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Italian Serie A: Torino 2 Inter Milan 2 collapse Berlin midfielder beat Leipzig goalkeeper econd-placed RB Leipzig crashed Peter Gulacsi on 59 minutes. 3-0 at Werder Bremen yesterday Leipzig’s humiliation was Sto suffer a shock second consecutive complete as their defence capitulated defeat which allows when Bremen’s Fin Bartels led a Bayern Munich the chance to counterattack and Florian Kainz extend their runaway lead. tapped home on 90 minutes. Carlo Ancelotti’s Bayern started All three Bremen goals were Italian Serie A: the weekend 10 points clear in their scored by Austrians -- an extra- AC Milan 0 Genoa 0 seemingly unstoppable march to a bitter pill for RB, who are sponsored fifth straight German league title, by Austria’s energy drinks which will become 13 points if they giant Red Bull. Leipzig are now win at Borussia Moenchengladbach just three points ahead of third- today. placed Borussia Dortmund after Modeste’s Having begun their first Dortmund’s lacklustre 1-0 home first goal on Bundesliga season with a record win over Ingolstadt on Friday. 35 minutes. 13-match unbeaten run, Leipzig’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the His second title challenge has collapsed league’s top scorer, hit the winner. followed two minutes following four defeats in their Anthony Modeste claimed a hat- later as the Frenchman last seven games, taking a meagre trick as Cologne broke into the top showed some ice-cool French Ligue 1: seven points. After losing 1-0 at six with a 4-2 win over Hertha finishing to make it 3-0 to Nantes 1 Nice 1 home to Wolfsburg last weekend, Berlin. the hosts. Leipzig folded again in Bremen The Frenchman needed less than Hertha’s top scorer as Werder’s Austria international 30 minutes to claim his second hat- Vedad Ibisevic pulled a Zlatko Junuzovic scored one and trick of the season after also netting goal back on 50 minutes made one. three against Hamburg last October. when he converted a The dead-ball expert crashed Japan striker Yuya Osako gave penalty after Cologne’s home a curling, thunderbolt goal Cologne an early lead, then set up goalkeeper Timo Horn (L-R) Bremen’s US forward Aron Johannsson, from outside the area fouled Berlin midfielder Leipzig’s Austrian midfielder Stefan Ilsanker and on 34 minutes, then German Bundesliga: Niklas Stark in the area. Leipzig’s defender Willi Orban vie for the ball provided the free-kick Modeste wrapped up his during the German First division Bundesliga which saw relegation- Wolfsburg 1 Darmstadt 0 hat-trick by finishing off a football match French Ligue 1: threatened Bremen Cologne 4 Hertha Berlin 2 superb Cologne counter Augsburg 1 Freiburg 1 Angers 1 Guingamp 0 double their lead. on 63 minutes, then Hertha’s US Champions League exit at Atletico Junuzovic spotted Werder Bremen 3 RB Leipzig 0 international John Brooks headed Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen suffered Hoffenheim 1 Bayer Leverkusen 0 home to make it 4-2 with 20 a 1-0 defeat at Hoffenheim thanks unmarked on the edge of v Hamburg minutes left. to Sandro Wagner’s second-half the area and the attacking Fresh from their mid-week goal for the hosts. (AFP) Kuznetsova, Vesnina set up all-Russian final Indian Wells “I tried my best to fight every point,” French Ligue 1: vetlana Kuznetsova toppled world number said the 31-year-old Kuznetsova, owner three Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/2) of two Grand slam singles titles who Bordeaux 3 Montpellier 1 Syesterday to book an all-Russian Indian Wells enjoyed a resurgence in 2016, winning final against Elena Vesnina. two titles as she returned to the top 10 Vesnina powered past France’s Kristina in the world for the first time since 2010. Mladenovic 6-3, 6-4, continuing a sparkling “Karolina is one of the best players campaign that has seen her shock German’s soon- this year.” to-be world number one Angelique Kerber in After falling behind 5-3, the the fourth round and seven-time Grand Czech made Kuznetsova work Slam champion Venus Williams in the to close out the opening set, quarter-finals. saving a set point in the ninth It’s a sharp turnaround from Vesnina’s game and four more in the first-round ouster in qualifying here last tiebreaker after Kuznetsova French Ligue 1: year, and marks her first trip to a final of seized a 6-2 lead in the Nancy 2 Lorient 1 one of the WTA’s elite Premier Mandatory decider. events. A double fault left World number eight Kuznetsova is back Kuznetsova with one more in the Indian Wells final for the first time chance at 6-5, and she since back-to-back runner-up finishes in grabbed it with a forehand 2007 and 2008. passing shot. Svetlana Kuznetsova She withstood 10 aces from Pliskova, who After an exchange of Elena Vesnina of Russia of Russia has already won titles at Brisbane and Doha breaks in the second they went to the this year. tiebreaker, where Kuznetsova again took a 6-2 lead and the increasingly frustrated Pliskova surrendered with a French Ligue 1: string of errors. (AFP) Toulouse 0 Rennes 0