ARAB TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021 16 In this Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 fi le photo, FC ’s goalkeeper Marc Andre ter Stegen exercises during a training session at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in Sant Joan Despi, Spain. Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen ruled him- self out of Euro 2020 on Monday, May 17, 2021 in favor of medical treatment on his knee. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com

Santa Clara players pose for photos following their shootout victory over Florida State at the NCAA College Cup championship soccer match in Cary, N.C. Santa Clara won 4-1 in shootout. (AP) Bruins edge Capitals to even series Staal, Niederreiter lift Hurricanes past Predators

WASHINGTON, May 18, (AP): All Brad Marchand Bologna rescue draw at Verona had to show for the fi rst 60 minutes of Monday night’s game was two penalties for Bournemouth, Swansea hold post-whistle antics. He needed less than a minute to make up for it. leads in Champ’ship playoffs Marchand scored 39 seconds into overtime and the Boston Bruins rallied LONDON, May 18, (AP): Bourne- The impact is so high that River to beat the Washington Capitals 4-3 mouth and Swansea will take Plate have none of their four eli- Monday night, tying the East Division 1-0 leads into the second legs of gible goalkeepers fi t for Wednes- fi rst-round playoff series at a game the Championship playoffs as day’s Copa Libertadores match apiece. they seek a return to the Premier against Colombia’s Santa Fé. After a hard-fought victory in which League. River Plate issued a statement Marchand played a signifi cant role, Bournemouth beat Brentford at saying Lucas Beltrán, Flabian the Bruins will almost certainly take home thanks to a by Dutch Londoño Bedoya, Gonzalo Mon- the good and the bad of their leading winger Arnaut Danjuma in a tiel, Leonardo Ponzio and Alex scorer who likes to get under the skin match played in front of a crowd Vigo were the latest to test positive of his opponents. of around 2,000 fans . for the virus. Marchand ripping a one-timer past Hours later, Swansea won away The other 15 cases were re- Craig Anderson to send the series back in their fi rst leg against Barnsley, vealed on Saturday ahead of the to Boston tied will be remembered far with Andre Ayew scoring the only superclasico against Boca Juniors more than him jabbing Capitals de- goal. in the quarter- The second legs are on Saturday. fi nals of the The playoff fi nal will be staged at Argentinian Wembley Stadium on May 29. league cup. Boca won on fenseman Brenden Dillon below the SOCCER penalties af- belt at the end of a scrum in the fi rst ter a 1-1 draw period or slashing Anthony Mantha left wing Jordan Martinook (48) pursues as Nashville Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis (4) in regulation when they got into it in the second. But controls the puck during the second period in Game 1 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup fi rst-round playoff series in Bournemouth are looking to time. those won’t be forgotten, and could Raleigh, NC. (AP) clinch an immediate return to the CONME- have derailed him. top fl ight. Swansea were relegated BOL, which The Bruins are at their best when from the Premier League in 2018. governs Marchand is toeing that line and also Norwich and Watford secured Ayew South Ameri- producing. So it was Patrice Hodgson, 73, stepping down as Palace manager automatic promotion from the can soccer, Bergeron’s job to grab him, reel him Championship. allows clubs to have squads of in and get Marchand re-focused on the LONDON, May 18, (AP): Roy Hodgson, the Premier Hodgson joined Palace, the team he supported as a child, ❑ ❑ ❑ up to 50 players. River Plate now League’s oldest manager at 73, is leaving his role at Crystal in September 2017 for his fi rst job since ending his spell have 32 available, including sev- task at hand. It worked, and Boston Rodrigo Palacio equalized in the doesn’t want Marchand any other way. Palace at the end of the season after four years at the club. as England coach. The south London club was in last place eral youth team players. Hodgson did not disclose what the next step in his career in the league at the time after losing all four of its opening 82nd minute to give Bologna a 2-2 Argentinian media reported This series has helped the NHL play- draw at Verona in a game between offs get off to a roaring start with fi ve would be, but said Tuesday he is ready to stop being a “full- games that season under Frank de Boer, but Hodgson man- the club will ask CONMEBOL to two midtable teams in Serie A. postpone the match. consecutive one-goal games, including time manager.” aged to keep Palace in England’s lucrative top division and Palacio met a cross at the far four reaching overtime. The Capitals “After more than 45 years of coaching, I have decided again in the following three seasons. River Plate are second in the post with an outstretched leg to Copa Libertadores Group D with and Bruins are certainly no strangers to that the time is right for me to step away from the rigors “His record with us simply cannot be overstated,” Palace rescue a point with his fi fth goal of it. They’ve now played nine consecu- six points from four matches, two of top-fl ight Premier League football,” the much-traveled chairman Steve Parish said. “He is the only Palace manager the season. behind leaders Fluminense of Bra- tive one-goal games in the postseason Hodgson said. to secure four years in the Premier League and he has helped Verona had taken the lead in just Junior de dating to their 2012 series. zil. Colombian clubs The former England coach’s last game in charge of Pal- give us stability in the most turbulent of times. the second minute when the ball Barranquilla are on three points Game 3 is Wednesday night in Bos- ace, which is safe from relegation, will be against Liverpool “We will be forever grateful for his immense contribution.” fell to Davide Faraoni in the box Santa Fé ton. and are on two. — one of his many old clubs — at Anfi eld on Sunday. Hodgson is one of the world’s most respected coaches, after a corner and he slotted home ❑ ❑ ❑ The Bruins were less than three min- “I have had so much support from my wife and family having worked at clubs in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Den- with his fi rst touch. Lorenzo De utes away from pure desperation mode throughout my career and I have been contemplating this mark and Norway along with Liverpool, Blackburn, Fulham Silvestri made it 1-1 in the 32nd If Harry Kane does want to in the series. decision for some time,” Hodgson said, “and now I believe and West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League. by turning a low cross in from leave Tottenham, he hasn’t told Two penalties early in the third pe- the time is right to consider them and to see what the future He has also coached the national teams of Switzerland, the close range before Nikola Kalinic his manager. riod took Boston out of rhythm as Gar- holds for me.” United Arab Emirates and Finland. restored Verona’s lead in the 53rd. Sky Sports, one of the Premier net Hathaway scored his second of the Kalinic met a cross from the left League’s major rights holders, re- game to give Washington the lead with ported that Kane has asked to be at 18:13 for Carolina. Teuvo Teravain- line blast from MacKinnon. Cale Ma- with a deft volleyed fl ick from a 12:56 left. Anderson – who made 38 tight angle at the near post for his sold after becoming unhappy with consecutive saves after allowing two en also scored a fi rst-period goal. Alex kar got things started for the Presidents’ the lack of progress at the club. Nedeljkovic got the start in net and fi n- Trophy-winning Avalanche with a 40th career Serie A goal. goals on the fi rst fi ve Bruins shots – Neither team had much to play That’s news to interim Totten- was a rock until Taylor Hall whacked ished with 22 saves. power-play goal in the fi rst period. ham manager Ryan Mason. Carolina fi nished with a 38-24 ad- Game 2 is Wednesday. for with Verona in 10th place, a loose puck past him with 2:49 left in three points ahead of 11th-place Asked whether the England regulation. vantage in shots on goal in a game with Jordan Kyrou scored his fi rst post- captain has asked to leave, Mason plenty of chippy moments and chesty season goal for a Blues team missing Bologna ahead of this weekend’s Hurricanes 5, Predators 2 fi nal round. said on Tuesday: “No, not that I’m exchanges between the teams. leading scorer David Perron, who’s out aware of.” In Raleigh, N.C., Jordan Staal scored Filip Forsberg and Erik Haula due to the NHL’s virus protocols. ❑ ❑ ❑ twice and Nino Niederreiter beat Juuse “All of my conversations with scored for the Predators. Saros fi nished Colorado kept Jordan Binnington Saros for the go-ahead goal early in Five more footballers at River Harry have been about the game,” the third period, helping the Carolina with 33 saves. busy through the fi rst two periods, out- Plate have tested positive for added Mason, speaking ahead of Hurricanes to a 5-2 win over the Nash- The Hurricanes host Game 2 on shooting the Blues by a 32-16 margin. COVID-19, lifting the powerful Tottenham’s league match against ville Predators in the fi rst game of the Wednesday night before the best-of- They fi nally were able to solve him in Argentine club’s total to 20 cases Aston Villa. “All these conversa- teams’ fi rst-round playoff series. seven series shifts west to Nashville in the third with MacKinnon leading the within the squad. tions, I am not so sure. I don’t know.” Niederreiter hammered the puck neighboring Tennessee. way. past Saros from between the circles PNC Arena was rowdy again after Binnington fi nished with 46 saves. at 2:26 of the third, fi nishing a perfect the state loosened COVID-19 proto- MacKinnon showed no signs of cols regarding public gatherings and rust after missing four of the last fi ve pass from Martin Necas only moments St. Louis Blues left wing Sammy after Saros had made a terrifi c stop on physical distancing earlier this week. games with a lower-body injury. His The Hurricanes welcomed a loud, Blais, front, knocks over Colorado three-point night gives the speedy for- Vincent Trocheck. Avalanche center Nathan MacKin- That broke a 2-all tie as the Hurri- towel-waving crowd of about 12,000 non in the fi rst period of Game 1 of ward 22 goals and 35 assists in 41 ca- canes made their move with a strong for this one, roughly two-thirds full. The an NHL hockey Stanley Cup fi rst- reer playoff games. fi nal 20 minutes – not to mention a far team had roughly 5,000 fans attending round playoff series. (AP) His 1.39 points-per-game average is more physical stretch after the fi rst. home games to close the regular season. the fourth-highest in Stanley Cup playoff Staal illustrated that with his second Gov. Roy Cooper – a notable Hur- Avalanche 4 , Blues 1 history (minimum 25 games). He trails goal midway through the second, cre- ricanes fan who announced the pro- In Denver, Nathan MacKinnon scored only Wayne Gretzky (1.84), Mario Le- ated partly by his own pressure on the tocol changes – sounded the pregame the tiebreaking goal 30 seconds into the mieux (1.61) and Barry Pederson (1.53). forecheck. After Saros stopped a shot storm-warning siren for the Hurricanes third period and wrapped it up with an Grubauer was sensational all game. near the post from Warren Foegele, to take the ice. empty-netter, Philipp Grubauer stopped He’s coming off a regular season in Carolina’s captain gathered the loose Duke football coach David Cutcliffe 22 shots and the Colorado Avalanche which he won a career-best 30 games. puck and pushed it past Saros for a 4-2 and North Carolina State women’s beat the St Louis Blues 4-1 in Game 1 of Kyrou tied the game at 1-apiece Verona’s Mattia Zaccagni (below), and Bologna’s Takehiro Tomi- lead at the eight-minute mark. basketball coach Wes Moore sounded their fi rst-round playoff series. with 3:29 remaining in the second pe- yasu battle for the ball during the Italian Serie A soccer match be- Andrei Svechnikov added the the siren for the second and third pe- Gabriel Landeskog also added a riod. He beat Grubauer on a one-timer tween Hellas Verona and Bologna, in Verona, Italy. (AP) clinching empty-netter on a breakaway riods. third-period goal by tipping in a blue- to the stick side.

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