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Established 1961 Sport THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2018 Unified Korean team scores ‘Flying Tomato’ peels back years Froome blasts ‘misinformation’ in 12first goal of the Olympics 13 to win landmark snowboard gold 15 doping case on return to racing Ronaldo double as Real defeat PSG Mane hits hat-trick as Liverpool crush Porto MADRID: Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo (L) kicks the ball during the UEFA Champions League round of sixteen first leg football match Real Madrid CF against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid yesterday. — AFP MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice hands to turn the tie around. Having looked from the right into the path of Rabiot, who yesterday to march towards the Champions ed brightly and Brazilian midfielder Otavio as Real Madrid came from behind to stun set to come away with a precious draw, the swept home unmarked. PSG had a precious League quarter-finals. Mane fired the away was denied an early goal by a last-ditch Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in the first leg of defeat piles the pressure on coach Unai away goal, but they could not hold their side ahead in the first leg of the last-16 tackle from Lovren. But it didn’t take their heavyweight Champions League last- Emery, but for Real the outcome is an enor- lead until the break as Giovani Lo Celso clash, before Mohamed Salah’s audacious Liverpool long to grow into the game, as 16 tie yesterday. Ronaldo scored his 100th mous boost for their boss Zinedine Zidane. gave away a penalty for a foul on Toni finish quickly made it two. left-back Andrew Robertson fired over on Champions League goal for title-holders Real supporters chose an image of a The Senegalese forward slotted in his his Champions League debut and Ivan Real from the penalty spot late in the first famous fan in Rafael Nadal to adorn a display second as Liverpool completely outclassed Marcano’s brave block prevented Firmino half to cancel out Adrien Rabiot’s opener unfurled at the south end of the ground as the their opponents, with Roberto Firmino from heading in. for the French side at the Santiago sides came out, hoping their team could draw Ronaldo scores adding his name to the scoresheet with 20 Liverpool took total control of the tie Bernabeu, set up by Neymar. The inspiration from someone who has conquered minutes to play, before Mane’s searing strike just four minutes later as Salah scored his Portuguese star then turned the ball home Paris 10 times as French Open champion. his 100th completed his first European hat-trick. 30th goal of the season in style. James from close range with seven minutes left The hosts started well too, while Neymar Playing in the last 16 of the competition Milner’s strike crashed into the post, but the before Marcelo secured what could turn struggled, slipping when one pass was aimed Champions for the first time in nine years, Liverpool are Egyptian star was on hand to flick the ball out to be a decisive first-leg lead ahead of towards him, complaining as a Luka Modric now all but certain to reach the quarter- over the onrushing Sa with a magnificent the return in Paris on March 6 and sent challenge sent him to the floor and picking up League goal finals ahead of the second leg at Anfield on piece of skill and slot into the net. nearly 80,000 home fans into raptures. a yellow card for a foul on Nacho. Ronaldo, March 6. Jurgen Klopp’s men had scored 23 The visitors were utterly dominant, but The late collapse for PSG brings back meanwhile, saw Alphonse Areola make a fine goals in the group stage and continued that Tiquinho Soares, playing in place of the echoes of the way they fell apart to lose 6-1 save from his net-bound shot after he had Kroos. Areola, having just made a superb scintillating form in Portugal, while the injured Vincent Aboubakar, fired narrowly in Barcelona on their way to a humiliating been released by Marcelo, and not long after save from Karim Benzema, could do nothing defensive frailties that have plagued them at wide for Porto on the stroke of half-time. exit at the same stage of the competition that, in the 33rd minute, PSG scored. to keep out Ronaldo’s spot-kick. times this season never resurfaced as Dejan Porto had plenty of the ball but were always last season. Neymar, in Barcelona’s ranks Neymar could claim an assist, although it Meanwhile, Sadio Mane scored a bril- Lovren and Virgil van Dijk put in accom- vulnerable to Liverpool’s waves of rapid then, could not make the difference for didn’t look like the Brazilian meant to help liant treble as Liverpool romped to a 5-0 plished displays at the back. counter-attacks, and Mane made it three PSG, who now have a huge job on their Kylian Mbappe’s low ball across the box thrashing of Porto at the Estadio do Dragao Roared on by the home fans, Porto start- shortly after the restart. — AFP Cerezo top the group after Kota Mizunuma scored a Cannavaro expects stoppage time winner against South Korea’s Jeju United. A mistake by Lee Chang-guen in the home side’s goal allowed midfielder Mizunuma to slide the ball home. Guangzhou to Shanghai Shenhua, meanwhile, were pegged back to a 1-1 draw after taking an early lead against Kashima bounce back Antlers just three minutes into their Group H encounter in Japan. Giovanni Moreno claimed the opener before Yasushi Endo scored six minutes into the second half to after Buriram draw earn Go Oiwa’s side a share of the points. HONG KONG: Fabio Cannavaro has told his Both teams trail Suwon Bluewings from South Korea Guangzhou Evergrande team to bounce back when after a brace from veteran striker Dejan Damjanovic, they take on Japan’s Cerezo Osaka in the Asian who joined from FC Seoul in the close season, saw off Champions League next week after seeing his side held Australian champions Sydney FC. to a 1-1 draw yesterday by Thailand’s Buriram United. Damjanovic gave goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne no Guangzhou, who won the tournament in 2013 and chance with a fine strike from 25 yards in the 62nd 2015, took the lead in the Group G opener after 16 minute before the 36-year-old put the result beyond eventful minutes through Ricardo Goulart, having had doubt from the penalty spot 14 minutes later. two penalty claims turned down and a goal ruled out “I’m really feeling good when I’m here in Sydney,” for offside. said Damjanovic. “We opened well, there’s big pressure However, a goalkeeping error by Liu Dianzuo because there is big expectation on us this season and I allowed Buriram to equalise just before the hour mark have two goals and we’ve opened the season really well.” when Edgar Silva netted from close range. “I’m very Meanwhile, in the west of the continent Persepolis, happy with our first half performance, but very disap- semi-finalists last year, made an impressive start to their pointed with the second half,” said Cannavaro, who was campaign in Group C by beating Nasaf Qarshi from leading the team in the first game of his second stint in Uzbekistan 3-0. The Iranian side top the group ahead charge of Guangzhou. of Qatar’s Al Sadd, who defeated Al Wasl from the “The away match against Cerezo Osaka (next week) United Arab Emirates. will be very difficult. They are a strong team with disci- Last year’s finalists, Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia, played pline and good individuals. We will prepare carefully. I out a scoreless draw with 2003 champions Al Ain of the GUANGZHOU: Ricardo Goulart (R) of Guangzhou Evergrande competes for the ball with Pansa Hemviboon of Buriram just told my players that today we lost two points and we UAE in Group D while Iran’s Esteghlal and Al Rayyan United during their AFC Champions League group stage football match in Guangzhou, in China’s southern are going to take them back.” from Qatar shared a 2-2 draw. — Reuters Guangdong province yesterday. — AFP.

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