Kohli returns to ton-scoring, slams 120 against West Indies PAGE 15 MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2019 Dovizioso pips Marquez to emerge UCI WORLD TOUR, BINCK BANK TOUR best in Austrian MotoGP PAGE 14 THE NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM Xavi’s Al Sadd aiming to put it past Duhail in ‘home’ show cial away goal advantage. something his team of champi- Al Duhail recently added Wolves-Red Knights In arguably the toughest ons could help rectify. Iraqi striker Mohanad Ali to to face off in AFC match to call of the Round 16, In their last encounter at their squad that also includes nearly all of Al Sadd’s players the newly-opened Al Janoub Bassam al Rawi, Almoez Ali, Champions League have experience of winning Stadium, ace Qatari striker Karim Boudiaf, Luis Martin, Round of 16 second the biggest tournaments. Akram Afif had given Al Sadd Ahmed Yasser, Ali Afif and While an impressive four the lead, but that was can- Asim Madibo. leg on Tuesday of the 14 players who got game celled out in the first half itself However, they will miss the time for Al Duhail last week by Al Duhail’s Tunisian attack- services of Moroccan defender TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK played in the AFC Asian Cup ing midfielder Yousef Msakni, Mehdi Benatia, who walked DOHA UAE 2019 final against Japan, who made his second debut off the pitch with an injury in all seven of Al Sadd’s local for Al Duhail. the 18th minute of the first-leg LOTS of thrills are guaranteed starters appeared against the Both teams tried hard in game against Al Sadd. as Qatari giants Al Sadd host East Asians. the second half, but the win- Al Sadd have in their ranks Al Duhail in the AFC Champi- Add to that the fact Bagh- ning goal remained elusive. South Korean playmaker Nam ons League Round of 16 sec- dad Bounedjah recently Xavi, who replaced Por- Tae-Hee, who donned the ond leg on Tuesday. The kick- scored the winning goal for tuguese Jesualdo Ferreira as Al Duhail colours for seven off is scheduled at the Jassim Algeria in the 2019 African coach ahead of this season, seasons winning many titles Bin Hamad Stadium at 19:15. Cup of Nations final and that will be hoping to take the side before making his debut for Head coach Xavi’s mana- skipper Gabi captained the to Round of 8 even as his Al them in the first-leg match, gerial career got underway Atletico Madrid team that won Duhail counterpart Rui Faria, Akram, Fernandez, Bouned- with a 1-1 draw against Al Du- a La Liga title ahead of Barce- also from Portugal, is sure to jah, Hassan al Haydous, Ab- hail, a satisfactory result for lona and Real Madrid before Europa League, then it is clear one of the most decorated play- competed for. The AFC Cham- bring out all weapons in his ar- delkarim Hassan, Hamed the Qatar Stars League cham- rounding off his career in the Al Sadd boast winners aplenty. ers in world football having won pions League remains one that senal so that The Red Knights Ismail, Jung Woo-Young and pions, besides gaining a cru- Spanish capital with the UEFA Then there’s Xavi, who is almost every honour he has he has yet to get his hands on, turn the tables on The Wolves. Pedro, among others. Emery impressed Manchester Utd thrash by Arsenal’s gritty win over Newcastle Lampard’s Chelsea 4-0 AFP NEWCASTLE (UK) AFP MANCHESTER (UK) UNAI Emery saluted Arsenal’s gritty 1-0 win at Newcastle on MARCUS Rashford scored Sunday as the Gunners erased twice as Manchester United the painful memories of last made the perfect start to their season’s away-day woes. Premier League season by in- Emery’s side did not re- flicting a 4-0 defeat on Frank cord their first Premier League Lampard in his first match in clean sheet on their travels charge of Chelsea on Sunday. until April last term and man- Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s aged only one in the top flight men were in need of a fast start all season. to the campaign to erase mem- That wretched run played ories of a terrible end to last a key role in Arsenal’s failure season and got it, as Rashford’s to finish in the top four. early penalty and three goals in But Emery has worked 16 second-half minutes from hard to overhaul Arsenal at Anthony Martial, Rashford the start of his second season and debutant Daniel James in charge, with a host of new had Old Trafford in raptures. signings and a more deter- Arsenal’s Spanish head coach Harry Maguire and Aaron mined mentality fuelling the Unai Emery gestures on the Wan-Bissaka also impressed north Londoners’ solid effort touchline during the English at the back on their debuts at St James’ Park on Sunday. Premier League match against after United spent £130 mil- While they were only spo- Newcastle United at St James’ lion ($156 million) on the pair radically effective in attack, Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, over the summer to shore up a they remained organised England, on Sunday. (AFP) defence that conceded 54 Pre- enough at the back to keep mier League goals last season. Newcastle at bay until Pierre- 30 minutes with us. “It is a great start for my- Emerick Aubameyang fired “Nicolas Pepe came one self and the team. We rode the second-half winner. week ago and physically he our luck a bit first-half but New boys Dani Ceballos, needs to get his best fitness to second we were much more Nicolas Pepe and Gabriel Mar- be ready to play 100 percent ourselves,” said Maguire, who tinelli were introduced from for 90 minutes. Today, 20 won man-of-the-match in his the bench to add more opti- minutes is good for him. first game as the world’s most mism for Arsenal fans. “And Ceballos is in the expensive defender. “I want to win, I want to middle because he came be- “We knew there were only score and I want to do a clean fore Pepe, but he got an injury two clean sheets last year here sheet. Today we won and we and he stopped training. He (at Old Trafford). We need to did that,” Emery said. needs to know the Premier make it a fortress.” “The balance offensively League, so today was impor- However, questions will be and defensively is only taken tant for him and for us.” asked of Chelsea’s decision to with the victory. Today in our - Defensive lapse -Mean- let experienced defender Da- 90 minutes, we could do that. while, Newcastle manager vid Luiz leave to join Arsenal “Also, we created chances Steve Bruce was left to rue a earlier this week as the Blues and we need also to create key defensive lapse in his first struggled to contain the Unit- chances for our strikers and match in charge of the club he ed counter-attacks despite today with Auba, we won.” supported as a boy. dominating long spells. Asked about his new sign- The 58-year-old could only Lampard’s first team selec- ings, Emery added: “David look on as full-back Ainsley tion was a bold one as he put Luiz did pre-season with an- Maitland-Niles intercepted his faith in youth with Tammy RASHFORD ROCKS: Manchester United’s English striker Marcus Rashford, who scored a brace, celebrates after scoring the team’s third goal other team and he is OK to Paul Dummett’s attempt- Abraham and Mason Mount during the English Premier League match against Chelsea at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, on Sunday. (AFP) play physically, but he only ed pass to substitute Jetro handed starts, while £60 million trained completely with us Willems before feeding signing Christian Pulisic was them opportunities they will Pogba the provider and set off a flowing counter- RESULTS yesterday. On Friday, he did Aubameyang. made to wait for his Premier counter. For massive parts of Rashford dusted himself off attack that ended with Mar- League debut on the bench. the game we didn’t allow them to blast the penalty high past tial bundling the ball home Manchester United “The team we put out today to do that. (There are) loads of Kepa to open the scoring. at the far post from Andreas VAR denies Wolves victory in bore draw at Leicester was clearly competing in the lessons for us.” United needed David de Pereira’s cross. 4 (Marcus Rashford game for long periods but we Chelsea started the better as Gea to recover his best form Paul Pogba then played 18’ (pen), 67’; LEICESTER: Leicester City and Wolves offered little to show made four mistakes and they Abraham smashed a shot from as he made fine saves from provider with a brilliant ball Anthony Martial 65’, they can break into the Premier League top six this season after were clinical in the way they the edge of the box off the post, Ross Barkley and Emerson over the top for Rashford to Daniel James 81’) opening the campaign with an uninspiring goalless draw on put them away,” said Lampard. but the heart of Lampard’s de- Palmieri, while the Italian in- burst in behind before coolly bt Chelsea 0 Sunday. Wolves did put the ball in the net early in the second- “It was nowhere near a 4-0. fence always looked fragile. ternational also blasted off the slotting past Kepa.