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Maiden Qatar Cup triumph for Al Wakrah cagers PAGE 15 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020 MAN UNITED EDGE PSG; BARCELONA THRASH FERENCVAROS AS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE BEGINS Morata double gets Juventus off the mark in Kiev AFP the 1-1 league draw. Atletico Madrid. KIEV “We managed to try some- ‘Go all the way’ “(Chiel- thing (in training) on Monday lini’s) injury forced us to ALVARO Morata struck twice and we were more organised change the cards but Demiral on Tuesday as Juventus made for today.” did very well,” said Pirlo. light of Cristiano Ronaldo’s The Italian champions had “The approach I had from absence to get their Champi- little to show for their early the beginning was to have ons League campaign off the domination against the young more players in attack. mark with a 2-0 win at Dy- Ukrainian side with Dynamo “Chiesa can play on both namo Kiev. goalkeeper Georgiy Bushchan sides, Kulusevski can be a Spain’s Morata opened the denying early efforts from playmaker and Ramsey can scoring just after the break Federico Chiesa and Dejan play behind Morata without when he tapped in off a re- Kulusevski. forgetting we have Ronaldo bound and nodded in a sec- Juve skipper Giorgio and Dybala.” Pirlo took over ond with six minutes to go to Chiellini also nodded wide be- this season after Maurizio Sar- give Juventus three points in fore the veteran defender was ri was sacked after the Italian Group G which also includes replaced by Merih Demiral champions’ last 16 exit to Lyon Barcelona and Hungarian club after 18 minutes after limping last season. Paris Saint-Germain’s French forward Kylian Mbappe (left) vies for the ball with Manchester United’s Spanish goalkeeper David de Gea during Ferencvaros. off clutching his leg. “These are three important their UEFA Europa League Group H first-leg match at the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris on Tuesday. Manchester United won 2-1.( AFP) Portugal captain Ronaldo Morata’s first goal came points,” said Morata. and US midfielder Weston after Bushchan parried Ku- “Every year there is the McKennie both missed the lusevski’s effort, allowing the possibility to win and we want trip to the Ukraine after test- striker to finish off the rebound, to fight to go all the way.” Ju- ing positive for coronavirus, in front of a crowd of 15,000 in ventus are chasing a third with Alex Sandro and Matthijs the Ukrainian capital. Champions League title after de Ligt out injured. Paulo Dybala came on for 1985 and 1996, with seven But Andrea Pirlo, 41, got Kulusevski 10 minutes after runners-up finishes, includ- his European coaching debut the break for the Argentine ing in 2015, with Pirlo playing, off to a winning start against forward’s first start this sea- and 2017. veteran Dynamo coach Mir- son. Juventus next play Barce- cea Lucescu who gave the Ital- But it was former Chelsea lona on October 28 in Turin. ian his first Serie A start as a striker Morata who had the Brescia player 25 years ago. final word with a powerful Brugge beat Zenit “One step at a time. It header from a Juan Cuadrado Visiting Club Brugge beat Zenit was important to play a solid cross which gave him a third St Petersburg 2-1 as Charles de match compared to Saturday goal in a week since moving Ketelaere got a stoppage time against Crotone,” said Pirlo of on loan back to Juventus from winner for Brugge in Russia. Barcelona’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi scores a penalty during the UEFA Champions League football match against Ferencvarosi TC at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday. Barcelona won the match 5-1. (AFP) Matches Today RB Salzburg vs Lokomotiv Moscow (7.55pm) Midtjylland vs Atalanta (10pm) Real Madrid vs Shakhtar Donetsk (7.55pm) Olympiacos vs Marseille (10pm) Ajax vs Liverpool (10pm) Bayern Munich vs Atletico Madrid (10pm) Juventus’ Spanish forward Alvaro Morata celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal during Inter Milan vs Monchengladbach (10pm) the UEFA Champions League Group G match against FC Dynamo Kiev at the Olympiyskiy stadium in Kiev, Manchester City vs Porto (10pm) Ukraine, on Tuesday. (AFP) Coach Lamouchi seeks positive result as Duhail take on Al Sadd points against Al Duhail, who It is always complicated facing are our direct rivals,” he added. Regarding Al Sadd’s disal- Al Duhail, says Xavi lowed goal against Al Khor, Xavi said: “Today, we got the TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK the Abdullah bin Khalifa Sta- information from the referees DOHA dium on Wednesday. (committee) that the deci- “Regarding the next match sion was wrong. It’s difficult AL Duhail coach Sabri Lam- against Al Sadd, we will face to accept, because we lost two ouchi says he and his team is one of the teams competing points. This is the reality. The ready to take on a new chal- for the title and we are looking committee said it was a mis- lenge of facing Al Sadd when forward to a strong match and take. What can we say? We the two big guns of QNB Stars achieve a good result. lost two points because of the League meet in the resched- “The match between Al Sadd refereeing. This is the truth. uled Week 3 clash following and Al Duhail is always strong. “Of course, we have to their 2020 AFC Champions Al Sadd have great potential and be more effective and play League commitment. this match does not determine with more ambition to score “I am happy to return to the path of the title because we goals, but this decision totally work in the QNB Stars League only played three matches. I Al Duhail coach Sabri Lamouchi (left) and Al Sadd coach Xavi Hernandez while addressing the media on the eve of their Week 3 QNB Stars changed the game.” and in Qatar. I will take on a will put the ready-made squad league match to be played at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium on Wednesday. As for the availability of new challenge with one of the which I know is able to play Akram Afif and Abdelka- biggest Qatari teams and we the match without considering and we are now thinking about Xavi Hernandeztermed the But we are ready, we are in a to defeat Al Sadd. It will be dif- rim Hassan, the coach said: started with a match against they are young or old, and the the Al Sadd match, and then the battle with Al Duhail as com- good moment, even though we ficult for both sides.” “Akram and Abdelkarim are Qatar SC, where we achieved options before us are not wide. Al Rayyan match. Then we will plicated. “Of course, it is always lost two points against Al Khor “We have to do our best, give ready. Unfortunately, we don’t a difficult, but important vic- I will choose the best squad for start preparing for our match complicated to play against Al in the last game,” said Xavi. our 100% and be aggressive. We have Saad Al Dosari as he can- tory,” said Lamouchi while this match,” he added. against Al Sadd in the semi-final Duhail. It will be very difficult We have the capac- must be ambitious. We want to not play tomorrow. For Bagh- speaking to the media on eve “I want to see the best ef- of Amir Cup,” said Lamouchi. because the players feel more ity to defeat Al Duhail, and of win this competition. We have dad Bounedjah and the rest of of the match to be played at forts on the part of the players Meanwhile, Al Sadd coach tension that in other games. course, they have the capacity to get these three important the players, we will see.” 14 Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Sports UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Liverpool fuming at Pickford’s ‘stupid’ challenge AFP from Richarlison on Thiago, AMSTERDAM that was also a nasty one.” Pickford will not face any LIVERPOOL midfielder retrospective punishment af- Georginio Wijnaldum brand- ter referee Michael Oliver took ed the challenge from Everton no action on the field, nor was goalkeeper Jordan Pickford he instructed to review in the that injured Virgil van Dijk incident by VAR. as “stupid” and called for the “Accidents can always hap- England number one to be pen in football, you can be un- punished. lucky but they way they were Van Dijk looks set to miss doing it was completely unac- the rest of the season after suf- ceptable,” added Wijnaldum. fering cruciate ligament dam- “It makes it harder that age in a contentious 2-2 draw they don’t get punished. In this in the Merseyside derby on case Pickford doesn’t get pun- Saturday that also saw Ever- ished after seeing the videos.” ton forward Richarlison sent- Liverpool boss Jurgen off for a wild lunge on Thiago Klopp labelled both challenges Alcantara. “difficult to accept”. “Of course we are upset,” “Injuries happen, it is just said Wijnaldum at a pre- normally it is both players just match press conference ahead going for the ball. That was not of Wednesday’s Champions the case in these two challenges League clash with Ajax. and it makes it so difficult to take. “The way Pickford went in Klopp called for more in- to the challenge was complete- centives for good disciplinary ly, in my opinion, stupid. I be- records. lieve he didn’t want to injure “In the last four years we Virgil the way he injured him, were leader of the fair play ta- but the way he took the tackle, ble and you don’t get anything he didn’t care about what hap- for that.” pened after the tackle.