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Injured Broad Doubtful for Third Test FOOTBALL | Page 2 TTENNISENNIS | Page 9 Giroud goal Murray To Advertise here earns Arsenal digs deep to Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 draw against down Raonic Man United to reach fi nal Sunday, November 20, 2016 CRICKET Safar 20, 1438 AH Kiwis in control as GULF TIMES Wagner, Boult shatter Pak batting SPORT Page 11 RALLYING Biggest win of career for Qatar’s Adel in Jeddah ‘It was never easy to see the defined tracks and it was a big ask. I am so happy to take the win with Sébastien’ By Our Correspondent retirement after the Saudi rolled heavily Jeddah without injury to himself or navigator Mubarak Farhan al-Shammeri. In the absence of the fi rm favourite atar’s Adel Hussein Abdulla Yazeed al-Rajhi, this was the most open took advantage of his experi- of any of the Saudi rallies since Farhab ence in this year’s FIA World Ghaleb al-Shammeri won the Ha’il FIA QCup for Cross-Country Ral- candidate event back in 2006. lies to seal a convincing victory – the All 31 cars began the 220km selective biggest of his career – in the two-day section through the western deserts and Rally Jeddah that fi nished in the King- the UAE’s Atif al-Zarouni rejoined the dom of Saudi Arabia’s western deserts fray with a 10-minute penalty after stop- on Friday evening. ping his Buggy on Thursday evening’s The Nissan Patrol T2 driver and his super special stage. French navigator Sébastien Delaunay Qatar’s Khaled al-Mohannadi headed stayed out of trouble and kept to the into the desert with a 14.5-second ad- challenging route to fi nish 10min 49sec vantage over fellow countryman Adel in front of the experienced local driver Hussein Abdulla, but overnight T2 Ibrahim al-Muhanna, also driving a Nis- leader Emil Khneisser was fi rst on the san. The two drivers were the class of the road and into the stage. According to 31-car fi eld, where only three cars retired the results, Fares al-Shammeri was the but all but three teams received heavy fi rst driver to cross the fi nish line in a time penalties for route violations. time of 3hr 24min 21sec. The Saudi had “It was a very diffi cult and challeng- been seventh overall at the night halt in ing rally and probably more diffi cult than his Nissan Patrol, but he didn’t have to some of the rounds of this year’s FIA wait long to realise he had been beaten World Cup,” said Adel Hussein Abdulla. by Yayha Halwa of the Haras Al-Hadod “It was never easy to see the defi ned Rally Team as darkness descended at the tracks and it was a big ask. I am so happy stage fi nish control that had attracted to take the win with Sébastien. There large numbers of spectators. was a strong entry here, with many local Both drivers were soon given penalties drivers.” for missing route waypoints and Adel Last year’s T2 winner Monef al-Salm- Hussein Abdulla was the main benefi ci- ani fi nished third and second in T2, Saudi ary and snatched the unoffi cial virtual driver Ahmed al-Shegawi and Emirati lead. Time penalties were handed out to navigator Arif Yousef Mohammed were the majority of drivers and Adel Hussein fourth and Mohammed al-Saeri rounded weathered the storm to confi rm the vic- off the unoffi cial top fi ve with co-driver tory. Zian al-Harbi. Final positions after SS2: The UAE’s Atif al-Zarouni recovered 1. Adel Hussein Abdulla (QAT)/Sébastien well from his super special problems Delaunay (FRA) Nissan Patrol T2 on Thursday evening to fi nish ninth 3hr 40min 52sec overall and fi rst in T3. Kuwait’s Meshari 2. Ibrahim al-Muhanna (SAU)/Osama al-Thafi ri was second in T3 and 15th al-Sanad (SAU) Nissan Patrol T1 3hr overall, while overnight leader Khalid al- 51min 41sec Mohannadi fi nished 23rd and third in the 3. Monef al-Salmani (SAU)/Ali Hassan category. (UAE) Nissan Patrol T2 Abu Dhabi-based Lebanese driver 4hr 40min 45sec Emil Khneisser was one of the retire- 4. Ahmed Shegawi (SAU)/Arif Yousef ments, while Saleh al-Abdulali also Mohammed (UAE) Nissan Patrol T2 blotted his copybook by badly damaging 4hr 59min 58sec Yazeed al-Rajhi’s Hummer in a crash. 5. Mohammed al-Saeri (SAU)/Ziad al- Rajah Farhan al-Shammeri was the third Sébastien Delaunay (L) and Adel Hussein Abdulla pose after winning the two-day Rally Jeddah on Friday. Harbi (SAU) Nissan Patrol T2 RUGBY Fekitoa dashes Irish hopes of All Blacks double AFP Dublin Laidlaw penalty gives Scotland 19-16 wo tries from Malakai Fekitoa dashed win over Pumas Irish hopes of successive wins over world champions New Zealand as the EDINBURGH: A penalty after the hooter by All Blacks prevailed 21-9 in an engross- Greig Laidlaw gave Scotland a last-gasp 19-16 Ting hugely physical encounter at Lansdowne win over Argentina in a fiercely contested test Road yesterday. at Murrayfield yesterday. Fekitoa’s second try killed off the contest Argentina breached the Scottish line 10 min- making up for his being sin-binned early in the utes into the second half when centre Matias second-half — man of the match Beauden Bar- Orlando chased and caught Juan Martin Hern- rett scoring the other 11 including a try. andez’s measured cross kick and ran round to The All Blacks, intent on avenging the 40-29 touch down under the posts. defeat in Chicago a fortnight ago, came sprint- Scotland hit back within four minutes to level at ing out of the blocks from the kick-off imme- 13-13 when winger Sean Maitland scored in the diately pressurising the Irish and scored a try corner from Huw Jones’s fine run and pass and within three minutes. Laidlaw converted from the touchline before a Newly-crowned world player of the year Bar- further exchange of penalties. rett saw space on the left and produced a trade- A tight first half had ended 6-3 to Scotland mark cross kick pass to Fekitoa and he opted to New Zealand players perform the Haka before the match against Ireland in Dublin yesterday. after two Laidlaw penalties to one from Nicolas go on his own to touch down for his seventh Test Sanchez, who then levelled with another kick try. Barrett converted for 7-0 from the Chicago victory — seconds later as he Ringrose had barely settled before a moment of ruled it a try and Barrett converted for 14-3. soon after the restart. Ireland weren’t rattled one bit and stormed took a high hit from Sam Cane which fl attened individual brilliance and vision by Barrett saw Sexton, so infl uential in Chicago with Mur- back, Jamie Heaslip feeding Sean O’Brien who him. The contact gained the Irish a penalty in- him cut inside Conor Murray and sprint clear ray, was the next Irishman to depart this war of charged for the line but was just held up by Bar- side their own half but coach Joe Schmidt looked only for Sexton to catch him and claim he had attrition shaking his head having lasted just 17 minute for two infractions and a superb pas- rett — the Irish eventually won a penalty and less than happy that Cane wasn’t sin-binned for prevented him from touching down cleanly. minutes as he walked down the tunnel and was sage of play with Jackson and Heaslip involved Sexton slotted it over for 7-3. the challenge. One camera angle said he was correct and replaced by Paddy Jackson. had the All Blacks on the back foot — again they However, they were to lose star young centre Henshaw to the relief of all raised his arm as another that Barrett had indeed touched down The momentum shifted back to the hosts came away with just the penalty as Jackson slot- Robbie Henshaw — one of the standout players he was stretchered off . His replacement Garry — the television match offi cial controversially when Aaron Smith was sin-binned in the 17th ted it over for 14-6. Gulf Times 2 Sunday, November 20, 2016 FOOTBALL SPOTLIGHT RANT Man Utd ‘unluckiest team in league’, Late Giroud strike laments Mourinho earns Arsenal draw at Man Utd ‘Last year we would have maybe lost this game and today we didn’t, so we have Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger (L) and Manchester United improved on that front. Hopefully now we can kick on with some wins’ manager Jose Mourinho at the end of the match yesterday. AFP at the moment is the unluckiest Manchester team in the Premier League. That is the reality.” Arsenal had not troubled Unit- anchester United ed goalkeeper David de Gea until manager Jose Mour- Giroud climbed to head home inho dubbed his side fellow substitute Alex Oxlade- “the unluckiest team Chamberlain’s cross. Min the Premier League” after they But visiting manager Arsene were held to a 1-1 draw by Arsenal Wenger drew heart from their yesterday. refusal to accept defeat. United claimed reward for “The result in the end is posi- their mounting pressure when tive for us because we were 1-0 Juan Mata put them ahead in the down with two minutes to go,” 69th minute, only for Olivier Gi- the Frenchman told Sky Sports. roud to equalise a minute from “For the rest it was a bit of a time with Arsenal’s fi rst attempt scrappy game with two teams on target.
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