SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2017

Matches on TV (Local Timings)

SPANISH LEAGUE PRIMERA Deportivo La Coruna v Las Palmas 18:00 beIN SPORTS HD Sporting Gijon v Real Betis 18:00 beIN SPORTS HD Leganes v Deportivo Alaves 18:00 beIN SPORTS HD

ITALIAN CALCIO LEAGUE Chievo Verona v Roma 19:00 beIN SPORTS HD Napoli v Fiorentina 21:45 beIN SPORTS HD

GERMAN BUNDESLIGA Hertha Berlin v Leverkusen 16:30 beIN SPORTS HD Borussia Dortmund v Werder Bremen 16:30 beIN SPORTS HD Eintracht Frankfurt v Leipzig 16:30 beIN SPORTS HD ROME: Juventus team celebrates with the trophy after winning the Italian Cup soccer final match between Lazio and Hamburger v Wolfsburg 16:30 Juventus, at Rome’s Olympic stadium. —AP beIN SPORTS HD Koln v Mainz 16:30 beIN SPORTS HD Secure scudetto now: Bayern Munich v Freiburg 16:30 beIN SPORTS HD Borussia Monchengladbach v Darmstadt16:30 Treble-chasing Allegri beIN SPORTS HD Hoffenheim v Augsburg 16:30 ROME: Coach has But the Calabrians’ late-season efforts Roma, only four points off the pace, beIN SPORTS HD urged treble-chasing Juventus to settle to beat the drop-they are currently one travel to Chievo for today’s early game Ingolstadt v Schalke 16:30 nerves ahead of their Champions point from Empoli and the safety zone- looking to keep the pressure on and beIN SPORTS HD League final with Real Madrid next has produced a turnaround in form in buoyed by the return of Dutch mid- month by securing the title, recent weeks. “We’ve claimed our first fielder Kevin Strootman and trophy- FRENCH LEAGUE and another league and Cup double, trophy of the season, now we want the chasing striker Edin Dzeko. Strootman Paris Saint-Germain v Caen 22:00 on Sunday. With only two Champions second,” Allegri said after seeing returns from a two-game ban, for sim- beIN SPORTS HD League titles to their name in eight Juventus become the first Italian team ulation, while Dzeko, who leads the attempts, the Turin giants are deter- to win three successive Cup finals, two chase for the top scorer’s Olympique Lyonnais v Nice 22:00 mined to make amends for their 3-1 of which came under his watch. ‘’ award on 27 goals- beIN SPORTS HD defeat to Barcelona in 2015 when they “Now, we want the second on two ahead of Andrea Belotti (Torino) Olympique de Marseille v Bastia 22:00 face 11-time champions Real in Cardiff Sunday against Crotone, who have tak- and Dries Mertens (Napoli) — trained beIN SPORTS HD on June 3. en 17 points from their last seven this week following his recovery from a Stade Rennes v Monaco 22:00 Juventus took one step towards a games. It will be a difficult match, so I calf injury. beIN SPORTS HD third successive league and Cup dou- want to see a clinical performance like Napoli, in third at one point Guingamp v Metz 22:00 ble on Wednesday with a comprehen- tonight’s.” Failure to do so could see behind Roma, host Fiorentina in beIN SPORTS HD sive 2-0 Cup final win over Lazio, Dani Juve’s chances of keeping their hopes today’s late fixture a week after a 5- Lorient v Girondins de Bordeaux 22:00 Alves and on the of a treble, last achieved in Italy by 0 rout at Torino. Fiorentina, in sev- beIN SPORTS HD mark for the champions during a for- while under Jose Mourinho enth and only one point behind AC midable display at the Stadio Olimpico. in 2010, hinge on the final day of the Milan and a Europa League place, Toulouse v Dijon 22:00 But Juve’s slip at Roma last week, season. Next weekend, Juve are away are missing Spanish midfielder Borja beIN SPORTS HD where they looked jaded on their way at Bologna, Roma host and Valero through suspension. Lazio Nancy Lorraine v Saint Etienne 22:00 to a 3-1 reverse that has added unex- Napoli are at Sampdoria and Allegri have already qualified for the beIN SPORTS HD pected spice to the season’s finale, left added: “We only need one more win, Europe League but welcome embat- Lille v Nantes 22:00 a bitter taste in Allegri’s mouth. and we absolutely want to do it on tled Inter Milan looking to make beIN SPORTS HD Given Juventus are facing relega- Sunday. “I want to see the stadium amends for their midweek Cup loss Angers v Montpellier 22:00 tion-threatened Crotone, the odds filled to the brim because it will be with victory in their final home beIN SPORTS HD should be firmly in the hosts’ favour. decisive.” game of the season.—AFP Five things to look for in the Bundesliga

BERLIN: Bayern Munich bid farewell to two “Bierdusche” celebrations when the Bayern up, will want to add to his 29 goals when his home match with Wolfsburg. Hamburg are giants of the game and the race to be team eagerly empty over-sized glasses of club host Werder Bremen. Their nearest rival, 16th, which carries a two-legged relegation Bundesliga’s top-scorer goes to the wire. Here wheat beer over each other. The head coach Cologne’s Anthony Modeste, is way back on play-off at the end of the season against the are five things to look for in Saturday’s final is always a favourite target and Carlo 25. Lewandowski insists he is not thinking of team which finishes third in the second divi- round of German matches: Ancelotti would be wise to pack a second the Golden Cannon-the trophy for the sion, with Wolfsburg two points above in suit for the presentation of his first Bundesliga’s top-scorer-but just wants to bet- 15th-and safety. “We have a chance to save Beer showers, tears in Munich Bundesliga title. ter last season’s personal record of 30 goals. ourselves with a home win,” said Markus For the fifth season in a row Bayern will But Bayern president Uli Hoeness says the Gisdol, coach of Hamburg, who have never be presented with the Bundesliga trophy at Hot-shots duel hot-shot will be keeping an eye on his rival: “If been relegated from Germany’s top flight. It the Allianz Arena following the final whistle The race to be the 2016/17 top-scorer in Aubameyang scores two goals, Lewandowski has been nothing short of a disastrous season against Freiburg with emotions set to run the Bundesliga will go to the last game. With is on red alert.” for 2009 German champions Wolfsburg, who high. It will be the 517th and final Bayern 30 league goals this season, Bayern predator reached the Champions League quarter-finals appearance for Germany’s World Cup win- Robert Lewandowski is favourite to retain the Winner-takes-all in Hamburg in 2015/16. “I believe we will get the job ning captain Philipp Lahm, 33, and Spain’s golden boot title he won last term. However Darmstadt and Ingolstadt are already con- done,” said Wolfsburg coach Andries Jonker Xabi Alonso, 35, who are both hanging up his arch-rival, Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre- firmed in the automatic relegation places, but ahead of the nail-biter at Hamburg’s their boots. Watch out for the customary Emerick Aubameyang, last season’s runner- there is a battle royal brewing for Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion.—AFP