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Mainz 05’s Moussa Niakhate, (left), in action with Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham during the Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and FSV Mainz 05 in Dortmund, Germany, Jan 16. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Antonio scores on return, West Ham beat Burnley West Brom edge Wolves for 1st EPL win under Allardyce WOLVERHAMPTON, England, Jan 16, (AP): West Bromwich Albion collected only their second win in the Peterhansel wins Dakar Rally 30 yrs after first victory Premier League - and fi rst under new JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Jan 16, (AP): Stephane Peter- 55 and still buzzed by competing and winning. manager Sam Allardyce - as two pen- hansel managed Nasser Al-Attiyah on the last stage to “It’s still the same emotion for the 14th victory,” he Leipzig denied alties by Matheus Pereira helped to win the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, 30 years after he said. “There are no easy victories on the Dakar. This one earn a 3-2 victory over Wolverhamp- fi rst won the world’s toughest rally. from the outside maybe looked easy, but it was not easy ton on Saturday. Peterhansel took a handy 15-minute lead into the 12th every day to manage the small gap over Nasser. There Allardyce was unable to call upon two and fi nal stage from Yanbu, and stuck close to Al-Atti- was a lot of pressure on the body. We felt every day that key players - goalkeeper Sam Johnstone we had everything to lose.” and winger Matt Phillips - after they con- yah, who gained only 40 seconds overall on the 200-ki- top spot again tracted the coronavirus, but West Brom lometer (125-mile) special south to Jeddah, where the He led the race from stage two. From that day he was still managed to boost its survival hopes race began on Jan 3. off the podium in a stage only once (a fourth), and paid with its fi rst win since beating Sheffi eld tribute to the navigation skills of his new co-pilot Ed- United on Nov. 28. ouard Boulanger, another former motorbike race in the Dortmund rue missed penalty RALLYING Dakar. The closest Al-Attiyah got to Peterhansel overall in SOCCER The victory was the 14th for the Frenchman dubbed the second week was fi ve minutes on Monday. He was BERLIN, Jan 16, (AP): The visitors almost grabbed another “Mr Dakar.” It was his record-extending eighth in a car, undone by 16 punctures. The three-time champion from Borussia Dortmund cap- shortly afterward when Alexander Pereira slotted home his fi rst penalty on a third different continent. They follow his record six Qatar was runner-up for a fi fth time and more disap- Hack struck the crossbar with a header. in the fourth minute after Callum Rob- victories on a motorbike, the fi rst in 1991 when the race pointed than last year, when his Toyota also split the tain Marco Reus missed a The 16-year-old Youssoufa Mouko- inson was tripped at the edge of the used to start in Paris and fi nish in Dakar, Senegal. He’s Minis of Peterhansel and Carlos Sainz. penalty in a 1-1 draw with ko had just gone on for Dortmund and penalty area, but Wolves fought back he played a decisive role for his side’s lowly Mainz while Leipzig to lead at halftime thanks to goals by West Ham have missed the mobility last four league games, keeping three for his seventh goal of the season. equalizer in the 73rd, keeping the ball Fabio Silva in the 38th and Willy Boly again missed the chance in play before sending in a cross that and presence up front of Antonio, who straight clean sheets in the process, Burn- Brighton halted a 10-game winless in the 43rd. was sidelined before Christmas with ley have lost three of their last four games run in all competitions. The last tri- to move to the top of the was cleared by Mainz defender Phil- Center half Semi Ajayi scored for lipp Mwene - only as far as Meunier, a hamstring injury and has been eased and dropped to fourth-to-last place, one umph was on Nov. 21 at Aston Villa. Bundesliga on Saturday. the third time since Allardyce arrived back into action by manager David It was a successful return to El- who fi red back in to equalize. a month ago after a header following above the relegation zone. Leipzig, which were denied top Meunier was then fouled in the Moyes given his importance to the team. Scoring is their biggest problem - Sean land Road for Brighton’s Ben White, a long throw-in in the 52nd minute, He came on as a substitute against South- who helped Leeds win promotion to spot in losing to Dortmund 3-1 last penalty area by Hack, giving Reus and Pereira regained the lead for West Dyche’s team have just nine goals in 17 a chance to score from the spot. The ampton and Everton over the festive pe- games, tied for the fewest in the league the top-fl ight during a loan spell last weekend, could manage only 2-2 Brom four minutes later from a penalty riod, and played in the win over Rochdale season. His former club slipped to a at Wolfsburg and they remain a Dortmund captain sent his kick outside again won by Robinson. with last-placed Sheffi eld United. Rel- of the left post. in the FA Cup on Monday. egation is a distinct possibility for the third straight loss for the fi rst time in point behind league leaders Bay- West Brom remained in next-to-last Moyes has few other alternatives 12 months. It could have been worse for Reus’ place, but moved in sight of safety. northwest club, which became the latest ern Munich. Bayern host Freiburg team as Mainz captain Danny Latza hit for the striker role, especially with Se- league team to be owned by Americans Marcelo Bielsa’s side were bidding on Sunday. the post late on. Dortmund remained West Ham 1, Burnley 0 bastien Haller recently leaving to join when ALK Capital’s sports investment to bounce back from last week’s em- Dortmund were looking for their fourth, four points behind Bayern, Michail Antonio scored in his fi rst Ajax in the Netherlands, so keeping arm, Velocity Sports Partners, bought an barrassing FA Cup defeat at fourth-tier fourth win in fi ve league games under which have a game in hand. English Premier League start for West Antonio fi t is particularly important if 84% stake in December. Crawley and sorely missed suspended new coach Edin Terzić but were frus- Ham since November in a 1-0 win over West Ham are to fi nish in the top half midfi elder Kalvin Philiips. trated by a committed performance Burnley . of the standings. Brighton 1, Leeds 0 Leeds rarely got close to producing from Mainz in Bo Svensson’s second SOCCER Antonio side-footed home from Burnley thought they equalized be- Brighton notched their fi rst English the form which has won the team so game in charge. close range in the ninth minute after fore halftime when a cross by Chris Premier League win in nearly two many admirers since their return to the The draw was enough for Mainz to Substitute Cedric Teuchert scored a left-wing cross from Pablo Fornals Wood was turned into his own net by months thanks to Neal Maupay’s fi rst- Premier League. move off the bottom on goal difference late for Union Berlin to stun third- fl icked off the top of Burnley defender West Ham defender Aaron Cresswell, half goal in a 1-0 victory at Leeds. Rodrigo was inches away from con- from Schalke, which visit Eintracht placed Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 . Ben Mee’s head and into the path of but the goal was disallowed because The French striker applied the fi n- verting Ezgjan Alioski’s low cross, Frankfurt on Sunday. Teuchert came on for the injured the West Ham forward, who was free Wood was offside in the buildup. ishing touch at the far post following a however, and Mateusz Klich blazed Dortmund got off to a fi ne start with Sheraldo Becker midway through the at the back post. While West Ham are unbeaten in their fl owing team move in the 17th minute off target after neat buildup play. Erling Haaland fi ring inside the left fi rst half and missed chances before post in the second minute. But the goal fi nally beating Leverkusen goalkeeper was ruled out through VAR as Thomas Lukas Hradecky in the 88th minute af- Meunier was offside in the buildup. ter a brilliant through ball from Chris- Jude Bellingham struck the post topher Lenz. toward the end of the half and it was “A few good counterattacks before as close as Dortmund came to scoring we eventually get the goal. An amaz- before the break. ing win,” Union forward Marcus In- Mainz defended doggedly and took gvartsen said. its chance in the 57th when Levin Öz- The game ended on a sour note, tunali eluded Mats Hummels with a however, with Leverkusen midfi elder back-heel trick and let fl y from 20 me- Nadiem angrily approaching Union ters inside the top right corner. midfi elder Florian Hübner and point- ing his fi nger in his face. Union coach Urs Fischer attempted to console the furious Nadiem. Leverkusen defender Jonathan Tah told broadcaster DAZN that Nadiem was abused by an opponent who used a racial- ly charged term referring to the Germany midfi elder’s Afghan background. “It doesn’t belong on the football pitch, no matter how emotional things get,” Tah said. “It’s the most bitter part of the evening. I hope there are conse- quences.” Fischer said he missed the alleged incident. “I heard there were words on the pitch that have no place on the pitch,” Fischer said. “I heard from both sides that words were exchanged be- tween two sides.” Leverkusen dominated possession but lacked effi ciency and slumped to their third defeat in four games. Peter Bosz’s team had been unbeaten before Leipzig’s Nordi Mukiele celebrates losing at home to Bayern Munich 2-1 after he scored his side’s first goal on Dec 19 and they haven’t won since. during the German Bundesliga soc- Union are surprising many in their cer match between Vfl Wolfsburg second Bundesliga season, a season and RB Leipzig in Wolfsburg, Ger- in which they had been expected to be West Bromwich Albion’s Robert Snodgrass, (right), challenges Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Adama Traore during the English Premier League soccer many, Jan 16. (AP) fi ghting relegation. match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion at the Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton, England, Jan 16. (AP) Umpires call off play without ball being bowled in evening session Japan minister says ‘anything’ Lyon strikes in 100th Test to dismiss India’s Sharma can happen with Tokyo Games TOKYO, Jan 16, (AP): Japanese across the country. Japan has han- BRISBANE, Australia, Jan 16, (AP): a catch into the outfi eld to Mitchell enced Indian bowling attack kept the when Paine chased an outswinger and cabinet minister Taro Kono has dled the coronavirus better than most Nathan Lyon was in the thick of action in Starc, who ran in from long-on and tourists in the contest despite missing was caught at second slip by Sharma. said “anything can happen” in countries and has attributed about his 100th Test, dismissing dangerous In- took a sliding catch. pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah and Sundar bowled Green out in the next regard to the postponed Tokyo 4,000 deaths of COVID-19. dia opener Rohit Sharma in his third over Pujara was not out 8 from 49 deliver- leading spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. over with an off-break delivery that Olympics, raising more doubts The Olympics are to open on on Saturday after playing a late cameo ies and India’s stand-in captain Ajinkya Australia resumed Saturday at 274- turned the other way, straightened and about the games scheduled to be- July 23 followed by the Paralym- with the bat for Australia. Rahane was 2 at the interval as clouds 5 and the innings were steadily build- beat the edge. gin in just over six months. pics on Aug. 24. India was 62-2 at tea on day two of loomed over the Gabba. They didn’t re- ing in a 98-run partnership between When Thakur trapped Cummins lbw Kono’s In a statement, Tokyo organiz- the series-deciding match at the Gabba turn to the fi eld, and play was scheduled skipper Tim Paine (50) and allrounder with a full ball hitting around ankle statements ers did not address Kano’s com- in reply to Australia’s 369. Heavy rain to start a half-hour early on Sunday. Cameron Green (47) until India snared height, the Australians were in danger contradict ments but said that Prime Minister during the break soaked the outfi eld The series is tied 1-1 and India three wickets for four runs in 14 deliv- of an embarrassing batting collapse. the offi cial Yoshihide Suga “expressed his and, after two pitch inspections, um- needs only a draw to retain the Border- eries to slump to 315-8. But a 39-run ninth-wicket stand govern- determination to hold the games.” pires called off play without a ball be- Gavaskar trophy. But the inexperi- Thakur got the big breakthrough, between Lyon and Starc staved that ment posi- ing bowled in the evening session. off and helped Australia pass the 350 tion and that India’s injury-depleted attack did mark before Sundar struck again close of the local OLYMPICS exceptionally well to dismiss Austra- to lunch. organizing lia by lunch on the second day, with Lyon, whose cameo innings grew in committee. “The situation surrounding CO- Thangarasu Natarajan (3-78) and confi dence when he pulled Thakur be- They have VID-19 is changing every moment,” Washington Sundar (3-89) each tak- hind square for a boundary and drove both said re- the statement said. “We expect that ing three wickets on debut and Shardul the next ball straight down the ground peatedly the Kono the series of measures being imple- Thakur returning 3-94. for another four, was dismissed for 24 games will take place and will be mented by the government of Japan, from 22 deliveries when he attempted “safe and secure.” the Tokyo Metropolitan Govern- a sweep to a straight ball from Sundar Kono opened the door to a pos- ment and other prefectural authori- CRICKET that rattled his stumps. sible cancellation. He also gave ties will help improve the situation.” Starc fi nished unbeaten on 20 when more credence to recent poll re- Kono suggested few fans were Pat Cummins took the fi rst wicket fellow paceman Hazlewood was out sults that show about 80% in Ja- likely to be attending with the focus for Australia with his second ball of for 11. pan think the Olympics shouldn’t on 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic the match, with Shubman Gill (7) The fi rst session followed a similar happen, or will not happen. athletes who must enter Japan. They fending forward and edging to second rhythm to the opening day, when Aus- “I should say anything is pos- will be accompanied by tens of thou- slip, where Steve Smith took a sharp tralian batsmen made starts but didn’t sible,” Kono said. sands of offi cials, judges, volunteers, chance. go on with it. Kono is the former defense min- media, and broadcasters. Opener Sharma (44) and No. 3 Marnus Labuschagne (108) shared ister and is now the minister for ad- “We need to think about those Cheteshwar Pujara combined to move partnerships of 70 with Steve Smith (36) ministrative and regulatory reform. people who come and watch, but the total from 11 to 60 and were start- and 113 with Matthew Wade (45) to “It could go either way,” he we basically need to focus on the ing to get on top of the Australian pace build the innings after Australia won the added. athletes fi rst,” he said. “And then bowlers before Lyon struck. India’s Cheteshwar Pujara plays at the ball bowled by Australia’s Pat Cum- toss, batted and slipped early to 17-2. Much of Japan is under an emer- if it’s possible, we need to get the Sharma tried to take on the veteran mins during play on day two of the fourth cricket Test between India and The Australians added 37 on Satur- gency order with new cases rising tourists in.” off-spinner but miscued and skied Australia at the Gabba, Brisbane, Australia, Jan 16. (AP) day before India hit back.

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