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SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2017 SPORTS English Premier League results/standings Tottenham 4, Bournemouth 0; Watford 1, Swansea 0; Crystal Palace 2, Leicester 2; Sunderland 2, West Ham 2; Everton 3, Burnley 1; Stoke 3, Hull 1. English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): Chelsea 31 24 3 4 65 25 75 West Ham 33 10 7 16 44 59 37 Tottenham 32 21 8 3 68 22 71 Burnley 33 10 6 17 33 47 36 Liverpool 32 18 9 5 68 40 63 Crystal Palace 32 10 5 17 44 52 35 Man City 31 18 7 6 60 35 61 Bournemouth 33 9 8 16 45 63 35 Everton 33 16 9 8 60 37 57 Hull 33 8 6 19 34 67 30 Man Utd 30 15 12 3 46 24 57 Swansea 33 8 4 21 37 68 28 Arsenal 30 16 6 8 61 39 54 Middlesbrough 31 4 12 15 22 37 24 West Brom 32 12 8 12 39 41 44 Southampton 30 11 7 12 37 37 40 Sunderland 32 5 6 21 26 58 21 Watford 32 11 7 14 37 52 40 Note: top four qualify for Champions League; Stoke 33 10 9 14 37 48 39 teams finishing fifth to seventh qualify for Europa Leicester 32 10 7 15 41 53 37 League; bottom three relegated to Championship. Barkley enjoys home as Everton defeat Burnley before smashing a shot past goalkeeper Tom Heaton. The last Everton player to Everton 3 achieve such a feat was Dixie Dean in 1934. Sun controversy Earlier yesterday, Everton said The Sun Burnley 1 had been banned from both Goodison and their training ground, as well as “all areas of the club’s operation”. The article in Britain’s LIVERPOOL: Ross Barkley put an awkward best-selling newspaper concerned the 23- few days behind him by starring in year-old Barkley getting into a fight in a DORTMUND: Dortmund’s players hold the jersey of Dortmund’s Spanish defender Marc Bartra who was injured during the bus attack on April Everton’s 3-1 win at home to Burnley in the nightclub in Everton’s home city of 11 after the German First division Bundesliga football match between Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt. —AFP Premier League yesterday. Victory saw the Liverpool. Columnist Kelvin MacKenzie Toffees leapfrog Manchester United into compared Barkley, who has a grandfather fifth place on goal difference. But United, from Nigeria, to a “gorilla at the zoo” and who, have three games in hand on Everton, said the only other people in Liverpool with Bartra tributes as shaken will regain fifth spot if they avoid defeat his income were drug dealers. against Premier League leaders Chelsea at The article was headlined “Here’s why Old Trafford on Sunday. they go ape at Ross” alongside pictures of Yesterday’s match came just hours after Barkley and a gorilla. “Whilst we will not dig- Dortmund bounce back Everton banned The Sun tabloid from their nify any journalist with a response to Goodison Park ground over an article appalling and indefensible allegations, the about Barkley in which the England mid- newspaper has to know that any attack on BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund players and fans attack) in order to process it and I hope it will get finish and a crack at the Champions League next fielder was compared to a “gorilla at the this city, either against a much-respected paid tribute to defender Marc Bartra as they better quickly.” Reus, back from a hamstring season. “It was another important step. Now we zoo”. Everton captain Phil Jagielka gave the community or individual, is not acceptable,” beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-1 yesterday in their injury, needed just three minutes to open the want to achieve more and fulfil our next dream,” Toffees a 49th-minute lead when he scored said Everton. Meanwhile The Sun’s publisher first Bundesliga match since the midweek scoring in front of a sell-out crowd of 81,360 and said Werner with one eye on Europe. his third goal in three games, the central News UK said in a statement that bomb attack on their team bus. Germany a heavy police presence at Signal Iduna Park. Third-placed Hoffenheim also moved a step defender’s header going in off the post MacKenzie “had been suspended with winger Marco Reus scored on his return after Frankfurt drew level on 29 minutes when closer to Champions League qualification after before he thumped the ball over the line to immediate effect”. MacKenzie said he had six weeks out and Sokratis Papastathopoulos Marco Fabian’s speculative shot hit the top- their thrilling 5-3 win home to Borussia make sure there was no doubt at all. But it no idea of Barkley’s family background and and leading scorer Pierre-Emerick right corner, but Sokratis restored the hosts’ Moenchengladbach. Hungary striker Adam took Lancashire rivals Burnley just minutes added: “For the mayor of Liverpool and a Aubameyang were also on target in a home advantage before the break with a thunderous Szalai scored twice to give Hoffenheim a 2-0 to draw level at 1-1. handful of others to describe the article as victory which allowed Thomas Tuchel’s side to effort that barely deviated as it flew past lead before Europa League-chasing Gladbach Everton goalkeeper Joel Robles need- racist is beyond parody.” The Sun and all but wrap up a top-four finish and boost Frankfurt goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky. clawed back with goals in quick succession by lessly brought down Sam Vokes as the for- MacKenzie are deeply unpopular in morale at the end of a traumatic week. Aubameyang netted his 26th league goal this defender Jannik Vestergaard and captain Lars ward headed away from goal to concede a Liverpool. MacKenzie was the paper’s editor Three bombs containing pieces of metal season late on to secure the points and make Stindl. Hoffenheim’s Kerem Demirbay fired in a clear penalty. Vokes himself then scored in 1989 when it published allegations about rocked the Dortmund bus on the way to him the division’s joint top scorer alongside free-kick and striker Mark Uth came off the from the ensuing spot-kick. Everton, how- the behavior of fans of Liverpool, Everton’s Tuesday’s Champions League home quarter-final Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski. bench to make it 4-2 with 15 minutes left. ever, regained the lead in the 71st minute local rivals, in the Hillsborough stadium dis- match against Monaco and left Spanish interna- Gladbach’s Mahmoud Dahoud made it 4-3 when Barkley’s shot took a huge deflection aster. Yesterday marked the 28th anniver- tional Bartra hospitalised. The first leg was even- RB into Champions League before Demirbay grabbed his second. off Burnley defender Ben Mee for an own- sary of the tragedy in which 96 Liverpool tually played on Wednesday but Dortmund lost With runaway league leaders Bayern at Relegation-threatened Mainz broke their five- goal. Three minutes later, Belgium striker supporters died. Liverpool banned The Sun 3-2, their players later admitting they were still Bayer Leverkusen yesterday evening, second- match losing streak with a 1-0 win over Hertha Romelu Lukaku scored in his ninth consec- from their Anfield stadium and their train- shell-shocked by the attack. The team was placed RB Leipzig trimmed the gap at the top Berlin thanks to Danny Latza’s winner to leave utive game at Goodison when he outmus- ing ground in February this year over the buoyed before kick-off yesterday as Bartra was to seven points with a 4-0 home thrashing of them 15th. Augsburg are one place below cled Burnley defender Michael Keane paper’s 1989 Hillsborough coverage. — AFP released from hospital following surgery on a Freiburg. Yussuf Poulsen gave RB an early lead them, but level on points, after they beat broken wrist. The Dortmund squad held his before putting Timo Werner in behind the Cologne 2-1 despite finishing with nine men. number five shirt aloft as they celebrated in Freiburg defence to net his 16th league goal Augsburg had Koo Ja-Cheol and Alfred front of their home fans after the final whistle. this season just before the break. Finnbogason sent off in the final frantic min- “During the 90 minutes it was easier than on Guinea midfielder Naby Keita netted with a utes as Paul Verhaegh sealed the hosts’ win. An Wednesday,” said captain Marcel Schmelzer. “We superb shot on 51 minutes before Diego own-goal by Markus Suttner and strikes from had a goosebump moment in front of our south Demme hit their fourth. Leipzig, in their first top- Yunus Malli and Mario Gomez gave Wolfsburg a stand. We’re trying to talk a lot about it (the flight campaign, are now guaranteed a top-four 3-0 win home to Ingolstadt. — AFP Benteke heads Palace closer to safety zone Crystal Palace 2 Leicester 2 LONDON: Christian Benteke’s 14th goal of the season complet- ed Crystal Palace’s two-goal comeback to secure a point in a 2-2 home draw with Leicester City in the Premier League yesterday. Leicester-who face Atletico Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Tuesday-took an early lead through Robert Huth with Jamie Vardy adding a second early in the second half at Selhurst Park. But Yohan Cabaye kick-started LIVERPOOL: Everton’s Ross Barkley, right, and Burnley’s Robbie Brady battle for the the home side’s comeback with his second goal in two games ball during their English Premier League soccer match at Goodison Park.