FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 3 TENNIS | Page 4 Ronaldo marks World No. 1 milestone, Muguruza in in-form Kane Wuhan Open fi res Spurs quarters Thursday, September 28, 2017 CRICKET Muharram 8, 1439 AH Moeen shines again GULF TIMES as England win series against West Indies SPORT Page 7 ASIAN INDOOR AND MARTIAL ARTS GAMES UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Qatar bowling team Rampant PSG rout sorry cap Ashgabat 2017 Bayern 3-0 Reuters taryan added a fourth in the second half Paris to give United a maximum six points from their opening two matches. with silver medal Konstantin Kuchaev grabbed a late aris Saint-Germain tore apart consolation for CSKA. Bayen Munich to win 3-0 in United, without fi rst-choice cen- Qatar has won 11 medals, including four gold, at the event the Champions League yes- tral midfi elders Paul Pogba, Marouane terday as the French club’s Fellaini and Michael Carrick, lead the Pexpensively-assembled attack made group by three points from CSKA and Agencies Ashgabat, Turkmenistan another devastating statement of their Basel. potency. Dani Alves, Edinson Cavani and HIGUAIN ON TARGET AS JUVE WIN atar bowling team snapped Neymar found the net, with Kylian Gonzalo Higuain came off the bench up a silver medal on the fi nal Mbappe also making his mark with two to open the scoring for Juventus and day of the Asian Indoor and assists, to put PSG top of Group B with Mario Mandzukic added a second as Martial Arts Games in Ash- a maximum six points. the Italian champions beat Olympiakos Qgabat, Turkmenistan, yesterday in the Bayern, who started with defend- 2-0 in their Group D clash. men’s Team of Four event. er Mats Hummels and wingers Ar- With Juve dominating possession Qatar had shocked favourites Korea jen Robben and Franck Ribery on the but failing to create many goal-scor- in the semis for a spot in yesterday’s bench, lacked pace up front and were ing opportunities, Argentine striker fi nale. However, yesterday, Chinese overwhelmed at the back despite a Higuain entered the fray on the hour Taipei took advantage of Qatar’s errors good spell in the middle of the fi rst half. mark and fi red home the rebound from to take the coveted men’s Team of Four The German champions are level his own shot nine minutes later to give title, its fi rst at an Asian Indoor and on three points with Celtic, who beat Juve the lead. Martial Arts Games. pointless Anderlecht 3-0 away. With Olympiakos seeking to score In an impressive performances by on the counter, Juventus spent much of Qatar athletes, LUKAKU DOUBLE LEADS MAN the game bombarding the Greek side’s Anchor bowler Wu Hao-Ming led UNITED TO 4-1 WIN penalty area with crosses, free kicks the charge in the 846-744 victory with Romelu Lukaku struck twice to lead and corners and Mandzukic went close seven strikes in a row for a 256. Manchester United to an emphatic 4-0 with a trio of headers before fi nally Tsai Ying-Hao said the team got away win over CSKA Moscow in Group bundling the ball home in the 80th charged up watching the Chinese Tai- A yesterday. minute. pei women win their bronze medal in The Belgian striker headed home Having lost their opening game the Team of Four on Tuesday. after four minutes and tapped in just 3-0 to Barcelona, the win puts Juven- “The women helped to motivate before the interval for his 10th goal of tus back on track and in third place in us,” said Tsai, who was competing at the season to put the English Premier Group D on three points behind Sport- his fi rst international Games. “Their League side 3-0 ahead at halftime. ing of Portugal on goal diff erence, while performance made us believe that we Anthony Martial had slotted home a two defeats in their opening two games could do it as well.” Qatar bowling team of Ghanim Mohamed Aboujassoum (left), Yousef Abdulrahman al-Jabir (second from left) Saoud penalty in between and Henrikh Mkhi- leave Olympiakos bottom. Qatar struggled during the fi nal Ahmad Abdulla and Jassim al-Muraikhi (right) pose with their silver medals on men’s Teams of Four podium at the Asian yesterday. Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, yesterday. (Laurel) However, Ghanim Mohamed Abou- jassoum was upbeat about the team’s overall performance. “A silver is a lot QATAR’S HAUL AT ASHGABAT for us,” said Aboujassoum, whose team GOLD (4) won Qatar’s fi rst medal since Macau Team: Men’s 3x3 Basketball 2007. Hamad Ali al-Attiyah: Jumping Individual “We have been preparing for (Equestrian) months. We were focusing on this Abdalelah Haroun: Men’s 400m (Athletics) tournament to get at least one medal Jamal Hairane: Men’s 800m (Athletics) and we have reached our goal. “It (the match) was not so tough, we SILVER (4) were out of check a little bit. So, be- Team: Men’s Snooker (Billiard Sports) cause of that we didn’t score. I think Team: Men’s Team of Four (Bowling) we learned from that situation for the Team: Men’s Jumping (Equestrian) next tournament.” Team: Men’s 4x400m Relay (Athletics) Talking about the lane conditions, he said, “A short oil pattern after a BRONZE (3) long aff ects things. It’s a little bit dif- Team: Men’s Rapid Chess ferent.” Rashid al-Mannai: Men’s Triple Jump The Republic of Korea won the (Athletics) women’s title over the Philippines, Ali Juma al-Araimi: Men’s -80kg Paris Saint-Germain’s Neymar (left) celebrates his goal with teammate Edinson 873-801, in a match that was closer (Taekwondo) Cavani during their UEFA Champions League match against Bayern Munich in than expected. Yousef Abdulrahman al-Jabir added 204 pins to Qatar’s score yesterday. Paris yesterday. (AFP) HORSE RACING Strong fi eld for Qatar Arabian trophies at Saint-Cloud Agencies Pouliches (Gr1 PA), the race for fi l- Goumoh (F. Rohaut) Paris lies to be run at the same course, no Meelad (A. Watrigant) horses were supplemented. Rajeh (F. Rohaut) Khalifa Hamad al-Attiyah’s Dja- Akoya (K. Van Den Bos) rance Galop registered prob- hab, who is trained by Qatari trainer El Zarka D.A. (J. Verstrepen) able runners and supple- Hadi al-Ramzani and has already won Shadda’ad (P. Sogorb) ments for the Qatar Total in France despite a heavy ground, has Somoud (A. Watrigant) FArabian Trophy des Poulains her objective cut out. Better known, (Gr1 PA) to be run at Saint-Cloud to- Joudh, who is owned by Yas Horse QATAR ARABIAN TROPHY DES morrow. Racing Management and trained by POULICHES (GR1 PA FOR There should be 12 colts running Frenchman Didier Guillemin, will also 3-YEAR-OLD FILLIES) for the title of this race this year. try to stay unbeaten after four straight Anouf (trained by T. Fourcy) Akoya, trained by Karen van den wins this year. Djahab (Hadi Al Ramzani) Bos, was supplemented into the race Easter de Faust (Mme J-F Bernard) but will be up against His Highness QATAR TOTAL ARABIAN TRO- Ajaayib (F. Rohaut) Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Tha- PHY DES POULAINS (GR1 PA FOR Al Ghashamiya (T. Fourcy) ni-owned Rajeh, who has been im- 3-YEAR-OLD COLTS) Al Naama (T. Fourcy) pressive and unbeaten in each of his Rodess du Loup (trained by C. Ashraq (J. Smart) two runs. The race will also welcome Gourdain) Siya (Mme J-F Bernard) Al Shaqab Racing’s Rijm, who has been Al Mah’Youb (T. Fourcy) Belqees (Mme J-F Bernard) placed second twice at the Gr1 level af- Monfarid (T. Fourcy) Herrmin (K. van den Bos) His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Thani-owned Rajeh ter winning on his debut in April. Rijm (T. Fourcy) Joudh (D. Guillemin) Khalifa Hamad al-Attiyah’s Djahab (left), who is trained by Hadi (left) will run in Qatar Total Arabian Trophy des Poulains. (Mr Polin) In the Qatar Arabian Trophy des Arghad (J. Smart) Najah (F. Sanchez) al-Ramzani, is entered in Qatar Arabian Trophy des Pouliches. Gulf Times 2 Thursday, September 28, 2017 FOOTBALL EUROPA LEAGUE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Roma grind out Wenger’s Arsenal 2-1 victory at battling Qarabag facing 2,000km trip tion after Lorenzo Pellegrini Reuters Baku drove the ball into the six-yard box. Dzeko made it 2-0 when he oals from Greek de- volleyed an angled shot off the fender Konstantinos underside of the bar past fel- Manolas and Bosnia low Bosnian Ibrahim Sehic from to face BATE Borisov striker Edin Dzeko eight metres, having chested Ghelped AS Roma to a 2-1 win down a looping pass by strike at Qarabag in an entertaining partner Stephan El Shaarawy. Everton host Apollon, who held French outfit Lyon to a 1-1 draw two weeks ago Champions League Group C Roma looked in complete con- clash yesterday. trol when Brazilian Henrique AFP The pair scored in the open- scored Qarabag’s fi rst goal in Eu- Paris ing 15 minutes in the Azeri rope’s elite competition, beating capital to give the Serie A side goalkeeper Alisson Becker with a two-goal lead but the visitors the outside of his foot after a fi ne rsenal manager Arsene Wenger endured a nervy second half af- pass by Dino Ndlovu. said he will fi eld a strong side ter Pedro Henrique pulled one Sehic produced a string of for today’s Europa League back in the 28th minute.