Leicester Pile More Misery on Chelsea Dortmund Paid the Price in the 80Th When Wirtz Scored After Meunier Lost the Ball
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ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2021 SPORTS 14 Spezia reach qtrs Dortmund lose to Leverkusen BERLIN, Jan 20, (AP): Teenager Florian Wirtz scored for Bayer Leverkusen in a 2-1 win which dealt Borussia Dortmund its latest Bundesliga setback on Tuesday. Dortmund, which was held 1-1 at home by lowly Mainz, slumped to their second defeat in six games under new coach Edin Terzić. It was a lackluster display from Dortmund, which only threatened briefly in the second half and was fortunate not to concede more with Moussa Diaby missing sev- eral good chances after he opened the scoring. The unhurried Nadiem Amiri played a cross-field pass that Diaby con- trolled with his first touch and swept past Dortmund ’keeper Roman Bürki with his next in the 14th minute. Wirtz Diaby contin- ued to cause problems after the break before Dortmund’s first real chance in the 54th. Marco Reus almost set up Erling Haaland but the 17-year-old Wirtz managed to clear. Thomas Meunier missed an- other good chance for the visitors before Julian Brandt equalized Boca Juniors’ players hold the trophy and their medals as they celebrate winning Argentina’s soccer female league championship after defeating River 7-0, at Jose Amalfi tani Stadium in against his former team in the Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan 19. (AP) 67th when Raphaël Guerreiro laid the ball off for him to fire inside the far corner. Brandt almost scored again a minute later, but Edmond Tap- soba cleared off the line. Leicester pile more misery on Chelsea Dortmund paid the price in the 80th when Wirtz scored after Meunier lost the ball. It fell to Patrik Schick and he combined Antonio scores winning goal as West Ham beat West Brom with Diaby, who crossed for the unmarked Wirtz to unleash an un- LONDON, Jan 20, (AP): Lampard said. “Because the expec- than that. Bromwich Albion. of seventh. stoppable shot past Bürki for his “There was a period after lock- fourth Bundesliga goal. Five years after achieving tations at this club, whether they are As it stands, West Ham are head- His winner against Burnley on right or wrong, are always high. ing into the second half of theirPre- Saturday came on his first league down when he was very fit and the unthinkable, Leicester “It’s not my decision (about wheth- mier League campaign with just one start since recovering from a ham- look at the goals he scored then,” SOCCER are making another improb- er he’ll stay as manager). That’s senior striker. string problem, the latest fitness Moyes said. “We are looking to get able run at the title with 2-0 something that will always be there.” Fortunately for manager David issue to affect an injury-prone player him back to his level of fitness but Goals from Sebastian Rudy win over Chelsea. Lampard’s side dropped to eighth Moyes, that striker is in-form Michail who was one of the league’s best he is certainly back to his level of and two from Andrej Kramaric For big-spending Chelsea and place Antonio. players after lockdown last summer. goals.” gave Hoffenheim a 3-0 win at “Yeah, I’m worried,” Lampard Antonio scored a match-winning If Moyes can keep Antonio fit - West Ham sold their other senior Hertha Berlin that will increase their under-pressure manager, striker, Sebastien Haller, to Ajax this the pressure on coach Bruno Lab- Frank Lampard, any ambitions of said. “From the form we were in to goal for the second time in four days, and that’s always a big if - it isn’t too month. badia. Hertha had hopes this sea- winning the league already appear get so quickly into the form that we his 66th-minute volley earning West fanciful to see West Ham remaining West Brom stayed in next-to-last son of challenging for European to be dashed. are now in ... we should be better Ham a 2-1 victory over West in the vicinity of its current position place, five points from safety. qualification but it has dropped to Leicester are showing they mean Southampton set up a fourth- 14th in the 18-team division with business again. Just like in the 2015- round match at home to Arsenal in only one win in its last seven 16 season, when the team managed the FA Cup after beating third-tier games. by Claudio Ranieri famously deliv- Wolfsburg moved fifth with a Shrewsbury 2-0. ered one of the biggest underdogs Goals by Dan N’Lundulu, one of 2-0 win at Mainz, and Borussia triumphs in sporting history to win Mönchengladbach rode their luck the many fringe players who started to beat Werder Bremen 1-0. Nico the league at odds of 5,000-1. for Southampton, and James Ward- Elvedi’s header was enough for Leicester manager Brendan Prowse guided the Saints to victory Gladbach. Rodgers said it was “still too early” at its St. Mary’s Stadium. ❑ ❑ ❑ to talk about his team as a title con- tender. Spezia advanced to the quarter- “We’re at the top of the league SOCCER finals of the Italian Cup with a 4-2 because we work hard, we’re not win against nine-man Roma after there by fluke,” said James Maddison, extra time. The third-round game was rear- Former Roma winger Daniele who scored Leicester’s second goal. ranged from the start of this month Verde and Riccardo Saponara “We’ll do our business in the back- following a coronavirus outbreak in scored in extra time for Spezia, ground, let them talk about Liverpool, the Shrewsbury squad. Its manager, which next play Napoli. Man United and Spurs, we’ll just Steve Cotterill, watched the game The match changed two min- keep doing what we’re doing.” from the hospital as he recovers utes into extra time as Roma de- Wilfred Ndidi and Maddison from COVID-19. fender Gianluca Mancini and scored in the first half as Leicester With a fair wind behind him, a goalkeeper Pau López were sent extended its unbeaten run in the goalkeeper scored direct from a goal off within 30 seconds of each oth- league to six games, the last three all kick in a fourth-tier match. er, in separate incidents. being wins. Newport County ’keeper Tom Mancini was dismissed follow- Chelsea was carved open time and King booted the ball into ing a second yellow card while again at the King Power Stadium Cheltenham’s half, then saw it take a López received a straight red for and fell to a fifth loss in its last eight clattering into Spezia forward Ro- huge bounce and loop over the head berto Piccoli. games in the league, a run of results of scrambling Cheltenham goalie Spezia had been 2-0 up after 15 that leaves Lampard’s position pre- Josh Griffiths and into the net. minutes, following Andrey Gal- carious after the club’s spending Newport’s social media team was abinov’s penalty and Saponara’s spree of approaching $300 million West Bromwich Albion’s Dara O’Shea, (left), challenges for the ball with West Ham’s Said Banrahma during an caught out by the feat of King, who first goal of the night. ahead of this season. English Premier League soccer match between West Ham and West Bromwich Albion at the London Stadium was making just his third appearance “It intensified for me a while ago,” in London, England, on Jan 19. ( AP) in the league..