15 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2019 sports Germany crush Estonia

before kick-off when in-form Ilkay Gundogan winger Serge Gnabry, who • scored in Wednesday’s 2-2 double rescues friendly draw with Argentina Germany in Estonia in Dortmund, was pulled from after Can sees red the starting line-up with a leg injury. Gundogan scored Can then quickly added to • Loew’s woes against the group’s a brace while Timo bottom side with the earliest red Werner netted once card ever shown to a Germany Gareth Bale of Wales attempts a shot on goal as Luka Modric of Croatia for Germany international. attempts to block Playing out of position at centre-back, the Juventus mid- AFP | Tallinn fielder was sent off for lunging Bale on target as Wales’ into a tackle, as the last man, on lkay Gundogan scored two Estonia forward Frank Liivak. Euro hopes on knife-edge second-half goals to help It was the first straight red I10-man Germany claim a card of Can’s career. AFP | Cardiff now a deciding one for us,” he 3-0 win away to lowly Estonia Nevertheless, Germany had added ahead of hosting Slova- in Sunday’s Euro 2020 qualifier the best first-half chance when areth Bale claimed a point kia on November 16. despite the early dismissal of Marco Reus curled his free-kick Gfor Wales as they drew 1-1 The first chance of the match Emre Can. over the wall but against the with World Cup runners-up fell to Josip Brekalo but the Germany won 8-0 when the woodwork. Croatia on Sunday which left Croatia left-back’s effort from sides met in Mainz last June, Ilkay Guendogan of Germany runs with the ball Gundogan broke the deadlock their Euro 2020 qualifying outside the box went wide. but the visitors got into trouble early in the second half when hopes on a knife-edge. Dalic’s outfit took the lead when Can was sent off after just “I don’t think it was a bad per- 2020. his shot clipped Reus’s boot Bale, who has had a difficult on just nine minutes. 14 minutes in Tallinn for a foul formance. It was a question of Both Can and Gundogan, and beat the Estonia goalkeeper start to the season at Real Ma- Brekalo broke down the left as the last man. time before the goals came and who both have Turkish roots, from 20 metres out. drid, scored during first-half flank, found Bruno Petkovic After a goalless first half, at some point we cracked them.” caused a stir before kick-off Six minutes later, after an ex- injury time after Nikola Vla- inside the box who laid off the Manchester City The Germans stay second in after they both deleted Insta- change of passes between Reus sic’s opener for Zlatko Dalic’s ball to Vlasic, who smoothly Gundogan struck twice before the table but moved level on gram ‘likes’ of a photograph and winger Julian Brandt, Gun- men. beat goalkeeper Wayne Hen- replacement striker Timo Wer- 15 points with Group C leaders showing Turkey footballers dogan’s shot on the edge of the “We need to win our next nessey. ner added a third to keep Ger- the Netherlands, who beat Be- performing a military salute, a area again took a deflection to two games, and that’s all we’re Wales’ first shot on target many on course to qualify for larus 2-1 in Minsk earlier in the gesture seen as supporting their make it 2-0. concentrating on. It won’t be came shortly afterwards with next year’s finals. day. country’s military offensive in Werner, on for Freiburg strik- easy but we’re capable of it,” Bale testing Dominik Livak- “After a quarter of an hour Wins next month for Joachim Syria. er Luca Waldschmidt, made it said Wales coach Ryan Giggs ovic with a half-volley. we were down to 10 men, so Loew’s side against Belarus in Both UEFA and the German 3-0 on 71 minutes when a Gun- whose side Hennessey everything was more difficult Moenchengladbach and North- Football Association have said dogan pass picked out the RB now face a trip then made up and we had to adjust,” said Ger- ern Ireland in Frankfurt will they will look into the incident. Leipzig striker, who fired home to Azerbaijan for failing to many captain Manuel Neuer. ensure Germany a place at Euro Germany were dealt a blow across the goal. before hosting stop Vlasic’s ef- Hungary in No- We need to win our fort on 13 min- vember. next two games, utes when he He added: and that’s all we’re dived down low “When Gareth concentrating on. to stop an Ivan Brave sets up opportunity for more fighters gets in those It won’t be easy but Perisic shot. positions he we’re capable of it On the quar- AFP | Sydney November 15th, as part of the unable to cut all the hundreds selection process. Four of them never lets you ter-hour mark, RYAN GIGGS BRAVE International Combat of fighters and make a list of will make up the semifinals, and down, just the Manchester RAVE Combat Federation Week, the largest combat sports only ten athletes. There was one will serve as an alternate in composure, not United’s Dan- Band KHK MMA will give more festival in Asia. too much talent involved, so case of an injury. many chances iel James, who fighters a chance to participate The committee, assembled to they decided to leave 15 names, Brazil, Lebanon, Russia, Can- but when he does get them he threatened without much final in the inaugural KHK World determine the top-10 fighters and we’ll draw them out and see ada, Netherlands, Denmark, puts them away.” product throughout, suffered Championship. from the hundreds of athletes, what are the matchups. I under- United States, Switzerland, Dalic, who led his country what looked like a concussion. The one-night, four-men, decided to award 15 fighters stand them, as I would definite- Belgium, Iran, and the Domini- to the World Cup final in Rus- The former Swansea winger open weight tournament will with the chance to participate ly have a hard time making the can Republic are all represented sia last year, said their only competed with grant the winner a US$ 100,000 in the historical tournament. same choice. I’m very excited to in the draw, which highlights remaining match of the cam- for a high ball and the Welsh- check, plus the right to be called This was due to the quality of find out who will be coming to the global aspect of the KHK paign is crucial for their hopes man finished motionless on the first-ever holder of the KHK the contestants, which has been the Kingdom of Bahrain to fight World Championship, and re- of reaching the finals. the ground. He received med- World Championship belt, a 6.2 “overwhelming”, according to for the inaugural KHK World affirming BRAVE Combat Fed- “We started well, scored a ical treatment and Giggs said kg of gold belt, the most prestig- BRAVE CF president Mohammed Championships”, said Shahid. eration’s place as the only truly goal but didn’t continue in the afterwards he had no worries ious prize in sports. The grand Shahid. The 15 names will advance global MMA organization in the same way,” Dalic said. about James. prix will take place on BRAVE 29, “Our special committee was to the next and final step of the world. “We’re not very happy with “He stayed down, he was the result. Our last game is smart, he was fine,” Giggs said. Gauff salutes Federer’s words of wisdom

AFP | Linz, Austria which this year saw her reach playing in Luxembourg,” said “I’ve accomplished all of those the last 16 at Wimbledon and US Gauff whose rise has been me- goals this year, now I need to oco Gauff hailed Roger Open third round. teoric -- at the end of 2018, she work on improving my game. CFederer for his words of “He did give me some advice was 686 in the world. “I’ve gone through what was wisdom as the 15-year-old US at the Australian Open in 2018 “I’m excited, it will be my last supposed to be my timeline for prodigy on Sunday became the when I lost in the first round event for the year. I’m playing the next two years. It’s been cra- youngest champion on the WTA (after being amongst the favour- doubles there also (with regular zy.” Tour since 2004. ites),” Gauff recalled. partner Caty McNally). “I didn’t expect to be on the Gauff defeated 2017 Roland “He told me not to focus too “This is the opportunity to see Tour in general right now,” the Garros winner Jelena Ostapenko much on the pressure or the out- how I perform at back-to-back 2018 French Open junior cham- 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 in the Linz final for side drama. He gave me some tournaments.” pion said. her maiden title. perspective. Gauff’s career timetable has Gauff, coached by her fa - The teenager is managed “Now, I try to enjoy the tennis suddenly shifted into overdrive, ther, said she expects to start by Federer’s Team8 and even and I barely think of that fist- with her breakthrough WTA tro- gaining confidence as she gets shares an Italian pasta sponsor round loss two years later.” phy coming much more quickly more accustomed to the WTA with the 20-time major winner. Gauff, meanwhile, confirmed than might have been expected. circuit. On Sunday, she revealed that a she is “100 percent” ready to “My goal was the top 100 and “I’m new to the Tour and I’ve pep-talk by the Swiss superstar, play at this week’s Luxembourg Coco Gauff celebrates victory over Jelena Ostapenko in the Linz final to get into the main draw of at not faced a lot of the players. I’m after she suffered a heartbreak- WTA event where she will enjoy least one Grand Slam,” said the sure the more matches I play the ing defeat in the first round of a career-high ranking inside the 110 in the world and was origi- qualifying rounds before grab- player, who has now earned a more confident I’ll get, along the 2018 Australian Open junior top 70. nally set for an early departure bing a lifeline as a lucky loser. main draw spot for January’s with the more experience I’ll event, has helped her on a path She started the week in Linz at from Austria after losing in the “For sure, I’m 100 percent Australian Open. have.”