ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021 SPORTS 14 Sargent scores twice as Norwich blank Bournemouth Kean sent off in latest low point in Everton career LONDON, Aug 25, (AP): Moise Kean’s Ever- ton career just cannot get going. The Italy striker made his fi rst start of the sea- Benfi ca, Malmö, Young Boys advance to Champions League son in an English League Cup second-round match at second-tier Huddersfi eld and was sent EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Aug 25, (AP): Eran Zahavi struck the bar with a close- douni sent off before Young Boys’ United off after getting involved in a scuffl e in the mid- Benfi ca returned to the Champions League range shot. States forward Jordan Siebatcheu saw his dle of the fi eld in the 59th minute. group stage, playing the last hour with 10 Malmö’s Veljko Birmanević has been penalty saved. The win was sealed in stop- Kean, who had a goal disallowed in the fi rst men at PSV Eindhoven to hang on for a 0-0 a star of the Swedish champion’s progress page time by substitute Felix Mambimbi. half, didn’t protest against the decision as he draw. through four qualifying rounds. Young Boys coach David Wagner, the walked straight off the fi eld and down the tunnel. A 2-1 win in the home leg last week was The Serbia international’s fourth goal in former US international, will lead his team Everton defi ed the loss of Kean by scoring a enough to lift coach Jorge Jesus’ team fi ve games - a free kick from distance - was back into the Champions League less than 79th-minute winner through Andros Townsend back into the Champions League elite after key in a 2-1 loss at Ludogorets that carried one year after being fi red by Schalke dur- for a 2-1 victory to advance along with six other a one-year absence. Malmö through 3-2 on aggregate. ing a Bundesliga-record winless run of Premier League teams that played lower-league Benfi ca defender Lucas Verissimo was Young Boys advanced with a second 3-2 games. opposition. Indeed, the only top-fl ight team to sent off in the 32nd minute and the two- win against Ferencváros to repeat the fi rst- Three more second-leg games are time European champion held out with a leg result in Switzerland last week. scheduled Wednesday to complete the 32- SOCCER veteran back-line pairing of captain Nicolas The Swiss champion led early through team lineup for the groups. The draw will be Otamendi and Jan Vertonghen. defender Cédric Zesiger’s goal, then lev- made Thursday in Istanbul, Turkey. get eliminated was Crystal Palace, which lost PSV, the 1988 European Cup winner eled at 2-2 early in the second half with PSV, Ludogorets and Ferencváros 1-0 at fellow Premier League squad Watford. against Benfi ca in the fi nal, wasted its best Christian Fassnacht’s goal. switch across to the Europa League groups Kean joined Everton from Juventus in the chance in the 62nd when Israel forward Ferencváros had defender Aïssa Laï- which will be drawn on Friday. offseason of 2019 but scored just two goals in Malmo’s Veljko Birmancevic celebrates after his fi rst season, which mostly featured appear- scoring during the Champions League play- en his past links to Merseyside rival Liverpool, a hat trick. son for his fi rst senior managerial role in Eng- ances as a substitute. He even achieved the ig- off second leg soccer match between Bul- but he has made an encouraging start to his ten- Wolverhampton and Brighton won 4-0 and lish soccer but Palace has opened the Premier nominious feat of being substituted 19 minutes garia’s PFC Ludogorets 1945 and Sweden’s ure, having already picked up four points from 2-0, respectively, against second-tier teams League with a 3-0 loss at Chelsea and a 0-0 Malmo FF at the Ludogorets Arena stadium after coming on as a substitute against Man- a possible six in the Premier League. Nottingham Forest and Cardiff, while Jack draw with Brentford. chester United. in Razgrad, Bulgaria, on Aug. 24. (AP) He spent the majority of last season on loan United States striker Josh Sargent scored Harrison scored two late goals in Leeds’ 3-0 Tennis balls were thrown onto the fi eld by at Paris Saint-Germain and fared much better, his fi rst goals for Norwich since joining from victory over third-tier Crewe. Brentford beat Oldham fans during the fourth-tier team’s The 21-year-old Kean has returned to Ever- German club Werder Bremen, with his double fourth-division leader Forest Green Rovers 3-1. match against Accrington Stanley, in protest scoring 16 times in all competitions and even ton for this season, but his red card will hardly playing in the Champions League semifi nals. helping his new team to a 6-0 win over second- Patrick Vieira is still without a victory as against the club’s ownership. He also stayed on the radar of the Italy squad, have endeared him to the team’s recently ap- tier Bournemouth. Crystal Palace manager after his team conceded Play was briefl y halted, with Oldham’s play- narrowly missing out on making the squad for pointed manager Rafa Benitez and also means Aston Villa won by the same score at fourth- an 86th-minute goal to lose at Watford. Ashley ers throwing the balls back into the stand be- the European Championship that the Azzurri he’ll have to serve a suspension. tier Barrow, with 19-year-old striker Cameron Fletcher netted the winner on his debut. hind one of the goals. They later won a penalty won last month. The hiring of Benitez was controversial, giv- Archer marking his fi rst start for the club with Vieira replaced Roy Hodgson in the offsea- shootout after a 0-0 draw. Kane staying at Tottenham for now Sun shut down Aces in 1st-place PSG reject Real Madrid offer for Mbappé but ‘open to negotiate’ showdown to clinch playoff spot MADRID, Aug 25, (AP): Paris Saint- Madrid has not offi cially confi rmed Germain has rejected an offer of about or denied it made an offer for the $188 million from Real Madrid for 22-year-old France star who joined Kylian Mbappé but is open to negotiate PSG from Monaco in 2017. It was sup- Lynx end skid the player’s transfer, the French club’s posedly Madrid’s fi rst offer for Mbap- sporting director said Wednesday. pé, a long-time target for the Spanish UNCASVILLE, Conn., Leonardo told French broadcaster powerhouse. RMC Sport that the initial Madrid of- Madrid president Florentino Pérez Aug 25, (AP): Briann Janu- fer is below what PSG expected. He has publicly spoken about the club’s ary scored a season-high 19 said the club won’t hold Mbappé back interest in Mbappé in the past, and the points, DaWanna Bonner if his desire is to player has never denied his desire to added 18 and the Connecticut leave, but any one day play with the team. deal will only Rumors about a possible transfer Sun clinched a playoff berth be made on the increased after Lionel Messi’s move with a 76-62 win over the Las club’s terms. Vegas Aces in a showdown “Kylian between the top two WNBA Mbappé wants to SOCCER teams. leave, that seems clear to me,” from Barcelona to PSG, with some The Sun were up four to start Leonardo said. at the Catalan club accusing Pérez of the fourth quarter before Bonner “If Real Madrid working behind the scenes to get Messi scored the fi rst four points and as- makes an offer, to France to open the way for Mbap- sisted on a Jonquel Jones layup that seems clear. Mbappé pé’s arrival at Madrid. to push the lead to 64-54 with 6 I am giving a Pérez has denied any involvement 1/2 minutes to play. Bonner hit position which, I think, is clear for eve- in Messi’s departure from Barcelona. a 3-pointer and after a Las Ve- ryone. We can’t, in the last week of the Earlier this year he praised Mbappé gas basket, January assisted on a transfer window, change our plans. If he and said Madrid fans should “calmly” wants to leave, we aren’t going to keep wait for new developments about his Kaila Charles 3 for a 70-58 lead him, but it’s under our conditions.” possible transfer to Madrid. midway through the quarter. The It was the fi rst time PSG said Mbap- ❑ ❑ ❑ Aces never threatened down the pé wants to leave. The club had been stretch. saying he was not for sale, but his con- Harry Kane publicly accepted on tract ends this season and it may end Wednesday that he won’t be leaving up getting nothing for him if it doesn’t Tottenham in the summer transfer BASKETBALL sell him now. window. Leonardo said PSG already verbally The striker had been hoping to se- Brionna Jones scored 15 for the Sun Connecticut Sun’s Briann January (20) up for a shot between Las Vegas Aces’ Liz Cambage (8) and A’ja Wilson said “no” to the initial Madrid offer of cure a transfer away from the Lon- (18-6). (22) during a WNBA basketball game on Aug 24, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP) “around” 160 million euros ($188 mil- don club in the search of a fi rst career Chelsea Gray scored 15 points to lion), which was being widely reported trophy but a move to Premier League lead Las Vegas (17-7).