SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2013 SPORTS

Soccer results/standings Arsenal sink Liverpool

English results 1 AFC Wimbledon 2. Fulham 1 (Kacaniklic 65) Manchester United 3 results Arsenal 2 (Valencia 9, Van Persie 20, Rooney 22); Hull 1 3rd rd Albion 1 Deveronvale 0; Alloa 3 Inverurie (Cuellar 25-og) Sunderland 0; Manchester City 7 Loco Works 0; Arbroath 0 Brechin 2; Ayr 3 Queen’s (Johnson 16-og, Silva 20, Nastasic 25, Negredo 36, Park 2; Clyde 2 Brora Rangers 1; Culter 1 Berwick 1; Toure 60, Aguero 71, Dzeko 86) Norwich Dumbarton 2 Cowdenbeath 1; Elgin 3 Dunfermline Liverpool 0 0;Newcastle 2 (Gouffran 68, Remy 89) Chelsea 0; 5; Forfar 2 East Fife 1; Fraserburgh 2 Montrose 1; Stoke 1 (Begovic 1) Southampton 1 (Rodriguez 42); Queen of the South 1 Hamilton 0; Stenhousemuir 2 West Brom 2 (Berahino 45, McAuley 83) Crystal Annan Athletic 2; Stranraer 2 Auchinleck Talbot 2; Palace 0; West Ham 0 Aston Villa 0; Arsenal 2 Turriff United 0 Stirling 3. LONDON: Arsenal moved five points clear at (Cazorla 19, Ramsey 59) Liverpool 0. the top of the Premier League thanks to a 2-0 victory over Liverpool at the Playing today Playing today in yesterday’s late fixture. East Stirling v Raith Santi Cazorla and Aaron Ramsey were the Everton v Tottenham, Cardiff v Swansea. scorers on a day when Liverpool would have Scottish Premiership results gone top had they won. Brendan Rodgers’s visi- results Celtic 1 (Mulgrew 90) Dundee Utd 1 (Armstrong tors now find themselves back in third place, Championship 38); Hearts 0 St Johnstone 2 (Hasselbaink 29, May having briefly been in second on goal difference Birmingham 0 Charlton 1; Blackburn 1 53); Inverness CT 2 (Doran 7, Shinnie 52) earlier in the day after Chelsea lost at Newcastle Middlesbrough 0; Bournemouth 0 Bolton 2; Kilmarnock 1 (Barr 76); St Mirren v Ross County, United. Doncaster 1 Brighton 3; Leeds 2 Yeovil 0; Millwall 2 That made it the most important domestic match abandoned in the 87th minute due to a 2; Nottingham Forest 0 Blackpool 1; QPR 2 fixture for both sides so far this season, with waterlogged pitch with St Mirren leading 2-0. Derby 1; Sheffield Wednesday 5 Reading 2; Watford Arsenal now facing Borussia Dortmund in the 0 Leicester 3; Wigan 2 Huddersfield 1. Champions League on Wednesday before trav- Playing today elling to Manchester United next Sunday. Motherwell v Hibernian The game was also given extra spice by LONDON: Arsenal’s Laurent Koscielny fights for the ball with Liverpool’s Luis Su·rez, during Division One Arsenal’s pursuit of Luis Suarez over the sum- their English Premier League soccer match, at the Emirates Stadium. —AP Bristol City 1 Oldham 1; Coventry 3 Notts County 0; Playing tomorrow mer, when the Gunners lodged a bid of Crawley 0 Brentford 1; Crewe 0 Bradford 0; £40,000,001 ($63.7 million, 47.2 million euros) in ting the rebound. as he managed to get in behind the Arsenal Aberdeen v Partick Gillingham 1 Carlisle 0; Milton Keynes Dons 1 the mistaken belief that it would trigger a Liverpool were aggrieved when Henderson defence three times in quick succession, but to Walsall 0; Peterborough 1 Leyton Orient 3; Preston release clause in the Liverpool striker’s contract. put the ball in the net after Suarez had played a no avail. 1 Tranmere 1; Rotherham 2 Colchester 2; German League results Liverpool held on doggedly to a player who free-kick to Daniel Sturridge, only for referee Olivier Giroud should have made it 2-0 after Martin Atkinson to rule that it had been taken intercepting Toure’s poor pass to Martin Skrtel, Shrewsbury 2 Sheffield Utd 0; Swindon 5 Port Vale Nuremberg 0 SC Freiburg 3 (Klaus 57, Darida 79, was serving a 10-match ban for biting Chelsea’s too quickly. but the striker chipped into the side-net- 2; Wolves 2 Stevenage 0. Mehmedi 88); Hoffenheim 1 (Sch¸le 34) Bayern Branislav Ivanovic in April and he went into this Munich 2 (Mandzukic 39, Mueller 75); Hamburg 0 game having scored six goals in five matches. A yellow card for Sagna for the initial foul did ting with only Mignolet to beat. not appease the visitors and although Szczesny Arsenal did not let up, however, and were Moenchengladbach 2 (Kruse 23, 63); Eintracht The game began at a frantic pace and Tomas Division Two denied Kolo Toure from the retaken free-kick, rewarded with a goal from Ramsey in the 59th Braunschweig 1 (Kumbela 81) Bayer Leverkusen 0; Rosicky forced Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Accrington 1 Wycombe 1; Burton 0 Morecambe 1; Mignolet into an early save. the flag was up anyway. minute, with the Wales midfielder finding the Hertha Berlin 0 Schalke 04 2 (Szalai 26, Draxler Bury 1 Torquay 3; Cheltenham 2 York 2; There was quickly a chance at the other end Liverpool’s 3-5-2 formation had left them net from 20 yards with a swerving effort after Chesterfield 1 Scunthorpe 1; Fleetwood 4 90+4); Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Wolfsburg for , who robbed Cazorla and exposed down the flanks at times, but Jon demonstrating superior technique to set him- Newport 1; Hartlepool 2 Dagenham and was allowed to reach the penalty area before Flanagan-making his first Premier League self up from Mesut Ozil’s pass. Redbridge 1; Oxford 0 Bristol Rovers 1; Plymouth 1 Playing today scuffing a weak effort at goalkeeper Wojciech appearance since April 2012 had been more Suarez almost pulled one back, but saw his Northampton 0; Portsmouth 3 Exeter 2; Rochdale FC Augsburg v Mainz 05; Werder Bremen v Hanover. Szczesny. impressive on the right than on effort graze the far post. Another chance came Arsenal’s reply was to take the lead in the the other side. Suarez’s way late on as Arsenal switched off, but English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals 19th minute through Cazorla. The Spain mid- Rodgers changed that at half-time, with the Uruguay forward fired across goal and wide, against, points): fielder was first to Bacary Sagna’s cross from the Philippe Coutinho replacing Cissokho. It and the hosts saw out the final few minutes Arsenal 10 8 1 1 22 9 25 Wycombe 14 6 3 5 20 17 21 right and headed against the post before net- pepped Liverpool up, and Suarez in particular, with no further alarm.—AFP Chelsea 10 6 2 2 16 8 20 Hartlepool 15 6 3 6 19 17 21 Liverpool 10 6 2 2 17 10 20 Mansfield 15 5 6 4 15 15 21 Baggies see off Man City 10 6 1 3 28 11 19 AFC Wimbledon15 6 3 6 17 19 21 Southampton 10 5 4 1 11 4 19 Portsmouth 14 5 5 4 23 22 20 struggling Palace Tottenham 9 6 1 2 9 5 19 Plymouth 15 5 3 7 10 15 18 BIRMINGHAM: Saido Everton 9 5 3 1 14 10 18 Cheltenham 15 4 5 6 21 27 17 Man Utd 10 5 2 3 17 13 17 Berahino came off the York 15 4 4 7 21 24 16 bench to inspire West West Brom 2 Newcastle 10 4 2 4 14 16 14 Bristol Rovers 15 3 5 7 12 18 14 Bromwich Albion to a 2- Hull 10 4 2 4 8 10 14 Torquay 15 3 5 7 17 25 14 0 win over struggling West Brom 10 3 4 3 10 10 13 Bury 15 3 4 8 16 20 13 Crystal Palace yester- Crystal Palace 0 Swansea 9 3 2 4 12 11 11 Accrington 15 2 5 8 12 22 11 day. Berahino replaced Aston Villa 10 3 2 5 9 12 11 Northampton 15 2 4 9 13 22 10 the injured Billy Jones West Ham 10 2 4 4 8 8 10 Scottish Premiership table after 31 minutes at the Fulham 10 3 1 6 10 15 10 Hawthorns and the Celtic 11 8 3 0 23 10 27 Stoke 10 2 3 5 7 11 9 Burundi-born England Inverness CT 11 7 1 3 18 11 22 Cardiff 9 2 3 4 8 13 9 Under-21 striker opened the scoring just before half-time. Aberdeen 11 6 2 3 14 8 20 Norwich 10 2 2 6 6 20 8 It was Berahino’s sixth goal of the season in all competi- Motherwell 11 6 1 4 13 14 19 tions and the 20-year-old’s second in the Premier League fol- Sunderland 10 1 1 8 7 22 4 St Johnstone 12 5 3 4 19 13 18 lowing his strike at Manchester United in September. Crystal Palace 10 1 0 9 6 21 3 Dundee Utd 12 4 5 3 17 9 17 Gareth McAuley bagged the second goal for Albion in the English Football League tables Hibernian 11 4 3 4 9 11 15 closing stages as ’s team won for the third time in Championship Partick 11 3 4 4 11 13 13 the league this season. Palace, still managerless following Ian Burnley 14 10 3 1 26 9 33 Holloway’s departure, remain bottom of the table after their Ross County 10 3 1 6 11 19 10 Leicester 14 10 2 2 24 13 32 seventh successive defeat and their ninth loss in 10 league Kilmarnock 12 2 3 7 13 18 9 QPR 14 9 4 1 16 7 31 matches this season. The visitors had threatened first when St Mirren 10 2 2 6 9 20 8 Blackpool 14 7 6 1 17 11 27 Adlene Guedioura collected the ball from Marouane Hearts 12 2 2 8 7 18 -7 Reading 14 6 5 3 22 17 23 Chamakh’s flick-on and cracked a shot inside the box that Nottingham 14 6 5 3 21 16 23 Note: Hearts deducted 15 points for entering Boaz Myhill managed to parry at his near post. But Guedioura then collided with Myhill moments later Watford 14 6 4 4 25 18 22 administration German League table and appeared to take a knee to the chest. Leeds 14 6 2 6 18 16 20 Having been down for some time receiving treatment, the Blackburn 14 5 4 5 20 16 19 Bayern Munich11 9 2 0 24 7 29 LONDON: Stoke City’s Glen Whelan (left) and Southampton’s battle Algeria international was carried from the pitch on a stretcher, Wigan 13 5 4 4 16 12 19 Dortmund 11 9 1 1 31 9 28 for the ball during the English Premier League match at the Britannia Stadium. —AP with replacing him. Around 10 minutes later Derby 14 5 4 5 26 23 19 Bayer Leverkusen11 8 1 2 22 11 25 Albion were forced into an early substitution of their own as Brighton 14 4 6 4 15 14 18 Moenchengladbach11 6 1 4 25 15 Jones, nursing an apparent hamstring problem, came off for Ipswich 14 4 5 5 20 18 17 19 Goalkeeper scores Berahino. And it was the substitute who broke the deadlock in Huddersfield 14 4 5 5 18 16 17 Schalke 04 11 5 2 4 20 22 17 the 44th minute. Collecting the ball from Chris Brunt on the Bournemouth 14 5 2 7 20 29 17 Hertha Berlin 11 4 3 4 17 14 15 in Stoke draw left, Stephane Sessegnon found the space to drift into the Middlesbrough14 3 6 5 23 22 15 VfL Wolfsburg 10 5 0 5 14 12 15 Palace box and provided a cutback for Berahino, who took one touch with his right foot before finishing with his left. Charlton 13 3 5 5 10 14 14 Hoffenheim 11 3 4 4 26 25 13 Southampton tamely conceded possession Palace tried to hit back in the second half and after Myhill Millwall 14 3 5 6 17 28 14 VfB Stuttgart 11 3 4 4 21 20 13 from kick-off. Begovic launched the ball Stoke 1 pushed a deflected Puncheon shot behind, Mile Jedinak con- Bolton 14 2 7 5 13 20 13 Hanover 10 4 1 5 12 16 13 downfield from a position roughly level with the penalty spot and after Southampton’s nected with Jerome Thomas’ corner but sent his header nar- Doncaster 13 3 3 7 12 23 12 Mainz 05 10 4 1 5 15 21 13 centre-backs allowed it to bounce, it sudden- rowly wide. At the other end, Dean Moxey made a superb last- Sheffield 13 1 8 4 17 20 11 Hamburg 11 3 3 5 23 24 12 ly picked up pace, looping over Boruc and ditch tackle to take the ball away from , who had Birmingham 14 3 2 9 14 21 11 Werder Bremen10 3 3 4 9 15 12 Southampton 1 rolling into the net. The goal came almost looked set to score following good work from Berahino, Barnsley 14 2 4 8 16 31 10 Eintracht 10 2 4 4 13 18 10 four years since Maynor Figueroa found the before Brunt steered an effort just wide. West Brom’s second goal finally arrived in the 83rd minute when defender Yeovil 14 2 3 9 9 21 9 FC Augsburg 10 3 1 6 11 19 10 net with a free-kick from the halfway line McAuley crashed in Brunt’s cross. —AFP Division One SC Freiburg 11 1 5 5 12 21 8 while playing against Stoke for Wigan Leyton Orient 15 12 2 1 36 12 38 Nuremberg 11 0 7 4 11 22 7 STOKE-ON-TRENT: Stoke City goalkeeper Athletic. Southampton seemed stunned by the goal, but they gradually regained their Wolves 14 11 2 1 27 8 35 Braunschweig 11 2 1 8 8 23 7 Asmir Begovic scored one of the most pecu- Hull defeat Peterborough 15 10 2 3 25 12 32 liar goals in Premier League history yesterday composure and drew level three minutes Preston 15 7 6 2 23 16 27 as his side drew 1-1 with Southampton. before half-time. Brentford 15 8 3 4 20 17 27 There were just 13 seconds on the clock at James Ward-Prowse’s sweeping cross from Sunderland the Britannia Stadium when the Bosnian’s the right picked out Rodriguez and he gave Bradford 15 6 5 4 24 14 23 Matches on TV clearance from inside his own area was car- Begovic a taste of his own medicine with a LONDON: Hull main- Swindon 15 7 2 6 29 20 23 ried by the wind to the edge of the downward header that thudded into the turf tained their unbeaten Keynes Dons 15 6 4 5 24 20 22 (Local Timings) Southampton area before bouncing over before billowing over the Stoke goalkeeper home record yesterday Hull 1 Walsall 15 6 4 5 17 15 22 opposite number Artur Boruc. and into the net. with a dire 1-0 win over Rotherham 15 5 6 4 21 22 21 Everton v Tottenham 16:30 It made him only the fifth goalkeeper to The visitors continued to press in the sec- a Sunderland side that Coventry 15 9 3 3 34 22 20 Aljazeera Sport 1 HD score in the English top flight since the ond period, with Ward-Prowse bending a played the whole of the Cardiff City v Swansea City 19:00 Port Vale 15 6 2 7 21 24 20 Premier League was launched in 1992, but free-kick onto the roof of the net. Stoke had second-half with nine Sunderland 0 Aljazeera Sport 1 HD Crawley Town 14 5 4 5 18 20 19 ’s 42nd-minute equaliser pre- chances to win it, however, with Boruc men. A first-half own Colchester 15 3 8 4 15 20 17 vented Begovic from being the match-win- thwarting Marko Arnautovic on two occa- goal by Carlos Cuellar Italian Calcio League was all Hull had to show Shrewsbury 15 3 7 5 15 16 16 ner. Despite dropping points for only the sec- sions and substitute Oussama Assaido shoot- Livorno Calcio v Atalanta 14:30 ond time since mid-September, Southampton ing wide. Begovic produced a brilliant save to for a two man advan- Oldham 15 4 3 8 19 23 15 Aljazeera Sport 3 HD continue to fly high in fifth place, while Stoke deny Gaston Ramirez at the death, but tage but manager will not complain as victory Gillingham 15 4 3 8 18 24 15 Sampdoria v Sassuolo Calcio 17:00 climbed one place to 16th. Regardless of the although the flag was up for offside, he had sees them in 10th spot on 14 points, six above the relegation Carlisle 14 4 3 7 13 25 15 Aljazeera Sport +1 outcome, the day is destined to be remem- already done enough to claim a share of the zone. Bruce’s former club Sunderland, though, remain mired Stevenage 15 4 2 9 15 23 14 Udinesea Calcio v Internazionale17:00 bered for Begovic’s goal, which came after headlines. —AFP in the bottom three with just four points after 10 matches. Tranmere 15 3 4 8 15 29 13 Aljazeera Sport 3 HD Hull may have been unbeaten at home this season but Crewe 15 3 4 8 12 31 13 Lazio v Genoa 17:00 goals have been scarce with just three in their previous four Aljazeera Sport +2 Sheffield Utd 15 3 3 9 13 2312 West Ham avoid more misfortune matches, and their fourth didn’t come from one of their own Hellas Verona v Calcio 17:00 Bristol City 14 1 7 6 21 27 10 Jaaskelainen’s quick reflexes. The back to full fit- players but one of the visitors. The offender was Cuellar as the Aljazeera Sport +2 ness Belgian striker had another live opportuni- Spanish defender headed into his own net under pressure Notts County 15 3 1 11 17 29 10 Torino v AS Roma 22:45 West Ham 0 ty to break the deadlock, his 71st minute head- from Yannick Sagbo in the 25th minute. Note: Coventry deducted 10 points for entering Aljazeera Sport 3 HD er smacking the underside of the West Ham Sunderland suffered another blow later in the first-half as administration goalkeeper Kieren Westwood had to go off after suffering a Division Two Spanish League crossbar. An entertaining first half produced few real chances and it was largely a case of more of neck injury and was replaced by former Arsenal ‘keeper Vito Fleetwood Town15 9 1 5 26 16 28 Sevilla v Celta de Vigo 0:00 Aston Villa 0 the same after the break. The Hammers had two Mannone. A dreadful first-half for the visitors was rounded off Aljazeera Sport +4 Oxford Utd 15 7 5 3 23 13 26 lukewarm chances early in the second half, in spectacular style with two red cards. First hardman central Getafe v Valencia 14:00 Chesterfield 15 7 5 3 21 14 26 Ravel Morrison’s shot blocked by Villa defender midfielder Lee Cattermole was sent off by referee Andre Aljazeera Sport 2 HD Rochdale 15 8 2 5 23 19 26 , then Kevin Nolan fired high. Marriner for a dreadful foul on former team-mate Ahmed Atletico de Madrid v Bilbao 19:00 LONDON: West Ham avoided a fourth consecu- Elmohamady. He was almost immediately followed by Andrea Morecambe 15 7 4 4 22 20 25 Lambert was forced into a change of personnel Aljazeera Sport 2 HD tive home defeat with a goalless draw against Dossena, whose foul on another former Sunderland man Exeter 15 7 3 5 20 17 24 when limped off with a ham- Levante v Granada 21:00 Aston Villa at Upton Park yesterday. The stale- David Meyler was if anything even worse than Cattermole’s string injury, Czech Republic striker Libor Kozak Burton Albion 15 7 3 5 20 18 24 Aljazeera Sport 4 HD mate means ’s Villa have now foul. Hull, though, were incapable of taking advantage of coming on in his place. The result pushed West Scunthorpe 15 6 6 3 17 17 24 Malaga v Real Betis 23:00 gone six hours without scoring in the Premier Sunderland’s woes with Elmohamady, and for- Ham, who have already claimed the scalp of Southend 15 7 2 6 18 14 23 Aljazeera Sport 2 HD League. mer Spurs player Jake Livermore all having chances to add to Tottenham this season, up a place into 14th place, Newport County15 6 5 4 22 19 23 Villa arguably came the closest to nicking the lead. Their inability to finish off the Black Cats almost cost one point behind Villa whose last win was back in Redbridge 15 6 5 4 22 20 23 three points when ’s late effort them dearly and had ‘keeper Steve Harper to thank for a blind- September against Manchester City. —AFP was denied by West Ham keeper Jussi ing save from Adam Johnson.—AFP