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P19 Olpy 2 Layout 1 TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017 SPORTS Manager Caixinha paces Rangers in push for second GLASGOW: Rangers manager Pedro Aberdeen and champions Celtic. a lot of work in front of us.” making the move to Ibrox from Qatari ries from their previous 16 games. Caixinha said there was a lot of hard “It was a really important match for Aberdeen had been on top, but they club Al Gharafa. “I felt we were the better team work ahead after his side cut the gap to us. We set this up as the first of seven were made to pay for their profligacy in “I’m settled in now, but I’m not going throughout, bar a crazy four or five min- second-place Aberdeen with a 3-0 win matches that we must win until the end front of goal when Kenny Miller scored a to know Scottish football really until the utes which gave Rangers the opportuni- at Pittodrie. of the season,” the 46-year-old sublime opener in the 79th minute. end of the season,” he said. “I’m getting ty,” said Dons manager Derek McInnes. Three late goals in four second-half Portuguese said. The veteran striker added a second to know it on a team-by-team basis, but “Our players have been on a brilliant minutes on Sunday saw Rangers close to “It was crucial. We were facing a very just over a minute later before substitute I’m not worried by that. run and that result is very unusual. “It’s a within nine points of the Dons with six strong side, demonstrated by the begin- Joe Dodoo lashed home a third in the “I’m assessing what we have in our sore one for us. In the eyes of our sup- games remaining in the Scottish ning of the first half and the beginning 83rd minute. It ended a run of two con- house. The mentality we need to have porters that’s a huge disappointment Premiership. of the second half, when they made a lot secutive draws for the Gers as they won and spread at the club-that is what I am and we understand that. Caixinha said it was a “crucial” win, of problems for us. for the first time in six away games. trying to focus on all the time.” “But while we’ve lost the fight today but urged his players to show the same “It was just one game, so we need to It was a welcome boost for Caxinha, The defeat brought to a halt a club it’s important we still win the battle for resolve in their remaining fixtures, which keep going. Of course it is always impor- who admitted he is still finding his feet record run of 10 consecutive home wins second and hopefully get ourselves into will include home games against both tant to add confidence, but we still have in Scottish football just a month after for the Dons, who had claimed 15 victo- a cup final.” —AFP Malaga keeper Kameni thwarts Barcelona again PARIS: Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis half was his fifth goal of the season, with Suarez hold no fears for Cameroon-born three coming in his last eight games. Malaga goalkeeper Carlos Kameni. He kept the celebrated attacking trio at bay with ITALY relative ease as his club dented the La Liga MOHAMED SALAH (Roma) ambitions of Barca by winning 2-0 at the It took Roma time to get going but after weekend. It was the second time in three Federico Fazio fired the visitors into a 25th- seasons that Kameni has kept two clean minute lead in Bologna, Egyptian Salah sheets against star-stacked Barcelona. added a touch of magic with a delightful lob over home ‘keeper Antonio Mirante CHEIKHOU KOUYATE (West Ham United) after collecting Edin Dzeko’s chip four min- Senegal midfielder Kouyate picked a utes before the interval. Another goal com- good time to score his first goal of the sea- pleted a 3-0 win for Roma. son. His first-half strike secured a 1-0 win over Swansea City that ended a deeply AFRIYIE ACQUAH (Torino) damaging run of five successive defeats for Torino had already taken firm control by West Ham. It was a fine goal, too-Kouyate the time Acquah hit a 20-yard screamer collecting a pass from Robert Snodgrass, that went in under the crossbar in the 53rd advancing down the centre of the pitch minute of a 3-2 win at Cagliari. But the and letting fly from 25 yards with a shot Ghanaian’s slightly deflected drive, which that flew into Lukasz Fabianski’s bottom- gave Toro a 3-1 lead, proved decisive in the left corner. end. Acquah now has two league goals this season. ISLAM SLIMANI (Leicester City) Slimani scored for the second game run- FRANCE ning, but it proved to be in a losing cause CHEICK DIABATE (Metz) as Leicester’s six-game winning run in all The giant Malian striker was back in the competitions came to an end in a 4-2 Metz line-up for the trip to former club defeat at Everton. The Algeria frontman Bordeaux, having sat out the 3-0 loss to struck in the fourth minute at Goodison Lyon in midweek. He could do nothing to DORTMUND: Monaco’s players warm up during a training session in Dortmund, yesterday on the eve of the Champions League football match Park, tucking Demarai Gray’s pass beneath stop Metz suffering another defeat by an between Borussia Dortmund and AS Monaco. — AFP Joel Robles to cancel out Tom Davies’ open- identical scoreline, however. Diabate was er. It was his first away goal as a Leicester unable to add to his five goals since signing player. on loan from Turkish side Osmanlispor in SOCCER January. VICTOR MOSES (Chelsea) After two games out with a toe injury BENJAMIN MOUKANDJO (Lorient) Zidane meets mentor Ancelotti Moses made his return in Chelsea’s 3-1 win The captain of the Cameroon side that at Bournemouth and played a key role in won the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations against the league leaders’ opening goal. Having all the odds, Moukandjo is now doing his drifted into space on the right, the Nigeria best to lead Lorient to a miraculous escape in Champions League quarters winger squared the ball to Diego Costa, from the jaws of relegation. He scored two whose mishit shot deflected in off Adam goals and set up another in a stunning 4-1 BARCELONA: As if a combined 16 European Shakespeare after falling 4-2 at Everton. Smith’s head for an own goal. win in Lyon. Moukandjo now has five goals Cups weren’t enough, the Champions League The Premier League champions had won six BAYERN MUNICH vs. REAL MADRID in his last five games and 12 altogether, quarterfinal between Real Madrid and Bayern consecutive games, including its Round-of-16 Besides relying on its own potent attack, AHMED ELMOHAMADY (Hull City) and three wins in a row have taken Lorient Munich will also offer an intriguing duel victory over Sevilla, after sacking Claudio Ranieri. Bayern will also hope that Cristiano Ronaldo Egypt right-back Elmohamady inadver- out of the bottom two. between master and pupil. However, with Shakespeare making five continues to struggle in front of goal this season tently opened the door to defeat as Hull Zinedine Zidane’s transition from retired play- changes to his starting lineup, Leicester should in Europe. The Champions League’s all-time scor- were beaten 3-1 at Manchester City. He PREJUCE NAKOULMA (Nantes) er to successful coach at Madrid owes a lot to his be at full strength in Madrid. er with 95 career goals has only struck twice this completely misjudged his attempt to clear A powerful forward who had spent time at the club under current Bayern boss Carlo “We’re all excited for Wednesday night and campaign. That has allowed Barcelona rival Jesus Navas’s 31st-minute cross and suc- much of his career in Poland, Nakoulma Ancelotti. Come Wednesday, the former col- it’s going to be a great occasion, but we have to Lionel Messi to close the gap after scoring 11 ceeded only in bundling the ball into his was a star of the Cup of Nations with third- leagues will face off in the first of two contests to improve on that performance today,” winger goals to take his total to 94. own net. placed Burkina Faso and is now starring for determine which will guide his team to Europe’s Marc Albrighton said. Bayern arrives in fine form, enjoying a 10- Nantes. His goal secured a 1-1 draw at final four. Atletico is playing its best football of the sea- point lead in the Bundesliga. The German side SPAIN Saint-Etienne. It was his fifth goal in his last “We’re ready for Real,” said Ancelotti, who led son and got a big boost Saturday from Antoine will be without defender Mats Hummels (ankle), CARLOS KAMENI (Malaga) four appearances. Madrid to the 2014 title with Zidane as his assis- Griezmann, whose late equalizer earned a 1-1 while Madrid will likely be missing defenders No one is more adept at stopping tant, a run which included defeating Bayern 5-0 draw at Real Madrid. Pepe (ribs) and Raphael Varane (leg). — AP Barcelona’s superstar front three of Lionel GERMANY on aggregate in the semifinals. Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar than PIERRE-EMERICK AUBAMEYANG Two years later, it was Zidane’s turn to lift the Cameroonian ‘keeper Kameni as he regis- (Borussia Dortmund) European Cup as Madrid’s manager, just four tered an eighth career clean sheet against In the race to be the Bundesliga’s top- months after taking the job over from Ancelotti’s Better than Beckham? Barca.
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