ARAB TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021 16 Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece kisses the trophy after defeat- ing Andrey Rublev of Russia in the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament fi nals in Monaco. Tsitsipas won the Monte Carlo Masters without dropping a set, beat- ing Rublev 6-3, 6-3 for his fi rst title this year and sixth overall. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com 12 European clubs launch breakaway league UEFA could ban SL players from Euro 2020, WC Clippers ‘rout’ MONTREUX, Switzerland, April UEFA’s 55 member federations are announcing the formation of a largely- seemingly because they couldn’t con- 19, (AP): Players at the 12 clubs set- gathering for an annual meeting on closed Super League. They are leaving trol the sale of rights to the existing ting up their own Super League could Tuesday, including 24 nations that are the existing UEFA-run Champions competition. be banned from this year’s European playing in Euro 2020. League structure despite warnings they Meanwhile, the 12 clubs planning to Timberwolves Championship and next year’s World “My opinion is that as soon as could be kicked out of their domestic start the breakaway Super League told Cup, UEFA President Aleksander Ce- possible they (the clubs) have to be competitions and face legal action. the leaders of FIFA and UEFA that they ferin said Monday. banned from all our competitions, and The seismic move to shake up the have begun legal action aimed at fending Ceferin spoke following a UEFA ex- the players from all our competitions,” world’s biggest sport is partly engi- off threats to block the competition. Heat edge Nets ecutive committee meeting held only Ceferin said. neered by the American owners of The letter was sent by the group to hours after the English, Italian and Span- Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester Ceferin and FIFA President Gianni LOS ANGELES, April 19, rebounds and eight assists in his return ish clubs announced the project that SOCCER United who also run U.S. franchises in Infantino saying the Super League has from a four-game absence because of a threatens to split European soccer. closed leagues - a model they are try- already been underwritten by funding (AP): Paul George led five sore right foot. Fans attending a Clip- “They will not be able to represent ing to replicate in Europe. of 4 billion euros ($5.5 billion) from starters in double figures with pers game at Staples Center for the fi rst their national teams at any matches,” Three of the 12 rebels - Chelsea, The power-play came after the rebel American bank JPMorgan Chase. 23 points and the Los Angeles time in over a year saw their team hit a Ceferin said. “UEFA and the foot- Manchester City and Real Madrid - are clubs reneged on a promise on Friday Currently, teams have to qualify season-high 21 3-pointers. balling world stand united against the scheduled to play in the Champions to back the plan by UEFA - European each year for the Champions League Clippers routed the Minneso- disgraceful self-serving proposal we League semifi nals this month. football’s governing body - to expand through their domestic leagues, but the ta Timberwolves 124-105 on Heat 109, Nets 107 have seen in last 24 hours from a se- Earlier group of 12 elite English, the Champions League beginning in Super League would lock in 15 places In Miami, Bam Adebayo’s 13-foot Sunday night for their eighth jumper rattled in as time expired, and the lect few clubs in Europe that are fueled Spanish and Italian clubs dramatically 2024. The deal was designed to ap- every season for the founding mem- win in nine games. purely by greed above all else.” split European soccer on Sunday by pease their wishes for more games, bers. Miami Heat defeated the Brooklyn Nets Kawhi Leonard had 15 points, 11 109-107 to snap a three-game slide. Adebayo had 21 points and 15 re- Atlético extend bounds for the Heat, who trailed by six points in the fi nal minutes before fi nish- ing the game on a 10-2 run. Goran Dragic ‘lead’ over Real scored 18 points, Kendrick Nunn scored MADRID, April 19, (AP): Af- 17 and Trevor Ariza had 15 for Miami. ter seeing rivals gradually cut Kings 121, Mavericks 107 into their lead, Atlético Madrid In Dallas, De’Aaron Fox scored 30 fi nally got some breathing room points, Harrison Barnes added 24 and at the top of the Spanish league . Terence Davis II 23 as the Sacramento Atlético ended their winless Kings snapped a nine-game losing run by routing last-place Eibar streak with a 121-107 victory over the 5-0, then saw city rivals Real Dallas Mavericks. Madrid held 0-0 by Getafe. Those results gave Atlético a three-point lead over second- BASKETBALL place Madrid, and a fi ve-point cushion over third-place Barce- Barnes scored 11 in the third quarter lona, which have a game in hand as the Kings built a 21-point lead mid- after winning the Copa del Rey way through the period. Sacramento, fi nal against Athletic Bilbao . which never trailed, held off a late Dal- Madrid had moved within a las run that cut the lead to six with 3½ point of the lead after beating minutes left. Barcelona in the previous round. Raptors 112 ,Thunder 106 Atlético was coming off a loss In Tampa, Fla, Chris Boucher had to Sevilla and a 1-1 draw against 31 points and 11 rebounds, and the To- Real Betis. ronto Raptors extended Oklahoma City’s Ángel Correa and Marcos season-worst losing streak to 10 games, Llorente scored two goals each beating the Thunder 112-106 . Gary and Yannick Carrasco added Trent Jr. added 23 points for Toronto, another as Atlético routed Eibar which has won three straight. Malachi at the Wanda Metropolitano Sta- Flynn had 15 points and eight rebounds. dium. Hornets 109, Trail Blazers 101 In Charlotte, NC,Terry Rozier had SOCCER 34 points, 10 assists and eight re- bounds, and the Charlotte Hornets rode a strong fi rst quarter to a 109-101 win Simeone’s team easily won over the Portland Trail Blazers , snap- despite playing without Luis ping a four-game losing streak. Suárez and João Félix because P.J. Washington had 23 points and of injuries. Correa, one of the eight rebounds after missing three players who came in to replace games with an ankle injury, and Miles the injured regular starters, New York Knicks forward Julius Randle (30) and New Orleans Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes (10) battle for a rebound during the first half of an NBA Bridges added 19 points, including two broke the deadlock with a goal basketball game in New York. (AP) highlight-reel dunks for the Hornets from close range in the 42nd (28-28). minute, then quickly added to Hawks 129, Pacers 117 the lead after a nice turn to clear United move within eight points of City a defender inside the area in the In Atlanta, Trae Young scored 34 44th. points, Clint Capela had 25 points and 24 rebounds and the Atlanta Hawks Carrasco scored the third goal beat the Indiana Pacers 129-117. in a breakaway in the 49th, then Leicester reach final as fans return to Wembley Bogdan Bogdanovic and Kevin Llorente got the fourth from Huerter each chipped in 23 points and inside the box in the 53rd and LONDON, April 19, (AP): The goal Young had 11 assists for the Hawks, the fi fth from close range in the who have won eight of 10 and are 17-6 68th. scored by Kelechi Iheanacho didn’t just send Leicester into a fi rst FA Cup Tottenham fire under interim coach Nate McMillan. Eibar’s winless streak in the Atlanta has won nine of 11 at home. league reached 14 consecutive fi nal since 1969. It was the fi rst to be matches. The Basque Country cheered by spectators at Wembley in manager Jose Knicks 122, Pelicans 112 OT club, which had no shots on tar- more than a year. In New York, Julius Randle had 33 get, is four points from safety. Not since March 2020 had fans been al- LONDON, April 19, (AP): Tottenham points and 10 assists, Derrick Rose Missing some of their top lowed into English football’s national sta- fired Jose Mourinho on Monday after made huge plays all over the court to dium through three national lockdowns. players, Real Madrid struggled only 17 months in charge, and just as spark New York’s streak-saving fi nish Now as coronavirus restrictions are eased, against Madrid rivals Getafe and he was preparing to coach the club in and the Knicks beat the New Orleans needed a good performance by Wembley was allowed a 4,000-strong, Pelicans 122-112 in overtime for their socially distant crowd to witness Leices- the League Cup final. goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to Mourinho was hired in November sixth consecutive victory. avoid an even more disappoint- ter’s 1-0 victory over Southampton to test the return of spectators. 2019 to replace Mauricio Pochettino, ing result. who unexpectedly led the London club After diffi cult games against While those permitted were only NBA Results/Standings local residents in the north London to the Champions League final before Liverpool in the Champions Southampton’s Danny Ings (left), jumps for the ball with Leicester City’s the team collapsed the following sea- League and against Barcelona in district over the age of 18 who tested negative for COVID-19, some fans of Jonny Evans during the English FA Cup semifinal soccer match between son. the Spanish league, Zidane rest- Leicester City and Southampton at Wembley Stadium in London. (AP) Mourinho failed to get Tottenham ed some of his regular starters, both teams did manage to land tickets. WASHINGTON, April 19, (AP): NBA Returning to a game for the fi rst back into the Champions League and results and standings on Sunday. including Toni Kroos and Karim Atlanta 129Indiana 117 time in 2021 gave Leicester supporter in the May 15 FA Cup fi nal, the gov- grounds are due to have up to 10,000 has overseen another collapse this sea- Benzema, the team’s leading ernment hopes up to 21,000 spectators fans allowed for the fi nal two rounds son. The team were in first place in New York 122New Orleans OT 112 scorer this season. Pascal Mollar a chance to refl ect on Miami 109Brooklyn 107 what he’s missed. will be allowed, including a sizable of the season next month. December but a run of poor results has Charlotte 109Portland 101 Zidane again had to deal contingent offi cially from both clubs. Manchester United moved within seen them fall to seventh place. Houston 114Orlando 110 While reaching an FA Cup fi nal is Toronto 112Oklahoma City 106 with a depleted defense be- rare - and it has never won the compe- The pilot scheme is aimed at trying to eight points of Manchester City with “Jose and his coaching staff have cause of injuries and suspen- Sacramento 121Dallas 107 tition - Leicester did win the Premier increasing the numbers up to half of the a 3-1 victory over Burnley. It could been with us through some of our LA Clippers 124Minnesota 105 sions, having to use reserve- League so unexpectedly in 2016 and 90,000-capacity Wembley for the Euro- be too late to return to the top of the most challenging times as a club,” Eastern Conference team player Víctor Chust in collected the League Cup in 2000. pean Championship fi nal on July 11. league with only six games left to reel Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy Atlantic Division central defense. W L Pct GB By the time Leicester face Chelsea Before then all Premier League in their neighbors. said. “Jose is a true professional who Philadelphia 39 17 .696 - showed enormous resilience during the Brooklyn 38 19 .667 1-1/2 United had to show resilience after Boston 31 26 .544 8-1/2 Mason Greenwood’s opener at the pandemic. On a personal level I have enjoyed working with him and regret New York 31 27 .534 9 Verstappen wins dramatic Emilia-Romagna GP start of the second half was quickly Toronto 24 34 .414 16 canceled out by James Tarkowski’s that things have not worked out as we Southeast Division W L Pct GB IMOLA, Italy, April 19, (AP): Max after he picked up a bonus point for header. Greenwood’s defl ected strike both had envisaged. He will always be welcome here and we should like to Atlanta 31 26 .544 - Verstappen eased to victory in an in- the fastest lap in Imola. Bottas had the restored the lead in the 84th before a Miami 29 28 .509 2 cident-packed Emilia-Romagna Grand fastest lap in Bahrain. Lando Norris stoppage-time tap-in from Edinson thank him and his coaching staff for Charlotte 28 28 .500 2-1/2 Prix as he comfortably beat Lewis was third, 23.7 behind Verstappen. Cavani. their contribution.” Washington 23 33 .411 7-1/2 Mourinho’s exits comes two days Orlando 18 39 .316 13 Hamilton, who almost crashed out af- Verstappen started third, behind Central Division before a Premier League game against ter a rare error from the world cham- Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez and SOCCER W L Pct GB pion. pole-sitter Hamilton. The Dutch driver Southampton and with the League Cup Milwaukee 35 21 .625 - final on Sunday against Manchester Indiana 26 30 .464 9 Hamilton hit a wall in a race that got off to a great start and jumped his Chicago 23 33 .411 12 was also temporarily suspended fol- teammate before touching wheels with “Our fi tness, confi dence and belief City. Tottenham, which haven’t won Cleveland 20 36 .357 15 lowing a separate incident involving Hamilton and forcing his way into the has improved so much this season a trophy since the 2008 League Cup, Detroit 17 40 .298 18-1/2 said youth coach Ryan Mason had Western Conference his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bot- lead. compared to last year,” United manag- Southwest Division tas. er Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said. “That’s been put in charge of training. W L Pct GB The 23-year-old Verstappen led for big, big progress. (Catching City) is It is Mourinho’s shortest spell at a Dallas 30 26 .536 - MOTOR RACING club since breaking into the big time Memphis 29 26 .527 -1/2 the majority of the race on the wet probably unrealistic but stranger things San Antonio 27 28 .491 2-1/2 Imola track and the Red Bull driver have happened in football and we’ve with Porto in 2004. New Orleans 25 32 .439 5-1/2 beat Hamilton by 22 seconds for the Hamilton damaged his front wing in just got to do our job and see what Disgruntlement over his tactics Houston 15 42 .263 15-1/2 everyone else does.” Arsenal, which and methods have resurfaced in re- Northwest Division 11th win of his career. that incident but was running a com- W L Pct GB Verstappen almost threw victory fortable second until he slid off the were briefl y allowed 2,000 spectators cent months, with Tottenham slip- Utah 42 15 .737 - away as he nearly lost control of his track, through the gravel and into the in December, might be glad not to have ping out of the Champions League Denver 36 20 .643 5-1/2 car during the restart after the red fl ag Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of wall on lap 31. The British driver man- a disillusioned fan base at the Emirates places and getting eliminated from Portland 32 24 .571 9-1/2 the Europa League in the round of 16 Oklahoma City 20 37 .351 22 but recovered and gradually pulled The Netherlands leads Mercedes aged to return to the track eventually Stadium to show their discontent dur- Minnesota 15 43 .259 27-1/2 away from the fi eld out front. driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain but had dropped to ninth. ing a miserable season. after a surprising 3-0 loss at Dinamo Pacific Division Hamilton, who won the season- during the Emilia Romagna For- A short time later, Bottas and Wil- It took a goal in the seventh minute Zagreb. W L Pct GB opening Bahrain GP last month, mula One Grand Prix, at the Imola liams driver George Russell were of stoppage time from Arsenal substi- Tottenham are five points behind Phoenix 40 16 .714 - racetrack, Italy. (AP) LA Clippers 40 19 .678 1-1/2 showed all his skills to make his way involved in a crash and the race was tute Eddie Nketiah to rescue a 1-1 draw fourth-place West Ham, which occupy LA Lakers 35 22 .614 5-1/2 back up the fi eld after falling as far race. red-flagged on lap 34 with debris on Sunday against a Fulham side fi ght- the final Champions League qualifica- Golden State 28 29 .491 12-1/2 back as ninth following the incident The 36-year-old Hamilton is still from their cars scattered across the ing relegation, tapping in a rebound to tion place. The club have won only one Sacramento 23 34 .404 17-1/2 just before the halfway point of the ahead of Verstappen in the standings track. cancel out Josh Maja’s penalty. of their last five games.

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