Brahimi Seals Crucial Win for Al Rayyan

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FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2020

Brahimi seals crucial win for Al Rayyan

CHINTHANA WASALA THE PENINSULA

Algerian forward Yacine Brahimi scored an early goal against Al Sailiya to secure an all important win for title-chasing Al Rayyan in their Week 20 match of the QNB Stars League (QSL) at the Al Janoub Stadium yesterday. Brahimi struck the only goal of the match in the eighth minute as the former champions closed in on the leaders Al Duhail with 45 points. Al Duhail are just one point ahead of the Lions, however, they will have the opportunity to extend the lead when they meet defending champions Al Sadd tomorrow . Despite the early setback, Al Sailiya were able to pose a con- siderable threat to the Diego Aguirr-coached side. Brahimi, one of the tournament top scorers, placed the ball home Al Sadd's latest recruit, Spanish star Santi Cazorla holding a team past goalkeeper Amine Lecomte jersey with coach Xavi Hernandez during a ceremony held yesterday. in no time after being assisted by The midﬁelder bid farewell to Villarreal few days ago. Cazorla had youngster Ibrahim Masoud from Al Rayyan's Algerian forward Yacine Brahimi (left) vies for the ball against two Al Sailiya players made 180 appearances over six years for Arsenal and has 81 caps the left. for Spain. Brahimi had another chance to during their QNB Stars League Week 20 match played at Janoub Stadium, yesterday. double the lead, but was unlucky with a free-kick in the 30th minute. Today, Al Gharafa will meet against). They are sure to give off After many exchanges in the Al Khor in their Week 20 fixture. their best in the remaining games second half, Al Rayyan’s Abdulrah- Al Shahania will face Qatar SC at in order to stay in the top flight. QFA fines players and man Al Harazi missed a chance in AL Sadd Stadium in today's sec- Qatar SC, who played out a 1-1 the 87th minute when he chipped ond match. draw with Umm Salal in Week 19, officials for breaching the ball past Lecomte from the right Even though Al Shahania are are ninth with 18 points. only to see it go wide after he was tat the bottom of the standings with Al Gharafa, who lost 0-2 to safety protocols set up by Brahimi with a through 14 points, they have been doing Al Duhail in Week 19, are fourth WEEK 20 pass from the middle. Karim Ansari well ever since Nabil Anwar took in the standings with 31 points. THE PENINSULA – DOHA YESTERDAY'S RESULTS almost equalised for Al Sailiya deep charge of them replacing Span- The Cheetahs, coached by Serb Al Rayyan 1 - 0 Al Sailiya into stoppage time, but his angular iard Jose Murcia. They beat Al Ahli Slavisa Jokanovic, are likely to fin- Al Wakrah 2 - 1 Al Arabi The Disciplinary Committee of the Qatar Football shot went inches wide. The Iranian 3-1 in Week 18, before a 2-2 draw ish among the top four, given that TODAY'S FIXTURES Association (QFA), in a meeting headed by had earlier been thwarted by Al with Al Sailiya last week. they have a six-point difference Al Gharafa vs Al Khor (16:30, Al Janoub Stadium) Chairman Hassan Al Hammadi, yesterday Rayyan goalkeeper Fahd Younis. Al Shahania have two victo- with fifth-placed Al Arabi with only Al Shahania vs Qatar SC (18:45, Al Sadd Stadium) announced a series of fines imposed on players Yesterday's win was Al Rayy- ries, eight draws and nine defeats three matches remaining. SATURDAY and officials due to non-compliance of MOPH’s an's 13th win of the season. against their name with a goal dif- Al Khor, coached by Omar Umm Salal vs Al Ahli (16:30, Al Janoub Stadium) safety protocols. The defeat, the ninth of the sea- ference of -18 (22 goals for and 40 Najhi, are 11th with 15 points. Al Sadd vs Al Duhail (18:45, Al Sadd Stadium) Al Arabi's Muhammad Issa Al Muhammadi, son, dented Al Sailiya's hopes of Mohamed Essam El Din and Marc Muniesa were moving into top four. Al Wakrah and Al Arabi players in action during their Week warned and fined QR 10,000 easch due to non- Al Sailiya remained on 25 20 match yesterday. compliance with the MOPH’s safety protocols points, and six behind fourth placed including breaching home quarantine pledge Al Gharafa with only two rounds signed by them. of action remaining. Al Sadd's coach Xavi Hernandez and two of his Al Sailiya finished third last players, Hammam Al Amin and Abdelkarim Hassan season, their best performance in also received warnings and fines of QR 10,000 the QSL history, as they secured each due to the same reason. places in both Qatar Cup and AFC Diego Pereira, a member of the Qatar SC tech- Champions League play-offs. nical staff, and midfielder Ahmed Moeen also were Elsewhere, at Al Sadd Stadium, fined and warned. Al Wakrah recorded a 2-1 win over Umm Salal SC's Mahmoud Al Mawas, Ismail Al Arabi. Mahmoud Mardanli, Al Wakrah's Omar Afifi Abdul Cristian Ceballos (71st-minute Majeed, Al Rayyan's Mohamed Alaa, Al Khor's penalty) and Omar Ali (75) scored Ahmed Salem Al Askar, Al Gharafa's Koo Ja-cheol for Al Wakrah as The Blue Wave and Al Duhail's Ahmed Sufyan were also among raised their tally to 24 points. It the players who were warned for breaching home was their sixth victory as they are quarantine pledge signed by them. All of them were featuring in the top flight after a fined for their misconducts. space of two seasons. In addition, the committee also decided to The defeat, their seventh this suspend Al Arabi player Fahd Shanin for three season, further thwarted Al Ara- matches on disciplinary grounds and impose a QR bi’s hopes of making it to the top 20,000 fine for showing lack of sportsman spirit four as they stayed on 25 points. during his team's match against Al Rayyan. His Hamdi Harbaoui scored their team-mate Musab Khadr was fined QR5,000 for goal in the 20th minute through showing lack of sportsman spirit during the same a penalty. match. Longines Hathab Equestrian Tour set to return after break

Riders with their horses during the official vet check ahead of the 10th round of the Longines Hathab Equestrian Tour at the Qatar Equestrian Federation Arena, yesterday. The third season of the annual series which offers QR1m in total prize money, is making its return after a four-month break. Today, the Small Tour (100 - 115cm) competition will kick off at 4.00pm, followed by the individual and team competitions of the Medium Tour (120 - 130cm) at 6.45pm. 14 SPORT FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2020 England struggle at 92-4 after visitors score 326 in first innings Shan, Abbas put Pakistan on top

AFP —MANCHESTER Pakistan’s Shan Pacer Archer Masood in action on England suffered a dramatic top-order collapse that saw Ben second day of ﬁrst SCOREBOARD bemoans Stokes out for a duck after Shan Test at Old Trafford Pakistan 1st Innings 22.3-9-54-3; Woakes 20-6-43-2; Archer 22- Masood’s brilliant century yesterday. Shan Masood lbw b Broad ...... 156 4-59-3 (1nb); Bess 20-4-74-1; Root 6-0-25-0 luck as hosts ...... established a strong position for Abid Ali b Archer 16 England 1st Innings Azhar Ali lbw b Woakes ...... 0 R. Burns lbw b Afridi ...... 4 Pakistan in the first Test at Old Babar Azam c Root b Anderson ...... 69 D. Sibley lbw b Abbas ...... 8 off target at Trafford yesterday. Asad Shafiq c Stokes b Broad ...... 7 J. Root c Rizwan b Yasir Shah ...... 14 The hosts were 92-4 at Mohammad Rizwan c Buttler b Woakes ...9 B. Stokes b Abbas ...... 0 Old Trafford stumps on the second day, after Shadab Khan c Root b Bess ...... 45 O. Pope not out ...... 46 slumping to 12-3, in reply to Yasir Shah lbw b Archer ...... 5 J. Buttler not out ...... 15 REUTERS — MANCHESTER Pakistan’s first innings 326 that Mohammad Abbas c Root b Archer ...... 0 Extras (lb2, nb3) ...... 5 Shaheen Afridi not out ...... 9 Total (4 wkts, 28 overs, 132 mins) 92 featured opener Masood’s Test- Naseem Shah c Buttler b Broad ...... 0 To bat: J Buttler, C Woakes, D Bess, J Archer, England fast bowler Jofra best 156. Extras (b1, lb7, nb2) ...... 10 S Broad, J Anderson Archer believes his side Ollie Pope defied Pakistan Total (all out, 109.3 overs) ...... 326 Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Burns), 2-12 (Sibley), lacked luck after another to be 46 not out, with Jos Buttler Fall of wickets: 1-36 (Abid), 2-43 (Azhar), 3-12 (Stokes), 4-62 (Root) disappointing display with unbeaten on 15. But England 3-139 (Babar), 4-150 (Shafiq), 5-176 Bowling: Afridi 9-4-12-1 (1nb); Abbas 7-0- the ball has left them facing were still 234 runs behind with (Rizwan), 6-281 (Shadab), 7-291 (Yasir), 24-2 (2nb); Naseem 5-2-18-0; Yasir 7-0-36- a sizeable first innings 8-291 (Abbas), 9-317 (Masood), 10-326 (Na- 1; no more specialist batsmen left. seem) Match position: England are 234 runs be- deficit after day two of the It took towering left-armer Bowling: Anderson 19-6-63-1 (1nb); Broad hind with six first-innings wickets standing first test against Pakistan Shaheen Afridi just four balls to yesterday. have Rory Burns lbw before England have bowled Mohammad Abbas struck twice well in both morning ses- in quick succession. sions of the test, but wilted Dom Sibley was plumb lbw badly after lunch on each before the accurate Abbas occasion with wayward bowled Stokes, standing well line and length, and some out of his ground, with a superb sloppy fielding, to allow the ball that clipped the top of tourists to amass a highly off-stump. competitive 326 in their England were now 12-3, first innings. with the cheers of Pakistan’s had Babar Azam edging to first- struggling at 176-5. Pakistan missed a stumping off the Nazar, Mohammad Yousuf, “I don’t think it went our reserve players on the hotel bal- slip Root for 69 without had managed just 48 runs for unfortunate Bess. Two late-cut Younis Khan -- now Pakistan’s way, a lot of balls we bowled conies overlooking the ground Pakistan having then added to the loss of three wickets in yes- boundaries off Stuart Broad batting coach All-rounder today beat the bat or got the trying to compensate for the their overnight 139. terday’s first session to reach took him to 96 before Masood, Shadab holed out off Bess with edges (that didn’t carry to absence of their passionate fans But Masood pressed on to 187-5 at lunch. who struggled during Pakistan’s a mistimed slog to mid-on. fielders),” Archer told in what is a behind closed doors join a select group of Pakistan But with five overs until the 2016 tour of England, com- Fast bowler Jofra Archer reporters at the close of play. series because of the batsmen who have scored hun- new ball, Root then bowled his pleted a 251-ball century, then took two tail-end wickets “Pakistan batted well coronavirus. dreds in three successive Test own occasional off-breaks in including 13 fours. with successive deliveries and put on some pressure Joe Root, the England innings. tandem with frontline spinner As well as being his fourth before Afridi survived the hat- after lunch. But I think if it captain, and Pope kept Pakistan The 30-year-old left- Dom Bess immediately after the hundred in 21 Tests, and a first trick. Masood, playing a went that way in another at bay with a stand of exactly hander batted for nearly eight interval. against England, it was also textbook opener’s innings, Test, we probably would 50. hours in largely bowler-friendly Masood and Shadab Masood’s third in a row, after upped the tempo by hoisting have had them eight or nine But leg-spinner Yasir Shah conditions to surpass his pre- responded by adding 27 runs his century against Sri Lanka and driving Bess for two sixes. down in a couple of then had Root, who made a vious Test-best of 135 against with both batsmen well set by was followed by 100 against He eventually fell lbw after sessions.” struggling 14 off 58 balls, well Sri Lanka in Karachi in the time England took the new Bangladesh in Rawalpindi in tea to Broad, having faced 319 “This wicket is not really caught by wicketkeeper December. ball. February. balls, hitting 18 fours and two one where you will try to Mohammad Rizwan after the He received excellent There were no nervous 90s Masood, educated in sixes. bend your back. There was skipper edged an intended cut. support from Shadab Khan (45) for Masood, who had been England, was the sixth Pakistan Broad led England’s attack a little bit there in the The day started brilliantly in a sixth-wicket stand of 105 reprieved twice on 45 by Buttler batsman to score a hundred in with 3-54 from 22.3 overs while morning, but you saw it is for England when, with yester- as England were run ragged on Wednesday after the wick- three consecutive Test innings paceman Archer also took three now spinning on day two.” day’s sixth ball, James Anderson after Pakistan had been etkeeper dropped a catch and after Zaheer Abbas, Mudassar wickets. Chilly weather greets early starters at quiet PGA Championship

Tiger Woods in REUTERS — SAN FRANCISCO the July 2019 British Open. The Justin Thomas. While Woods usually the back nine, made bogey at the action during morning wave, many clad in long draws the biggest galleries in the par-three 11th where he missed the the ﬁrst round The PGA Championship, golf’s first sleeves and some wearing beanies, sport, yesterday he was introduced green and then needed two putts yesterday. major of 2020, kicked off yesterday were greeted by mostly cloudy skies at his opening hole to utter silence from seven feet. amid chilly and silent conditions at and temperatures around 55 degrees as the course was closed to spec- The PGA Championship, orig- TPC Harding Park in San Francisco Fahrenheit (12 degrees Celsius) at a tators to prevent spread of the novel inally scheduled for May, was sup- where Tiger Woods was among the course where thick rough and tight coronavirus. posed to be the second major early starters on a course closed to fairways is expected to challenge the The four-times PGA Champi- championship of the season after spectators due to the COVID-19 world’s best golfers. onship winner, who started at the the Masters in April but was post- pandemic. Woods, whose only PGA Tour par-five 10th, found the rough with poned due to the COVID-19 The tournament typically does event since February was a share of his tee shot. He left his approach shot outbreak. not garner anywhere near the same 40th at the Memorial Tournament short of the green but managed to The tournament begins an attention as golf’s three other blue- in mid-July, began his quest for a get up and down from 37 yards for unprecedented stretch of seven riband events but was getting the 16th major championship in the an opening birdie. majors being contested over the next marquee treatment this year as it is company of four-times major winner Two-time defending champion 12 months due to a shifting schedule the first major championship since Rory McIlroy and world number one Brooks Koepka, who also started on because of COVID-19. Marquez damaged plate in his arm F1 champions Mercedes trying to open a window, says Puig confirm Bottas for 2021

AFP — PARIS damage, so the titanium plate REUTERS — SILVERSTONE Mercedes are also delayed season-opener in has been removed and expected to continue with Austria. The Finn has won eight Reigning MotoGP world replaced by a new fixation.” Valtteri Bottas (pictured) six times world champion races with Mercedes since champion Marc Marquez Yesterday, Puig explained looked forward to fighting for Lewis Hamilton, who is joining from Williams in 2017. (pictured) had to undergo a that the damage had not It was a domestic accident the Formula One world cham- out of contract at the end “The past few years have second operation on his broke occurred when Marquez rode in his house opening a pionship again next season after of the year. been all about continuous arm earlier this week because in the practice sessions at the very big window. Well not Mercedes announced yesterday improvement, working on of an accident at home, Honda second race in Jerez. a very big window, like a that the Finn would be racing Bottas, overall runner-up every aspect of my per- team manager Alberto Puig “It was a domestic very big door, created a for them until at least the end in 2019, won last month’s formance. I’m confident that said yesterday. accident in his house opening of 2021. today I’m the strongest I’ve ever big pain that consequently delayed season-opener The Spaniard fractured his a very big window,” Puig said. broke the plate: Team The news was expected, been, but I can always raise the arm in the season opener iinn “WellWell not a veveryry bbigig windowindow,w, with champions Mercedes in Austria. The Finn has bar,”bar, he saidsaid.. manager Alberto Puig Spain on July 19 and missed like a very big having made clear they won eight races with ““I’mI’m in the fight for the following race despite ini-ini- door,door, created intended to retain the 30-year- Mercedes since joining thethe title this year tiallytially being declared fit to a big pain old Finn for a fifth successive from Williams in 2017. andand staying take part, just 48 hours after thatthat conse-conse- happened but it’s clear it hap- season in what is likely to be an wwithith Mer-Mer- having a titanium plate quently pened after the Grand Prix,” unchanged lineup. cedes puts insertedinserted durinduringg susurgery.rgery. brokebroke the said Puig from Brno ahead of Mercedes are also expected championship.”championship.” me inin thethe AfterAfter the second ooper-per- plate.”plate.” the Czech Grand Pris this to continue with six times world Hamilton is leading bestbest possiblepossible ation on Monday doctor, “It’s“It’s weekend. champion Lewis Hamilton, who BottasBottas byby 30 pointspoints after positionposition to XavierXavier MMirir ssaidaid ththatat ““anan probably “Marc went to Jerez with is out of contract at the end of fourfour races and is going competecompete for accumulation of stress in because of the consensus of all doctors. the year. forfor hishis fourthfourth successivesuccessive it next the operatedoperated area has thethe stressstress Doctors didn’t expect that this “I’m confident that we have victoryvictory on Sunday when season as causedcaused tthehe causedcaused at thatthat plate could break. In case they the strongest driver pairing in SilverstoneSilverstone hosts a grand well.”well.” plate to timetime thatthat had informed this, Marc F1 today and signing Valtteri is prixprix for the second susufferffe r iti t would have never tried, the an important first step in weekendweekend in a row.row. some team would have never let retaining this strength for the Bottas,Bottas, overall him try the bike. future,” said team boss Toto runner-uprunner-up in “From now on Marc will Wolff in a statement ahead of 2019,2019, won keep going with his process the 70th Anniversary Grand llastast of rehabilitation, healing of Prix. month’smonth’s the bone and time will let “Valtteri is a hard-working, when he is ready. straightforward guy who has a “Marc is very strong men- good relationship with the tally and physically so he will entire team including his team- take it as it is and when it’s mate, which is not a given when possible he will be back.” both drivers are fighting for the FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2020 SPORT 15

Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller in action during a City ready for Real training session ahead of his team's Champions League Round of 16 second leg test, says Guardiola match against Chelsea, which AFP – LONDON and he felt City were the better will be played team. But he believes playing (pictured) LAST 16 - SECOND LEG tomorrow. Pep Guardiola says Real presents unique (All matches kick off at Manchester City want to challenges. Pic: Twitter / We want to play our 10.00pm Qatar time) @FCBayern impose their game when they “They are more than a own game. We want to meet Real Madrid in their post- team,” he said. TODAY poned Champions League “I think they have that way impose our own style Juventus vs Olympique match today, believing his side of playing that you can never on the game, whether Lyonnais are ready to face the 13-time relax, even if you’re winning we’re defending or Manchester City vs Real champions. 3-0, 4-0. 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In 26 European knockout Manchester United forward Marino take on Linfield of He is the Champions games for Bayern, he has scored Alexis Sanchez yesterday Northern Ireland, and Kos- League’s top-scorer this season twelve goals. completed a permanent move ovo’s Drita play Inter with 11 goals in six matches. Just five of those were in to Inter Milan on a three-year d’Escaldes of Andorra. Lewandowski has netted 51 twelve matches from the contract, bringing an end to his UEFA also suggested that goals in all competitions this quarter-finals onwards, the last unsuccessful time at Old international games between season and is looking to pick up of which dates back to 2016/17 Trafford. member states in September where he left off in July’s when Bayern went out to Real The 31-year-old Chilean, could take place at neutral German Cup final after netting Madrid in the quarter-finals. who had been on loan at Inter venues. twice in a 4-2 romp against Lewandowski’s overall this season, signed a contract Leverkusen. record remains an impressive until June 30, 2023. “He is the most complete 64 goals in 86 Champions Despite missing months playerpy in front of ggoal and has Leagueg,g matches, including four through injury, Sanchez came Roma sold everything a striker inin Bayern’s 6-0 mauling ooff back strong after the corona- needs,”needs,” BaBayernyern coaccoachh RedRed Star BelgradeBelgrade lastlast virus lockdown, helping lift for $700m Hansi FlickFlick saisaidd Autumn.Autumn. 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Belgian forward Romelu while playing for Chile in a consortium Friedkin Group for Bild he is “perhaps“perhaps goodgood chance off And Conte praised the Lukaku and Danish midfielder friendly against Colombia. €591m (around $700m). at 9900 winning the Chilean after Inter booked their Cristian Eriksen. “Everyone at Manchester In a statement on tititletle he ticket to the Europa League Despite his £350,000-per- United wishes Alexis Sanchez Wednesday, Roma said that the craves.craves. quarter-finals with a 2-0 win week contract at Old Trafford all the best in his future career club agreed with The Friedkin over Getafe on Wednesday. Sanchez failed to make an as he joins Inter Milan on a per- Group for the sale of the club, “Sanchez was an excellent impact after joining from manent transfer,” the Premier saying “the Transaction is move,” said Conte. Arsenal in January 2018 as part League club said. valued at approximately Euro “Credit to the club for of the deal that saw Henrikh Sanchez first arrived in 591,000,000.” “I am pleased closing a really good transfer. Mkhitaryan go the other way. Europe playing for Italian side to confirm we have reached an We deserved it, it came at a bad He scored five goals in 45 Udinese in 2008, and following agreement with The Friedkin moment in his career and then appearances before following loan spells in South America, Group for the sale of AS Roma,” he got hurt right away. Lukaku to Inter in August 2019, moved to Barcelona in 2011, Italian club’s president Jim Pal- “We waited for him and where United covered a hefty where he won La Liga in 2013. lotta said. now he’s doing well. It is right portion of the Chilean’s wages. He joined Arsenal in 2014 Pallotta added that the that we are the ones to reap the They were later joined by and during four seasons won parties signed contracts and benefits of this.” The deal is Ashley Young. the FA Cup twice. will work to complete the legal reported to be worth around Sanchez was sidelined for For Chile he has scored 43 process in the upcoming days. seven million euros ($8m) per nearly three months after goals in 132 appearances, “All of us at The Friedkin Robert season, making him Inter’s undergoing surgery in October winning the Copa American Group are so happy to have Lewandowski third highest paid player after on tendon damage picked up twice in 2015 and 2016. taken the steps to become a part of this iconic city and club. We look forward to closing the purchase as soon as possible and immersing ourselves in the Premier League clubs vote against retaining five subs rule AS Roma family,” The Friedkin Group CEO Dan Friedkin said. REUTERS – LONDON of seven substitutes on the bench, the Teams will revert to using up to video reviews are made at the league's The Friedkin Group is a league said in a statement. three substitutes per match in VAR hub at Stockley Park. private business and English Premier League clubs voted Soccer's rule-making body IFAB, in the 2020-21 campaign, with a VAR was a source of significant con- investment consortium based against continuing to allow the use of May, changed the rules governing the troversy in England's top-flight this in Houston, Texas and is “one five substitutes in each game next maximum number of substitutes, maximum of seven substitutes season, with decisions to disallow goals of the world’s largest inde- season at their annual general meeting looking to help teams battling possible on the bench. for players being marginally offside pendent Toyota distributors.” (AGM) yesterday. fixture congestion as they tried to com- coming in for especially harsh criticism. The group also invests in luxury Clubs were allowed to increase the plete the season in a short period of There is some variation in how VAR is resorts. number of substitutes from three per time. implement global soccer governing used in different countries, and FIFA According to the famed match in the 2019-20 campaign when The IFAB said last month that teams body FIFA's guidelines on the imple- last month took over responsibility for business magazine Forbes, US the league restarted in June, after a could continue to use up to five substi- mentation of video-assistant referees the system from the IFAB. businessman Dan Friedkin, 55, three-month hiatus due to the outbreak tutes next season, but left it up to indi- (VAR). FIFA wants to institute a uniform has a $4.1bn net worth. of the novel coronavirus. vidual federations and leagues to decide The most significant change is likely approach to VAR across countries and One of the popular football Teams will revert to using up to if they wanted to adopt the rule. to be an increased use of pitchside competitions, so that the laws of the clubs in Europe, Roma won the three substitutes per match in the The Premier League added that monitors by the on-field referee. Under game are implemented in the same way top-tier Italian Serie A title for 2020-21 campaign, with a maximum clubs had also unanimously agreed to the current VAR system in England all across the world. three times in 1942, 1983 and 2001.