SPORTS SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2014 Soccer results/standings West Brom see off Swansea English Premier League Accrington 1; Southend 0 Bury 0; York 2 Everton 2 (Deulofeu 59, Coleman 90) Wycombe 0. The Congolese midfielder’s goal gave West Brom corner and narrowly failed to apply the finishing Cardiff 1 (Cala 68); Fulham 1 (Dejagah 68) manager Pepe Mel a first victory at the ninth touch to a centre from Wayne Routledge. Newcastle 0; Hull 0 Manchester City 2 (Silva Playing today Swansea 1 attempt, lifting the club three points clear of Routledge then teed up Bony to lash a shot 14, Dzeko 90); Southampton 4 (Schneiderlin Newport v Exeter third-bottom Sunderland and to within one over the top, before the livewire Lamah sent in a 5, Lambert 57, Rodriguez 72, Gallagher 90) point of 14th-place Swansea. cross that eluded Bony and could not be turned Norwich 2 (Elmander 85, Snodgrass 86); Scottish Premiership West Brom sacked Anelka late on Friday after in by Jonathan De Guzman. Stoke 3 (Odemwingie 33, 79, Arnautovic 69) Dundee Utd 3 (Graham 79, Armstrong he claimed to have unilaterally terminated his Swansea captain Ashley Williams, meanwhile, West Ham 1 (Carroll 5); Sunderland 0 Crystal 84, Ciftci 90) St Mirren 2 (McGowan 20, West Brom 2 contract and the French striker’s departure could only direct a free header into the ground Palace 0; Swansea 1 (Lamah 2) West Brom 2 Thompson 40); Partick 3 (Erskine 44, Mair should allow the club to focus purely on their bid and over the bar from eight yards out. West Brom (Sessegnon 52, Mulumbu 85); Aston Villa 1 60, Higginbotham 90) Hibernian 1 to avoid the drop. Mel brought Sessegnon, James attacked the second period with vigour, equalis- (Delph 82) Chelsea 0. (Watmore 62). SWANSEA: Youssouf Mulumbu scored an 85th- Morrison, Graham Dorrans and Craig Dawson ing in the 52nd minute when Sessegnon sent a minute winner as West Bromwich Albion won 2-1 into his starting XI, switching to a 3-5-2 forma- low shot skidding past Vorm from 25 yards. Playing today Playing later at Swansea City yesterday to clamber three tion, but he saw his side fall behind with less than Swansea had a penalty appeal turned down Manchester United v Liverpool, St Johnstone v Ross County points clear of the Premier League relegation 120 seconds on the clock.Wilfried Bony’s pass after a shot from Bony appeared to strike Tottenham v Arsenal. zone. Playing hours after sacking Nicolas Anelka from deep split the visiting defence and Lamah Gareth McAuley on the arm and the hosts Scottish Football League following his five-match ban for performing a cut in from the left before beating Ben Foster then introduced Michu from the bench, fol- English Football League Championship ‘quenelle’ salute, West Brom fell behind to a sec- from a prohibitive angle. lowing a three-month absence with an ankle Championship Alloa 0 Queen Of The South 1; ond-minute strike by Roland Lamah at the In response, Victor Anichebe shot straight at problem. Bolton 0 Brighton 2; Bournemouth 0 Dumbarton 5 Cowdenbeath 1; Hamilton 3 Liberty Stadium. Swansea goalkeeper Michel Vorm, but the hosts, De Guzman forced Foster to save with his feet Middlesbrough 0; Burnley 2 Leeds 1; Falkirk 1; Livingston 0 Dundee 2; Raith 2 However, Stephane Sessegnon marked his characteristically dominating possession, contin- after a driving run and with five minutes remain- Huddersfield 2 Blackburn 4; Ipswich 1 Morton 1. first start since New Year’s Day by equalising early ued to threaten. Foster thwarted Bony at point- ing, Mulumbu guided a shot between Jordi Wigan 3; Leicester 3 Blackpool 1; Millwall 0 in the second period before Mulumbu complet- blank range after the Ivorian attacked a cross Amat’s legs and past a motionless Vorm to give Charlton 0; Nottingham Forest 0 Doncaster Division One ed the visitors’ comeback with an elegant finish. from Lamah, who put a header off-target from a West Brom a much-needed victory. — AFP 0; QPR 3 Yeovil 0; Reading 0 Derby 0; Arbroath 0 Airdrie 1; East Fife 0 Ayr 5; Sheffield Wednesday 4 Birmingham 1; Forfar 1 Stranraer 0; Rangers 2 Dunfermline Watford 3 Barnsley 0. 0; Stenhousemuir 4 Brechin 2. Odemwingie brace lifts Division One Division Two Bradford 1 Gillingham 1; Bristol City 0 Clyde 1 Stirling 0; Elgin City 2 Annan Stoke past West Ham Swindon 0; Carlisle 0 Stevenage 0; Crawley Athletic 3; Montrose 2 East Stirling 0; 1 Colchester 0; Crewe 1 Oldham 1; Leyton Peterhead 3 Berwick 0; Queen’s Park 4 punch the ball away. It was 25-year-old Orient 0 Brentford 1; Milton Keynes Dons 0 Albion 0. Carroll’s first start since his sending-off Peterborough 2; Rotherham 1 Walsall 1; Stoke 3 at the start of February, and his first Tranmere 3 Notts County 2; Wolves 0 German Bundesliga results goal since last April. Shrewsbury 0. Borussia Dortmund 1 (Jojic 77) Bor. Stoke pulled level after 33 minutes Moenchengladbach 2 (Raffael 31, Kruse 40); when Crouch’s acrobatic shot deflect- Playing today Werder Bremen 1 (Hunt 79) VfB Stuttgart 1 West Ham 1 ed in off Odemwingie on the line. Both Coventry v Port Vale (Niedermeier 55); Hoffenheim 2 Polanski 49, Steven N’Zonzi and Stephen Ireland Roberto Firmino 53) Mainz 05 4 (Choupo- missed chances to give the hosts the Playing tomorrow Moting 67, Saller 73, Okazaki 75, 90+2); advantage before the break. Kevin Preston v Sheffield Utd Eintracht Braunschweig 1 (Bellarabi 48) VfL STOKE-ON-TRENT: Peter Odemwingie Nolan thought he had made it 2-1 to Wolfsburg 1 (Luiz Gustavo 36); Hertha Berlin netted a brace and Marko Arnautovic the visitors in the 61st minute only for Division Two 0 Hanover 96 3 (Stindl 49, Schlaudraff 57, also scored to lift Stoke City to a 3-1 his effort to be controversially ruled Burton 1 AFC Wimbledon 1; Cheltenham Huszti 90+1). win at home against Premier League offside. 1 Torquay 0; Chesterfield 3 Oxford 0; rivals West Ham yesterday. Both were But Austrian winger Marko Dagenham and Redbridge 1 Morecambe 1; Playing today equal on points before the clash with Arnautovic put Stoke ahead after 69 Fleetwood 3 Portsmouth 1; Hartlepool 4 Hamburg v Nuremberg, Eintracht only goal difference separating the minutes before Odemwingie slammed Bristol Rovers 0; Northampton 1 Mansfield Frankfurt v Freiburg. midtable sides scrambling to move home his second from an angled shot 1; Plymouth 0 Scunthorpe 2; Rochdale 2 away from the drop zone. off an Ireland pass ten minutes later. But the hosts were trailing after just It gave manager Mark Hughes five minutes when striker Andy Carroll something more to celebrate on his English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals scored from a set piece pairing with 300th Premier League game as a man- against, points): SUNDERLAND: Crystal Palace’s English striker Cameron Jerome (left) is Mark Noble at the Britannia Stadium. ager.Hughes becomes the 10th man- challenged by Sunderland’s Spanish defender Marcos Alonso during the Carroll rose above Peter Crouch and ager to reach that milestone. Stoke are Chelsea 30 20 6 4 56 23 66 German League English Premier League football match. — AFP smashed a header past Asmir Begovic, provisionally tenth with 34 points, Man City 27 19 3 5 71 27 60 Bayern Munich 24 22 2 0 72 11 68 who had rushed off his line to try to three points above West Ham. — AFP Liverpool 28 18 5 5 73 35 59 Dortmund 25 15 3 7 56 29 48 Arsenal 28 18 5 5 52 28 59 Schalke 04 25 14 5 6 48 36 47 Sunderland frustrated Tottenham 29 16 5 8 37 37 53 Leverkusen 24 14 2 8 40 27 44 Everton 28 14 9 5 40 28 51 Mainz 25 12 5 8 37 38 41 by Palace stalemate Southampton survive Man Utd 28 14 6 8 46 31 48 Wolfsburg 25 12 4 9 42 39 40 Southampton 30 12 9 9 43 37 45 Borussia 25 11 6 8 43 32 39 star Johnson at the heart of their best late Norwich assault Newcastle 29 13 4 12 37 40 43 Augsburg 25 11 5 9 38 36 38 Aston Villa 29 9 7 13 32 38 34 Hertha Berlin 25 10 6 9 35 31 36 moments. Stoke 30 8 10 12 32 44 34 Hoffenheim 25 7 8 10 54 56 29 Sunderland 0 Johnson was a real menace to posed finish past Norwich goalkeeper West Ham 29 8 7 14 32 38 31 Hanover 96 25 8 5 12 34 43 29 Palace left-back Joel Ward, who John Ruddy after a slick move. Hull 29 8 6 15 30 37 30 Werder Bremen 25 7 8 10 29 47 29 earned an early booking after chop- Southampton 4 Anthony Pilkington demonstrated Swansea 29 7 8 14 38 43 29 Frankfurt 24 6 8 10 27 40 26 Norwich’s frustration when he Norwich 30 7 8 15 24 48 29 ping down the elusive winger. Nuremberg 24 4 11 9 27 42 23 The fierce wind whipping around attempted to punch in a cross from West Brom 29 5 13 11 33 43 28 Stuttgart 25 5 6 14 39 52 21 C Palace 0 Crystal Palace 29 8 4 17 19 38 28 the Stadium of Light made two Gary Hooper before half-time, earning Hamburg 24 5 5 14 39 53 20 him a booking, and in the 57th minute Sunderland 27 6 7 14 26 42 25 Freiburg 24 4 7 13 22 45 19 already anxious teams even more Norwich 2 Cardiff 30 6 7 17 23 52 25 Braunschweig 25 4 6 15 20 45 18 hesitant in possession and there were Southampton made it 2-0.