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Frankfurt’s Martin Hinteregger (left), and Dortmund’s Erling Haaland challenge for the ball during the German Bundes- liga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Ein- tracht Frankfurt in Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund rout Frankfurt 5-2. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Cádiz salvage draw against Levante PSG win, Nice dominate Lille Benzema stays hot as Real make winning start PARIS, Aug 15, (AP): Lionel Messi stood and smiled, look- MADRID, Aug 15, (AP): Karim Ben- Alavés pulled one back with a pen- with Madrid in his fi rst stint with the ing transfixed as Paris Saint- zema picked up from where he left off alty kick converted by Joselu Mato in club from 2013-15. Germain fans chanted the soccer last season, playing a decisive role for the 65th, and substitute Vinícius Júnior About 4,000 fans were at the Mendi- Marsch’s Leipzig loses great’s name - “Leo Messi, Leo Real Madrid once again. completed the scoring with a header zorroza Stadium as Spanish health au- Messi” - before 4-2 home win Benzema led Madrid in its Spanish two minutes into stoppage time. thorities allowed the league to restart against Strasbourg in the French league opener by scoring twice in the The result kept Madrid unbeaten in with crowds of up to 40% of the ven- league. team’s comfortable 4-1 win at Alavés. league openers since 2008. They went ues’ capacity. league debut at Mainz PSG’s latest signing joined “Benzema is more than just a without a title last season before Zi- It was Madrid’s fi rst of three straight four other recruits presented on striker, he is a very complete play- dane quit and Ancelotti was re-hired. away matches. The team’s fi rst home BERLIN, Aug 15, (AP): American depleted opponents, they were the field to some 49,000 fans at er,” said Carlo Ancelotti, who began The Italian coach had won four titles game is scheduled for September, coach Jesse Marsch’s Bundesliga soon disappointed, however. The Parc des Princes before kickoff. his second stint as Madrid coach. debut in charge of Leipzig ended home team attacked from the off Messi was not in the actual “He is a much more complete player Sunday in a shock 1-0 loss at and twice went close before Mous- squad for the game, which saw than when I coached him a few years Mainz, a team hit by coronavirus sa Niakhaté scored what proved to PSG coasting at 3-0 only to get ago.” Madrid also got a goal from infections. be the winner. pegged back to 3-2 until a late Nacho Fernández, one of the defend- Mainz coach Bo Svensson had Nordi Mukiele failed to clear and red card for Strasbourg eased the to field an inexperienced side with Niakhaté fired the ball into the net pressure. 11 players in quarantine after three from close range in the 13th minute. Icardi scored after three min- SOCCER tested positive for COVID-19 over Leipzig’s best chance came for utes, Kylian Mbappe found the the previous week. Three mem- Christopher Nkunku on a quick net with a heavily deflected shot ers stepping in to replace veteran bers of his coaching staff were also counterattack in the 19th, but the leading to an own-goal, and captain Sergio Ramos, who left after in quarantine. 20-year-old Niklas Tauer got back Mbappe’s deflected cross al- 16 seasons because the club didn’t If Leipzig’s players were ex- with a brilliant block to deny the lowed Germany midfielder Julian want to extend his contract. pecting an easy game against their French player. Draxler to make it 3-0 in the 27th Benzema, the team’s top player and minute. scoring leader last season under Zin- when they hope to have the fi eld of with a goal from José Luis Morales in Earlier, coach Christophe Galt- edine Zidane, put Madrid ahead with a the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium ready. the 39th. ier returned to Lille and punished shot from inside the area after a clever The venue is undergoing renovation Promoted Mallorca took the lead his old club as Nice won 4-0. backheel touch by Eden Hazard in the but will continue hosting matches against Real Betis with Brian Oliván Striker Kasper Dolberg and 48th minute. The France striker added while construction work goes on. scoring in the 25th but Juanmi Jiménez midfielder Hichem Boudaoui his second from close range in the Alfonso Espino scored seven min- equalized for the visitors in the 59th. scored inside the first four min- 62nd, six minutes after Fernández had Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema, (left), shoots to score his side’s third goal utes into second-half stoppage time Espanyol, which like Mallorca re- utes, with lively forward Amine found the net following a cross from during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Alaves and Real Madrid to salvage Cádiz a 1-1 draw against turned to the top fl ight after a one-year Gouiri involved in both. Luka Modric. at the Mendizorroza stadium in Vitoria, Spain. (AP) Levante. The visitors had gone ahead absence, drew 0-0 at Osasuna. Kane-less Tottenham upset City West Ham, Liverpool triumph
LONDON, Aug 15, (AP): score when his shot from a tight angle Son Heung-min made up was easily saved by Hugo Lloris in the 75th. for the absence of Harry Riyad Mahrez had City’s best Kane by scoring a second- chance of the game in the 35th when half winner to give Totten- he met a cross from Raheem Sterling but shot wide after failing to cleanly ham a 1-0 win over defend- connect with the ball. ing champions Manchester Son had already threatened on a City on Sunday in their couple of counters by the time he put Spurs ahead. The South Korea interna- opening game of the Pre- tional collected the ball down the right mier League season. flank, drove at defender Nathan Ake With Kane left out of Totten- and then cut inside to bend a low shot ham’s team altogether amid con- inside the far post. tinued speculation about a pending Steven Bergwijn had a great chance move to City, Son led the attack to double the lead on another counter- instead and showed that Spurs still attack just before the hour mark, but have a top-class scorer to count on. shot wide. Son finished off a quick counterat- Guardiola brought Kevin de Bruyne tack in the 55th minute and Tottenham off the bench in search of an equalizer effectively neutralized City’s many and the Belgian forced a save from attacking threats to give new manager Lloris with a dipping shot from dis- Nuno Espirito Santo a statement vic- tance in the 84th. tory on his debut. West Ham 4 , Newcastle 2 West Ham twice came from a goal down to start their Premier League SOCCER campaign with a 4-2 victory against Newcastle in a crowd-pleasing game Kane’s absence was the big pre- in front of a full St James’ Park. game talking point, although Nuno Callum Wilson put Newcastle ahead insisted the decision was made solely in just the fifth minute and the game because the England striker only continued at a furious pace until the returned to full training on Friday after final whistle, with West Ham scoring his holiday. three unanswered goals in 14 second- Kane has reportedly told Tottenham half minutes to get the win. he wants to leave, with City manager Aaron Cresswell scored the visitors’ Pep Guardiola previously acknowl- first equalizer in the 18th minute when edging that his club is “very interest- his teasing low ball drifted beyond the ed” in buying him. outstretched leg of Tomas Soucek and Based on this performance, City’s into the net. The goal was initially expensively assembled squad could flagged for offside, but stood after a use a finisher - especially after letting replay showed the ball had already Sergio Aguero leave on a free transfer crossed the line before Jarrod Bowen this summer. tapped it. City dominated possession but But Newcastle retook the lead five struggled to break down a disciplined minutes before the end of an entertain- Tottenham’s Oliver Skipp, (right), duels for the ball with Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan during the English Premier League soccer match between Tot- Tottenham side, which was content to ing first half as Jacob Murphy stooped tenham Hotspur and Manchester City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. (AP) sit back and wait for opportunities to to head home after Matt Ritchie’s counter. cross from the by-line had just evaded City’s record signing Jack Grealish the leaping Wilson. ‘We’re all united in deep mourning’ showed early flashes of his abilities - West Ham hit back again eight min- breaking forward in the opening min- utes after halftime, with Said utes to draw a free kick just outside the Benrahma getting between two area - but missed his best chance to defenders to head in at the back post following a cross from Michail Bayern and ex-Germany striker Müller dies Antonio, who did well to control a dif- ficult pass on the left. MUNICH, Aug 15, (AP): Gerd Mül- person and character of world foot- all time. Without him, FC Bayern and Antonio then saw a bullet header ler, the Bayern Munich and former ball,” Hainer said in a statement post- the German team would never have cannon off the bar and ricochet into West Germany forward known as “Der ed on the club’s website. “We’re all been able to take this successful path,” Murphy, who was adjudged to have Bomber” for his scoring-prowess, has united in deep mourning with his wife Bavarian state president Markus Söder brought down Pablo Fornals in the died. He was 75. Uschi as well as his family.” Bayern said. ”I myself was a big fan. All of area in an attempt to claim the loose The Bavarian club announced his announced in October 2015 that Mül- Bavaria is mourning.” The chief exec- ball. Goalkeeper Freddie Woodman death on Sunday, with club presi- ler had Alzheimer’s disease for “a utive of Bayern rivals Borussia Dort- guessed right to save Antonio’s pen- dent Herbert Hainer saying it was “a long time” and that he had been cared mund also paid his respect. alty low to his left, but Soucek was sad, dark day for FC Bayern and all for professionally with the support of “I had the great honor to get to first to the rebound and bundled in their fans.” Müller scored 566 goals his family since the beginning of Feb- know him personally as a very humble after 63 minutes. for Bayern between 1964 and 1979, ruary that year. and pleasant person. He was an out- It took only another three minutes helping the team to four German ti- Müller made 607 competitive ap- standing player for whom FC Bayern for West Ham to seize complete con- tles, four German Cup wins and three pearances for Bayern. He was the and the German soccer team owe so trol as Antonio finally got on the European Cup victories in that time. league’s top-scorer on seven occa- much.”Hans-Joachim Watzke said. scoresheet on the counter, getting the He still holds the record for the most sions. He was as important to Bay- Müller became a youth coach at ball on to his right foot and drilling goals scored in the Bundesliga with ern’s ascent to becoming Germany’s Bayern after his playing days, work- low into the corner beyond Woodman. 365, scored in 427 league games. Liverpool 3 , Norwich 0 powerhouse as former teammates In this Thursday, June 29, 2006 ing with players such as Philipp Lahm, “Gerd Müller was the greatest Franz Beckenbauer and Uli Hoeneß. Bastian Schweinsteiger and Thomas Mohamed Salah set up two goals striker there’s ever been, and a fi ne fi le photo former German soccer and scored himself for a fifth straight Müller’s record of 40 goals scored player Gerd Mueller presents the Müller. year in the opening round of the sea- in the 1971-72 Bundesliga season was Golden Boot Trophy to the media “His achievements are unrivaled to son to lead Liverpool to a 3-0 win at Substitute Roberto Firmino doubled only beaten last season, when current at the “adidas World of Football” in this day and will forever be a part of West Ham United’s Tomas Soucek Norwich . the advantage not long after coming on Bayern forward Robert Lewandowski Berlin. (AP) the great history of FC Bayern and all celebrates scoring his side’s third The hosts were in celebratory mood following a square ball from Salah, scored his 41st in the last minute of the of German football,” Bayern chairman goal of the game from a penalty re- who wrapped up an impressive first last game. together he scored 68 goals in 62 ap- Oliver Kahn added in the club state- ahead of kickoff after clinching the pearances for West Germany. It was a bound, during the English Premier second-tier Championship title in showing from the Reds with a record- Müller also helped West Germany ment. “As a player and a person, Gerd League soccer match between New- May, but Juergen Klopp’s team breaking strike high into the net. Salah win the European Championship in national record only surpassed in 2014 Müller stands for FC Bayern and their castle United and West Ham United, showed their class with Diogo Jota became the first player to score in five 1972, then the World Cup two years by Miroslav Klose, who needed 129 development into one of the biggest at St. James’ Park, in Newcastle, breaking the deadlock in the first half consecutive opening weekends of the later, when he scored the winning goal appearances to match him. clubs in the world like no other. Gerd England. (AP) after a slight touch by Salah. Premier League season. in the fi nal against the Netherlands. Al- “He was the best German forward of will forever be in our hearts.”
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