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SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2016 SPORTS Deeney-inspired Watford down 10-man Villa

between Ayew and Gestede with Ayew shooting low into the far corner. Watford 3 Villa had to play the final quarter of an hour a man down after Aly Cissoko was sent off for tripping Ikechi Anya. They managed to hold on until the 90th minute, with only their second away win of Aston Villa 2 the season in their grasp, when Deeney headed in a Steven Berghuis cross before firing home from the edge of the area three WATFORD: Captain ’s two late minutes into time added on. — AFP goals lifted Watford to a come from behind 3-2 win over 10-man Aston Villa in the at yesterday. levelled at the end of the Matches on TV first half after put already rele- (Local Timings) gated Villa in front, then Deeney struck twice in the dying minutes after Jordan ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Ayew had put Villa back in command after the restart. Swansea City v Liverpool 14:00 The result left Watford in 12th place and beIN SPORTS 2 HD condemned hapless Villa to a club record Man United v Leicester City 16:05 11th consecutive defeat. Watford manager beIN SPORTS 2 HD Quique Sanchez Flores made four changes Southampton v Man City 18:30 from the side that lost last Sunday’s FA Cup beIN SPORTS 2 HD semi-final 2-1 to Crystal Palace. Keeper , Juan Carlos SPANISH LEAGUE Paredes, Ikechi Anya and Mario Suarez Athletic de Bilbao v Celta 13:00 came on for Costel Pantilimon, Allan Nyom, Nathan Ake and the injured Etienne beIN SPORTS 3 HD Capoue. Espanyol v Sevilla FC 17:00 Villa’s caretaker boss Eric Black also beIN SPORTS 3 HD MUNICH: Bayern’s Serdar Tasci, right, celebrates with teammate Thomas Mueller after scoring his side’s opening goal during the German made four changes from the team that fell Deportivo v Getafe 19:15 soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Moenchengladbach at the stadium in Munich, Germany, yes- 4-2 at home to Southampton last time out. beIN SPORTS 3 HD terday. — AP He called up Mark Bunn, Kevin Toner, Valencia C.F v Villarreal 21:30 Ciaran Clark and Rudy Gestede for Guzan, beIN SPORTS 3 HD , Carlos Sanchez and Scott Bayern made to wait for Sinclair. ITALIAN CALCIO LEAGUE Villa, playing for pride and only their fourth win of the season, were fortunate Juventus FC v Carpi 13:30 not to fall behind after quarter of an hour beIN SPORTS 4 HD AC Milan v Frosinone 16:00 historic fourth title when Watford striker Deeney’s header rebounded off the post. beIN SPORTS 6 HD On 25 minutes it was Ben Watson’s turn Empoli v Bologna FC 16:00 BERLIN: Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich must Hahn slotted home on 72 minutes having gone home with an hour gone. Aubameyang replaced to shake the Villa woodwork when his dip- beIN SPORTS wait to have their historic fourth consecutive close just moments before. Ramos on 69 minutes and scored his first just ping 30-yard volley from outside the box Citta v UC Sampdoria 16:00 Bundesliga title confirmed after being held to a A superb pass from Lars Stindl put Hahn in eight minutes later when Mkhitaryan’s pass hit the crossbar. beIN SPORTS 1-1 draw at home to Borussia behind the Bayern defence and he wrong-foot- found him unmarked to header home, then net- Villa took the lead against the run of Sassuolo v Hellas Verona 16:00 Moenchengladbach yesterday. The champagne ed Medhi Benatia before firing his shot past ted a second header just a minute later before play three minutes later when Clark turned beIN SPORTS had to be put back on ice at the Allianz Arena . Wolfsburg’s Andre Schuerrle scored a consola- Ashley Westwood’s corner home. after Thomas Mueller’s first-half header for There was some good news for Bayern as tion. At the other end of the table, Hanover 96’s Lazio v Internazionale Milano21:45 Only the woodwork prevented Ayew Bayern was cancelled out by Andre Hahn’s Jerome Boateng played his first game since relegation was confirmed by their 3-1 defeat to from doubling the visitors’ lead but Watford beIN SPORTS 4 HD superb second-half strike for Gladbach. January. The Germany defender is now in line to Schalke. boosted their sur- went into the break all square after Abdi Second-placed romped face Diego Simeone’s Atletico with a place in the vival hopes with a 2-1 win at Darmstadt to go curled a freekick around the Villa wall and FRENCH LEAGUE to a 5-1 win at home against Wolfsburg to trim Champions League final on May 28 at stake. 16th, which carries a two-legged promotion/rel- past Gomes in first half stoppage time. Angers v Olympique de Marseille18:00 Bayern’s lead at the top to five points with two In Dortmund, Borussia hammered Wolfsburg egation play-off at the end of the season. Three minutes after the restart and Villa beIN SPORTS 6 HD games left. Bayern are away to mid-table with Japan scoring But 17th-placed Werder Bremen can push were back in front after a neat one-two Ingolstadt next Saturday, then host relegated their first, and creating their second, before Frankfurt back down the table if they beat VfB Hanover on the final day of the season in a fort- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang came off the bench Stuttgart, who are 15th, at home on Monday in a night. The draw with Gladbach comes three to score twice. crunch relegation battle. days before Tuesday’s crunch Champions The Gabon striker now has 25 league goals Mid-table Hamburg played out a goalless League home semi-final against Atletico Madrid this season, leaving him two short of Bayern’s draw at home to Mainz, who stay seventh and with Bayern having lost the first leg 1-0 away last Robert Lewandowski. on course for a Europa League place. Wednesday. Dortmund took the lead when Henrikh Hoffenheim looked to have escaped relegation Bayern were punished for sitting back after Mkhitaryan’s bullet pass was deflected home by under 28-year-old coach Julian Nagelsmann, the Mueller’s sixth-minute headed opener. Kagawa, who then set up Ramos to leave youngest in the Bundesliga’s history, and they Gladbach, one of only two clubs to beat Bayern Dortmund 2-0 up inside nine minutes. are four points from the drop zone, after their 2- in the German league this season, hit back when Marco Reus grabbed their third by chipping 1 win at home to Ingolstadt. —AFP Last-gasp Defoe boosts battling Sunderland

STOKE-ON-TRENT: Jermain Defoe held his nerve to convert the Stoke City 1 last-gasp penalty that gave Sunderland a dramatic 1-1 draw against Stoke, but the Premier League strug- Sunderland 1 glers still slipped back into the relegation zone yesterrday. TYNE: Crystal Palace’s French midfielder Yohan Cabaye (R) and Newcastle United’s Sam Allardyce’s side started the weekend outside the Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum (L) contest a high ball during the English bottom three on goal difference, but their survival bid suf- Premier League football match between Newcastle United and Crystal Palace at St fered a setback despite Defoe’s late leveller at the Britannia James’ Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north east England yesterday. — AFP Stadium. Marko Arnautovic put Stoke ahead early in the second half and there was worse news for Sunderland back in their native north-east, where Newcastle were grinding Townsend and Darlow take out a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace. It was looking bleak for the Black Cats until the fourth : Everton’s has a shot on goal against Bournemouth minute of stoppage-time when Defoe stepped up to score during their English Premier League soccer match at Goodison Park, Liverpool, yes- Newcastle out of bottom 3 the penalty that salvaged a point. Extending their unbeat- terday. — AP en run to three matches couldn’t stop Sunderland drop- cilessly booed by Newcastle fans. ping to third bottom, with Newcastle now one point above them. Sunderland’s fate is still in their own hands as they Baines stops rot for Everton Newcastle 1 PALACE PROBLEMS have a game in hand on hated local rivals Newcastle, but Former Newcastle boss Alan Pardew time is running out to beat the drop. With mid-table Stoke received a rather less hostile reception on having little to play for in the final weeks of the season, at emotional Goodison his first return to St James’ Park since leav- Mark Hughes’ men appeared to have their minds on their ing to manage Palace in December 2014. holiday plans while conceding four goals in each of their first goal since November 2014. Crystal Palace 0 But of greater concern to the 54-year- Nevertheless banners saying “Martinez out” last three games. But they looked far more compact and Everton 2 old will be the fact that with 39 points on dangerous against nervy Sunderland. Peter Crouch was were still displayed by Everton fans after the board, his FA Cup finalists are still not making a rare start up front for Stoke and inevitably the full-time. Before Saturday’s kick-off at Goodison, NEWCASTLE: Andros Townsend’s stun- mathematically safe from relegation as towering targetman had numerous high balls pumped his there was a sustained round of applause ning free-kick gave Newcastle United they stretched their unwanted run in the way, with one almost bringing a goal when the former when representatives of the Hillsborough renewed hope of avoiding relegation from league to a single win in 19 games. England forward’s header was pushed away by Sunderland Bournemouth 1 families took to the pitch. This was the first the Premier League with a tense 1-0 win Palace were on the back foot once goalkeeper Vito Mannone. match on Merseyside since an inquest jury over Crystal Palace at St James’ Park yester- Townsend picked himself up having been Crouch was proving hard for Sunderland to subdue and ruled Tuesday that 96 Liverpool fans who day. But Rafa Benitez’s side were also fouled by Scott Dann to curl a sublime 25- he threatened with a header that bounced narrowly wide LIVERPOOL: Leighton Baines’s first goal in died after being crushed during a 1989 FA indebted to unheralded goalkeeper Karl yard free-kick left-footed into the top cor- before Arnautovic hurriedly blasted over when he had time nearly two years gave Everton manager Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest Darlow for a dramatic penalty save that ner past Wayne Hennessey. for a more considered effort. Roberto Martinez a much-needed victory at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough denied ex-Toon midfielder Yohan Cabaye The 24-year-old Townsend has already as the Toffees beat mid-table rivals ground, in Britain’s worst sporting tragedy, an equaliser 20 minutes from time. scored more to flight goals in three months DUBIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES Bournemouth 2-1 in the Premier League at were unlawfully killed. The campaigners Victory stretched the home side’s at Newcastle than he managed in 50 Needing a significant improvement after a tepid first an emotional Goodison Park yesterday. applauded a crowd that included opposi- unbeaten run to four games as they appearances for Spurs. Cabaye, unpopular half, Sunderland squandered a chance soon after the inter- Everton came into the match with tion Labour MP Andy Burnham, an Everton climbed out of the bottom three for the with Newcastle fans for going on strike to val when Younes Kaboul headed straight at Stoke goal- Martinez under pressure after a run of sev- fan, who played a key role when in govern- first time since early February after taking force a move to Paris St Germain in January keeper Jakob Haugaard. But Allardyce’s team fell behind in en games without victory in the league was ment in setting up the review panel whose eight points from the last 12. 2014, was handed a chance to level when dubious circumstances in the 50th minute. followed by last weekend’s FA Cup semi- findings led to a new round of inquests. Newcastle’s time above the drop zone Moussa Sissoko was harshly adjudged to Charlie Adam lifted the ball towards Crouch, who final loss to United. Former Manchester United midfielder could be brief, however, with fellow strug- have handled the Frenchman’s corner in an appeared to foul Younes Kaboul as he placed two hands on A plane carrying a banner “Time to go Cleverley’s shot from the edge of the box glers Norwich City visiting Arsenal in aerial tussle with Dann. his back to win a header which bounced into the path of Roberto” flew over Goodison, the frustra- gave Everton an early lead. Saturday’s late kick-off. Townsend broke But his spot-kick lacked conviction, Arnautovic. With no foul forthcoming, Arnautovic was free tion of many Everton fans with their under- But Bournemouth were soon level the deadlock in the 58th minute with his allowing Darlow to save with ease in front to lash a low shot past Mannone while Sunderland protest- performing side compounded in a season through Pugh’s close-range strike. Everton third goal in five matches, with the England of an ecstatic Gallowgate End. ed in vain. Arnautovic’s 12th club goal of the season turned where previously unheralded Leicester City complained that Bournemouth striker midfielder now having scored four goals for Palace dominated early on, with Darlow out to be the Austria international’s last contribution as he are on the verge of taking the title after Callum Wilson had fouled Matt Pennington north-east side Newcastle since sealing a saving well from Jason Puncheon and also limped off soon after with a recurrence of a hamstring eclipsing the Premier League’s established in the build-up, but the goal stood. £12 million ($17.5 million, 15 million euros) beating out Yannick Bolasie’s 25-yard vol- injury. Defoe’s predatory instincts had been instrumental in elite. But there was joy for Martinez when In the second half, Bournemouth went from Tottenham Hotspur in January. But it ley. Palace midfielder Bolasie then went Sunderland’s improvement, but the former Tottenham Tom Cleverley fired Everton into a seventh- close through Josh King and was third choice keeper Darlow-only in the close from even further out, when he was striker was enduring a subdued outing and he blazed over minute lead, only for Bournemouth’s Marc only for Everton to regain the lead in the side because of long-term knee injuries suf- allowed to sprint 30 yards from half-way to with his first sight of goal. Adding insult to injury, news fil- Pugh to equalise two minutes later. 64th minute. Aaron Lennon’s cross from the fered by and -who send in a long-range shot which flew nar- tered through that Newcastle had taken the lead against Then, against the run of play, England right found left-back Baines on the other ensured a priceless victory when he dived rowly wide. Palace, who compounded Sunderland’s misery by missing full-back Baines restored Everton’s lead side of the box and his powerful shot made to his left to block a tame spot-kick from Newcastle gained more of a foothold as a penalty. Defoe tried to restore Sunderland’s flagging midway through the second half with his it 2-1. —AFP France international Cabaye, who was mer- the first-half wore on. —AFP spirits, but he shot over and then wide.—AFP