Friday 47 Sports Friday, July 26, 2019 United starlet Gomes hits winner as tempers flare against Spurs

SHANGHAI: Teenager Angel Gomes squeezed in ways present in pre-season friendlies. Alli should the winner 10 minutes from time as Manchester have scored when all alone minutes later but he United beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in an occa- scuffed his shot with only David de Gea to beat. sionally bad-tempered friendly on Thursday in Attacking midfielder Alli, perhaps frustrated with Shanghai. French striker Anthony Martial put Ole himself, was booked on 12 minutes after a second Gunnar Solskjaer’s United ahead in the first half, late challenge at a full Hongkou Stadium. He was before Spurs substitute replied with booed off when subbed on an hour. a scrappy effort in the second. Martial, whose United career has threatened After wholesale changes from both sides — to peter out at times, made no mistake on 21 min- Solskjaer swapped out all 11 starters at the break utes when he rifled the ball under Gazzaniga from — Spurs had looked the more dangerous, before close range. United were incensed when Moussa the 18-year-old Londoner Gomes struck. Victory Sissoko left the sprightly winger James in a heap makes it four wins from four pre-season games by the corner flag, suspecting a stamp by the for United. The Norwegian Solskjaer, under pres- Spurs midfielder. Tottenham captain Kane angrily sure to prove that he is the man to take United waded in and there was a scuffle, with Gazzaniga back into the Champions League, named a strong leaving his goal to join in and several United play- side that included wantaway midfielder Paul ers also involved. Pogba and new signings Daniel James and Aaron Andreas Pereira, a combative midfield pres- Wan-Bissaka. ence for United, was next to be booked after Counterpart Mauricio Pochettino fielded a he cut down Kane. Young Spurs defender more experimental team, but started the England was yellow-carded too. international duo of and , Spurs, fresh from a 3-2 win over Juventus in along with new man . United Singapore on Sunday, brought South Korean nearly took the lead on just four minutes when forward Son Heung-min on at the break in Martial fired across stand-in goalkeeper Paulo place of Kane. Brazil’s Moura also came on. Gazzaniga, but his powerful effort struck the post. United face Norwegian side Kristiansund in SHANGHAI: Manchester United’s Scott McTominay discusses with Tottenham players during the International Despite the fierce humidity there was an edge their next friendly, on Wednesday, while Spurs Champions Cup football tournament between English sides Manchester United and Tottenham to the International Champions Cup game not al- play Real Madrid. —AFP at Hongkou Football Stadium. —AFP

exhibition contests in iconic American sports Liverpool finish US venues. Jurgen Klopp’s side was missing sev- eral of their top players, including forwards jaunt with draw Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah and Sadio said Lennon. “It’ll do his confidence the world Mane, who were taking a break after compet- Griffiths helps of good.” against Lisbon ing in COPA America and African Cup of Na- Should 1967 champions Celtic come through tions. Goalkeeper Alisson also decided not to fire Celtic to 5-0 the second leg next week, they will face either make the trip. Cluj of Romania or Israel’s Maccabi Tel-Aviv. WASHINGTON: Liverpool wrapped up their Liverpool came into the contest wonder- Champs League stroll Cluj will take a 1-0 lead to Israel next week. On US tour with a 2-2 draw Wednesday against ing how they managed to drop their first two Tuesday, PSV Eindhoven forward Donyell Malen Sporting CP as the English Premier side failed games. They lost a 2-1 decision to Spanish PARIS: marked his return to the struck in injury time to earn the former European to win a game in their first trip abroad since club Sevilla on Sunday at Boston’s Fenway starting line-up following an eight-month ab- Cup winners a last gasp 3-2 win over Basel. Basel being crowned European champs. Liverpool Park, following a 3-2 defeat to Germany’s sence with a goal as Celtic trounced Estonia’s were on their way to an important away win after finished with no victories to show from their Borussia Dortmund at Notre Dame Stadium Nomme Kalju 5-0 in the first leg of their Cham- goals from and Alderete Fernandez. three-match stateside tour but did manage to on Friday. Sporting’s Luciano Vietto had one pions League second round qualifier. The Scot- PSV’s new Portuguese winger Bruma had salvage a tie against the reigning Portuguese of the best scoring chances of Wednesday’s land international, who had been sidelined after given the Dutch giants a 14th minute lead but champions at Yankee Stadium in New York. game but was stopped twice in a row from being diagnosed with depression, curled in a 30- with a minute of normal time remaining it looked Marcus Wendel tied the game at 2-2 in the point-blank range by Mignolet just before yard free-kick to put Celtic three ahead in first- to be Basel’s night. But then late substitute Sam 53rd minute with a right footed shot from the the half. half stoppage-time. Lammers put them back in business with an 89th centre of the box to the bottom right corner Teen sensation Sepp van den Berg made and Ryan Christie (penalty) minute equalizer before Malen grabbed an un- after being set up by midfield star Bruno Fer- his exhibition debut for Liverpool in the had earlier sent Celtic on their way. Christie, likely decider in the second minute of injury time. nandes. Fernandes and Wendel also combined Yankee Stadium showdown, as the 17-year- with his second of the night, and Callum Mc- In other ties Tuesday, Dinamo Zagreb put one on the first goal of the game in the fourth minute old Dutch defender came on in the 89th Gregor were on target in the second-half to vir- foot in the next round with a 2-0 win at Geor- for the 18-time Portuguese champs. Fernandes minute. Liverpool signed the teen over the tually ensure ’s team a spot in the gians Saburtalo and Copenhagen beat Welsh right footed a seemingly harmless long shot that summer from side PEC Zwolle. third qualifying round. “I’m delighted for Leigh. outfit The New Saints by the same margin. Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet mishan- Liverpool will now head home to Mersey- There is an amount of anticipation and to be fair Olympiakos and Viktoria Plzen ended goalless dled before it went into the net. side before facing Napoli in Edinburgh this the reception he’s got from the players, the sup- while APOEL go into their second leg against Divock Origi and weekend and then depart for a training camp porters, the club, that makes me very proud,” Sutjeska Niksic with a 1-0 away win. —AFP scored goals for the Reds who played all three in Evian. —AFP

over corruption, including misuse of funds intended for an stars promoting Ebola awareness measures was formed in No- FIFA bans ex-Liberia Ebola awareness campaign. Musa Hassan Bility, an executive vember 2014, near the peak of a pandemic that killed more than committee member at the Confederation of African Football 11,000 people across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. (CAF), was also hit with a 500,000 Swiss franc ($507,000, In addition to stealing Ebola prevention funds, FIFA judges football chief over 455,000 euros) fine by judges at FIFA’s independent ethics found Bility guilty of misusing others resources sent to the LFA committee. and diverting money to businesses controlled by him or his fam- Ebola funds theft FIFA’s investigation targeting Bility, launched in May 2018, ily. Bility had attempted to run as a candidate to replace FIFA’s “related to the misappropriation of the funds granted under disgraced former president Sepp Blatter in a 2015 campaign ul- GENEVA: FIFA on Wednesday banned the former of head of FIFA’s ‘11 against Ebola’ campaign,” the world football’s govern- timately won by Gianni Infantino. But he was barred at the time the Liberian Football Association from football for 10 years ing body said in a statement. The campaign that saw top football from contesting after failing to pass integrity tests. —AFP