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Root and Denly keep Australia at bay Palace stun Man United Marcus Rashford suffers penalty woe as Manchester United fall to Crystal Palace

Tammy Abraham double• fires Chelsea to first win of Lampard’s reign

AFP | Norwich anchester United suf- fered fresh penalty Joe Root plays a shot Mwoe as Marcus Rash- AFP | Leeds edged a lifting Pat Cummins ford missed from the spot in to at their shock 2-1 home defeat first slip before Roy, yet to against Crystal Palace, while ngland Joe Root convince as a Test match open- Chelsea manager Frank Lam- Eand Joe Denly were fight- er, played down the wrong line pard secured his first win at ing hard to prevent a three-day to Josh Hazlewood, who took Norwich yesterday. defeat in the third Test after 5-30 in the first innings, and On Monday, United were Australia threatened anoth- was bowled. forced to settle for a 1-1 draw at er Ashes rout at Headingley Root, in on a pair, got off the Wolves after Paul Pogba’s pen- yesterday. mark with a three off fast bowl- alty was saved by Rui Patricio When Australia took two er Hazlewood to the delight when the France star insisted Crystal Palace’s scores their second for no runs in four of his home Yorkshire fans on taking over spot-kick duties balls to leave England 15-2, it in a capacity, sun-drenched from Rashford. But a terrible blunder by the club to put Chelsea ahead. looked like another dramatic crowd. But Rashford fared no better United ‘keeper De Gea proved A pulsating encounter saw collapse was on the cards fol- Denly, the only England when he hit a post from the spot decisive in the third minute of Todd Cantwell equalise for lowing the hosts’ woeful 67 -- batsman to reach double fig- in the second half against Palace stoppage-time as the Spaniard Norwich before Mason Mount their lowest Ashes total since ures in the first innings with 12, at , putting United allowed van Aanholt’s shot to restored Chelsea’s advantage. 1948 -- in the first innings. repeatedly played and missed on course for their first defeat KNOW WHAT squeeze under him at the near Teemu Pukki’s fifth goal in But at tea on third day, Eng- either side of being hit on the of the sea - post. three games this season brought land had recovered to 90-2. head by a Cummins bouncer. son when Patrick van Aanholt It was Palace’s first league win Norwich back on level terms Root, in on a pair, was 41 not But both he and Root applied grabbed the visitors’ winner in It was Palace’s first over United since May 1991 and before half-time, only for Abra- out and Denly 30 with themselves on an increasingly stoppage-time. league win over their first league victory at Old ham to give Chelsea the points their third- stand so far slow pitch that was making Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had sent United since May 1991 Trafford since December 1989. with his predatory second-half worth 75 runs. life tough for Australia’s pace out United’s first unchanged and their first league At Carrow Road, Tammy finish. England still needed a fur- attack. line-up in the Premier League victory at Old Trafford Abraham got the Lampard era ls Brighton, who paid the ther 269 runs to reach an un- And there was a huge cheer since December 2017, but that up and running as the young price for the 30th-minute dis- likely target of 359 and with 39 from the crowd when Root’s group produced a tame first-half since December 1989 Chelsea striker’s double helped missal of forward Florin An- overs left in the day there was controlled hook off Hazle - performance as Palace took the had scored a penalty against seal a 3-2 win over the Canaries. done for nasty high challenge time for them to be bowled out wood raised a fifty partnership lead in the 32nd minute. Chelsea in the first game of the Lampard had gone three on Yan Valery. before stumps. with Denly. Palace keeper campaign, took the ball as Pog- games without a victory in all Southampton took the lead But they were at least mak- The odds were still hugely in thumped the ball upfield and ba looked on, but the England competitions since he took when Mali Under-20 interna- ing Australia work for a win Australia’s favour, given only flicked on to striker’s spot-kick cannoned over as Chelsea manager, but tional Moussa Djenepo struck that would see them retain the three sides have made more , who was played back off the woodwork. the Blues legend finally got off with his first touch in the 55th Ashes at 2-0 up with two to than 300 to win in the fourth onside by the slow-to-react Former Swansea midfielder the mark thanks to his faith in minute -- just 78 seconds after play in a five-match series. innings of a Test at Headingley Harry Maguire as he side-foot- Daniel James looked to have Abraham. coming on as a substitute. Surrey openers Rory Burns -- Australia (404-3 in 1948), ed past David de Gea for Palace’s spared Rashford’s blushes when Abraham had failed to score Leicester substitute Harvey and Jason Roy both fell cheap- England (315-4 against Aus- first goal of the season. he bagged his second goal for in his three previous appearanc- Barnes sealed his side’s first ly shortly after lunch. tralia, 2001) and the West In- When Scott McTominay United with a fine finish in the es this term, but the 21-year-old victory of the campaign as they Left-hander Burns (seven) dies with 322-5 two years ago. was fouled, Rashford, who 89th minute. striker bagged his first goal for beat Sheffield United 2-1. Cummins grabs place in record Leverkusen see off Duesseldorf AFP | Berlin Karim Bellarabi made it three clean sheet,” he said. just before half-time. Werder Bremen still have no books with 95-minute duck ayer Leverkusen strik- Yet Volland bemoaned his points from their opening two AFP | Antigua and Barbuda Ber Kevin Volland said his side’s lapse in concentration games after they lost a five-goal team were “not at 100 percent” after Alfredo Morales grabbed thriller to Hoffenheim. est Indies tailender despite an impressive 3-1 win a consolation goal for Dues - The home side looked com- Miguel Cummins over Fortuna Duesseldorf in the seldorf. fortable after second-half goals Wbooked an unwanted Bundesliga yesterday. “We deserved to win but we from Ermin Bicakcic and Ihlas place in ’s record books English midfielder Lewis are not at 100 percent. Oth - Bebou had cancelled out Niclas yesterday when he faced 45 de- Baker, on loan to Duesseldorf erwise we would have kept a Fuellkrug’s opener and Bremen liveries and spent 95 minutes from Chelsea, turned a Volland had a player sent off. at the crease without scoring cross into his own net after just Yet Yuya Osako drew the a run before he was dismissed six minutes to kickstart a styl- visitors level with a slaloming on the third day of the first Test ish first-half performance from run and fine finish before Pavel against India. Champions League qualifiers We deserved to win Kaderabek’s header three min- It was the second longest in- Leverkusen. but we are not at 100 utes from time sealed a 3-2 win nings in for some- Charles Aranguiz doubled the percent. Otherwise we for Hoffenheim. one being dismissed without lead from a Kerem Demirbay would have kept a clean New Borussia Moencheng- scoring. free-kick shortly afterwards, sheet ladbach boss Marco Rose cele- That dubious record is still and Volland was involved again KEVIN VOLLAND brated his first three points as held by New Zealander Geoff with some sharp footwork as his side came from behind to Allott, who survived for 101 beat Mainz 3-1. minutes before falling for Robin Quaison flicked on nought against in Jason Holder (L) and Miguel Cummins (R) of West Indies speak during a break Daniel Brosinski’s free-kick Auckland in 1999. to give Mainz the lead, before India’s bowlers spent most labouring to claim the final two who hung around with Holder Gladbach right-back Stefan of the morning session at the wickets of the home side’s first for an hour-and-a-half without Lainer knocked in the equaliser Sir Vivian Richards Stadium innings as West Indies captain getting off the mark. after a goalmouth scramble on Jason Holder found sturdy sup- When the partnership was the half-hour mark. port from Cummins in putting finally broken -– Holder caught Alassane Plea’s free-kick on 41 for the ninth wicket be- behind off Mohammed Shami slipped through goalkeeper fore they were eventually dis- for 39 -– Cummins saw last man Florian Mueller’s fingers on 78 missed for 222. pick up two minutes, before Breel Embolo Having slipped from 174 for singles immediately. wrapped up the win just one 45 five to 179 for eight late on day Attempting to get his first minute later. balls were faced by West two courtesy of persistent Is- runs though, the fast-medium Elsewhere, Freiburg, who Indies tailender Miguel hant Sharma, India would have bowler, who bats left-handed, thrashed Mainz 3-0 last week- Cummins before losing his wicket for zero runs been expecting to finish the job was bowled having a swing at end, picked up a second win in swiftly at the start of play. Ravindra Jadeja to give the left- two as they came from behind However, they did not count arm spinner his second wicket Augsburg’s Swiss midfielder Stephan Lichtsteiner (R) and Union Berlin’s striker to beat promoted side Pader- on the defiance of Cummins, of the innings. Marius Buelter vie for the ball born 3-1.