SPORTS Sunday, May 14, 2017 21 Football Scores as of closing English :

ManCity

Man City 2 Leicester 1 Bournemouth 2 Burnley 1 Middlesbrough 1 Southampton 2 Sunderland 0 Swansea 2 overcome Stoke 1 Arsenal 4 Italy’s Serie A: City’s Nicolas Otamendi appeals to the referee saying that Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez accidently kicked the ball twice when he scored from the penalty spot. Leicester

anchester City enjoyed a “When I saw the reaction to slide through the trapdoor. winner. huge let-off in its quest from Willy, I understood For much of a season in Southampton is ninth and Mfor a top-four finish in the immediately that it was two which the club sacked two Bournemouth 10th, with both Premier League and Swansea touches,” Manchester City managers, Swansea has looked clubs on 45 points. City edged to within sight of manager , whose destined to return to the second Arsenal has edged to within survival with a crucial victory side finish with matches against tier after a five-season stay in a point of fourth-placed yesterday. West Bromwich Albion and the top flight. Liverpool with an impressive A freakish penalty “miss” by Watford, told reporters. But under Paul Clement, 4-1 victory over Stoke City. Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez “The referee was so brave Swansea’s improved ’s brace and at the Etihad Stadium allowed in making the decision. I’ve dramatically and Saturday’s 2-0 goals from Alexis Sanchez and Manchester City to squeeze out seen that happen before, a long victory at hapless Sunderland Mesut Ozil sealed an emphatic Fiorentina 3 Lazio 2 a 2-1 victory that lifted them to time ago. It’s not normal to see means the club will be safe if victory for Arsenal, which Atalanta 1 AC Milan 1 third place, above Liverpool. something like that, but it is Hull City loses to Crystal Palace has won five of its past six Mahrez beat Manchester what it is.” on Sunday. games to jump right back into City goalkeeper Willy Caballero With Chelsea having Fernando Llorente and Kyle contention. Germany’s Bundesliga: with 13 minutes remaining but wrapped up the title on Naughton were both on target “We had a difficult week but had slipped in his run-up and Friday and Sunderland and for the Swans, with the Welsh we’ve won convincingly so the inadvertently struck the ball Middlesbrough already outfit on 38 points with one focus is there, the fighting spirit twice, once with each foot, to relegated, the final flurry of game left, the same as Crystal is there and we’re pleased to send it spinning into the net. matches will decide which Palace, which has a superior win,” manager Arsene Wenger Eagle-eyed referee Robert two clubs join the champions goal difference. told the BBC. Madley correctly applied the and second-placed Tottenham Hull has 34 with two games “I believe when the team law and Manchester City Hotspur in the Champions left. plays well we have the right breathed deeply League and who becomes “It’s a huge result for us. individual talent to win. We before seeing out the third We’ve got ourselves into a just have to win our games.” the remainder side strong position but the season Peter Crouch scored Stoke’s of the game to is not over and we don’t think only goal, though he appeared Bayer Leverkusen 2 Cologne 2 stay on course it is done. Now have to look to to propel the ball with his hand. Schalke 04 1 Hamburg 1 for Champions next week,” Clement said. Manchester City, Mainz 4 Eintracht 2 League In the battle for south coast which has 72 points to Wolfsburg 1 Borussia 1 qualification. bragging rights Southampton Liverpool’s 70 and Arsenal’s Augsburg 1 Dortmund 1 beat Middlesbrough 2-1 on 69, has its destiny firmly in Werder Bremen 3 Hoffenheim 5 Saturday with goals by Jay its own hands although there Darmstadt 0 Hertha Berlin 2 Rodriguez and Nathan were nerves aplenty against Freiburg 1 Ingolstadt 1 Redmond keeping Leicester. RB Leipzig 4 Bayern Munich 5 the Saints above David Silva’s controversial Bournemouth, opener, allowed to stand which beat despite Raheem Sterling Spain’s : Burnley 2-1 apparently being offside thanks to and interfering with play, Espanyol 0 Valencia 1 Joshua and Gabriel Jesus’s penalty Osasuna 2 Granada 1 King’s should have made it a routine late afternoon for Guardiola’s side. Shinji Okazaki’s stunning Scottish Premiership: volley just before halftime Dundee 1 Ross County 1 re-energised Leicester though Hamilton 0 Motherwell 1 Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola looks happy and City could have had few Kilmarnock 2 Inverness 1 with the result complaints had Mahrez’s Rangers 2 Hearts 1 penalty earned the visitors a St Johnstone 1 Partick. 0 draw. (Reuters)