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NBA | Page 7 TTENNISENNIS | Page 11 Cavs snap Djokovic To Advertise here skid, Grizzles defl ects Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 down the becker Rockets question Sunday, January 15, 2017 CRICKET Rabia II, 17, 1438 AH Sublime South Africa GULF TIMES smash Sri Lanka to sweep Test series SPORT Page 5 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Alonso double lift s Chelsea as Spurs climb to second Diego Costa, Chelsea’s top scorer, missed the match after reportedly rowing with coaching staff about his fitness AFP RESULTS AND London STANDINGS Burnley ............................1 Southampton ...............0 arcos Alonso proved an Hull ....................................3 Bournemouth ................1 unexpected replacement Leicester ......................0 Chelsea ..................................3 for the absent Diego Cos- Sunderland .................1 Stoke .........................................3 ta as Chelsea won 3-0 at Swansea .......................0 Arsenal ...................................4 MLeicester City yesterday to consolidate Tottenham ..................4 West Brom ........................0 their position atop the Premier League Watford ........................0 Middlesbrough .............0 table. West Ham ..................3 Crystal Palace ................0 Costa, Chelsea’s top scorer, was Playing today missing after reportedly rowing with Everton v Manchester City (1330 GMT), coaching staff about his fi tness, but Manchester United v Liverpool (1600 Spanish wing-back Alonso’s double GMT) helped Antonio Conte’s side go seven P W D L F A P points clear. Chelsea 21 17 1 3 45 15 52 Tottenham Hotspur climbed into Tottenham 21 13 6 2 43 14 45 second place after Harry Kane claimed Arsenal 21 13 5 3 48 22 44 a hat-trick in a 4-0 stroll against West Liverpool 20 13 5 2 48 23 44 Bromwich Albion, with Arsenal mov- Man City 20 13 3 4 41 22 42 ing up to third after winning by the Man Utd 20 11 6 3 31 19 39 same scoreline at Swansea City. Everton 20 8 6 6 28 23 30 Chelsea’s 13-game winning run had West Brom 21 8 5 8 28 28 29 been halted by a 2-0 defeat at Spurs on Stoke 21 7 6 8 27 33 27 their previous league outing and prep- Burnley 21 8 2 11 23 31 26 arations for the trip to Leicester were Bournemouth 21 7 4 10 30 37 25 rocked by the Costa controversy. West Ham 21 7 4 10 26 35 25 Speaking before the game, Conte Southampton 21 6 6 9 19 26 24 would only say that Costa, who is re- Watford 21 6 5 10 23 36 23 portedly the subject of an eye-water- Leicester 21 5 6 10 24 34 21 ing off er from China, had been unable Middlesbrough 21 4 8 9 17 22 20 to train due to “pain in his back”. But the Brazil-born Spain interna- Crystal Palace 21 4 4 13 30 40 16 tional’s absence was quickly forgot- Hull 21 4 4 13 20 45 16 ten as Eden Hazard teed up Alonso Chelsea’s Marcos Alonso (C) Sunderland 21 4 3 14 20 40 15 to sweep Chelsea ahead in the sixth celebrates scoring their Swansea 21 4 3 14 23 49 15 minute at the King Power Stadium. second goal with Gary Cahill Alonso struck six minutes into the and Victor Moses. defeat by Stoke City, for whom Marko second half as well, with a defl ected Arnautovic scored twice and Peter shot, before Pedro Rodriguez headed Crouch headed in his 99th Premier in after Willian had been denied by ley put through his own goal as Mau- Jan Vertonghen off midway through Jack Cork and Kyle Naughton early in some go our way.” League goal. Kasper Schmeichel. ricio Pochettino’s side recorded a sixth the second half. Pochettino said the the second half before Alexis Sanchez It was a fi rst home league game to West Ham United brushed off the It was Leicester’s 10th defeat of the successive league win. early signs looked “very bad”. sealed victory with a 73rd-minute vol- forget for Swansea’s new manager Paul absence of want-away star Dimitri campaign and kept the champions in “The fi rst 45 minutes was fantastic. Arsenal moved above Liverpool — ley that took his tally for the campaign Clement, whose team sank to the foot Payet to sink Crystal Palace 3-0, goals 15th place, fi ve points above the relega- It was wonderful football,” said Spurs who visit arch rivals Manchester Unit- to 14 goals. of the standings. by Sofi ane Feghouli and Manuel Lan- tion zone. manager Pochettino. ed on Sunday — on goal diff erence after “We were fortunate with the goals, Marco Silva had a more memorable zini sandwiching a sensational Andy Kane had earlier scored a stylish hat- “I think after Chelsea it was a big a pair of own goals helped them to vic- but the chances were there,” said Ar- league bow as Hull City manager, with Carroll bicycle kick. trick as Tottenham pulled off a classy challenge to keep the momentum and tory at struggling Swansea. senal manager Arsene Wenger, who Abel Hernandez scoring twice and Ty- Combative midfi elder Joey Barton 4-0 demolition of West Brom at an ap- show that we are mature enough to Olivier Giroud broke the deadlock revealed Giroud had sustained an ankle rone Mings putting through his own marked his return to Burnley, after an preciative White Hart Lane. fi ght for big things and today was a in the 37th minute, slamming home injury. own goal as they came from behind to ill-fated stint at Scottish giants Rang- The England striker, who became a very good example of that.” his fi fth goal in fi ve games after Mesut “There are many good teams around beat Bournemouth 3-1. ers, by scoring a 78th-minute free- father for the fi rst time last weekend, The only low point for Spurs was an Ozil’s header hit Alfi e Mawson. us and everyone is doing well. We can Sunderland slipped below Hull to kick to earn his side a 1-0 home win struck three times and Gareth McAu- ankle injury that forced centre-back Alex Iwobi drew own goals from only focus on our results and hope 19th place after a dispiriting 3-1 home over Southampton. RALLYING ‘Mr Dakar’ Peterhansel storms to 13th title AFP gruelling two-week car race winning Toyota with Spaniard Nani Roma and Río Cuarto, Argentina (from L to R) Peugeot co-driver eight stages between them with the South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers fi nish- Jean Paul Cottret of France, team former taking three and the later fi ve. ing fourth and fi fth respectively for the manager Bruno Famin and driver Peterhansel fi nished 5min 13sec Japanese manufacturer. rance’s Stéphane Peterhansel Stephane Peterhansel celebrate their ahead of Loeb in the overall stand- Earlier, Sunderland became the fi rst won his 13th Dakar Rally title victory at the end of the Stage 12 of the ings with third-placed Cyril Despres at Briton to win the motorbike section yesterday, saying the latest win Dakar 2017 between Rio Cuarto and 33min 28sec handing Peugeot their fi rst after the heartbreak of being forced to was the sweetest following an Buenos Aires yesterday. podium sweep since 1990, before the retire from two previous editions. The Fepic battle with French Peugeot team- French car maker withdrew from the 27-year-old Dubai-based Briton en- mate Sébastien Loeb. race to return in 2015. tered the 2012 and 2014 Dakar rallies The 51-year-old Peterhansel added Despres also won a stage for Peugeot but retired each time with mechanical the 2017 title to his previous six wins on who grabbed control from the second problems. four wheels and his six on two, the fi rst stage leaving rivals Toyota and Mini Sunderland took the race lead after coming in 1991 on the world’s toughest with no chance. the fi fth stage, handing KTM their 16th rally. The race turned into a two-horse win in a row. The 2016 winner, Toby “This victory is particularly sweet battle between Peterhansel and Price of Australia, pulled out of this because the competition was so high,” 42-year-old Loeb, who was competing year’s race during the fourth stage. said Peterhansel. “Battling Sébastien for the second time after fi nishing ninth The gruelling 9,000km rally had and fi nishing just a few minutes ahead, in 2016. “Such a tight Dakar to the fi n- been plagued by torrential rain in Bo- it’s no mean feat.” ish line we haven’t seen in a longtime,” livia with stages six and nine cancelled Sam Sunderland became the fi rst said Peterhansel, who fi rst competed in and a further three shortened, cutting a Briton to win the motorbike section 1988 before winning in 1991. third off the original course. after the heartbreak of being forced to Loeb added: “We gave it everything, This year’s rally started in Paraguay retire from two previous editions. The held nothing back. We had a beautiful and ran through Bolivia before fi nish- KTM rider secured victory after the 12th race. Second this year, we’ll have to do ing in Argentina. The Dakar Rally began and fi nal 64km special from Rio Cuarto better next year.” in 1978 as a gruelling race from Paris and Buenos Aires. Qatari Nasser al-Attiyah — winner across the Sahara to the Senegalese Peterhansel and nine-times world in 2011 and 2015 — was forced out in the capital but switched to South America rally champion Loeb dominated the fourth stage after badly damaging his in 2009 for security reasons.