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27 Sports Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Martinez fires Inter top of Serie A as Juventus slip up Roma moved up to fourth, two points behind their city rivals MILAN: Lautaro Martinez’s first-half brace sent Inter Maldini’s record of 647 Serie A appearances. Milan top of Serie A on Sunday with a 2-1 win over Boga dinked the first Sassuolo goal on 22 minutes SPAL after champions Juventus were held at home by over the onrushing Buffon, who then fumbled in Sassuolo. “We didn’t use our heads,” lamented Juventus Caputo’s second after the break following a mix-up boss Maurizio Sarri after his side dropped their first between Juan Cuadrado and Matthijs de Ligt. points at home this season. By contrast, 18-year-old Stefano Turati made an Cristiano Ronaldo scored from the spot to rescue a impressive debut in the Sassuolo goal, and pulled off a 2-2 draw but Juventus slipped one point behind string of fine saves, denying a Ronaldo free-kick, Antonio Conte’s Inter. Argentinian Martinez put Inter Gonzalo Higuain and Paulo Dybala late on. ahead on 16 minutes at the San Siro, and then headed in Ronaldo’s penalty pulled the hosts level in the 68th Antonio Candreva’s cross to score his eighth league minute after Filippo Romagna fouled substitute Dybala. goal this season. It was the Portuguese star’s fifth Serie A goal this sea- Mattia Valoti pulled a goal back, but second-from- son, with the five-time Ballon d’Or winner also having bottom SPAL fell to their ninth defeat of the campaign. an effort ruled out for offside. Conte has guided Chinese-owned Inter to 12 victories “Ronaldo has regained stamina, the next step will be in 14 league games for the first time, and they reclaimed to recover brilliance, but the road is right,” insisted the top spot which they had previously held until their Sarri. Lazio consolidated third place — seven points 2-1 defeat by Juventus on October 6. behind Inter — with a 3-0 win over Udinese thanks to “When a team like Juventus drops points, you need a double from Serie A top scorer Ciro Immobile, to make sure that you make the most of that,” said for- including one from the spot, to bring his tally to 17 mer Juve coach Conte. In Turin, Leonardo Bonucci goals this season, and a Luis Alberto penalty. struck early for the eight-time reigning champions but Roma moved up to fourth, two points behind their Ivorian Jeremie Boga and Francesco Caputo hit back city rivals, after a 3-1 win at midtable Verona, ahead of for Sassuolo before Ronaldo’s intervention. Cagliari, who host Sampdoria on Monday. Justin Sassuolo, in 12th, claimed their first ever point at Kluivert score after 17 minutes in Verona with Diego Juventus, and held Sarri’s unbeaten champions to their Perotti converting a penalty just before the break, and third draw this season. “We got into trouble on our Henrikh Mkhitaryan adding a third in injury time. MILAN: Inter Milan’s Croatian defender Marcelo Brozovic (C) is tackled by Spal’s Montenegrin midfielder Marko own, we didn’t use our heads in the first half, as the But Napoli’s winless run stretched to eight games in Jankovic during the Italian Serie A football match Inter Milan vs Spal at the San Siro stadium in Milan. —AFP goals conceded show,” said Sarri. all competitions with a 2-1 defeat at home by Bologna, “But we were coming off two games in which we leaving last season’s runners-up in seventh. used up a lot of energy against Atalanta and Atletico Bologna got their first win since October 27 with are five points off the top four. “It’s a very delicate time Nicola Sansone scoring the winner 10 minutes from Madrid. We woke up after going behind.” coach Sinisa Mihajlovic back on the bench following a for us,” said Ancelotti. time. Llorente thought he had scored a 95th-minute Veteran Gianluigi Buffon endured a nightmare in the bone marrow transplant as he fights leukaemia. Fernando Llorente put Napoli ahead four minutes leveller, but it was ruled offside by VAR. AC Milan, Juventus goal. The 41-year-old was making just his fifth Despite taking a point in their Champions League before half-time, but Dane Andreas Skov Olsen struggling in 11th, got their first win in a month, 1-0 at start this season, putting him two short of Paolo game at Liverpool in midweek Carlo Ancelotti’s Napoli volleyed in an equaliser just before the hour with Parma. — AFP second yellow card just before half-time. A thrilling tussle saw Nigerian Austin Amutu of Nigerian challengers Mohamed Farouk equalised with a penalty nine min- Masry score the only goal of the first half, then equalise utes into the second half and Tunisian Amor Layouni after Boubacar Bagili and Yassin el Welly netted for Enugu, Enyimba lose and Islam Attia, from another spot-kick, scored in the Nouadhibou. Pyramids and Masry have three points closing stages for Pyramids. each, and both will enjoy home advantage in matchday Draisaitl scores The Cairo club, formerly called Al Assiouty Sport, two next Sunday, giving them a chance to exert an early CAF Cup group openers was bought by Saudi Turki al Sheikh and he poured stranglehold in the group. In Group D, Hassania wasted twice as Oilers money into it, hiring foreign coaches and numerous no time taking control against 2003 and 2004 CAF JOHANNESBURG: Nigerian contenders Enugu Egyptian stars. Champions League winners Enyimba with Karim el Rangers and Enyimba were both beaten by north When ownership switched to Emirati Salem Al Berkaoui and Senegalese Malick Cisse scoring. edge Canucks African clubs on Sunday as the CAF Confederation Cup Shamsi, he spared no expense to strengthen the team Enyimba substitute Martins Usule blazed over when with the aim of challenging traditional Egyptian giants group phase kicked off. Enugu coach Salisu Yusuf lost given a second-half chance during a goalmouth scram- VANCOUVER: Leon Draisaitl’s second goal of Al Ahly and Zamalek, and seeking CAF titles. ble in the southern Moroccan coastal city of Agadir. his first match in charge, with the sending off of defend- the game early in the third period was the win- French coach Sebastien Desabre says his targets are Meanwhile, a brilliant last-minute reflex save from er Temitope Olusesi not helping as they crashed 3-1 at ner as the visiting Edmonton Oilers beat the competing with Ahly and Zamalek for the league title Moussa Camara from a Gift Motupa volley gave home against Egyptian opponents Pyramids. Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Sunday in the sec- and winning the Confederation Cup, the African equiv- Horoya of Guinea a 0-0 Group C draw with Bidvest Two-time African champions Enyimba conceded ond half of a home-and-home series on consec- twice within 19 minutes of the kick-off to lose 2-0 away alent of the Europa League. Wits of South Africa in Soweto. utive nights. to Moroccan outfit Hassania Agadir, who reached the Winning in Nigeria maintained a perfect away In Kinshasa, Zanaco of Zambia did well to force a 1-1 Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen made 30 saves quarter-finals last season. record in the CAF competition this season by Pyramids draw against Daring Club Motema Pembe of the and earned the victory thanks to Draisaitl’s Nigeria assistant coach Yusuf was seconded to following victories in Congo Brazzaville, Algeria and Democratic Republic of Congo after having Kelvin marker 46 seconds into the final frame, his sec- Enugu after Benedict Ugwu lost his job for winning just Tanzania. The other Group A match also delivered an Kapumbu red-carded on 66 minutes. once in the first five rounds of the domestic league. Egyptian victory with Karim el Eraky scoring in stop- Cameroonian Moussa Souleymanou gave the Lusaka ond power-play goal of the night. While the Ibrahim Olawoyin put Rangers ahead on 29 minutes, page time to snatch a 3-2 win for Al Masry over club a 25th-minute lead that Nigerian Peter Kolawole defenders were focused on his teammates, but they battled after Olusesi was dismissed following a Nouadhibou of Mauritania in Nouakchott. cancelled with 12 minutes remaining. — AFP Draisaitl found a soft spot at the bottom of the right circle and quickly released the shot after taking a feed. am happy with the way we are playing but I will not smile Draisaitl and Connor McDavid — who col- Late Messi winner at that because that does not bring us points.” lected two assists — both reached the 50- Antoine Griezmann was whistled on his return to his point mark. They are the first Oilers team- former club, whom he left for 120 million euros ($132.3 mil- mates with 50 points prior to the 30-game sees Barca sink Atletico lion) to join Barcelona in the close season, while toy rats mark since Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri in were dropped on the plaque that still bears his name out- the 1984-85 season. MADRID: Lionel Messi delivered a major boost to side the stadium. Alex Chiasson also collected two assists for Barcelona’s La Liga title hopes by scoring a late winner in But Messi scored his 12th goal of the season and sixth Edmonton, which was without goalie Mike a 1-0 victory at Atletico Madrid on Sunday. Messi is the in his last five games. He has now 25 in 27 in the league Smith (leg), forward Zack Kassian (back) and favourite to win a record-breaking sixth Ballon d’Or in against Atletico although this was his first at the Wanda defenseman Kris Russell (personal), from Paris on Monday and he came up trumps again for Barca Metropolitano.