SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2016 SPORTS

Bradley secures first Swansea success with 5-4 win over Palace

But Swansea was not finished yet and Llorente diverted home a shot from Swansea 5 Sigurdsson before prodding in the win- ner.—AP

Crystal Palace 4 Matches on TV (Local Timings) SWANSEA: Bob Bradley celebrated his first win as Swansea manager when Fernando Llorente’s stoppage-time double clinched a English wild 5-4 victory over Crystal Palace in the English Premier League yesterday. Watford v Stoke City 15:00 Swansea led 3-1 with 15 minutes to go beIN SPORTS 2 HD but faced a sixth successive winless game Arsenal v Bournemouth 17:15 after going 4-3 behind by conceding three beIN SPORTS 2 HD goals in nine minutes. Man’ United v West Ham 19:30 The comeback ended Bradley’s wait for beIN SPORTS 2 HD a Premier League win but Palace manager Southampton v Everton 19:30 Alan Pardew was condemned to a sixth loss beIN SPORTS 8 HD in a row. Swansea climbed off the bottom of the 20-team standings and Palace was Spanish League Primera Div two points ahead in 16th. It started so well for Palace as Swansea’s Villarreal v Deportivo 14:00 aerial struggles were exposed against the beIN SPORTS 3 HD powerful Christian Benteke. He nodded the Osasuna v Atletico 18:15 ball down into the path of Wilfried Zaha, beIN SPORTS 3 HD who made the most of timid defending from Neil Taylor and Federico Fernandez to Vigo v Balaidos 20:30 fire his fourth goal of the season past goal- beIN SPORTS 3 HD keeper Lukasz Fabianski. Real Sociedad v Barcelona 22:45 beIN SPORTS 3 HD But the mood changed inside Liberty MADRID: Real Madrid’s , centre, attempts an over heard kick next to Sporting’s Carlos Carmona, right, during a Spanish Stadium when Jason Puncheon was soccer match between Real Madrid and Sporting at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, yesterday. Real Madrid won 2-1. —AP adjudged to have fouled Jack Cork on the Italian Calcio League Serie A edge of the penalty area. Gylfi Sigurdsson struck a terrific free kick past Wayne Palermo v Lazio 14:30 Hennessey to equalize in the 36th. beIN SPORTS 4 HD Ronaldo double extends It was a lifeline for Swansea as the host Bologna v Atalanta 17:00 rarely threatened up until that point, but it beIN SPORTS 7 HD almost threw it away two minutes later Genoa v Juventus 17:00 Real lead over Barcelona when Zaha headed Yohan Cabaye’s cross beIN SPORTS 4 HD against the crossbar before the ball was Cagliari v Udinese 17:00 bundled to safety. beIN SPORTS 8 HD MADRID: struck twice as Real “We lacked a little bit of everything, but we time when a rare misplaced pass from Luka After the break, Palace forward Connor Crotone v Sampdoria 17:00 Madrid were thankful to a late missed penalty are happy to get the three points which is the Modric allowed Isma Lopez to cross from the left Wickham was taken off on a stretcher with beIN SPORTS 12 HD EN from Duje Cop to open up a seven-point lead most important thing.” and Carmona’s outstretched leg prodded the what appeared to be a knee injury. The Roma v Pescara 22:45 over Barcelona at the top of La Liga with a 2-1 Fresh from netting a hat-trick against Atletico ball past Navas. In deteriorating conditions London club was being pushed back as beIN SPORTS 4 HD win over Sporting Gijon yesterday. Madrid last weekend, Ronaldo continued his caused by the torrential rain, Madrid struggled Sigurdsson and Modou Barrow became Madrid looked set for an easy afternoon as return to scoring form with a quickfire double to to get going after the break. increasingly influential and Swansea took German Bundesliga 1st Div Ronaldo opened the scoring from the penalty move ahead of Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez as Zidane withdrew captain Sergio Ramos with the lead in the 66th. spot before he headed home a second inside 20 La Liga’s top scorer. Sporting had the first big an eye on the Clasico against Barcelona next Substitute Llorente’s first touch proving Schalke v Darmstadt 17:30 minutes. However, Carlos Carmona halved chance to go in front when Carmona fired wide Saturday with the Spanish international a yellow crucial after heading toward the goal. Sporting’s deficit 10 minutes before half-time with just goalkeeper Keylor Navas to beat. card away from missing that game through sus- Although Yohan Cabaye stopped the ball beIN SPORTS 5 HD Hertha Berlin v Mainz 19:30 and the struggling visitors were handed a huge However, they were quickly behind when pension. However, that decision nearly backfired on the line with the possible use of an arm, chance for an unexpected point 12 minutes Lucas Vazquez was naively chopped down by as Nacho moved into central defence and quick- beIN SPORTS Leroy Fer was primed to squeeze home the from time when Nacho brought down Victor Sergio Alvarez on five minutes and Ronaldo ly brought down Sporting substitute Victor rebound. Two minutes later Palace strug- emphatically converted the resulting spot-kick. Rodriguez inside the area. Cop pardoned French League 1st Div Rodriguez. Yet, Cop sent his penalty high and gled to cope with another set-piece and Fer wide as Real held on amidst a torrential down- The Portuguese’s second finish was even Nacho’s mistake, though, as the Croatian lent finished again at the far post for his sixth pour to extend their unbeaten run to 31 games more impressive as he buried Nacho’s cross from back and sent the ball well wide of Navas’s goal goal of the season. Angers v Saint Etienne 17:00 in all competitions. Barca can cut the gap back the left with a powerful header that left Diego much to the relief of thousands inside the But Palace gave itself a lifeline when beIN SPORTS to four points when they travel to Real Sociedad Marino no chance in the Sporting goal. Bernabeu. Ronaldo should have completed his James Tomkins bundled home before Nice v Bastia 19:00 today ahead of the first Clasico of the season In between times Ronaldo had also headed hat-trick late on as he broke clear on goal, but Zaha’s cross struck Cork and looped over beIN SPORTS 6 HD between Spanish football’s two giants at the wastefully wide when unmarked from a corner, his low shot was too close to Marino as Real had Fabianski. Palace surged back in front when Lyonnais v Lyonnais 22:45 Camp Nou next weekend. while Marino parried another fierce effort as the to see out a nervy final few minutes to secure a Benteke found the net off a post in a beIN SPORTS 6 HD “It is a game for us to forget because things three-time World Player of the Year chased his sixth straight La Liga win. crowded goalmouth. didn’t go as we would have liked,” said Madrid 40th hat-trick for Madrid. Instead, it was A 10th straight game without a win leaves boss Zinedine Zidane. Sporting who halved the arrears before half- Sporting still rooted in the bottom three. —AFP Aguero double earns Man City 2-1 win at Burnley Leicester 2

attempted clearing header fell invitingly for long-serving Marney, who rifled Middlesbrough 2 Burnley 1 the ball past Claudio Bravo’s dive for his first Premier League goal in seven years. City responded but Robinson made a fine one-handed save to deny Nolito and Man City 2 Aguero lifted his own effort over the bar Slimani spot on from Fernandinho’s lay-off. Burnley eventu- ally succumbed on 36 minutes and almost BURNLEY: Manchester City overcame inevitably, it was Aguero who scored his to save Leicester Burnley’s spirited challenge as Sergio ninth goal in 11 Premier League games and Aguero’s double inspired their fightback for 15th in all competitions, pouncing at the LEICESTER: Leicester salvaged a dramatic 2-2 draw a 2-1 win at Turf Moor yesterday. far post after Nolito’s initial shot from a cor- against Middlesbrough as Islam Slimani converted a Aguero’s decisive brace took his remark- ner had been blocked. penalty deep into stoppage-time at the King Power able scoring run to 33 goals in 34 Premier The scene appeared set for City to stride Stadium yesterday. Claudio Ranieri’s side trailed twice League games after Dean Marney had giv- into the lead before half-time, but to goals from Middlesbrough striker Alvaro Negredo, en Burnley a surprise lead over the title Robinson produced his best moment so but Riyad Mahrez got Leicester’s first equaliser with a contenders. far, a superb one-handed flying save to penalty before his Algerian team-mate Slimani struck City’s recovery secured their sixth win in keep out Aguero’s fierce shot on the turn. from the spot to earn a point with virtually the last kick seven away games and moved them to the Burnley, having lost the advantage, also of a thrilling encounter. top of the table, although they could sur- lost scorer Marney to an injury and then Although Leicester finished the happier thanks to render pole position to Liverpool or Iceland midfielder Johann Gudmundsson their late escape, the Foxes remain too close to the rele- Chelsea later in the day. limped off with a hamstring strain before LIVERPOOL: Liverpool’s English midfielder James Milner scores their second goal from gation zone for comfort and their fairytale title seems a It was the first time this season that Pep half-time. City took the lead on the hour the penalty spot during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool lifetime ago just seven months later. Middlesbrough Guardiola’s team had come from behind to after Yaya Toure went down in the area and and Sunderland at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England yesterday. —AFP went into the match as the Premier League’s joint low- win, and the first time since September Burnley made a hash of clearing before est scorers, but they threatened first as Adama Traore they had won back-to-back league games, Fernandinho was able to cut the ball back Liverpool overcomes Coutinho sped past Christian Fuchs and drove in a cross-shot that having triumphed at Crystal Palace last towards the near post where Aguero put Ron-Robert Zieler parried to Marten de Roon, who time out. Burnley sprung a surprise by the ball in with his knee. swept his effort wide. Karanka’s team had found their including former England goalkeeper Paul Burnley refused to go down without a injury, beats Sunderland 2-0 stride quickly and Negredo’s 977-minute goal drought Robinson, now 37, after Tom Heaton fight, but Michael Keane’s well-directed poor record at Anfield continued - came to an end in the 13th minute. injured a calf during training to miss his header was cleared, George Boyd had a including his spells at Everton and Negredo, on loan from Valencia, had gone 11 games first game since joining the club. shot blocked, and substitute Ashley Barnes without a goal since scoring in the opening game of the Liverpool 2 Manchester United, Moyes hasn’t won in Robinson, signed on a free transfer from had an overhead kick well saved as City 14 games. season, but the Spanish striker was in unusually clinical Blackburn, had not played in the Premier held out. —AFP The visitors conceded 78 percent of mood as he exchanged passes with Gaston Ramirez and League since 2012 and had gone 802 days possession but managed to limit fired high into the net from inside the penalty area. without a first-team game, but he showed Sunderland 0 Liverpool to a handful of half-chances in Leicester’s 2-1 Champions League win over Brugge in he still has the ability that earned him 41 the first half. midweek was the latest memorable moment in their maiden voyage in Europe’s elite club competition. caps and a career that took in Tottenham Part of Sunderland’s success in negat- Ranieri’s men have been far less inspired in their title and Leeds. Burnley were defending one of LIVERPOOL: Liverpool overcame the ing the threat of Liverpool, which scored defence, but they roused themselves after falling the best home records in the Premier loss of Philippe Coutinho to a serious- 17 times in five previous home league behind and Japan striker Shinji Okazaki hit the bar with League, having won four of their previous looking first-half injury to beat matches, was Jason Denayer’s man- a spectacular scissor kick from Mahrez’s cross. The six games - a run bettered only by Chelsea, Sunderland 2-0 and keep up its title chal- marking job on Coutinho. The one occa- Foxes’ pressure was rewarded with a 34th minute Liverpool and Tottenham - and they took lenge in the English Premier League yes- sion that the on-loan Manchester City the game to City. equaliser when Middlesbrough defender Calum terday. defender lost his man resulted in Chambers was penalised for handball and Mahrez The visitors were fortunate not to con- Coutinho was carried off on a stretch- Coutinho’s injury, as Ndong’s follow- cede a penalty as early as the fifth minute, stroked home the spot-kick. er in the 34th minute with his right leg in through caught the right foot of the After scoring 13 times by this stage last season, but the referee Andre Marriner waved away a brace after a challenge with Brazilian, who was trying to jink past him. the protests when Jeff Hendrick went Leicester striker Jamie Vardy has found himself stuck in Sunderland midfielder Didier Ndong. Sunderland’s one chance before the a rut with 14 games without a goal since he netted his down after an elbow in the back from Divock Origi came on as Coutinho’s break fell to former Everton midfielder Nicolas Otamendi. second of the campaign on September 10. Vardy could replacement and put Liverpool ahead in Steven Pienaar but goalkeeper Loris have broken his barren streak when Okazaki crossed the 75th minute with a curling shot into Karius just got out quick enough to towards him just before half time, but Ramirez cleared FLYING SAVE the far corner. James Milner converted a block. Liverpool’s frustration finally end- Guardiola made five changes from the as the England international prepared to shoot. penalty in stoppage time to seal victory ed 15 minutes from time when Jordan It would prove another frustrating afternoon for team that played in midweek in the after Ndong tripped Sadio Mane. Henderson picked out Origi on the left of Champions League, but they struggled to Vardy, who was booked and never looked likely to get Liverpool, which started the 13th the penalty area and the striker threaded on the scoresheet before being substituted midway come to terms with Burnley’s approach and BURNLEY: Burnley’s English defender round of games in second place, has lost a shot across a crowded box and inside through the second half. energy. Robinson did have to tip an effort James Tarkowski (2nd L) vies with only once this season. The exact nature the far post. Manchester City’s Ivorian midfielder Vardy was replaced by Slimani and Mahrez also from Argentina forward Aguero round a of Coutinho’s injury wasn’t immediately After Milner stepped up to score his Yaya Toure and Manchester City’s departed as Ranieri tried to pep up his attack, yet post but then, on 13 minutes, the goal- clear. The loss put an end to Sunderland’s Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho (up) fifth goal of the season, Liverpool man- Middlesbrough regained the lead in the 71st minute. keeper initiated the opening goal as mini-revival, after back-to-back wins lift- ager Juergen Klopp had the luxury of Adam Forshaw’s high pass over the Leicester defence Burnley took the lead. during the English Premier League foot- ball match between Burnley and ed the team off the bottom of the stand- handing 17-year-old academy graduate sent Negredo racing clear and he fired a low strike past Robinson launched a long free-kick into ings. Sunderland manager David Moyes’ Ben Woodburn a debut. — AP Zieler. —AFP the City penalty area and Otamendi’s Manchester City. —AFP