22 Sunday, February 3, 2019 Sports Spurs strike late as Higuain scores twice for Chelsea AFP LONDON EPL results Tottenham 1 Newcastle 0 Paris Saint-Germain’s Italian SON Heung-min struck late Crystal Palace 2 Fulham 0 goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon to fire Tottenham into second Burnley 1 Southampton 1 place in the Premier League on Saturday as Gonzalo Higuain Chelsea 5 Huddersfield 0 Buffon would opened his account for Chel- Brighton 0 Watford 0 sea in a five-goal rout at Stam- Everton 1 Wolverhampton 3 like to stay a ford Bridge. Cardiff 2 Bournemouth 0 Spurs looked to be head- ing for their first league draw 2nd season of the season at Wembley son from Juventus to help the but Son’s 83rd-minute goal 2016/17 English champions at PSG earned Mauricio Pochettino’s rediscover their sharpness in men a hard-fought 1-0 win front of goal. AFP over Newcastle and enabled “When Higuain arrived he PARIS them to leapfrog Manchester wasn’t at the top of his physical City, who play on Sunday. condition. Now he is improv- GOALKEEPER Gianluigi Buf- Chelsea beat bottom side ing. Apart from the goals, my fon said on Saturday that he Huddersfield 5-0 thanks to feeling is he is really very suit- wants “to stay another season” two goals apiece from Higuain able to play close to Hazard,” at Paris Saint-Germain. and Eden Hazard and a late said Sarri. The 41-year-old, who header from David Luiz as “For us it is very useful. played 176 times for Italy and they returned emphatically to For Higuain, he will be able to won the World Cup in 2006, goalscoring form. score a lot of goals, but also it arrived as a free agent from Tottenham are now just will be good for Eden.” Juventus last summer on a four points behind leaders Wolves consolidated their one-year contract with an op- Liverpool, who are in action hold on seventh by beating tion for a second. at West Ham on Monday, but Everton 3-1 at Goodison Park, At PSG, he has split goal- just as significantly they con- in a match interrupted when keeping duties with Alphonse solidated their position in the a black cat began scampering Areola, who was part of the top four after their 19th win in around the pitch. France squad that won the 25 matches. “Where I come from in World Cup last summer. Spurs enjoyed more than Portugal the black cat is bad “If Alphonse and the club 70 percent possession but faced luck so I never want to see cats want it, I would stay another a dogged Newcastle, buoyed by again,” said Wolves boss Nuno season here, but for the mo- a stunning 2-1 win over Man- Espirito Santo. The Everton ment, it’s important to stay chester City in midweek that manager, Marco Silva, is also focused on the objective, the carried the Magpies five points Chelsea’s Argentinian striker Gonzalo Higuain (centre) celebrates scoring their fourth goal against Huddersfield Town at Stamford Bridge Sta- Portuguese. match in Lyon, then Bordeaux clear of the relegation zone. dium in London on Saturday. (AFP) Wolves have now scored 10 and after that Manchester,” An incredible clearance off goals in their past three Pre- Buffon said. the line from Fabian Schaer 14th goal of the season. sition like today to convince Higuain double minute through Higuain and mier League outings. PSG visit third-placed denied what seemed a cer- The South Korean had a ourselves about our capac- Chelsea manager Maur- doubled their lead with a Haz- Elsewhere, struggling Ful- Lyon on Sunday and take on tain goal for Christian Erik- helping hand from Newcastle ity or potential. We believe in izio Sarri admitted before the ard penalty on the stroke of ham were unable to recapture Manchester United in the last sen and Fernando Llorente goalkeeper Martin Dubravka, ourselves.” match against bottom side half-time. the spirit of their dramatic mid- 16 of the Champions League then looped a golden headed who let the powerful shot slip And the Argentine lauded Huddersfield that he had found Both players scored again week comeback against Bright- on February 12 and March 6. chance high and wide. beneath his grasp to undo all Son’s stamina since he returned it hard to get any rest since midway through the second on, losing 2-0 to Crystal Palace. “As to my contract for the But Son again stepped up, his side’s good work. from the Asian Cup. Wednesday’s humiliating 4-0 half and Luiz made it 5-0 as Southampton conceded a next season, we have plenty just as he did with an equaliser “It is a massive result to be “Sonny is like a battery that drubbing at Bournemouth. Chelsea returned to the top penalty deep into added time of time to think about it,” against Watford in midweek, in a very good position in the you have that you work, work, His side, seeking to avoid a four at the expense of Arsenal. to draw 1-1 at Burnley while the said Buffon, at a press con- to compensate for the injured table,” said Pochettino. “We work, work but when the bat- third straight Premier League Higuain, 31, was signed on game between Brighton and ference he gave with Areola Harry Kane’s absence with his don’t need to be in some po- tery is gone, it’s gone,” he said. defeat, went ahead in the 16th loan until the end of the sea- Watford finished goalless. on Saturday. Napoli beat German Bundesliga action ‘Broken’ Vonn to retire after Sampdoria 3-0 skiing world championships as Quagliarella Champs Bayern crash at Leverkusen; DPA ends scoring run BERLIN DPA Dortmund go seven-points clear AMERICAN Lindsey Vonn said ROME on Friday she will retire after AFP competing in the alpine ski- SECOND-PLACE Napoli beat BERLIN ing world championships this visiting Sampdoria 3-0 Satur- month. day and sit now eight points be- DEFENDING champions Bay- The event runs from Febru- hind Serie A leaders Juventus, ern Munich crashed to a shock ary 5-17 and will bring the cur- who take on Parma. 3-1 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen tain down on one of the most Arkadiusz Milik struck on on Saturday, allowing Borussia celebrated careers in skiing and 25 minutes as Jose Callejon Dortmund to extend their lead women’s sport in general. squared from the right. Lorenzo at the top of the Bundesliga ta- “I will compete at the world Insigne found the far corner ble to seven points. championships in downhill and a minute later to end a three- Second-half goals by Lev- super-G next week in Are, Swe- month draught, while Mario erkusen’s Leon Bailey, Kevin den and they will be the final Rui had his taut drive saved Volland and Lucas Alario in- races of my career,” said the drive before the break. flicted only a fourth league four-time overall World Cup though and she has opted to Insigne was denied in the defeat on Bayern this season champion on Facebook. quit this month on 82 World second half and Samp defender as Dortmund added a point to “Over the past few years Cup wins, four short of the re- Bartosz Bereszynski just missed their lead despite drawing 1-1 I have had more injuries and cord held by male skier Inge- before Napoli full-back Kalidou at Eintracht Frankfurt. surgeries than I care to admit. mar Stenmark. Koulibaly and Milik forced Emil Bayern, who can drop to I have always pushed the limits “The past two weeks have Audero’s saves. third if Borussia Moenchengla- of ski racing and it has allowed been some of the most emo- Substitute Simone Verdi dbach win at Schalke, had their Bayern Munich players look dejected after losing their Bundesliga match against Bayer Leverkusen at the me to have amazing success but tionally challenging days of my converted a late penalty award- seven-match winning streak in BayArena in Leverkusen on Saturday. (REUTERS) also dramatic crashes. I have life,” Vonn said. ed for handball after video re- the league ended abruptly and never wanted the storyline of “I am struggling with the view. now have 13 games to catch up. his fourth goal in three games Leon Bailey curled a free-kick run by Raphael Guerreiro, my career to be about injuries.” reality of what my body is tell- Samp’s captain and league “We have to win every game with a superb box-to-box ef- past Bayern’s reserve goalkeep- who dribbled past two defend- The 2010 Olympic down- ing me versus what my mind top scorer Fabio Quagliarella now,” fumed Bayern midfielder fort, tracking back to snuff out er Sven Ulreich, in for thumb- ers and drew a third to leave hill champion, 34, has been and heart believe I’m capable had no luck with his handful of Joshua Kimmich. “If we leave a counter attack, then turned injury victim Manuel Neuer. Marco Reus free to fire home hampered by a series of inju- of. The unfortunate reality is attempts and stayed on 16 goals, any more points on the road, tail to sprint into his own area Leverkusen then shredded unmarked on 22 minutes. ries in the last year and had my mind and body are not on failing to improve the league it will be almost irredeemable.” and head home on 41 minutes. Bayern’s defence to leave Vol- Dortmund playmaker Reus previously indicated she was the same page.