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NFL | Page 4 MLB | Page 3 Frederick lines Jeffress delivers up to take on 70 meals to his biggest hospital workers opponent yet in Phoenix Monday, May 25, 2020 FOOTBALL Shawwal 2, 1441 AH La Liga faces GULF TIMES heated debate as it prepares to resume SPORT Page 2 FOOTBALL FOCUS Bournemouth player tests Werner bags hat-trick as positive for coronavirus AFP Leipzig trounce Mainz London n unnamed Bournemouth player has HERRLICH MAKES BELATED TOUCHLINE DEBUT AS AUGSBURG THUMP SCHALKE tested positive for coronavirus, the Premier League club announced yes- AFP Aterday, becoming the eighth case in- Berlin volving an English top-flight side. Bournemouth added the player’s identity would not be disclosed due to “medical con- weet-toothed striker Timo fidentiality” and that he would self-isolate for Werner bagged a hat-trick as seven days. RB Leipzig thrashed Mainz “Following strict adherence to the Premier S5-0 yesterday to climb back to League’s return to training regulations, the third in the Bundesliga and keep their club’s training ground remains a safe working dwindling title hopes just about alive. environment for players and backroom staff, When asked how he would cel- who will continue to be tested for Covid-19 ebrate, Werner, 24, told reporters twice per week,” said Bournemouth in a state- “there will definitely be some sweets ment. The Premier League announced Satur- involved”. day that there were positive tests at two clubs Julian Nagelsmann’s side sit seven out of 996 tests conducted on Tuesday, Thurs- points behind leaders Bayern Mu- day and Friday. The other positive was at a dif- nich ahead of the reigning champi- ferent club which has not been named. ons’ top-of-the-table clash against That followed a first second-placed Borussia Dortmund round of testing that on Tuesday. produced six positive Leipzig bounced back from their findings announced on draw with Freiburg last weekend in May 19 at three Premier their first match since the coronavi- League clubs from a to- rus lockdown in style, with Werner tal of 748 players and moving to within three goals of Bay- staff. ern’s Robert Lewandowski at the top Those positives in- of the league scoring charts. cluded Watford’s Adrian Werner, who has been linked with Mariappa and Burnley several of Europe’s biggest clubs, has assistant manager Ian scored 24 Bundesliga goals this sea- Woan. For the second round, the number of son including two trebles. tests available to each club was increased from Lewandowski scored his 27th 40 to 50. league goal this term in Bayern’s 5-2 On Tuesday, squads started non-contact win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Sat- training for the first time since the Premier urday. Leipzig’s victory was the 10th League was suspended on March 13. win for a visiting team in 18 matches That an increased number of tests has pro- since the Bundesliga restarted in duced fewer positive findings may be a boost near-empty stadiums. to the Premier League’s ‘Project Restart’ plan “We could have scored a few more, to resume fixtures in June. but no complaints – we’re very hap- Clubs are expected to discuss moving to py,” Leipzig sporting director Markus contact training on Tuesday. Officials still Kroesche told Sky. Werner opened the plan to complete all 92 remaining fixtures, scoring in only the 11th minute, before Leipzig’s German forward Timo Werner (right) celebrates with Leipzig’s Slovenian midfielder Kevin Kampl after scoring a goal during their Bundesliga match with Premier League chief executive Richard Yussuf Poulsen marked his 250th ap- against Mainz 05 in Mainz yesterday. (AFP) Masters saying on Friday that they were “as pearance for Leipzig by heading home confident as we can be” about restarting next a Marcel Sabitzer cross on 23 minutes. Earlier, Augsburg also eased to a the relegation play-off place. December, Schalke are winless in off the bench to score in injury time, month. The pair reversed roles for the third comfortable away win with a 3-0 “I’m totally happy,” said Herrlich, their last nine league games, includ- latching onto a loose pass from Sane, Several players still have concerns about when Poulsen laid the ball off for romp at Schalke. whose side host bottom club Pader- ing last Saturday’s 4-0 drubbing at rounding goalkeeper Markus Schu- returning, among them Watford captain Troy Sabitzer to make it 3-0 at the break. Heiko Herrlich enjoyed a perfect born on Wednesday, after ending a Dortmund. bert and firing into an empty net. Deeney and Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante, Werner grabbed his second goal first Bundesliga game on the touch- run of four straight defeats. We’ll be “We were extremely stupid at the Later, mid-table Cologne scored who stayed away from training this week. three minutes into the second half line as Augsburg coach, a week af- celebrating quietly, because we don’t start,” said Wagner. late goals through strikers Anthony As well as Mariappa, two members of Wat- when Kevin Kampl played him into ter he missed their loss to Wolfsburg have much time. But we have man- Loewen gave the visitors the lead Modeste and Jhon Cordoba, who ford’s staff have tested positive, while Hornets the area. The visitors were attacking because he broke quarantine rules aged to turn things around.” after just five minutes with a superb equalised in added time, to fight back manager Nigel Pearson revealed on Friday that at will when Kampl had a goal ruled to buy toothpaste. David Wagner’s The 48-year-old Herrlich apolo- free-kick which flew into the top cor- for a 2-2 draw against strugglers For- several of his players were isolating at home out for offside soon after. Schalke continued their slide down gised to his squad after breaking a ner from 30 metres out at the Veltins tuna Duesseldorf. Visitors Fortuna, after family members contracted the virus. With 15 minutes left, Poulsen’s the table, falling to eighth following week-long coronavirus quarantine by Arena. Augsburg doubled their lead who are 16th which carries a two- Meanwhile, second-tier Hull City con- floated free-kick was met by Werner another poor defensive display. leaving the team hotel – to buy tooth- 14 minutes from time when Schalke legged relegation play-off at the end firmed unnamed individuals at their club were who volleyed past Mainz goalkeeper Eduard Loewen, Noah Sarenren paste and skin cream – before the defender Salif Sane was wrong-foot- of the season, had led with an hour the source of two positive results following Florian Mueller to wrap up his hat- Bazee and Sergio Cordova scored as Wolfsburg match last weekend. ed by a long ball and substitute wing- gone through goals by Kenan Kara- tests on 1,014 players and staff at all 24 Cham- trick. Augsburg moved seven points clear of Having been as high as third last er Bazee rifled home. Cordova came man and Erik Thommy. pionship teams over the past 72 hours. TENNIS Clijsters determined to press on with comeback AFP ter the US Open in 2012. She has since cancelled. The family stayed at their Brussels had two sons. home in New Jersey, where they don’t “I always felt I was fulfilled,” Cli- have a tennis court and the public jsters said in an earlier interview with courts soon shut. im Clijsters is looking forward the Tennis Hall of Fame. “After I had “We made a court with kitchen to returning to the US Open our third baby, Blake, I started travel- chairs,” she said. even though the coronavirus ling to tournaments. I did commentary. Clijsters and her husband Brian Kpandemic means that since her “But I still felt more like a player. A Lynch, a basketball coach, completed second comeback from retirement she little itch started.” Andy Murray’s 100 volleys couples has spent more time with her family. Returning to the tour poses a chal- challenge. “I’m still motivated,” the four-time lenge for a mother of three. “In the first few weeks when you’re Grand Slam winner told a Belgium “I’m away a little bit, which turned in quarantine and all these challenges newspaper yesterday. out to be not so much in the last few pop up...you’re trying everything,” she “I hope we can still play this season. months,” she said. said. “After a few weeks it’s ‘another But even if we don’t, I intend to keep She began her second comeback in challenge? I’m done!’” going,” the Belgian tennis star, who February in Dubai, where she lost to The family returned to Belgium and turns 37 in June, told Het Laatse Nieu- Garbine Muguruza in the first round. quarantined for two weeks. ws (HLN). She then lost to Johanna Konta in her Clijsters told HLN that the break had Clijsters had spells at number one opening match in Monterrey, the last allowed her to rest her body and allow before and after her first retirement, tournament before the women’s tour injuries in her knees to improve. from 2007-2009. She had her daughter shut down at the start of March. “If the US Open can happen, I want in 2008. She won the US Open before She was in the United States when to be ready,” she said in the Hall of that break and the Australian Open the tournament in Indian Wells, where Fame interview. “I would also be happy and two more US titles when she came she planned to play singles and partner if I had to play on court 18.

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