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Real Sail Into Club World Cup Final Wanderers Bow Out Kipsang misses Juventus, Napoli doping test target morale- boosting wins THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 201415 18 Vijay’s day as India subdue Aussies at fortress Gabba Page 19 MOROCCO: Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos falls during the semi-final soccer match between Real Madrid and Cruz Azul at the Club World Cup soccer tournament. — AP Real sail into Club World Cup final Wanderers bow out MARRAKECH: European champions Real Madrid turned as the game went on. after Christian Gimenez’s incisive pass opened up the Real Africa, triumphed 5-4 in the shoot-out to claim a crumb of on the party tricks as they sailed into the Club World Cup They next meet South American champions San defence. consolation after their quarter-final defeat to Auckland final by crushing Cruz Azul 4-0 on Tuesday. Lorenzo or Oceania champions Auckland City, who face Benzema added the second goal in the 35th minute City on Saturday. The Mexican side, with far more limited resources than each other late yesterday, in Saturday’s final in Marrakech. before Cruz Azul were awarded a penalty when Pavone Dutch midfielder Romeo Castelen gave the Australians the Spanish giants, did their best to make a game of it and “The game was still open at 2-0 with the penalty but went down under a challenge by Ramos, the Real defend- an early lead, and they then almost went further in front missed a first-half penalty but were chasing shadows from we didn’t concede and it was an efficient performance er appearing to grab his opponent’s hair. Former Mexico in the first half, hitting the bar and a post in quick succes- the moment Gareth Bale headed the third goal five min- from us,” Real coach Carlo Ancelotti told Spanish televi- midfielder Gerardo Torrado’s weak effort was then saved sion. utes into the second half. sion. by Casillas and that proved the end of his team’s chal- Instead, a Daniel Mullen own-goal levelled the scores Sergio Ramos and Karim Benzema were on target in “Ronaldo didn’t score but he is always there helping lenge. early in the second half and Setif looked on course to win the opening half before Bale and Isco completed the scor- the team and creating chances.” Real quickly took control Bale, unmarked at the far post, headed the third goal in it when Abdelmalik Ziaya made it 2-1. ing as Real received fanatical backing from the Marrakech against the CONCACAF champions and an early goal was the 50th minute and Isco slalomed his way through the A Vitor Saba free-kick a minute from the end brought crowd. on the cards. Cruz Azul defence for the fourth. Wanderers level again and took the match to penalties, in Cristiano Ronaldo failed to get on the scoresheet but Ronaldo was denied at point-blank range by Corona Meanwhile, Asian champions Western Sydney which Toufik Zerara scored the winning kick in sudden had the crowd in raptures in the second period when he and Benzema shaved the post before the keeper mis- Wanderers bowed out of the Club World Cup in Morocco death after the Nigerian Seyi Adeleke had skied his effort. met a cross on the half volley with a ‘rabona’ effort that judged a Toni Kroos free kick and Ramos headed home. yesterday with a defeat on penalties to ES Setif in a play- Later, at the same stadium, Argentina’s Copa Libertadores goalkeeper Jose Corona did well to save. Real, however, Cruz Azul responded well but failed to make the most off for fifth place. winners San Lorenzo face surprise package Auckland in left themselves open to criticism for excessive showboat- of their openings. Joao Rojas took too long over a shot, The match at the Grand Stade in Marrakech ended 2-2 the second semi-final for the right to meet Real Madrid in ing and even the initial enthusiasm of the fans died down then Rojas and Mariano Pavone got in each other’s way after 90 minutes before the Algerians, champions of Saturday’s final. —AFP New Zealand level series What’s next in World ABU DHABI: Kane Williamson hit a brilliant hundred dead, 132 of them students. That left the five-match series all square at 2-2 set- Cup bid corruption case as New Zealand won the fourth day-night interna- Both teams observed a two-minute silence and ting up a winners takes all final game also in Abdu GENEVA: Russia and Qatar appear to be the Is it strong enough to justify keeping the tional against Pakistan by seven runs in an exciting wore black armbands as a tribute to the victims. Dhabi on Friday. Younis’s 117-ball 103 ended a big winners on the day American prosecu- corruption case open? And how much of finish in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Williamson’s 105-ball 123 steered New Zealand to an drought of 74 innings as he capitalised on being tor Michael Garcia lost his appeal against Garcia’s 430-page dossier should be pub- Pakistan went ahead with the match despite calls imposing 299-5 before Younis Khan’s first one-day dropped by Ross Taylor off Adam Milne when only FIFA. Garcia, a former US Attorney, had lished when the FIFA Code of Ethics to postpone it after the Taliban attack on a school in hundred in six years got Pakistan agonisingly close as on two. objected to ethics judge Joachim Eckert’s demands that it stays sealed? When Garcia Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday which left 148 people they finished on 292-8 in 50 overs. However, when the veteran was seventh out summary of his World Cup bid investigation and Eckert met for peace talks at FIFA head- bowled by left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori (3-53) it into the 2018 and 2022 hosting votes, quarters in Zurich, they agreed to involve SCOREBOARD ended Pakistan’s hopes. Shahid Afridi helped Younis claiming there were “numerous materially Domenico Scala, the Swiss-Italian pharma- add a quick 66 for the sixth wicket, hitting five fours incomplete and erroneous representations” ceutical executive who chairs FIFA’s audit and two sixes in his 25-ball 49 but his fall followed of his report. The appeals committee of soc- and compliance committee. Scala has been ABU DHABI: Scoreboard of the fourth day-night international between Pakistan and New Zealand shortly afterwards by Younis saw the match swing cer’s governing body ruled Tuesday that analyzing Garcia’s report and must decide played at Sheikh Zayed Stadium yesterday. back New Zealand’s way. Garcia was unable to challenge Eckert’s how much of it he will present to the 27- Younis, whose last hundred came against the West New Zealand Younis Khan b Vettori 103 summary because they were only Eckert’s member FIFA executive committee. Indies at the same venue in 2008, put on 49 with M. Guptill c Ahmed b Tanvir 58 Mohammad Hafeez c Ronchi b Vettori 3 opinions. Blatter’s ruling committee should then Nasir Jamshed (30) for the second wicket and another D. Brownlie c Akmal b Afridi 42 Haris Sohail c Latham b Vettori 13 The German judge’s summary “does not decide if the case against bid candidates - 90 for the fifth with Umar Akmal who made 29. K. Williamson b Irfan 123 Umar Akmal run out 29 constitute a decision ... and as such is nei- also including much-criticized bids from In all Younis hit four boundaries and two sixes. He R. Taylor c Ahmed b Irfan 26 Shahid Afridi c Ronchi b Milne 49 ther legally binding nor appealable,” FIFA Australia and England - has anywhere to go. also became the oldest Pakistani to notch a one-day C. Anderson c Akmal b Ali 23 Sarfraz Ahmed c Ronchi b McClenaghan 18 said Tuesday in a statement. Still, Garcia’s In a separate discussion, the FIFA board hundred at 37 years 18 days, erasing Zaheer Abbas’s T. Latham not out 14 Sohail Tanvir not out 11 loss does not necessarily end the World Cup will debate publishing the Garcia report - a name from the record books as he was 35 years and Extras: (lb4, w9) 13 Anwar Ali not out 20 331 days old when he struck his last century for his bid corruption case, nor finally dispel document which has a sure place in FIFA Total: (for five wkts; 50 overs) 299 Extras: (b4, lb6, nb1, w5) 16 country. doubts about the integrity of a vote which lore given how critics have clamored for its Fall of wickets: 1-81 (Brownlie), 2-125 (Guptill), 3- Total: (for eight wkts; 50 overs) 292 Pakistan had lost opener Ahmed Shehzad in Matt chose Russia and Qatar as the next two release. Some board members believe FIFA 188 (Taylor), 4-227 (Anderson), 5-299 (Williamson) Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Shehzad), 2-52 (Jamshed), 3- Henry’s first over for a duck. New Zealand were lifted hosts. needs to publish Garcia’s work in full to Bowling: Tanvir 10-0-75-1 (3w), Irfan 10-1-53-2 59 (Hafeez), 4-82 (Sohail), 5-172 (Akmal), 6-238 to the third highest total at the ground of 299-5 by It did, however, signal a difficult week have a chance of restoring shattered public (2w), Ali 9-0-50-1 (1w), Afridi 10-0-46-1 (1w), (Afridi), 7-254 (Younis), 8-261 (Sarfraz) Williamson. Williamson added 44 for the second wick- ahead for those seeking reforms within FIFA faith in soccer’s traditionally secretive gov- as Sepp Blatter and his executive commit- erning body.
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