• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

Established 1961 Sport WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018 Semenya smashes Budd record Westbrook triple as Thunder seal Veteran Argentine scout on the 13as controversy persists 14 playoff spot, Spurs through 15 lookout for the new Messi Roma dump Barca out of CL Manolas sent Roma through to semi-finals ROME: FC Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (L) vies with AS Roma’s Italian forward Stephan El Shaarawy during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg football match between AS Roma and FC Barcelona at the Olympic Stadium in Rome yesterday. — AFP ROME: Kostas Manolas sent Roma Roma supporters into raptures and leave the poor form in front of goal that has later. Roma started the second half as they Stephan El Shaarawy. However with just through to the semi-finals of the Barca wondering what had hit them. blighted his club-record move from started the first and got their reward in the seven minutes left Manolas met another Champions League after an incredible 3-0 Just as they were at the Camp Nou, Sampdoria. 58th minute when Edin Dzeko was fizzing Kolarov corner with a unsaveable victory over Barcelona at the Stadio Roma were aggressive from the off, and He sent two glorious headed chances chopped down by Gerard Pique and De header, sparking wild celebrations on and Olimpico yesterday saw them overhaul a 4- Dzeko gave the home side a deserved lead wide, the first from a vicious 13th-minute Rossi slotted home the spot-kick. off the pitch. 1 first-leg deficit and advance on away after just six minutes, brilliantly bringing Aleksandar Kolarov corner. The second, Eusebio Di Francesco’s side smelled Barca finally came out of their shells as goals. The superb Edin Dzeko set the ball down De Rossi’s clipped through ball, just before the half-hour mark was even blood, and with the raucous crowd urging Roma tried to hold on to the result, but the rolling in the sixth minute, and after Daniele holding off Samuel Umtiti and poking the more glaring, a free header on the penalty their team they tore into wobbling Barca. hosts held on brilliantly to see the result De Rossi converted a penalty 13 minutes ball past Marc-Andre ter Stegen. spot that should have hit the target. De Rossi flashed a header wide in the 69th out and go through to the semis for the after the break to get the home fans believ- Patrik Schick had the best chances to He was however unlucky not to control minute, and 10 minutes later it looked like first time since 1984, when they lost the ing, Manolas glanced home a brilliant double Roma’s lead before half-time on his Radja Nainggolan’s mishit shot when it Ter Stegen had saved the away side’s skin final at home to Liverpool, yesterday’s oth- header with eight minutes left to send the Champions League debut, but continued flashed to him in the area just two minutes with an incredible close-range stop from er victors. — AFP Guardiola admitted beforehand that his side deflected long-range strike. Guardiola sent needed the “perfect” performance and the hosts The turning point came seconds later when got the perfect start as they opened the scoring Sane turned into an empty net after Loris after just 117 seconds. Liverpool were unhappy Karius’s punch came back off his own player off as Salah at Mateu Lahoz in what was to be the start of a James Milner. Mateu Lahoz wrongly ruled the controversial night for the Spaniard when Virgil goal out for offside, sparking City and, in partic- sends Liverpool van Dijk claimed he had been pushed by ular, Guardiola’s anger. Raheem Sterling in the lead-up to the goal. Liverpool could have delivered the knockout The referee was unmoved, though, and with blow even before the break had Alex Oxlade- into s-finals the Dutchman out of position, Fernandinho’s Chamberlain managed to maintain his balance through ball found Sterling and his low cross instead of firing high and wide after rounding MANCHESTER: Mohamed Salah ensured was swept home by Jesus. Liverpool fans would Ederson. Guardiola ran onto the field to pull his Liverpool’s return to the Champions League have been forgiven if memories of their 5-0 protesting players away from the official before semi-finals for the first time in a decade as a 2-1 defeat at the Etihad Stadium earlier this season embarking on his own rant at Mateu Lahoz that win at the Etihad Stadium yesterday took them came flooding back. saw him watch the second half from the stands. through 5-1 on aggregate and ended City were helped signficantly that City understandably failed to maintain the Manchester City’s European dream for another September afternoon by a first-half red card for intensity of their first-half display in a third huge season. On a night of high frustration for free- Sadio Mane and the home fans were screaming game in six days after also blowing the chance spending City, manager Pep Guardiola was sent for the Senegalese to be dismissed again on 14 to win the Premier League in a thrilling 3-2 off at half-time for taking his furious protests minutes for a late challenge on Nicolas Manchester derby defeat on Saturday. towards Spanish referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz Otamendi. Unsurprisingly it was Salah who got the too far. City led the quarter-final, second leg 1-0 However, Mateu Lahoz settled for a yellow decisive away goal and in some style. Just like on the night at that stage after Gabriel Jesus’s card and a booking for City goalkeeper his opener in the first leg, Salah followed up second-minute opener, but the hosts felt Ederson, who rushed from his goal to push after Ederson had denied Mane with a wonder- aggrieved after Leroy Sane had a second goal Mane persistently in retaliation. Salah had been fully-judged chipped finish past the despairing wrongly disallowed just before the break. an injury doubt after limping off in the first leg, Otamendi in the 56th minute. Salah ensured there was to be no stunning but Liverpool were unable to spring the City were condemned to a third straight comeback when he coolly chipped home his Egyptian free in the first 45 minutes as City defeat for the first time in Guardiola’s near two- 39th goal of the season 11 minutes into the sec- peppered the visitors’ box with crosses without year reign 13 minutes from time when Otamendi MANCHESTER: Liverpool’s English midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (R) tackles ond half before Roberto Firmino sealed a com- finding the final touch. was caught in possession and Firmino slotted in Manchester City’s English midfielder Raheem Sterling during the UEFA Champions prehensive aggregate triumph for the five-time Bernardo Silva saw a deflected effort spin off the far post to the delight of the Liverpool League second leg quarter-final football match between Manchester City and winners. just wide and then rattled the post with a fans gathered behind Ederson’s goal. — AFP Liverpool, at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England yesterday. — AFP.

Load more

  1

Copy Link