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Koeman Transforms Barcelona Amid Club Chaos and Elections ARAB TIMES, FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 5-6, 2021 SPORTS 14 Ibrahimovic struggles to recover in time for some big matches Struggling Milan visit Verona needing to rebuild confidence MILAN, March 4, (AP): As far as col- lapses go, AC Milan’s isn’t all that spectacular. It hasn’t even had much of an im- Leipzig down Wolfsburg to reach German Cup semifinals pact on the Serie A standings. LEIPZIG, Germany, March 4, (AP): Yussuf Pouls- defenders before hitting the ball past goalkeeper only the second fourth-tier club ever to reach the At the beginning of the year, Mi- en scored as Leipzig reached the semifinals of the Koen Casteels. Hwang Hee-chan made sure of semifinals after Saarbrücken managed the feat lan was in fi rst place in the league German Cup with a 2-0 win over a Wolfsburg team the win in the 88th when he lashed in a rebound last year. Kiel knocked out last year’s cup winner and hadn’t lost in 10 months. But the which hadn’t conceded a goal for eight games. after Casteels parried a close-range shot from Bayern Munich in the second round in January. team could fi nd itself six points be- Wolfsburg had the chance to seize control of Emil Forsberg. Borussia Dortmund booked its place in the hind league leader Inter Milan ahead the quarterfinal when it was awarded a first-half Leipzig and Wolfsburg are also rivals for semifinals on Tuesday when Jadon Sancho of Sunday’s tricky match at Hellas penalty after a video review found Christopher Champions League qualification, sitting second scored the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win Verona. Nkunku had fouled Kevin Mbabu while trying to and third respectively in the Bundesliga table. over local rival Borussia Mönchengladbach. The clear the ball. However, top scorer Wout Weg- Leipzig lost the cup final in 2019 and is bidding other quarterfinal between Werder Bremen and horst slipped as he took the spot kick and sent to win its first major trophy. second-division Jahn Regensburg was due to SOCCER the ball high over the crossbar. Also Wednesday, second-division Holstein be played Tuesday but was called off the day Poulsen picked up a pass from Alexander Kiel powered into the semifinals with a 3-0 win before when a number of Regensburg’s players Milan was in astounding form in Sorloth in the 64th minute and powered past two over Rot-Weiss Essen, which was bidding to be and staff tested positive for the coronavirus. 2020, losing only two games in the en- tire calendar year, but the team has lost match against Udinese. “I think the tinguished us.” against Manchester United, his former day, is unbeaten in four matches, a run four of its 11 league matches in 2021. AC Milan midfielder Franck Kessie team’s spirit and desire to never give Even more troubling for Pioli is that club. that includes a draw against Juventus. The fi rst of those was against Juven- (79) scores the penalty spot during up, to dig deep even when things are the team is struggling to score goals. Milan is also without a number of “We have to look each other in the tus on Jan. 6, ending the Rossoneri’s the Serie A soccer match between tough, are not in doubt. That said, In the past six matches in all competi- other injured players, including for- eyes and understand what we want 27-match unbeaten run. AC Milan and Udinese at the San we cannot be happy tonight. We are tions, Milan has scored only once from ward Mario Mandžukić. from our future, because there aren’t Milan has since lost its sense of in- Siro stadium, in Milan, Italy, on not satisfied with our performance open play. The other goals have come “We’re disappointed that we didn’t many games left and the next matches vincibility and Wednesday’s 1-1 draw March 3. (AP) and the result. from penalty kicks or own-goals. manage to take more advantage of the will be vital,” Milan defender Davide against Udinese capped a miserable “In the morning we’ll start prepar- Zlatan Ibrahimović’s injury absence many crosses we put in, also because Calabria said. “We all know its going month which has seen the team lose dip, coach Stefano Pioli said he was ing for the next match. We’ll analyze has added to Milan’s problems. The we were missing our two out-and-out to be tough. Hellas play good soccer two of its last four league matches with not too concerned. That has changed. this one, but then need to think about Swedish forward is struggling to re- forwards that we have in the squad,” and are on a positive run. We have to only one victory. “We could have and should have the next one. We need to rediscover cover in time for some big matches, Pioli said. work to get to this match in the best When Milan’s form fi rst started to done more,” Pioli said after the that enthusiasm and freedom that dis- including the Europa League game Verona, Milan’s opponent on Sun- possible way.” Motsepe favored candidate Koeman transforms Barcelona FIFA ‘tours’ Africa, aims to hold sway in election amid club chaos and elections GENEVA, March 4, (AP): As the tion to be elected FIFA president head of African soccer battles in in 2016, and one year later trav- court this week to stay on the bal- eled extensively during the cam- lot for re-election, FIFA President paign to help Ahmad unseat long- Barca return to Copa del Rey final Gianni Infantino is coming off a time CAF president Issa Hayatou. comprehensive tour of the conti- African tours during election nent. periods “are clearly very problem- BARCELONA, Spain, The timing of the visit does not atic,” said Miguel Maduro, the in- appear to be coincidental. dependent offi cial who vetted can- March 4, (AP): Whoever Infantino fueled talk of election didates for FIFA in 2017 before becomes Barcelona presi- interference by visiting about a being ousted by the leadership in dent will have a hard time dozen African countries and meet- Zurich. getting rid of Ronald Koe- ing heads of state along the way “Their (African members) ac- - ala predecessor Sepp Blatter – cess to money depends on the man as coach. while promoting his preferred can- goodwill of the president of The progress the team has made didate, South African billionaire FIFA,” Maduro told The Associat- since losing to Bayern Munich 8-2 Patrice Motsepe. ed Press in a telephone interview. in August was evident on Wednes- The current president of the Infantino’s latest trip was de- Confederation of African Football, tailed in news updates on FIFA’s day, when Barcelona rallied past Ahmad Ahmad of Madagascar, website. He echoed Blatter’s Sevilla to reach the Copa del Rey is appeal- trademark rhetoric by promis- final with a 3-0 extra-time win. ing against ing more money and praising his In the build-up to the second leg a fi ve-year hosts. of the semifi nals in Seville, Koeman ban imposed called on the rest of team to step up by FIFA for SOCCER and give Lionel Messi a hand in scor- fi nancial ing goals. And although Messi was misconduct still the engine that drives Barcelona’s while run- “Before my arrival at FIFA, attack with his passing, dribbling and ning the each federation received $250,000. vision, it fell to three of his teammates Cairo-based Today it’s $1.5 million per year,” to put the ball past Sevilla’s imposing body. Infantino said in Brazzaville, Re- defense. Although public of Congo. “Is it enough? “This is my happiest night as Bar- Infantino Motsepe No, we can do more. We must do celona’s coach,” Koeman said after his helped put Ahmad in offi ce four more.” team overturned Sevilla’s 2-0 victory years ago, it is unlikely that even Infantino said in Mali that play- from the fi rst leg at Camp Nou last a victory for the Madagascan at ers at a new technical center will month. the Court of Arbitration for Sport “lift this great nation to the highest “We always believed. We have nev- would help his chances in a cam- heights of African and world foot- er given up on this Copa,” the former paign increasingly infl uenced by ball.” In Benin, he said the country Barcelona defender said. “It is a ques- the FIFA president. could “very well be one of those tion of mentality. As coach, I cannot In the aftermath of Infantino’s models” for world soccer. ask my team to give any more than African tour, a deal was offered FIFA said in a statement that the what it did tonight.” to the four candidates challenging focus of the tour “was on football Barcelona faces an even bigger Ahmad in the March 12 election development across the continent” hurdle next week when it visits Paris to clear the way for Motsepe, ac- and to hear the candidates’ views Saint-Germain in the Champions cording to the offi ce of Senegalese and plans. League trailing 4-1 from the fi rst leg. candidate Augustin Senghor. No Infantino has consistently But the team can aspire to keep up its agreement was reached. said he wants African national positive momentum in the Spanish Motsepe, a mining magnate, is and club teams to be contenders league.
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