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LeBron, Cavaliers Modolo wins sweep Hawks again in Giro, Contador in pink THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015 16 17 Brazil’s most successful coaches are out of a job Page 19 WARSAW: Sevilla players lift the trophy after Sevilla won 3-2 during the final of the soccer Europa League against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. — AP Sevilla retain Europa League crown WARSAW: Sevilla became the first side to win the his strike was nearly overshadowed when Dnipro’s laid siege to the Dnipro goal in search of an equaliser. turn Yevhen Konoplyanka’s dipping drive over the bear. Europa League four times with a thrilling 3-2 win over Matheus collapsed two minutes from time just after he Vitolo saw his shot bravely blocked when well-placed There was nothing Rico could do though when Rotan Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk yesterday. had been involved in a clash of heads going up for a on the edge of the area before Reyes flashed an effort curled in a fantastic free-kick two minutes before half- Carlos Bacca was the hero for the Spaniards as he header. Thankfully, though, the Brazilian was able to just wide. Krychowiak then forced Denys Boyko into a time. The second-half started at a more pedestrian pace struck the winner 17 minutes from time to ensure Sevilla move as he was stretchered off to a rousing reception superb save with a downward header from Ever with Dnipro enjoying more of the ball than in the first also qualify for the group stages of next season’s from the whole stadium and both sets of players. Banega’s corner. period. Slowly, though, Sevilla started to impose them- Champions League. Sevilla came into the game as big favourites and made However, the Polish international had to wait just four selves as the half wore on and went close in quick succes- It was also the second time they have retained the tro- the faster start with English referee Martin Atkinson turn- more minutes to register on home soil as he showed sion from two corners as Krychowiak was crowded out phy with all four of their wins coming in the past 10 years. ing down strong claims for a penalty when Jose Antonio great composure to control Bacca’s layoff before firing before Atkinson waved away more penalty appeals when Nikola Kalinic had given Dnipro a dream start to the Reyes went down under pressure from Rotan. low past Boyko. Vitolo went down inside the area. Ukrainian side’s first ever European final as he headed However, they were stunned moments later when Unai Emery’s men had turned the game on its head The winner ultimately arrived when Bacca latched home the opener after just seven minutes. Kalinic flicked on a long ball into the path of Matheus three minutes later when Bacca controlled Reyes’s bril- onto Vitolo’s pass and confidently dispatched the ball Grzegorz Krychowiak and Bacca turned the game in and then got on the end of his cross to head home liant through ball and rounded Boyko before slotting into past Boyko for his 28th goal of the season. Sevilla’s favour, but Ruslan Rotan’s free-kick sent the sides the opener. an empty net. And Boyko prevented Bacca a memorable hat-trick as in level once more at the break. Sevilla responded like a side that have won this com- Yet an incredibly open game turned again before the he got just enough on the ball to turn the Colombian’s Bacca had the final say when he volleyed home, but petition three times in the previous nine years as they break. Firstly, Sergio Rico produced a stunning save to header over moments later. — AFP Federer rocks on, Sharapova through PARIS: Roger Federer advanced to the third compatriot closing out the match in the fol- round of the French Open yesterday as lowing game. Maria Sharapova brushed aside fellow Stosur of Australia, the runner-up in 2010 Russian Vitalia Diatchenko but Simona who is seeded 26th this year, breezed past Halep became the day’s biggest casualty. French wildcard Amandine Hesse 6-0, 6-1. Swiss second seed Federer beat Marcel Stosur and Sharapova also met in the last 16 Granollers of Spain 6-2, 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 in front a year ago, with the Russian prevailing in of a packed crowd on Court Suzanne three sets. Lenglen that included Angus Young, the gui- “She’s always a tough opponent and tarist of veteran Australian rock band AC/DC. loves playing on clay. But I have a good Federer got the job done in one hour, 47 record against her and I hope I can continue minutes, although he was broken twice and that,” said Sharapova of her next opponent. his opponent made life tough in the second Romanian Halep lost to Sharapova in the set in particular. final last year but the third seed was the The 2009 champion came through a biggest name yet to fall by the wayside in tiebreak before running away with the third the women’s draw as she was beaten 7-5, 6- set and will now meet Damir Dzumhur of 1 by veteran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia Bosnia in the last 32. in the second round. When asked about the presence of “I couldn’t play my best today. But, you Young among the crowd on a sun-drenched know, she started to hit the ball very strong Paris day, Federer said: “I have seen them at the beginning of the match. So she was twice in concert. Once when I was 15 and I better than me today, and I have just to even met him. “I still had long hair at the take...this situation to handle it and just to time. I don’t know if he remembers. It is a go forward,” said Halep. real pleasure to see him here.” Reigning Lucic-Baroni, who last reached the women’s champion Sharapova, who was third round in Paris in 2001 as a teenager, also the winner at Roland Garros in 2012 now faces French 29th seed Alize Cornet, and runner-up in 2013, defeated who saw off Romania’s Alexandra Diatchenko 6-3, 6-1 to set up a clash with Dulgheru 6-2, 7-5. former finalist Samantha Stosur in the third Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 champion who is round. seeded seven, overcame Japan’s Misaki Doi The second seed won the opener when 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a match that went on beyond Diatchenko double-faulted on set point and 9pm local time (1900 GMT). Sharapova then broke right at the start of Eighth seed Carla Suarez-Navarro also the second set to lead 2-0. progressed after her French opponent KUWAIT: The Hawally Governorate team beat the Interior Ministry team 5-1 to clinch the Interior Minister Futsal Cup at the Kazma Diatchenko saved a first match point to Virginie Razzano retired hurt having lost the Sports Club yesterday. — KUNA pull it back to 5-1, but she could not stop her opening set. — AFP.

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