Sweet-Toothed Werner Bags Hat-Trick As Leipzig Triumph
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Kim Clijsters determined on comeback despite pandemic PAGE 10 MONDAY, MAY 25, 2020 La Liga faces heated debate RESULTS as it prepares Schalke 0 Augsburg 3 (Loewen 5, Bazee 76, Cordova 90+1) to resume AFP scorching heat. Mainz 0 RB Leipzig 5 MADRID At a meeting with La Liga (Werner 11, 48, 75, over the weekend, the Spanish SPANISH media rejoiced on Football Players’ Association Poulsen 23, Sabitzer 36) Sunday after the government (AFE), called for cooling breaks Cologne 2 (Modeste 88, said La Liga could resume, but during games when tempera- restarting in June presents tures are between 28 and 32 de- Cordoba 90) Fortuna many challenges including grees Celsius (82 to 90 degrees Duesseldorf 2 (Karaman summer heat, empty stadiums Fahrenheit), and for training and health rules. and matches to be postponed 41, Thommy 61). Prime Minister Pedro when temperatures rise above Sanchez announced on Satur- 32 degrees, which is common in day that football could return the height of summer in much from its coronavirus lockdown of Spain. in the week of June 8. Temperatures during train- After closely observing as ing in Valencia on Saturday Bundesliga players acted as lab reached 28 degrees. rats when their league became La Liga has eagerly an- the first of the major European nounced there would be “foot- competitions to return last ball every day” of the week, but weekend, Spain, hard hit by the AFE has demanded that the pandemic, will now take its clubs be allowed a compulsory Leipzig’s German forward Timo Werner (centre) celebrates scoring the team’s fourth goal during the German first division Bundesliga match against Mainz 05 on Sunday.( AFP) turn. gap of at least 72 hours between La Liga has not yet speci- matches and the Spanish Foot- fied when it will kick off or de- ball Federation (RFEF) had al- tailed the health protocols it will ready started a legal action to adopt, but is expected to do so prevent that. within the next week, according RFEF went to court at the Sweet-toothed Werner bags to the Spanish press. start of the season and blocked “La Liga is back,” exclaimed La Liga, which wanted to max- the front page of Spain’s best- imise broadcast revenues, selling daily Marca, which scheduling games on Monday. adorned its front page with a A final judgement is yet to be heart formed by the badges of handed down. hat-trick as Leipzig triumph the 20 Liga clubs. Madrid ri- ‘Weird times’ val AS and Catalan newspaper Tebas estimated at the be- Sport used the same headline. ginning of April that if La Liga Thrash Mainz 5-0 to bounce back from their draw with Freiburg last weekend in their first match since lockdown Liga president Javier Tebas did not resume broadcasting has been pushing for the league the losses would amount to a AFP charts. Werner grabbed his sec- Sarenren Bazee and Sergio the lead after just five min- to resume on June 12, with the billion euros ($1.09 billion), BERLIN Werner, who has been ond goal three minutes into Cordova scored as Augsburg utes with a superb free-kick Seville derby between Real Be- compared with 300 million eu- linked with several of Eu- the second half when Kevin moved seven points clear of which flew into the top cor- tis and Sevilla as the curtain- ros if it played without specta- SWEET-TOOTHED striker rope’s biggest clubs, has Kampl played him into the the relegation play-off place. ner from 30 metres out at the raiser. Tebas said on Saturday tors. Timo Werner bagged a hat- scored 24 Bundesliga goals area. “I’m totally happy,” said Veltins Arena. that he was “very happy” with Between now and the re- trick as RB Leipzig thrashed this season including two The visitors were attack- Herrlich, whose side host Augsburg doubled their the announcement, but added start, the players, who switched Mainz 5-0 on Sunday to trebles. ing at will when Kampl had bottom club Paderborn on lead 14 minutes from time “We can’t let our guard down”. from individual training to climb back to third in the Lewandowski scored his a goal ruled out for offside Wednesday, after ending a when Schalke defender Sa- The last 11 rounds of the small group sessions on 18 May Bundesliga and keep their 27th league goal this term in soon after. run of four straight defeats. lif Sane was wrong-footed season will be played behind while continuing to observe dwindling title hopes just Bayern’s 5-2 win over Eintra- With 15 minutes left, “We’ll be celebrating by a long ball and substitute closed doors at a time when strict health measures, will have about alive. cht Frankfurt on Saturday. Poulsen’s floated free-kick quietly, because we don’t winger Bazee rifled home. most of the country can expect almost three weeks to prepare. When asked how he Leipzig’s victory was the was met by Werner who vol- have much time. But we Cordova came off the would celebrate, Werner, 10th win for a visiting team leyed past Mainz goalkeeper have managed to turn things bench to score in injury time, 24, told reporters “there will in 18 matches since the Bun- Florian Mueller to wrap up around.” latching onto a loose pass definitely be some sweets in- desliga restarted in near- his hat-trick. The 48-year-old Herrlich from Sane, rounding goal- volved”. empty stadiums. Earlier, Augsburg also apologised to his squad after keeper Markus Schubert and Julian Nagelsmann’s side “We could have scored a eased to a comfortable away breaking a week-long coro- firing into an empty net. sit seven points behind lead- few more, but no complaints win with a 3-0 romp at navirus quarantine by leav- Later, mid-table Cologne ers Bayern Munich ahead of -- we’re very happy,” Leip- Schalke. ing the team hotel -- to buy scored late goals through the reigning champions’ top- zig sporting director Markus Heiko Herrlich enjoyed a toothpaste and skin cream -- strikers Anthony Modeste of-the-table clash against Kroesche told Sky. perfect first Bundesliga game before the Wolfsburg match and Jhon Cordoba, who second-placed Borussia Werner opened the scor- on the touchline as Augsburg last weekend. equalised in added time, Dortmund on Tuesday. ing in only the 11th min- coach, a week after he missed Having been as high as to fight back for a 2-2 draw Leipzig bounced back ute, before Yussuf Poulsen their loss to Wolfsburg be- third last December, Schalke against strugglers Fortuna from their draw with marked his 250th appear- cause he broke quarantine are winless in their last nine Duesseldorf. Freiburg last weekend in ance for Leipzig by heading rules to buy toothpaste. league games, including last Visitors Fortuna, who are their first match since the home a Marcel Sabitzer cross David Wagner’s Schalke Saturday’s 4-0 drubbing at 16th which carries a two-leg- coronavirus lockdown in on 23 minutes. continued their slide down Dortmund. ged relegation play-off at the style, with Werner moving The pair reversed roles the table, falling to eighth “We were extremely stu- end of the season, had led to within three goals of Bay- for the third when Poulsen following another poor de- pid at the start,” said Wag- with an hour gone through ern’s Robert Lewandowski at laid the ball off for Sabitzer fensive display. ner. goals by Kenan Karaman and Barcelona coach Quique Setien and his squad resumed training the top of the league scoring to make it 3-0 at the break. Eduard Loewen, Noah Loewen gave the visitors Erik Thommy. recently. (AFP) Dortmund and Munich sweat on fitness of Hummels, Boateng for topper Forward Thomas Muel- Hummels was substituted with Achilles tendon, while Boateng ler said “we want the title in was forced to quit with muscular problems Munich, where it belongs,” while Flick was a little more cautious. DPA but added “we hope he’ll be German national team high- “We hope Tuesday’s match BERLIN able to play again on lighted by the 2014 World will be attractive. Nothing will Tuesday,” a statement Cup title. They were be decided after that, no mat- BORUSSIA Dortmund and echoed by coach Lu- also paired together in ter what the result. The league Bayern Munich are sweating cien Favre. Munich before Hum- is very balanced, especially at on the fitness of their centre In Munich, they mels returned to Dort- the top, with attractive foot- backs Mats Hummels and Je- also hope that mund last year and is ball,” he said. rome Boateng ahead of their Boateng will recov- a team leader there. Both sides have won their Bundesliga table-topper on er quickly, with an Bayern enter two matches after the corona- Tuesday. upbeat coach Hansi Tuesday’s match with virus-related break and have Hummels was substituted Flick saying: “He had a four-point lead shown fine form since the with Achilles tendon prob- a few problems over Dortmund winter break, with Munich lems at half-time of Dort- but I believe it is and with victo- picking up 28 of 30 possible mund’s 2-0 victory at Wolfs- not so bad that ry could take points in the period and Dort- burg, while Boateng had to he can’t play. I a big step mund 27. quit with muscular problems believe it should towards “We obviously have a lot late in Munich’s 5-2 over Ein- be OK by Tues- a record- of respect for Bayern.