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Spain’s Rodri, (left), and Poland’s Robert Lewan- dowski challenge for the ball during the Euro 2020 soccer championship Group E match between Spain and Poland at the La Cartuja Stadium in Seville, Spain. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Switzerland keep hopes alive, Poland hold Spain Italy stay perfect as 10-man Wales advance to round of 16 ROME, June 20, (AP): Italy’s reserves By the fi nal whistle, Italy had no really do play as well as their starters. starters from its opening two matches Max overtakes Hamilton on penultimate lap Or just about. left on the fi eld, with even goalkeeper has been saying replaced by for weeks that all 26 members of his in the closing minutes. squad are starters. And after beating Switzerland 3, Turkey 1 Verstappen wins French GP, extends lead Wales 1-0 on Sunday despite making In Baku, Xherdan Shaqiri scored two LE CASTELLET, France, June 20, (AP): Formula One Verstappen has already matched his career best for a sea- eight changes to his starting lineup at goals to give Switzerland a 3-1 victory championship leader Max Verstappen overtook Lewis Ham- son with three wins and is emerging as a massive rival for the the European Championship, it’s hard over Turkey at the European Champi- ilton on the penultimate lap to win the French Grand Prix on defending champion Hamilton, who is trying to win a record to argue with him. onship. Sunday and extend his lead over his title rival to 12 points. eighth F1 title to move one ahead of Michael Schumacher. The victory extended Italy’s unbeat- The victory might be enough to give Verstappen used the DRS system to catch Hamilton on Red Bull has thrown down a huge marker to Mercedes, en streak to 30 matches - matching a the team a spot in the round of 16 as Lap 52 and pass him on the inside before zooming off to which has won every drivers’ and constructors’ champion- team record. one the best third-place teams. gave Italy the lead late Winger Steven Zuber assisted on clinch his third win of the season and 13th of his career. A ship since 2014. The previous four years were Red Bull bonus point for the fastest lap made it a great day for Red in the fi rst half by redirecting a free kick all three of Switzerland’s goals. Haris doubles with Sebastian Vettel at the wheel, and it looks like from on a textbook play. Seferovic scored the fi rst one. Bull, which had never beaten Mercedes on the Paul Ricard Mercedes is under heavy pressure now. circuit in southern France. Wales defender Ethan Ampadu was Irfan Can Kahveci scored Turkey’s After three races without a win, all of which Red Bull have sent off with a questionable straight red goal. It was the team’s fi rst goal of the It was a close call, though, with Red Bull’s gamble on a won, Hamilton is sounding concerned. two-stop strategy for Verstappen countered by a one-stopper card for stepping on Federico Bernard- tournament. Lando Norris fi nished fi fth for McLaren, again beating eschi 10 minutes into the second half. Turkey lost all three of its group for Hamilton as Mercedes kept him out on the same tires. his more experienced teammate Daniel Ricciardo, who was Wales’ Joe Allen (left), challenges It- With fi ve of 53 laps left, Hamilton was only 3.5 seconds matches and has been eliminated. sixth ahead of Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri and two-time F1 aly’s Andrea Belotti during the Euro Spain 1, Poland 1 ahead. SOCCER 2020 soccer championship group A Verstappen quickly ate into that lead, kept calm and then champion Fernando Alonso in eighth. In Seville, while Spain kept mis- It was another disappointing day for Bottas, who is fi ght- match between Italy and Wales, at fi ring, Robert Lewandowski came positioned himself perfectly to attack on a long straight in the Rome Olympic stadium. (AP) the way Hamilton has done countless times in his record 98 ing to keep his seat at Mercedes next year. Italy, which won their opening two through for Poland. wins. He is only fi fth in the standings behind McLaren’s Norris matches 3-0, fi nished Group A with a before Pessina put the Azzurri ahead. The FIFA player of the year gave Verstappen, who won by 2.9 seconds, has 131 points to and Perez. perfect nine points while Wales came Verratti earned a foul that set up a his team hope for advancement at the Hamilton’s 119 after seven races. second with four points. free kick on the right fl ank and then European Championship by scoring Chasing only their second European whipped in a low cross that Pessina a second-half equalizer in a 1-1 draw title, Italy will play the second-place fl icked into the far corner with his back with a Spanish team that continued to MOTOR RACING team from Group C at Wembley Sta- to the goal. miss chance after chance and are now dium in London next Saturday. Wales Pessina, who plays his club ball for in danger of early elimination. Red Bull’s Sergio Perez sneaked past a dejected Valtteri will play the second-place team from high-scoring Atalanta, was a late call A loss would have ended Poland’s Bottas to take third place and strengthen Red Bull’s lead in Group B in Amsterdam. up to Italy’s squad following an injury chances of reaching the round of 16 at the constructors’ championship: 215 points to 178. The victory also marked Italy’s 11th to Stefano Sensi. He earned the spot Euro 2020. Verstappen took an impressive pole position ahead of straight win and clean sheet. by scoring his fi rst two goals for the Among the wasted opportunities for Hamilton and his teammate Bottas. The Azzurri fi rst won 30 straight un- national team in a Euro 2020 warmup “La Roja” was a missed penalty kick Verstappen got away cleanly, but then made a basic error der coaching great Vittorio Pozzo from match against San Marino. by Gerard Moreno shortly after Lewan- cutting the kerb on Turn 1 and gifted Hamilton the lead. 1935-39 with a team that won their sec- Minutes after his goal, Pessina had dowski’s goal. Álvaro Morata collect- “In the beginning it was so diffi cult with the wind. Really ond consecutive World Cup. another chance but poked the ball just ed the rebound off the post but failed to diffi cult to keep the car stable,” Verstappen said. “Just lost It’s been a remarkable turnaround wide. put the ball into the open net. the rear, tried to correct it, correct it, correct it, but it kept for this Italy squad, which failed to Wales’ best chance of the half came Morata ended his scoring drought by going.” qualify for the 2018 World Cup. with a header from Chris Gunter that putting Spain ahead in the 25th minute, Right at the end of another exciting race, he made up for it Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands, On a warm and humid evening at the narrowly missed the top corner. but Lewandowski evened things in the heading into the Styrian GP in a week’s time on Red Bull’s (center), leads at the start of the French Formula One Stadio Olimpico, Italy controlled from Italy continued to pour forward after 54th with a header for only his third home track, followed by the Austrian GP a week later on the Grand Prix at the Paul Ricard racetrack in Le Castellet, the start and Andrea Belotti and Fed- the break and Bernardeschi banged a goal in 13 appearances with the nation- same circuit nestled in the Styrian mountains. southern France. (AP) erico Chiesa both came close to scoring free kick off the post. al team at a major tournament. Ukraine, Austria ‘eye’ round of 16 BUCHAREST, Romania, June Bucks advance to East fi nals 20, (AP): A draw might be enough for both, while a win would be a guarantee for either. Ukraine and Austria each have one victory and one loss so far at the European Championship, and they will face each other on Mon- day both looking to advance from the group stage at the tournament for the first time. For both teams, the forwards have provided the story at Euro 2020. Andriy Yarmolenko and Roman Yaremchuk scored a goal each for Ukraine in the team’s opening match, and then scored a goal each in the second as well. Those games are now in the past. Despite the goals, Ukraine coach Andriy Shevchen- ko’s concern in the previ- ous match was that his team didn’t score more, Arnautovic given the numerous chances his players created. Ruslan Malinovskyi, for exam- ple, had an opportunity to put the game against North Macedonia out of reach with an 84th-minute penalty awarded after a handball.

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But the Atalanta midfielder ran up casually and placed a rising shot that goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievs- ki saved easily. Shevchenko said defender De- Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo, (right), drives past Brooklyn Nets’ Joe Harris during the second half of Game 7 of a second-round NBA basketball playoff series in New York. (AP) nys Popov has a calf injury and might miss what the coach called “a very, very difficult game Milwaukee edges Nets in OT, withstand Durant’s 48 ahead of us.”

NEW YORK, June 20, airball with 0.3 seconds remaining. didn’t produce the quality of play that a thriller, the first to need extra time Middleton added 23 points and 10 was anticipated between the league’s since Dallas beat San Antonio in the (AP): A Game 7 thriller, rebounds for the Bucks, who reached two highest-scoring teams, Game 7 was 2006 Western Conference semifinals. the NBA’s fi rst do-or-die the East finals for the second time in Qatar to require fans at game to go to overtime in three years. They will play either Philadelphia or Atlanta in a series that 15 years, came down to a starts Wednesday night. WCup to be ‘vaccinated’ matter of inches. Durant played all 53 minutes and If Brooklyn star Kevin Durant forced OT with a turnaround jumper DOHA, June 20, (AP): Qatar will some countries will not be able to was just slightly farther away - or that was just inches from being a require spectators at the 2022 vaccinate all their citizens, Qatar if his foot was slightly smaller - 3-pointer that would have won it with a World Cup to have received coro- will not allow fans to enter stadi- second left. navirus vaccines to get into games, ums without receiving a full vac- he ends the highest-scoring Game the government has announced. cination against the virus.” 7 ever by an NBA player with a Prime Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Qatar has recorded 585 deaths and 3-pointer to win the series. BASKETBALL Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani told 220,800 cases during the pandemic. And given a second chance, the Qatar newspaper editors that the The Middle East’s first World Cup is Bucks cashed it in for a ticket to the Durant added nine rebounds and six Gulf nation is trying to secure a mil- due to start Nov. 21, 2022. Eastern Conference finals. assists, but didn’t have enough help lion vaccine doses to immunize fans “We are currently negotiating The Bucks withstood Durant’s NBA- with injured Kyrie Irving watching wanting to watch the tournament. with a company to provide one record 48 points in a Game 7, beating from the baseline and James Harden “When the date of the FIFA million vaccine doses against the the Nets 115-111 on Saturday night. unable to locate his shot after missing World Cup Qatar 2022 comes, coronavirus for the immunization Giannis Antetokounmpo had 40 most of the first four games with right most countries of the world will of those coming to the FIFA World points and 13 rebounds, and Middleton hamstring tightness. have vaccinated and immunized Cup Qatar,” Sheikh Khaled said. made the tiebreaking shot with 40 sec- Harden had 22 points, nine rebounds their citizens,” Sheikh Khaled was “Our primary goal in vaccinating the onds left in OT. and nine assists, but was 5 for 17 from Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant, (left), drives past Milwaukee Bucks’ P.J. quoted as saying by state media on unvaccinated is to protect the public The Bucks held on when Durant the field. Tucker during the fi rst half of Game 7 of a second-round NBA basketball Sunday. “Due to the possibility that health of citizens and residents.” missed two late jumpers, the last an In a series where the teams often playoff series in New York. (AP)

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