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MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015 SPORTS Wolfsburg seal CL berth BERLIN: Dutch striker Bas Dost scored Paraguay striker Raul Bobadilla followed on twice as VfL Wolfsburg secured a from Barcelona’s Lionel Messi by inflicting Champions League berth following a six- more misery on the Bundesliga champions. year absence with a 3-1 win over relega- Bayern host Barca facing an uphill task tion-threatened Paderborn yesterday. having been routed 3-0 in Spain, when Dost’s double leaves him with 19 goals Messi scored twice, which followed defeats in all competitions as Wolfsburg went back to Borussia Dortmund in the German Cup up to second with just two games left. semi-final and a league defeat at Bayer Wolves picked up their first win in four Leverkusen. league games when Swiss defender Timm Bayern played nearly 80 minutes with Klose headed home on 16 minutes before ten men after reserve goalkeeper Pepe Dost netted nine minutes later by meeting Reina was shown a straight red card with Ivan Perisic’s cross at the near post. just 13 minutes gone. The 25-year-old showed his predatory Dutch defender Paul Verhaegh hit the skills by pouncing on a parried save eight post with the resulting spot-kick. But minutes from time to slot home his second. Augsburg grabbed the winner when Paderborn pulled a goal back when Danish midfielder Pierre-Emile Hoejbjerg, midfielder Lukas Rupp hit the top right- on loan from Bayern, put in a cross which hand corner with a speculative shot on the Bobadilla deftly back-heeled on 71 min- edge of the area just before the whistle. utes. The defeat keeps Paderborn 17th, but Borussia Moenchengladbach are virtual- with all still to play for as just two points ly sure of joining Wolfsburg and Bayern separate the bottom five teams of directly in the Champions League next sea- Hamburg, Freiburg, Hanover 96, Paderborn son after their 3-0 win over fourth-placed and bottom side VfB Stuttgart with two Bayer Leverkusen. games left. Schalke dropped to sixth after Germany striker Max Kruse, who will their 2-0 defeat at Cologne means Robert play for Wolfsburg next season, Patrick di Matteo’s side has won just one of their Herrmann and Guinea forward Ibrahima last eight league games and in danger of Traore scored Gladbach’s goals. dropping out of the European places for Borussia Dortmund enjoyed a 2-0 win at next season. home to Hertha Berlin as goals by defend- Schalke are just two points ahead of ers Neven Subotic and Erik Durm lifted neighbours Dortmund, who are making a Dortmund to seventh. late bid for a Europa League spot after Hanover remain third from bottom after starting February last in the table. their 1-1 draw at home to Werder Bremen Goals by midfielders Marcel Risse and while Stuttgart stayed at the foot of the ITALY: Parma’s Zouhair Feddal (right) jumps for the ball with Napoli’s Duvan Zapata, during their Serie A soccer match at Parma’s Tardini Yannick Gerdhardt confirmed Cologne’s table despite their 2-0 win over Mainz. stadium. —AP survival in the top flight. Mid-table Eintracht Frankfurt enjoyed a On Saturday, ten-man Bayern Munich 3-1 win over Hoffenheim while Hamburg suffered a morale-sapping fourth straight stayed above the relegation places with a defeat by losing 1-0 to Augsburg ahead of 1-1 draw at home to Freiburg on Friday Napoli tripped up by Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final, thanks to Gojko Kacar’s 90th-minute return leg against Barcelona. Augsburg’s equaliser. —AFP Parma in Europe race ROME: Napoli missed the chance to put Roma broke to him on the edge of the box. after the match director Dario Baccin admitted and Lazio under pressure in the race for the Despite a fine goal from Levan Mch’edlidze that star player Paulo Dybala was set to be sold, Champions League following a disappointing 2- with 13 minutes left and serious pressure from with local media reporting that they have come 2 at rock-bottom and bankrupt Parma in Serie A the home side, Fiorentina went home with three to an agreement with champions Juventus. yesterday. points that maintains their place in the Europa “We are in the conclusive phase of the sale. Rafael Benitez’s side would have only been League spots. Cesena were relegated from the Over the next few days the president will inform two points behind second-placed Roma, who Italian top flight with three games to spare on you of everything,” said Palermo director Dario fell weakly 2-0 at AC Milan on Saturday night, after throwing away a two-goal half-time lead to Baccin. had they won at already-relegated Parma as lose 3-2 at home to Sassuolo. Luca Toni’s 19th league goal of an astonishing expected. Cesena needed to beat Sassuolo and hope season for the veteran Verona striker wasn’t Instead they stay four points behind Rudi Atalanta failed to win at Palermo in order to sur- enough for his side to win their local derby with Garcia’s side and three behind Lazio, who have vive for another week, but goals from Simone Chievo in Sunday’s early game, an exciting 2-2 the chance to overtake Roma with a win against Zaza, Saphir Taider and Simone Missirioli can- draw. The 37-year-old is now only one goal Inter Milan in Rome later on Sunday. celled out two fine individual strikes from behind the league’s top scorer Carlos Tevez with Benitez started with star striker Gonzalo Gregoire Defrel and Franco Brienza. three games to go. Higuain on the bench in view of their Europe Atalanta won a thrilling match in Sicily 3-2 to Finishing top of charts would be a great way League semi-final second leg with Dnipro in all but secure Serie A safety despite having to for the World Cup-winner to end his career, even Ukraine, and until the Argentine was brought on play almost the whole second half with 10 men if he is refusing to talk about his future. “I’m look- in the 57th minute they looked blunt going for- after goalkeeper Vlada Avramov was sent off for ing to finish top of the scoring charts,” Toni said. ward. stupidly kicking Franco Vazquez. “I don’t know about my future, first I’ll try to Raffaele Palladino’s ninth minute strike gave Palermo have nothing left to play for and overtake Tevez, then we’ll see.” —AFP Parma a shock lead after Napoli keeper Mariano Andujar flapped at a corner. Cristobal Jorquera’s first Serie A goal in over Italian League results/standings three years, a long-range rocket of a shot from a free-kick, restored that lead only five minutes Chievo 2 (Paloschi 9, Pellissier 40-og) Verona 2 (Gomez Taleb 20, Toni 26); Palermo 2 (Vazquez 43, Rigoni 68) after Manolo Gabbiadini’s 28th-minute equaliser. Atalanta 3 (Baselli 6, Andelkovic 17-og, Gomez 51); Udinese 1 (Di Natale 87-pen) Sampdoria 4 (Soriano 26, 63, Dries Mertens levelled the scores for the away GERMANY: Wolfburg’s Josuha Guilavogui from France (left) and Paderborn’s Marvin Acquah 80, Duncan 90); Cesena 2 (Defrel 15, Brienza 29) Sassuolo 3 (Zaza 48, Taider 51, Missiroli 69); Empoli 2 side in the 72nd minute with a well-placed low (Saponara 28, Mchedlidze 77) Fiorentina 3 (Ilicic 4, 68, Salah 58); Parma 2 (Palladino 9, Jorquera 33) Napoli 2 Bakalorz (down) challenge for the ball during the German First Division Bundesliga shot, but it wasn’t enough for Napoli, who are (Gabbiadini 28, Mertens 72). soccer match. —AP only five points ahead of Fiorentina in fifth, 3-2 winners of a thrilling Tuscan derby at Empoli Playing later German League result/standings thanks to a classy double from Josip Ilicic and a Lazio v Inter Milan trademark individual goal from Mohamed Salah. Playing today Sampdoria are six points behind Napoli in Genoa v Torino Paderborn 1 (Rupp 90+1) VfL Wolfsburg 3 (Klose 16, Dost 25, 82); Cologne 2 (Risse 34, Gerhardt 89) sixth place after hammering Udinese 4-1 with a Schalke 04 0 brace from Roberto Soriano and two more from Italian Serie A table ahead of yesterdy’s late match beyween Lazio and Inter Milan (played, won, drawn, lost, goals Played Saturday Afriyie Acquah and Alfred Duncan. for, goals against, points): Bayern Munich 0 Augsburg 1 (Bobadilla 71); Borussia Dortmund 2 (Subotic 9, Durm 47) Hertha Berlin 0; It was the first win in seven games for Sinisa Mihajlovic’s side. Ilicic gave Vincenzo Montella’s Juventus 35 24 8 3 65 20 80 Udinese 35 10 11 14 39 49 41 Bor. Moenchengladbach 3 (Kruse 50, Herrmann 81, Traore 88) Bayer Leverkusen 0; Hanover 96 1 (Stindl —champions Verona 35 10 11 14 43 60 41 21) Werder Bremen 1 (Junuzovic 78); Eintracht Frankfurt 3 (Oczipka 18, Seferovic 27, Chandler 34) Fiorentina’s side the lead with a brilliant curling Roma 35 17 13 5 49 27 64 Sassuolo 35 9 13 13 42 54 40 Hoffenheim 1 (Volland 51); VfB Stuttgart 2 (Didavi 66, Kostic 79) Mainz 05 0. effort in the fourth minute, only for Riccardo Lazio 34 19 6 9 64 32 63 Atalanta 35 7 15 13 35 49 36 Saponara to equalise for Empoli just before the Napoli 35 17 9 9 64 45 60 Cagliari 35 6 10 19 43 64 28 German Bundesliga table after yesterday evening’s match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals half hour.