Sports Wednesday, October 28, 2020 13 Ibra strikes twice but Roma level thrice in Milan stalemate AFP first equaliser after 13 minutes. Milan Milan started the second half as they had the first. Por- Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored tuguese winger Leao outpaced twice but AC Milan dropped his fullback and laid the ball their first points of the Serie back to Belgian Alexis Saele- A season as Roma came from maekers who guided a shot in behind to draw 3-3 at the San from 10 yards. Siro on Monday. French midfielder Jordan In a game played in an Veretout levelled from the empty stadium after the impo- penalty spot after 70 minutes sition of a coronavirus curfew, following a clumsy challenge Milan were without goalkeep- by Ismael Bennacer. er Gianluigi Donnarumma Ibrahimovic completed his and young Norwegian striker third double in three league Jens Petter Hauge, who the appearances with a penalty af- club announced earlier on ter 78 minutes, but had an un- Monday had tested positive witting assist as Roma levelled for Covid-19. for a third time. Veteran Romanian goal- The Swede jumped to keeper Ciprian Tatarusanu, meet an 83rd minute corner who joined Milan in Septem- but only deflected it to the far ber, made his debut in place of post where Roma’s Albanian Donnarumma, and was twice defender Marash Kumbulla caught on his line from cor- slid in to volley Roma’s third ners and also spilled a shot in equaliser from close range the build up to Roma’s second- with Tatarusanu stranded. half penalty. Milan, with 13 points, re- Ibrahimovic struck after AC Milan’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrates after scoring a penalty against AS Roma during main at the top of the stand- just two minutes, running their Italian Serie A match at the Meazza Stadium in Milan on Monday. (AFP) ings, two points ahead of Napo- Bianca Pagdanganan of The Philippines putts on the 18th green onto a diagonal pass behind li who have won all four games during the final round of the 2020 LPGA Drive On Championship – the defence from Rafael Leao keeper Antonio Mirante. ners were not entirely the fault was unmarked in front of goal they have played, and Sassuolo. Reynolds Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Georgia, on Sunday. (Getty/AFP) and poking the ball past goal- Milan’s problems at cor- of Tatarusanu. Edin Dzeko when he headed his team’s Roma remained ninth. Woods looks for cold remedy as an Coleman set to miss Olympics Son and Kane Asian star is born after being handed 2-yr ban to Spurs’ rescue AFP nicality ahead of last Septem- AFP AFP at the 2018 Asian Games, Paris ber’s World Championships. Burnley (UK) Hong Kong has been regularly blasting Those three whereabouts her driver past the 300-yard World champion sprinter failures were recorded on June Son Heung-min pounced to The US Masters at the wrong mark, a distance few women Christian Coleman is set to 6, 2018, January 16, 2019 and steal a 1-0 win for lacklustre time of year and an exciting can match. miss next year’s Tokyo Olym- April 26, 2019. Tottenham on Monday, link- young women’s player are “Yeah, she whacks it,” pics after being banned from However, Coleman had ing up with Harry Kane yet among AFP Sport’s golf talk- said Haley Moore, her NCAA athletics for two years for anti- successfully argued that the again as Jose Mourinho’s side ing points this week: championship-winning team- doping violations, the Athlet- first missed case should have climbed to fifth in the Premier mate at the University of Ari- ics Integrity Unit (AIU) an- been backdated to the first day League table. New Masters challenge: zona. “We were like, ‘Oh man, nounced on Tuesday. of the quarter -- April 1, 2018 All of the traditional “big Tiger Woods came into last don’t try to keep up with her. The American, who won Christian Coleman of the USA. -- meaning the three failures six” clubs have dropped unlike- week’s Zozo Championship as She bombs it’.” the men’s 100 metres at last fell just outside the required ly points in the early weeks of the champion, but well before Father Sam says Pagda- year’s World Championships 100m gold. 12-month period. But now the the season and Spurs looked set Sunday, where he finished 22 nganan wants to be “the first in Doha, was provisionally Coleman, who is also the missed test on December 9, to leave Turf Moor frustrated. Tottenham Hotspur’s South shots adrift of winner Patrick woman to average 300 yards” suspended for three ‘wherea- 60m world record holder, only 2019, added to the two failures But South Korea forward Son Korean striker Son Heung-Min Cantlay, his thoughts had (in driving distance). She is al- bouts failures’ in June. ran in the 4x100m relay heats in January and April, have scored his eighth league goal of celebrates scoring the opening turned to a bigger title defence ready well on her way, leading World Athletics’ Disci- in his first Olympic appear- seen Coleman suspended. the season in the 76th minute, goal during the Premier League next month. the tour stats at 288.8 yards, plinary Tribunal upheld the ance in Rio de Janeiro four “I think the attempt on heading in from close range af- match against Burnley on The US Masters, shifted fully six yards further than the charge and banned Coleman years ago. December 9th was a purpose- ter a headed pass from Kane. Monday. (AFP) from April to November be- next best. for two years, backdated to 14 The AIU charged Coleman ful attempt to get me to miss Spurs now have 11 points cause of the coronavirus shut- Veteran English major- May, 2020. for missed tests in January a test,” Coleman said after he from six games, just two points “It is an understanding down, is the 15-time major- winner Karen Stupples is The 24-year-old has 30 and December 2019, as well as was charged in June. behind leaders Everton after that comes from Maurcio (Po- winner’s sole remaining focus already a fan. “She’s got the days to appeal against the de- for a “filing failure” last April. “Don’t tell me I ‘missed’ their third win of the season. chettino’s) time,” said Mour- in 2020, but he admits prepa- personality. But she is also the cision at the Court of Arbitra- To prove an anti-doping vi- a test if you sneak up on my Mourinho hailed his at- inho. “I don’t want all the rations will be different from only woman in the game with tion for Sport. olation, an athlete has to have door – parked outside the tacking stars, who have now credit myself, let’s share with usual. that kind of power who isn’t He is set to miss next year’s committed three whereabouts gate and walked through... combined for 29 Premier Mauricio. “They play together “The fact that the Masters afraid to use it,” Stupples told Olympic Games in Japan, failures within 12 months. there’s no record of anyone League goals -- only Didier for a long time, probably a dif- will be held in November, it’s LPGA.com. where he would have been Coleman previously es- coming to my place – without Drogba and Frank Lampard ferent way because Harry is unprecedented,” he told re- “Other players could hit it among the favourites to win caped suspension on a tech- my knowledge.” have managed more, with 36. not always a nine now.” porters. as far as she does, but they’re “I can’t simulate the nor- afraid to do it. They’ve been mal ramp-up that I normally told that they need to pull back have, and I don’t think anyone and keep it in play or hit it to else can either,” he said. a number. She doesn’t care AFRICA ROUND-UP And Woods had some about any of that. She picks a chilling words for those who line and rips it.” think the Masters in the au- Pagdanganan doesn’t seem tumn will be anything like Au- to know what all the fuss is Zamalek book CAF Champions League spot gusta in the spring. about. “I never really noticed “I have played there in that I hit it far until people AFP ing a CAF trophy when Al South African Premiership November. And the few times started telling me in college,” Johannesburg Ahly Tripoli reached the 1984 club SuperSport United. that I have played in Novem- she says, adding that she is African Cup Winners Cup fi- ber, it’s been the same. It’s just happy to “live my dream”. An early Mostafa Mohamed nal before Moamer Kadhafi Guinea: The Guinean been cold. The ball doesn’t go “If you told me a couple goal set up Zamalek to defeat barred them from playing Al Ligue 1 Pro season has kicked very far. years ago that I would be play- Ismaily 3-1 in Cairo to clinch Ahly because of political dif- off after a long coronavirus- “If you’re able to get the ing on the LPGA Tour and be second place in the Egyptian ferences with Egypt. induced suspension of foot- north wind that time of year, in this position in my rookie Premier League and secure ball in the west African na- it can be awfully difficult and year, I wouldn’t believe you.” qualification for the 2021 CAF Gabon: English Premier tion and Hafia and Wakriya long – very different than what Champions League. League duo Pierre-Emerick are the pacesetters with four we normally play in April.” Tough at the top: Had the White Knight not Aubameyang of Arsenal and points from two matches. Spain’s Jon Rahm only collected three points, they Mario Lemina of Fulham Hafia were African giants ‘She whacks it’: lasted two weeks as world could have been overtaken by have been included in the Ga- in the 1970s, reaching five There’s a new young Asian number one in August before 2020 CAF Confederation Cup bon squad for two Cup of Na- African Cup of Champions talent to follow on the LPGA being knocked off the top by runners-up Pyramids and lost tions qualifiers against Group Clubs (predecessor to the Tour, and for a change she’s Justin Thomas. out on a place in the elite Afri- D leaders the Gambia. CAF Champions League) fi- not South Korean, Japanese And on Sunday at the Zozo can club competition. Both missed the recent nals and winning three. or Thai – but from the Philip- Championship he had the Champions Al Ahly will be friendly loss to Benin in Por- African commitments have pines. chance to grab back top spot the other Egyptian representa- tugal because of injuries with delayed the debut of CAF Con- Rookie Bianca Pagdanga- from the absent Dustin John- tives in the Champions League the absence of 2015 African federation Cup semi-finalists nan, who turns 23 on Wednes- son with a win or outright sec- with Pyramids and fourth-place Footballer of the Year Au- Horoya, who will be seeking a day, has been captivating ond place, until Thomas again Al Mokawloon Al Arab entering bameyang particularly no- sixth straight league title. observers with her relaxed proved his nemesis. the CAF Confederation Cup. ticeable. demeanour and prodigious Rahm needed a birdie at Here’s a round up of foot- Zamalek players celebrate one of their goals against Ismaily in Cairo Coach Patrice Neveu in- South Sudan: Cam- power since making her pro the 18th to tie clubhouse lead- ball news from Africa. on Monday. Zamalek won 3-1. cluded 11 players with French eroon-born South Sudan debut in July. er Patrick Cantlay, with play- clubs in a 23-strong squad, coach Cyprian Ashu Bessong Pagdanganan finished tied ing partner Thomas a stroke Egypt: Zamalek swiftly ing November after losing to including Saint-Etienne for- has included 10 Australia- ninth two weeks ago in her further back. Rahm’s 20-foot- stamped their authority over Zambia: Zambia made Algeria and Zimbabwe in pre- ward Denis Bouanga. based players in his squad for first major, the PGA Champi- er slid past, however, to give mid-table Ismaily as Mohamed it four wins in five 2021 Af- vious Group H matches. South AfricaCarlisle Unit- back-to-back Cup of Nations onship, and was then tied for Cantlay the title. and Democratic Republic of rica Cup of Nations qualify- ed is not a club name nor- qualifiers against Uganda third Sunday at the Drive On Thomas, needing an im- Congo-born Kabongo Kasongo ing warm-up matches this Libya: Civil war in Libya mally found on international during November. Championships behind win- probable eagle two at the par- scored within 24 minutes. month under new Serb coach led to the cancellation of the squad lists, but South Africa Those called up include ner Ally McDonald and world four 72nd hole to stand any Moroccan Achraf Bencharki Milutin Sredojevic by defeat- past two football seasons, so have called up midfielder Melbourne City goalkeeper number five Danielle Kang chance, had arrowed his ap- stretched the lead to three goals ing Ethiopia 3-2 and 3-1 in the 2017-2018 standings have Dean Furman from the Eng- Majak Mawith, defender to rocket to 43rd in the 2020 proach to four feet and holed during the second half before Addis Ababa. been used to choose clubs for lish fourth-tier outfit. Ruon Tongyik from Central money list after playing only out for birdie and a share of Wagih Abdelhakim reduced ar- Albert Kangwanda bagged the CAF club competitions. He is part of a 25-man Coast Mariners, Perth SC six events. second, denying Rahm the top rears after goalkeeper Moham- a brace in the first interna- League winners Al Nasr squad for home and away Cup midfielder Jackson Morgan But it’s her length off the ranking. ed Abougabal blundered. tional friendly and Emma- and runners-up Al Ahly of Nations Group C qualifiers and forward Yuel Kauch from tee which has many believ- It all left Johnson, at home Zamalek now switch their nuel Chabula matched that Benghazi will compete in against minnows Sao Tome e Western Union. ing she could be the future of recovering from COVID-19, attention to the 2020 Champi- feat in the second encounter. the Champions League and Principe next month. South Sudan are desper- women’s golf. safe in the knowledge that ons League as they will defend a Former African champi- third-place Al Ahly Tripoli Born in Cape Town and ate for points against Group Pagdanganan, who won though he might be under the 1-0 lead over Raja Casablanca of ons Zambia are preparing for and cup winners Al Ittihad in brought up in England, the B frontrunners Uganda hav- team gold and individual weather, he was still on top of Morocco this Sunday in the sec- two crucial Cup of Nations the Confederation Cup. 32-year-old recently joined ing lost away to Malawi and bronze for the Philippines the world. ond leg of a semi-final in Cairo. fixtures with Botswana dur- Libya came closest to lift- Carlisle from Pretoria-based at home to Burkina Faso.