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P20 Layout 1 Brewers down Mourinho aims to Cardinals knock Atletico 17 off19 their ‘cloud’ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014 Giggs not ready, yet, for Man Utd hot seat Page 19 MUNICH: Real’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring his side’s fourth goal during the Champions League semifinal second leg soccer match against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena. — AP Real rout holders Bayern Ronaldo smashes European Cup goal record MUNICH: Real Madrid reached their first pions. The Portuguese forward’s two goals Lisbon final after he picked up his third booking centre-back Pepe flicked it on for Ramos to Champions League final for 12 years with an helped him eclipse the previous best of 14 in a of the campaign. head home his second goal in just four minutes historic 4-0 win at Bayern Munich in yesterday’s season registered by Barcelona’s Lionel Messi in But there was no denying an historic night to leave Bayern reeling. CL leading scorers semi-final, second leg to knock the holders out. 2011-12 and Jose Altafini of AC Milan in 1962- for Real, especially for coach Carlo Ancelotti Real then compounded Bayern’s misery as PARIS: Champions League leading scorers in the Having won last week’s first-leg 1-0 in 63. The World Player of the Year has reached the who has now never lost to Bayern in eight Di Maria played Karim Benzema into space and 2013/2014 tournament following yesterday’s semi-final Madrid, Real won the semi-final 5-0 on aggre- new record tally in just 10 appearances in the matches, six times with former club AC Milan the Frenchman found Bale, who accelerated second leg between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid: gate as Pep Guardiola’s Bayern suffered their competition this season, his tally also including and twice with Madrid. away. His pass was drilled home by Ronaldo on heaviest home defeat in European competition. a hat-trick against Galatasaray in the group There was a minute’s silence before kick-off 34 minutes, breaking the record for most 16: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid/ESP) Bayern had previously never lost at home by stage and braces against FC Copenhagen, for former Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova, who Champions League goals in a campaign, to 10: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris SG/FRA) more than two goals in Europe as the Bavarian Juventus and in both legs of the last-16 tie died on Friday at the age of 45, and Vujadin leave the hosts 3-0 down at the break and on 8: Lionel Messi (Barcelona/ESP) giants saw their dreams of reaching a fourth against Schalke 04. Boskov, the former Real coach who passed the ropes. 7: Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid/ESP) Champions League final in five years crushed. He has now scored 66 Champions League away on Sunday aged 82. The Munich crowd A foul by Xabi Alonso on Bayern’s Bastian 6: Sergio Aguero (Man City/ENG), Robert Lewandowski Real are one game away from the ‘Decima’ goals and is closing in on former Real Madrid soon saw their dreams of a repeat of last sea- Schweinsteiger five minutes later earned the — their tenth European title — and will face striker Raul’s overall record for the most goals in son’s treble of European, Bundesliga and Spain star a yellow card, his third of the compe- (Borussia Dortmund/GER) either neighbors Atletico Madrid or Chelsea in the competition of 71. German Cup titles swept away as Real floored tition, to rule him out of the final. 5: Gareth Bale (Real Madrid/ESP), Karim Benzema (Real the May 24 final in Lisbon. Real centre-back Sergio Ramos produced the Bavarians in a devastating first-half spell. Guardiola responded at half-time by swap- Madrid/ESP), Thomas Mueller (Bayern Munich/GER) Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo yesterday two early bullet headers to dismiss Bayern’s Real needed just 16 minutes to take the lead at ping Mario Mandzukic for Javi Martinez, aban- Alvaro Negredo (Man City/ENG), Marco Reus (Borussia broke the record for the most goals in a dreams of becoming the first team to defend the Allianz Arena as Ramos powered home his doning his 4-2-3-1 formation for a 4-2-4 system, Dortmund/GER), Arturo Vidal (Juventus/ITA) European Cup or Champions League season in the Champions League title. first header from Luka Modric’s corner to silence pushing Schweinsteiger up into the attacking his side’s 4-0 semi-final second-leg victory over World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo the home support. midfield alongside Thomas Mueller. Despite 4: Edinson Cavani (Paris SG/FRA), Gonzalo Higuain Bayern Munich. then made it 3-0 at the break before the Real It was the start of a miserable five minutes Bayern’s best efforts, Real’s defence held firm (Napoli/ITA), Hulk (Zenit Saint Petersburg/RUS), Neymar Ronaldo picked up his 15th and 16th goals superstar netted his 49th goal of the season for Bayern as centre-back Dante was shown a and then Ronaldo put the final nail in the hold- (Barcelona/ESP), Raul Garcia (Atletico Madrid/ESP), of the campaign to help put the Spanish side with a free kick just before the final whistle. yellow card for clumsily scything down Ronaldo ers’ coffin with his second of the game when Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich/GER), Robin Van Persie into the final in Lisbon on May 24 as Carlo The only downside to Real’s stunning win in just before Ramos struck again. his free-kick shot under the Munich wall on 90 (Man Utd/ENG)— AFP Ancelotti’s side humiliated the defending cham- Germany was the loss of Xabi Alonso for the When Angel Di Maria swung in a free-kick, minutes.- — AFP Kwiatkowski wins Bouchard triumphs Romandie prologue as Stosur stumbles LAUSANNE: Poland’s Michal Kwiatkowski of the Omega Pharma team won the prologue to the Tour of Romandie yesterday in the OEIRAS: Canadian Eugenie Bouchard made a the winner. “I concentrated on serving well, Swiss town of Ascona. winning debut at the ATP-WTA Portugal Open and I was happy to be able to do that. I wanted Kwiatkowski recorded the quickest time on the short 5.57km yesterday as third seed Samantha Stosur’s to control the points from my serve. I also tried downward spiral continued with a first-round to take the ball early. “She has some big shots course, of 6min 22sec, to beat Rohan Dennis of Australia by two sec- exit. but I was able to neutralise well today.” onds and Germany’s Marcel Kittel by four seconds. The 30-year-old Australian Stosur was beat- Bouchard will next face Kazakh Yaroslava Triple world time-trial champion Tony Martin of Germany settled en in just 72 minutes, going down 6-4, 6-0 to Shvedova for a quarter-final place. Top seed for fifth place, five seconds off the pace, while Italian Giacomo Swiss qualifier Timea Bacsinszky, and will now Carla Suarez Navarro recovered from last Nizzolo squeezed home in fourth spot. need to make amends quickly next week in week’s wrist injury to start with a defeat of Alla Defending Romandie champion and Tour de France holder Chris Madrid as the French Open draws nearer. Kudryavtseva 6-1, 6-2. Froome of Sky came home 13th, 10 seconds behind Kwiatkowski’s Stosur was Roland Garros runner-up four Italian fourth seed Roberta Vinci needed winning time, while overall contender and Giro d’Italia champion years ago and reached a semi-final in 2012, but three sets to beat Alexandra Cadantu of Vincenzo Nibali was two seconds slower in 18th. her best result this season came four months Romania, while 2012 champion Kaia Kanepi, ago when she reached the semi-finals in the Estonian fifth seed, started with a crushing “It’s a big surprise. I was in form for the Ardennes classics but I Hobart. win over Austrian Yvonne Meusburger 6-2, 6-1. didn’t know what kind of form I would be in today,” said Kwiatkowski, Second seed Bouchard, who was a semi- Russian seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, a who takes the leader’s yellow jersey. “I’m really happy with what I’ve finalist at the Australian Open in Melbourne in 2013 quarter-finalist, and eighth seed Elena done. To have a few seconds advantage is something special.” January, beat Russian Alisa Kleybanova 6-4, 6-1 Vesnina are also through. The first stage proper is scheduled for Wednesday and a 200.9km to reach the second round, winning in 73 min- In men’s play, Portugal’s world number run from Ascona to Sion which will feature the snow covered utes. 243 Rui Machado thrashed fifth seed Dmitry Simplon climb. The six-day race finishes on Sunday with a 18.5km Bouchard broke five times and made a Tursunov 6-0, 6-0 with the Russian unable to time-trial around Neuchatel. spectacular recovery on a point in the second explain his collapse. Meanwhile, Estonian rider Rein Taaramae took the overall lead in set in which she completely lost her footing “I felt like a fish on land. I need to think hard but managed to win anyway with some luck about the state of my tennis and make some the Tour of Turkey with victory in the third stage from Finike to and a shot hit while sitting down. “I thought I serious adjustments. I hope no one has to live Elmali yesterday. was out of the point when I fell but she hit through a match like that again,” he said.
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