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No home comforts for Man Utd in Arsenal defeat Ronaldo returns with double as sub in Juventus win Cristiano Ronaldo scores within three minutes after coming back from coronavirus

Ibrahimovic overhead kick seals• AC Milan win at Udinese

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ristiano Ronaldo came off the bench Aubameyang scores Arsenal’s first goal from the penalty spot to score a brace on his return from coronavirus as Juventus got back to AFP | London C Tottenham. winning ways with a 4-1 victory in It is United’s worst start to a against promoted Spezia yesterday. ierre-Emerick home league campaign since Ronaldo replaced in the PAubameyang condemned 1972-73, leaving Ole Gunnar 56th minute in Cesena with the match level Manchester United to fresh Solskjaer’s team languishing after Tommaso Pobega had can-celled out misery at Old Trafford as just six points above the rele- Alvaro Morato’s opener for Juventus. the Arsenal forward’s penal- gation zone in 15th place. But the Portuguese striker put Juve in ty clinched a 1-0 win, while After an encouraging end to front just three minutes later. Newcastle stopped Everton last season when they secured Adrien Rabiot grabbed a third on 68 min- returning to the top of the Pre- a top-four finish, United have utes, with Ronaldo scoring a second from mier League with a 2-1 victory gone backwards and questions the penalty spot with 15 minutes to go for yesterday. will be asked about Solskjaer’s his fifth goal in three league games this Aubameyang ended a five- ability to hold on to his job if season. game goal drought in the results do not improve soon. The champions ended a run of three con- Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo (C) shoots and scores past Spezia’s goalkeeper Ivan Provedel league when he stepped up to Arsenal moved up to eighth secutive draws to move second in Serie A, “We are among the youngest teams in Eu- convert a 69th-minute spot- place after ending a two-game four points behind leaders AC Milan. rope, I take the blame for raising the aver- kick after Paul Pogba fouled losing run in the league. The nine-time defending champions had age age, but they all make me feel younger.” Hector Bellerin. Mikel Arteta’s men were de- won their opener against Sampdoria in BETTER The Swedish star set up Franck Kessie for The Arsenal captain’s first served winners, having domi- September, their only victory on the pitch the opener after 18 minutes before Rodrigo league goal since the opening nated for long periods and hit in Serie A this season, before three draws. de Paul pulled Udinese level three minutes weekend of the season gave the post through Willian in the Between those matches they were award- KNOW after the break from the penalty spot, beat- the Gunners their first league first half. ed a 3-0 victory after Napoli refused to ing Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarum- win at Old Trafford since 2006. Everton would have gone travel to Turin on October 4 be-cause of ma on his re-turn from coronavirus. Donny van de Beek near- back above leaders Liverpool coronavirus cases. Cristiano Ronaldo had missed But Ibrahimovic snatched the three ly fashioned a late equaliser on goal difference with a win Ronaldo missed four games for Juventus the previous four matches after points seven minutes from time, acrobati- when his cross was scuffed by at St James’ Park. including the midweek 2-0 Champions cally outwitting Udinese defenders Rodrigo Mohamed Elneny into the face But, with James Rodriguez League defeat against Barcelona in Turin. suffering from Covid-19, includ- Becao and , to smash an of Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno and Richarlison missing from AC Milan extended their unbeaten streak ing the midweek clash against overhead kick past goalkeeper Juan Musso. and on to the post. the Everton team, Carlo An- as Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored an acrobatic ’s Barcelona AC Milan extended their unbeaten run But United have failed to celotti’s side succumbed to a late winner to seal a 2-1 win over Udinese. to 24 consecutive matches since compe- win any of their four home limp defeat as Callum Wilson The 39-year-old has scored seven goals in the team counts more,” said Ibrahimovic. tition return in June after the coronavirus league games this season, with bagged his brace in the sec- four league games having missed the other “It was a difficult match, we showed that lockdown. the three defeats including a ond half before Dominic Cal- two after contracting Covid-19. in difficult moments the team works well Udinese are in the relegation zone after humiliating 6-1 rout against vert-Lewin’s late reply. “Mine was a good goal but the victory of together. their fifth defeat this season.

Iftikhar, Babar star in Dhoni vows to return for 2021 IPL Pakistan’s series-clinching win as CSK end Punjab’s play-off hopes AFP | Dubai

kipper Mahendra Singh SDhoni vowed yesterday to At the start of the IPL return for Chennai Super Kings (in 2008) we made a in next year’s Indian Premier team and it served well League, after his team ended for us 10 years. There Kings XI Punjab’s play-off hopes in both sides’ final game of the comes a time when season. (you) need to shift But the 39-year-old said the and change a bit and team -- which has many over- hand it over to the next 35s including Shane Watson and generation Faf du Plessis -- would need an MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI overhaul before going into next Pakistan captain Babar Azam plays a shot season, scheduled for April- May. play him earlier, the Covid really AFP | Rawalpindi unassailable 2-0 lead after they And coach Stephen Fleming knocked him around. We knew won the first game by 26 runs Mahendra Singh Dhoni reacts during the match said it would be a “great chal- how good he was,” Fleming told pinner Iftikhar Ahmed on Friday. The final match lenge” to rebuild the team -- Veteran wicketkeeper-bats- “We need to slightly change reporters. Sgrabbed a maiden is also at the same venue on dubbed “Dad’s army” in the me- man Dhoni, who ended his in- our core group and look for the South Africa’s Du Plessis, who five-wicket haul while Babar Tuesday. dia -- for the upcoming season. ternational career in August, next 10 years,” Dhoni said after made 48 in the final game to Azam notched a half-century Left-arm spinner Tend - Three-time IPL winners assured fans ahead of the match the win. lead the team’s batting charts as Pakistan thumped Zimba- ai Chisoro (2-49) removed Chennai were the first of the that he would return in the yel- “At the start of the IPL (in with 449 runs in 13 in-nings, bwe by six wickets to win the both the openers while Sean eight teams to drop out of con- low jersey. 2008) we made a team and said his career was still far from second one-day international Williams dismissed debutant tention, raising doubts about “Definitely not,” Dhoni said at it served well for us 10 years. over. in Rawalpind yesterday. Haider Ali (29) but Azam and captain Dhoni’s future with the the toss when he was asked by There comes a time when (you) Ahmed spun a web around Ahmed (16 not out) completed franchise. former New Zealand paceman need to shift and change a bit Kolkata thrash Rajasthan Zimbabwe’s batsmen with fig- the victory during their un- But they signed off their cam- Danny Morrison if the game and hand it over to the next gen- In another match, Pat Cum- ures of 5-40 to wreck them broken fifth-wicket stand of paign with three successive tri- against Punjab was his last for eration.” mins’ four-wicket haul and Eoin for a paltry 206 before Azam 46 runs. umphs, including this compre- Chennai. Gaikwad, 23, has been one Morgan’s 68-run knock helped knocked an attractive 74-ball Azam hit seven boundaries hensive nine-wicket victo-ry in The comment set Twitter of the few impressive younger Kolkata Knight Riders defeat 77 not out to chase down the in his 16th ODI half-century, Abu Dhabi. alight, with the hashtag #Defi- players in the team, which in- Rajasthan Royals by 60 runs. target in 35.2 overs. bringing up the victory with Punjab, who had been rooted nitelyNot trending in India. cludes England’s 22-year-old With this win, Kolkata have Zimbabwe needed early his second six. to the foot of the table for much Chennai kept Punjab to 153-6 all-rounder Sam Curran. moved to the fourth spot in the wickets, but a solid opening It was 30-year-old Ahmed of the tournament, ended with and then surpassed the total in Gaikwad though joined the points table with 14 points from stand of 68 between Imam- who rocked Zimbabwe after back-to-back de-feats after a 18.5 overs with opener Ruturaj Chennai XI late in the season af- 14 matches. On the other hand, ul-Haq (49) and Abid Ali (22) the tourists won the toss and five-match winning streak had Gaikwad hitting an unbeaten 62 ter contracting the coronavirus Royals are now out from the en-sured Pakistan were set up opted to bat but could never got KL Rahul’s men back into -- his third successive half-cen- ahead of the start. playoff contention after losing nicely. cope with the spin and were contention. tury. “He is a big story. We couldn’t the match. The win gives Pakistan an bowled out in 45.1 overs.