6 January 16, 2019 Jorge Fossati to Replace Carlos AFC Asian Cup Round Up Thailand’s decision to change coaches continued to Aussies Down Syria prove to be a masterstroke but there was last-minute heartbreak for India at the Asian Cup on Monday. Queiroz in Team Melli: Report Thailand drew against host side United Arab to Go Through to Emirates 1-1 to qualify for the next round for the first TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Uruguayan time since reaching the semifinals in 1972. coach Jorge Fossati will reportedly Asian Cup Last 16 UAE finished top of Group A and the pair could replace Carlos Queiroz in Iran be joined in the round of 16 by Bahrain, which beat national football team. India 1-0 thanks to a last-gasp penalty and will likely According to gol.caracoltv.com, progress as one of the best four third-placed teams. Queiroz will leave Team Melli after the 2019 AFC Asian Cup to take charge of Colombia and Iran is going to sign Fossati as the Portuguese’s successor. The former Uruguayan footballer and coach has most recently coached national football team. The 66-year-old coach started his coaching career at River Plate in 1993 and has also Australia head coach Graham Arnold (second right) led Al-Sadd, LDU Quito, Cerro celebrates with players after winning the match. Porteño, Peñarol and Al Rayyan. Uruguayan coach Jorge Fossati AL-AIN (Dispatches) - ’s injury-time Carlos Queiroz had been already Egypt, Mexico, and Algeria but has stayed in Iran. linked with a move to South Africa, thunderbolt settled an Asian Cup thriller on Tuesday ’ forward Ali Mabkhout al as defending champions Australia beat Syria 3-2 to Hajeri celebrates with his teammates after scoring reach the last 16 and knock out their war-torn rivals. during the AFC Asian Cup group A soccer match The result meant the holders finished second in between United Arab Emirates and Thailand at Al U.S. Open Winner Osaka Group B behind Jordan, whose simultaneous 0-0 Maktoum Stadium in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, draw with Palestine gave the Palestinians hope of Jan 14, 2019. (NARIMAN EL-MOFTY / AP) qualifying as one of the best third-placed teams. Syrian players tumble to the ground as they know Advances at Australian Open It was a far cry from Thailand’s first match in the they’re out of the 2019 Asian Cup. Palestine finish ELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - the Australian Open. year as a 20-year-old made her the third and have to wait with Jordan and Australia tournament, a 4-1 loss to India that led to the firing Naomi Osaka’s first appearance at a Osaka, who beat Serena Williams youngest U.S. Open champion since through to the Round of 16. of coach and the appointment of Grand Slam tournament as a major in last year’s U.S. Open final, needed Maria Sharapova in 2006. his assistant, Sirisak Yodyardthai, as interim coach. champion was a successful one. She just 58 minutes for her first-round Osaka’s next opponent will be Palestine Barely Alive Despite Drab Goalless Draw UAE started strongly and took the lead less than beat Magda Linette 6-4, 6-2 to end win over Linette. Tamara Zidansek, who beat Daria Against Jordan seven minutes in. ’s attempted play at Rod Laver Arena on day 2 of Her win at Flushing Meadows last Gavrilova 7-5, 6-3 earlier Tuesday. chip came back off the crossbar but Ali Mabkhout Palestine still have an outside chance to progress to headed home the rebound. the Round of 16 of the AFC Asian Cup 2019 despite Thailand started to get into the match and leveled Kenya’s Kipchoge to Face Mo Farah in only managing a goalless draw against neighbors four minutes before the break when Thitiphan Jordan in their final Group B match on Tuesday. Puangjan took advantage of panic in the UAE defense Finishing the group in the third place with just two to bundle the ball past goalkeeper . London Marathon points, Palestine will now want at least two of the The War Elephants finished second, a point below Britain’s Sir Mo Farah. remaining four groups’ bottom two match-ups to end UAE and above Bahrain thanks to a better head-to- The two men will now go head- in a draw in order to progress to the knockout stages head record, having won the match between them 1-0. to-head once again on the streets as one of the four best-placed third teams. Bahrain, which hit the woodwork earlier in the of London, with the prospect of match, was seconds away from going out of the attempting to notch a new world UAE, Thailand Make tournament as India managed to fend off wave after record still on the cards. wave of attack. Kipchoge won his third London Asian Cup Last 16, However, India captain Pronay Halder brought Marathon title at last year’s race, down Hamed Alshamsan in the penalty area and with Farah finishing in third Heartbreak for India Jamal Rashed converted in stoppage time to send place. Bahrain into unbridled joy. The Kenyan went on to set a new marathon world record of 2:01:39 in Berlin, while Farah won his maiden Chicago Harden Lights Up This combo photo shows Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge (left) and Britain’s Mo Marathon. Farah. Ethiopia’s 22-year-old rising Grizzlies 112-94 star Shura Kitata will also return NAIROBI (AP) — Marathon on April 28. to London after finishing runner- HOUSTON (AP) - James Harden scored a season- world record holder Eliud This will be the second time that up to Kipchoge last year and high 57 points to carry the short-handed Houston Kipchoge has confirmed he will Kipchoge will compete against placing second in the New York Rockets to a 112-94 win over the Memphis Grizzlies defend his London Marathon title Chicago Marathon champion City Marathon. on Monday night. The reigning MVP extended his streak of 30-point games to 17 by halftime, pouring in 36 points over Viviani Wins Opening Tour Down Under the first two quarters to put Houston on top. It’s the longest such streak since Wilt Chamberlain had 20 Stage in Brutal Heat straight games of at least 30 points in 1964. ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) It’s the franchise-record 14th time Harden has scored - Italy’s Elia Viviani won a tight 40 this season and the eighth time in his last 11 games. It’s the third time he’s topped 50 points this season and finish to take the opening stage of the 12th time in his career. He surpassed his previous Australia’s Tour Down Under in season best of 54 against Washington and fell just shy brutal temperatures in Adelaide on of the career-high and club-record 60 points he scored Tuesday. last January against Orlando. Deceuninck–Quick-Step’s Viviani, Garrett Temple and Mike Conley scored 14 each Harden scores season-high 57 as Rockets top the omnium gold medallist at the for the Grizzlies, who lost for the eighth time in nine Grizzlies 112-94 2016 Rio Olympics and one of the games. world’s leading sprinters, powered out of the pack to reel in Germany’s Max Walscheid and claim the ochre Shiffrin Dominates Giant Slalom for 10th jersey after the first of six stages. Walscheid of Team Sunweb Victory of Season finished second across the line ahead SAN VIGILIO DI MAREBBE, France. Perhaps with those results in of another Italian in the CCC Team, Italy (AP) -- Mikaela Shiffrin Marta Bassino of Italy moved up mind, Shiffrin spent the Christmas Jakub Mareczko. The riders braved temperatures hovering above 40 Celsius (104 took advantage of a massive first- from fourth after the first run to holiday in San Vigilio and did It was a reversal of fortunes for Farenheit) in the opening 129-kilometre (80-mile) stage from North run lead to win a World Cup giant finish third, 1.57 back. some free skiing on the Erta. Viviani, 29, who crashed on the final Adelaide to Port Adelaide. slalom on Tuesday and earn her Shiffrin was determined to win The overall World Cup leader lap of Sunday’s Down Under Classic 10th victory of the season. at Kronplatz after failing to reach and Olympic champion in giant criterium leading into the tour. stage 3 at the Tour Down Under, the The riders braved temperatures Having established a 1.39-second the podium in her first two races slalom, Shiffrin is within striking Viviani comes into the Tour Down overall classification at the hovering above 40 Celsius advantage in the opening leg there. distance of the all-time record of Under on the back of a successful Tour, four stages at the Giro d’Italia, (104 Fahrenheit) in the opening on the steep Erta slope, Shiffrin Shiffrin was fifth in San Vigilio in 14 wins in a single season set by 2018 season. the Hamburg Cyclassics race and 129-kilometre (80-mile) stage from finished a comfortable 1.21 2017 and had an uncharacteristic Swiss great Vreni Schneider in The Italian won 18 races, including three stages at the Vuelta a Espana. North Adelaide to Port Adelaide. seconds ahead of Tessa Worley of fall in the first run last year. 1988-89.