SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2015 SPORTS Mane’s late strike adds to QPR misery start and Graziano Pelle’s long-range strike brought QPR goalkeeper Rob Green into QPR 0 action for the first time in the fifth minute. Green almost gifted Saints the lead when he needlessly rushed off his line after Victor Wanyama sent Mane through, Southampton 1 but the Senegal winger’s chip drifted wide of the far post. There was a serious blow for Saints when Matt Targett was stretchered off LONDON: QPR suffered a dispiriting start with his neck in a brace following lengthy to the post-Harry Redknapp era as Sadio treatment after the left-back was injured Mane’s last-gasp goal gave Southampton going for a high ball with Matt Phillips. a 1-0 win at Loftus Road yesterday. Southampton went close when After seven games without a win and Portuguese defender Jose Fonte hit the four successive defeats, a frustrated bar with a volley from a corner, while Redknapp quit in midweek following Eljero Elia took a painful kick in the groin QPR’s failure to strengthen his squad in from QPR’s Richard Dunne as the burly the transfer window. defender tried to hack clear. Mane was Former Tottenham manager Tim harshly ruled offside when he would have Sherwood has been strongly linked with been clean through early in the second the job, but it was Chris Ramsey who took half and at the other end QPR defender charge on a caretaker basis against Armand Traore headed into the side-net- Southampton. ting as the hosts finally showed signs of Ramsey coaxed a battling display from life. his team, but Mane’s stoppage-time strike QPR were pressing harder and Phillips condemned the west Londoners to a frus- picked out Mauro Zarate at the far post, trating loss that leaves them second from but the substiute’s shot was straight at bottom of the Premier League. Saints goalkeeper Fraser Forster. Southampton climbed up to third place Charlie Austin almost broke the dead- after a victory was the perfect response to lock in the 73rd minute when he diverted Tottenham’s win over Arsenal earlier in the Joey Barton’s shot goalward from close day, which had temporarily knocked them range but Forster pushed the ball over. out of the top four. It was Southampton who stole the At the start of what may prove a brief points deep into stoppage time when reign, Ramsey recalled Moroccan forward Mane wriggled around Steven Caulker and Adel Taarabt, who had fallen out with drilled his shot into the top corner. LONDON: Tottenham’s Harry Kane (second right) heads the ball to score his side’s second goal during the English Premier League soccer match Redknapp over his fitness, and also There was time for more late drama as against Arsenal. —AP brought in Steven Caulker, Armand Traore QPR had the ball in the net before the final and Matt Phillips. whistle blew, but a linesman’s flag ruled But Ronald Koeman’s made a bright out the goal. —AFP Kane the bane of Arsenal Korean key to with derby double The Togolese forward’s absence increased the United forward remonstrated with the Spurs Swans draw pressure on top scorer Kane, but the in-form left-back as the pair headed down the tunnel at Tottenham 2 striker was inches away from opening the scor- half-time. ing in the fifth minute. Their running feud continued in the second ping in to plant a diving header past A quick break saw Kane curl a 20-yard shot half and Welbeck strayed close to being sent off Pantilimon with just under 25 minutes towards goal and only the fingertips of Arsenal after a clumsy push sent Rose sprawling. Swansea 1 remaining. —AFP Arsenal 1 goalkeeper David Ospina kept it out. Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla forced Hugo The atmosphere was red hot on a freezing Lloris into a low save early in the second half, but day in the English capital, but White Hart Lane the hosts drew level in the 56th minute and was stunned into silence when Ozil drew first Arsenal could have no complaints. Sunderland 1 Matches on TV LONDON: Harry Kane scored twice as blood in the 11th minute. Danny Welbeck, back Erik Lamela’s corner saw Mousa Dembele’s (Local Timings) Tottenham Hotspur claimed the north London after injury, stormed down the right and header palmed up, but not away, by Ospina and bragging rights by storming from behind to sink although Olivier Giroud mishit his shot, the ball the lurking Kane mopped up the rebound at the Arsenal 2-1 in the Premier League yesterday. flew to the unmarked Ozil, who coolly volleyed back post. SWANSEA: South Korean Ki Sung-yueng’s English Premier League Kane’s headed 86th-minute winner took home. Tottenham were thundering into tackles, but second-half header secured Swansea a 1-1 Burnley v Bromwich 15:00 Spurs above their arch rivals in the race for The early setback did not deter a Spurs side they needed to keep their concentration and draw against Sunderland, where he spent last beIN SPORTS 1 HD Champions League football as Arsenal paid the who were intent on testing Ospina, who two lapses obliged Lloris to bail them out. season on loan, in a lively Premier League beIN SPORTS 11 HD price for failing to build on Mesut Ozil’s early appeared to be struggling with a finger injury Welbeck’s curling effort looked to be heading encounter at the Liberty Stadium yesterday. opener. picked up in making the save from Kane. inside the far post before the Frenchman inter- Newcastle v Stoke City 17:05 Ki, who was playing his first game since Kane rewarded the home side’s persistence Danny Rose twice drilled efforts across his vened with a brilliant flying save. From the returning from the Asian Cup where Korea beIN SPORTS 11 HD when he equalised early in the second half and goalmouth, before Ospina was forced into resulting corner, Laurent Koscielny should have lost to Australia in the final, had a goal ruled West Ham v Man United 19:15 the darling of White Hart Lane continued the another save on the half-hour mark. Per done better than head straight at Lloris after out in the first half but made no mistake with beIN SPORTS 1 HD fine form of his breakthrough season by repeat- Mertesacker played his side into trouble and being left unmarked on the penalty spot. his second opportunity after Jermain Defoe beIN SPORTS 11 HD ing the feat late on. Ryan Mason saw his 25-yard shot turned around But it was Tottenham who were in the ascen- had scored his second goal in as many The 21-year-old’s match-winning brace, the post by the busy Colombian. dancy, with Ospina keeping out efforts from Premier League games for the visitors. African Nations Cup which came after he scored twice in a 5-3 rout of Tottenham did not deserve to be trailing, but Kane and Nabil Bentaleb as the home side The draw, Sunderland’s 12th this season, Chelsea, left Spurs a point above Arsenal in the they were facing a stubborn Arsenal side who pushed for all three points. leaves Swansea comfortable in ninth while Ivory Coast v Ghana 22:00 table with 14 matches of the season remaining. had gone over six hours without conceding a In a rare foray forward, Giroud headed Ozil’s the Black Cats are just four points above the beIN SPORTS 6 HD Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino opted to goal. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s biggest cross wide, which summed up the striker’s after- relegation places. leave out former Arsenal striker Emmanuel worry was ensuring a fired-up Welbeck noon. It looked to to be the final act until Kane It means Sunderland are still without a win Spanish League Adebayor, who might have been in danger of remained on the pitch. Having received a yellow rose to power a glorious header past Ospina at Swansea since a second tier game the day being jeered by both sets of supporters. card for a foul on Rose, the former Manchester from Bentaleb’s deep left-wing cross.—AFP after US President John F Kennedy was assas- Cordoba v Almeria 14:00 sinated in November 1963. beIN SPORTS 2 HD French striker Bafetimbi Gomis, who has Getafe v Sevilla 19:00 the onerous responsibility of replacing beIN SPORTS 2 HD Everton deny Gerrard victorious final derby Manchester City-bound Wilfried Bony, had beIN SPORTS 14 HD Swansea’s best early chance, firing in a fierce The home side did have James beIN SPORTS 2 HD effort which curled just wide. Jordi Gomez McCarthy back for the first time since missed a chance for Sunderland shortly after- Espanyol v Valencia 21:00 Everton 0 Christmas following hamstring trouble wards but it was Gomis again who nearly beIN SPORTS 9 HD and the midfielder was instrumental in broke the deadlock after a neat dummy by beIN SPORTS 14 HD trying to drive Everton forward in Mo Barrow teed him up but former beIN SPORTS 2 HD response. Seamus Coleman and Kevin Liverpool 0 Mirallas were also productive down Manchester City goalkeeper Costel Bilbao v Barcelona 23:00 Pantilimon did well to prevent the ex-Lyon Everton’s right flank and from one striker from scoring. Swansea eventually got beIN SPORTS 2 HD Coleman cross, Steven Naismith should the ball into the net, Ki beating Pantilimon, beIN SPORTS 13 HD have done better than head the ball only for it to be ruled out for offside and their beIN SPORTS 1 HD LIVERPOOL: Liverpool extended their tamely into the ground.