off in the 35th. Atletico resisted the between the legs of keeper Marc-Andre ter defending champion’s push for an equalizer Stegen for his 11th goal in 15 matches against until Suarez finally leveled with an opportunistic Barcelona. The goal unsettled Barcelona and goal in the 63rd. Griezmann almost added another, only for Ter Suarez then put Barcelona ahead in the 74th Stegen to redeem himself with a spectacular BARCELONA: Barcelona's Luis Suarez, 2nd left, scores his side's 2nd goal during a Champions League quarter-final, first leg when he played Dani Alves wide before sending dive to paw his volley past his post. soccer match between FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium yesterday. — AP the defender’s cross past goalkeeper Jan Charged with being Atletico’s first line of Oblak with an unstoppable header. The win defense, an over-eager Torres had picked up a comes three days after Real Madrid ended booking for a foul on in the 29th, and a Vidal gives Bayern slim lead against Benfica Barcelona’s Spanish record 39-match unbeaten second clumsy tackle on streak with a 2-1 win at Camp Nou. earned him another yellow just minutes later. MUNICH: gave Bayern But it took less then two minutes for Mueller. Vitoria’s men will be without their Besides recovering its winning ways after the Atletico succeeded in bunkering down with- Munich a slender 1-0 lead for their Bayern to break the Benfica defence. Brazilian hot-shot Jonas, who has scored disappointing “clasico” defeat, ’s side out trouble until the action picked up after half- Champions League quarter-final return Franck Ribery crossed from the left and 30 goals in the Portuguese league, for the avenged its exit at the hands of Atletico from time. The visitors had the first threat through leg at Benfica next week, after hitting the Juan Bernat, untroubled by the Benfica return leg after a 58th-minute foul on the 2013-14 quarterfinals with its club-record Felipe Luis’ header, but after surviving the scare, winner just 109 seconds into yesterday’s defenders, found Vidal in space to nod Vidal. first leg. comfortably past Ederson. Benfica failed In a bid to shut Benfica’s attacking 11th consecutive home win in the competition. Barcelona picked up the pace of its passing and Bayern produced an off-key display at to cope with Vidal’s late runs from mid- game down, Bayern coach Suarez scored his team-high seventh and hemmed Atletico into its box. Munich’s Allianz Arena and their fifth field as he again got on the end of a cross switched Joshua Kimmich for inter- eight goals in the Champions League this sea- Messi almost struck with an acrobatic bicycle straight appearance in the Champions with half-time approaching, but the ball national Javi Martinez with an hour gone. son, as he and strike partners and kick before Neymar fired the ball against the bar League semi-finals is far from assured. Rui bounced harmlessly onto the roof of the Bayern started to live dangerously. Neymar recovered their dominant form after in the 51st. Seeing his team in trouble, Simeone Vitoria’s Benfica can take plenty of heart net. Having scored Bayern’s winner with a There was pandemonium in the underwhelming against Real. sent on midfielder Augusto Fernandez for before the second leg at the Estadio da spectacular bicycle kick last Saturday Bavarians’ on 65 minutes But at full strength, Atletico’s disciplined Yannick Carrasco. Even so, moments later Messi Luz on Wednesday April 13, after subject- against Eintracht Frankfurt, Franck Ribery when only desperate defending denied defense, which had Diego Godin back in the found the angle to force Oblak to make his first ing Bayern to a frustrating second half in tried the trick again, but without the same Jonas, who got off three shots. With 20 middle after an injury layoff, disrupted tough save. Munich. However, the Portuguese league success. minutes to go, both coaches threw on Barcelona’s attack, a promising sign that coach With Atletico struggling to keep up, Suarez leaders will be without top-scorer Jonas Vidal took a painful blow for the Bayern game changers as Guardiola introduced Diego Simeone can take into the second leg in finally undid Atletico when he was in position to after the 32-year-old picked up a second- team just before the break when he fleet-footed France winger Kingsley addition to the away goal. turn in ’s errant shot. Barcelona con- half booking, his third of the tournament. blocked a shot from Benfica captain Coman, then Mario Goetze for the final After a pair of shots from Messi that sailed tinued to press and Suarez was both In the build-up, Bayern coach Pep Nicolas Gaitan with his nether regions. five. Vitoria brought on Mexico forward well wide, Barcelona got its first good chance and finisher for the winning goal when he spot- Guardiola had described Benfica as hav- But as the game wore on, Benfica’s back Raul Jimenez for Kostas Mitroglou. almost 20 minutes in when Neymar’s header ted Dani Alves free on the right wing before ing “perhaps the best back four” in Europe, four began to back up Guardiola’s compli- Bayern have only themselves to blame for just missed the bar after Dani Alves found him moving forward to thump in his pass. The return after leaking just 19 goals in the ment by frustrating Bayern’s attack, espe- not doubling their tally in the dying with a cross in the area. leg is at Atletico’s Vicente Calderon Stadium Portuguese league this season. cially Robert Lewandowski and Thomas stages. — AFP Atletico had been content to absorb next week. — AP