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SPORTS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 Four-goal Ahly send Champions League warning JOHANNESBURG: Title-holders Al-Ahly sounded a Ahly and Leopards visit Zamalek next weekend in an edge 2012 CAF Confederation Cup winners the woodwork. CAF Champions League warning yesterday by ham- intriguing climax with two semi-finals places at Leopards home and away and the thrashing of Spectators were barred after a suspended two- mering Zamalek 4-2 in an Egyptian derby. stake. Zamalek suggests they will be hard to depose. match ban on Ahly for crowd trouble was activated The emphatic triumph behind closed doors at But while Group A remains in the melting pot A draw at Pirates would secure top place for Ahly following fighting between ‘Red Devils’ supporters sun-drenched Red Sea resort El-Gouna lifted the and the head-to-head rule could come into play, and avoid a semi-finals showdown with experienced before the Leopards game. ‘Red Devils’ to the top of Group A in the premier Group B is done and dusted with Esperance finish- Esperance, the club they defeated 3-2 overall in the After matching Leopards during the first half on a African club competition. ing on top and Coton Sport second. last final. Midfield magician Abou Trika, 34, scored Dolisie pitch composed mainly of rock-hard clay, Walid Soliman, Ahmed Abdul Zaher, Mohamed Tunis giants Esperance edged Angolan visitors the pick of the goals nine minutes after half-time to Pirates lost the initiative and fell to a Dimitri Bissiki Abou Trika and Ahmed Fathy scored for Ahly after Recreativo Libolo 3-2 Saturday while a dour 0-0 draw extend a 2-1 half-time lead in the empty 12,000-seat thunderbolt on 72 minutes. Omar Gaber gave the ‘White Knights’ a fourth- away to Sewe San Pedro of Ivory Coast Sunday took stadium. Goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, often the star for the minute lead. Coton of Cameroon through. Soliman acrobatically back heeled a cross into Soweto club in Africa, failed to grasp a cross and Zamalek substitute Ahmed Hassan, whose 184 Esperance have 12 points, Coton eight, and Sewe the path of the 100-cap Egypt star and he rifled the when the ball ran loose outside the box, Bissiki caps is an international record, completed the scor- and Libolo four each with fixtures involving the top ball past fellow veteran Abdul Wahed El-Sayed. made no mistake. ing eight minutes from time in an unusually high- two in Cameroon and the bottom two in Angola Zamalek had entered the game full of hope after Giant Cameroonian Yannick N’Djeng opened and scoring derby. completing the schedule. ending the unbeaten run of Pirates two weeks ago closed the scoring with Oussama Darragi also on tar- Record seven-time champions Ahly have 10 Ahly began a six-round mini-league campaign by and made the perfect start with Gaber outpacing a get for two-time champions Esperance. points, Orlando Pirates of South Africa and AC drawing against Zamalek, then crumbled 3-0 at defender to score. Portuguese Ruben Gouveia levelled twice early in Leopards of Congo Brazzaville seven each and home to Pirates after missing a penalty and having a But that was as good as it got for the five-time the second half for Libolo, who have taken just one Zamalek four with one round left. player red carded. champions and they could have suffered a heavier point from a possible 12 since shocking Esperance in Pirates, beaten 1-0 at Leopards Saturday, host However, the champions rose from the floor to loss had a curling Abdullah Al-Saied shot not struck Angola. — AFP Volland fires up Hoffenheim BERLIN: Germany Under-21 captain Kevin Volland hit his fourth goal in as many Bundesliga games with the winner in Hoffenheim’s 2-1 home victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach yesterday. Having scored in each of his last four league matches, Volland’s strike lifted his team to sev- enth in front of Germany assistant coach Hansi Flick at Hoffenheim’s Rhein-Neckar Arena. Striker Anthony Modeste gave Hoffenheim the lead just before the break, then provided a superb through ball for Volland to pounce on, turn the defence and hit the bottom right-hand corner. “It was a great pass from Anthony, things are going well for me, I worked hard in pre-season which gave me confidence,” said the Germany Under-21 skipper. “I just want to have a good season with Hoffenheim and anything else would just be a bonus,” he added when asked about a possible SPAIN: Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo arrives to speak with jour- call up to Joachim Loew’s senior Germany side. nalists after signing the renewal of his contract at Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid. —AFP Gladbach pulled a goal back when Swedish striker Branimir Hrgota powered through the Hoffenheim defence fifteen minutes from time, Ronaldo staying at Real but the defeat left Lucien Favre’s side in mid- table. Later, bottom side Eintracht Braunschweig MADRID: Real Madrid star Cristiano want to be here for five more years and win picked up their first point of the season after Ronaldo said he could end his career with things.” Although Madrid did not give four defeats with a 1-1 draw at Nuremberg, with Kevin Volland celebrates in this file photo. the Spanish giants after signing a new con- details of the contract extention, the deal is the hosts also in the bottom three. tract with Madrid yesterday that will run expected to make Ronaldo the world’s On Saturday, Borussia Dortmund picked up week with comfortable wins over the weekend. up their second victory with a 1-0 win over until 2018. highest paid player with Spanish newspa- their fifth win to maintain their 100 percent Bayer Leverkusen prepared for their Old Mainz. The Portuguese international has scored per El Pais reporting that he will earn close record with a 6-2 romp at home to Hamburg to Trafford trip to face Manchester United on New signing Kevin-Prince Boateng hit the a remarkable 203 goals in 203 games since to 20 million euros a season. stay top of the league. Tuesday with a convincing 3-1 win over 10-man first-half winner in only his second league match joining for a then world record 94 million However, he claimed it was not money After Pep Guardiola’s Bayern had briefly VfL Wolfsburg to stay third. since arriving from AC Milan. euros from Manchester United back in but the chance to lead Real to their 10th claimed top spot with a 2-0 win over Hanover Germany winger Sidney Sam put the hosts The victory lifts the Royal Blues up to ninth, 2009. And he is hoping to continue that European Cup that was the decisive factor 96, Dortmund replied by routing Torsten Fink’s ahead before Wolfsburg’s Croatia striker Ivica while Mainz remain fifth. Werder Bremen sensational form for the next five years. “It in his decision. Hamburg in emphatic style. Olic levelled just before the break. Stefan crashed to their third straight defeat when they is a priviledge for me to continue with this “Whether I am the best paid player in New signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Kiessling netted twice to give Leverkusen their went down 3-0 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt club. It is just like my first day here,” he told the world is not the most important thing. netted twice, as did Poland striker Robert fourth win from their opening five games, head- after new signing Franco di Santo was sent off a press conference. Money is obviously important, I am not Lewandowski, as Champions League runners-up ing home on 65 minutes before slamming in his for kicking an opponent in the face. “I am going to continue with the same going to lie, but it is not the priority. Dortmund pulled away after Hamburg had lev- second in added time. Czech Republic striker Vaclav Kadlec scored spirit of sacrifice and give everything for “The priority is to be with the best club elled at 2-2. Wolfsburg were reduced to 10 men when ex- two first-half goals before Austria defender the shirt. “It is a special day for me, I want to in the world. The president always tries to New signing Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Bayern Munich midfielder Luiz Gustavo was sent Sebastian Proedl added a late own-goal to com- thank the president for making this happen sign the best players and I feel included in Germany winger Marco Reus also scored as off in the final 10 minutes, for the second time plete Bremen’s misery. and the fans who continue to support me. that. This club has the capability to win Dortmund took control after Hamburg’s defend- this season. Augsburg needed a 90th-minute winner from “Maybe I will stay here until the end of my more Champions Leagues, leagues and ers Zhi-Gin Lam and Heiko Westermann had put The Brazilian had only just returned from sus- midfielder Tobias Werner to seal a 2-1 win at career. This club is the biggest in the world cups. It was not just a question of money.” their side level. pension after being dismissed in the 2-0 defeat home to Freiburg. On Friday VfB Stuttgart and I am extremely happy.” The deal ends a series of drawn out negoti- All four Bundesliga teams-Dortmund, Bayern, at Mainz at the end of August. earned a 1-0 win in the capital against Hertha With Ronaldo’s previous deal set to ations that began back at the end of the Bayer Leverkusen and Schalke warmed-up for Schalke 04, who host Steaua Bucharest on Berlin to pick up their second win under caretak- expire in 2015, there had been strong spec- 2011-12 season.