VISION SPORT NEW VISION, Monday, April 8, 2019 65 Teenage sensation Kean puts Juventus on brink of Serie A crown Can City go MILAN tus one step away from an eighth spare-the earliest any team has won “Even today Kean came on and consecutive Serie A title on Serie A-if second-placed Napoli lose scored, he is very good at that,” said at home against Genoa. Allegri of the youngster who also on to secure SeUie A Uesults Saturday as a 2-1 comeback win Parma 0 Torino 0 over AC Milan pushed the cham- Juventus were playing without scored twice in two Euro 2020 qualifi- pions 21 points clear at the top. injured striker , ers for Italy. Juventus 2 Milan 1 Kean-the victim of racist abuse ear- recovering from a thigh injury, as they “He is a young man who is doing a quadruple! Sampdoria 0 Roma 1 lier this week in Cagliari-came on as prepare for their Champions League very well,” Allegri added. Fiorentina 0 Frosinone 1 a substitute and fired in the winner on quarter-final, first leg against Ajax. Krzysztof Piatek had put the visiting LONDON Udinese 3 Empoli 2 84 minutes for his fifth goal in as many But 19-year-old Kean has stepped AC Milan side ahead five minutes be- league games. up in the absence of the Portuguese fore the break with his 21st goal of the z FA &uS 6ePiÀnal Uesults Teenage sensation Moise Kean The Turin giants will seal a 35th Scu- superstar who is battling to be fit for season. Paulo Dybala pulled the hosts Man City 1 Brighton 0 scored the winner to put Juven- detto on Sunday with seven matches to Wednesday’s game in Amsterdam. level later. AFP z PUePieU /eague Everton 1 Arsenal 0 B’rnemouth 1 Burnley 3 H’ddersÀeld 1 Leicester 4 Barca have Newcastle 0 C. Palace 1 Today: 10pm, SS3 little threat NO MERCY Chelsea v West Ham The “impossible” quadru- BARCELONA ple dream remains intact for Manchester City after z /a /iga Uesults ’s Reus can’t believe it an early headed goal from Girona 1 Espanyol 2 Gabriel Jesus sealed a scrappy 1-0 win over Real 2 Eibar 1 Brighton on Saturday to Vallecano 2 Valencia 0 BERLIN put them into the FA Cup Barca 2 Atlético 0 ſPCN Alavés 1 Leganés 1 Results Jesus (below) launched Getafe 1 Bilbao 0 Schalke 1 Frankfurt 2 himself into the air to connect z /igue 1 Leverkusen 2 Leipzig 4 decisively in the third minute but City never hit top gear and Lyon 1 Dijon 3 Stuttgart 1 1 they rather laboured to victory Amiens 2 St-É’enne 2 Hertha 1 Dusseldorf 2 in an instantly forgettable Angers 3 Rennes 3 Wolfsburg 3 Hannover 1 match. Guingamp 1 Monaco 1 Bayern 5 Dortmund 0 Nevertheless, after bagging Nimes 2 Caen 0 the League Cup, being locked Reims 1 Lille 1 cap- in a titanic battle with Liver- Toulouse 1 Nantes 0 tain Marco Reus said his pool for the Premier League team need to take a long, title and in the Champions Barcelona forward Luis hard look at themselves League quarter-finals, Pep Suarez said his side had after their “catastrophic” Guardiola’s side remain on taken two steps towards 5-0 defeat to Bundesliga course for an unprecedented wrapping up the La Liga title rivals Bayern Munich clean sweep. title after beating closest on Saturday. It was a tired-looking display challengers Atletico “We played catastrophically against Premier League Madrid 2-0 at home on and I don’t have any explana- relegation battlers Brighton, Saturday to open up an tion for it,” Reus told Sky. though, and City will need to 11-point gap at the top “We can’t turn up and play rediscover their spark ahead of the table with seven like that, Bayern are not a joke of Tuesday’s trip to Tottenham games left. team. We need to be ruthless Hotspur Barca had struggled to when we analyse our perfor- in the first break down a fiercely com- mance.” leg of their petitive Atletico long after Hapless defending and poor Cham- Diego Costa had been sent build-up play saw Dortmund pions off for the visitors for a verbal humiliated in a remarkable League outburst at the referee but first half, as Bayern outplayed last-eight Suarez finally beat Atleti’s them all over the pitch and tie. outstanding keeper Jan reclaimed top spot in the Guardi- Oblak in the 85th minute. Bundesliga. ola was Captain Lionel Messi “We didn’t leave Dortmund quick to scored the second goal one any space to breathe,” said play down minute later and the 90,000 Bayern goalkeeper Manuel the “Q” Barca fans crammed into the Neuer. word. Nou Camp began to chant Dortmund coach Lucien “My “champions” as they sensed Favre said that his team had opinion is they were closing in on an been “taught a lesson”, and that nobody has done it (won eighth domestic title in 11 admitted that his decision to the quadruple) so why can we years. play Reus up front instead of do it?,” Guardiola said. “Today we didn’t just take Mario Goetze had backfired. “It is almost impossible to one step, we took two steps Despite the thumping defeat, achieve everything, that is forward, we obviously have a Dortmund are still just one the truth. Our fans will come, very big advantage now but point behind Bayern in the more than today, for the final, there are still some games to title race, and Favre said that we are losing players every go and it could still get diffi- his team must put a traumatic game but still we will try to cult,” Suarez told reporters. evening in Munich behind do it. “This was another game them. “I am happy to be in the which shows just how hard “We have to concentrate on final, we extend our season it is to win the league and the next games. If we play like by one more week and we are we deserve a lot of credit for we did today, it will be hard happy for that.” what we’re achieving.” to stay in the title race,” he Defeat by Atletico would added. ˆ Arsenal’s hopes of a top- have trimmed Barca’s lead to “We have to play football four finish in the Premier five points and coach Ernes- instead of just saying that we League were dented on Sun- to Valverde underlined the want to win.” Bayern’s (right) and Dortmund’s Lukasz Piszcek battle in a Bundesliga day as Everton captain Phil importance of the victory. With six games to go, Bayern match on Saturday. (inset) was one of Bayern’s scorers. AFP photos Jagielka took advantage of an “These three points were striker Robert Lewandowski unexpected late recall to score very important, we still have warned that there was still then we will do it, but it twice against his former club tough away trip to third- the winner in a dominant 1-0 to finish the job but today’s “difficult path ahead” if Bayern will be difficult. We have to taking his Bundelsiga career placed Leipzig before hosting victory at Goodison Park. game could mean a lot,” were to win a seventh consec- show on the pitch that we total to 200. fourth-placed Eintracht Jagielka scored after 10 Valverde said. ReuteUs utive league title. want to be champions,” said Bayern arguably have the Frankfurt on the last day of minutes to earn his side a “If we win all our games, Lewandowski who scored harder run-in. They face a the season. AFP well-deserved win. ReuteUs