SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 SPORTS19 Soccer results/standings English Premier League results Newport 1; Torquay 0 Hartlepool 0; Wycombe Gayle, O’Keefe get Cardiff City 0 Everton 0; Crystal Palace 3 2 Southend 1. (Gabbidon 9, Gayle 79-pen, O’Keefe 90) Scottish Premier League results Sunderland 1 (Fletcher 64); Manchester City 2 Aberdeen 0 St Johnstone 0; Dundee Utd 0 (Negredo 65, Toure 90) Hull City 0; Newcastle Celtic 1 (Stokes 87); Hibernian 0 Ross County 0; United 1 (Ben Arfa 86) Fulham 0; Norwich City Inverness CT 2 (McKay 10, 32) Hearts 0; Palace off the mark 1 (Redmond 68) Southampton 0; West Ham Motherwell 2 (Anier 20, Sutton 45) Kilmarnock United 0 Stoke City 1 (Pennant 82). 1 (Barr 17); St Mirren 1 (McLean 50) Partick Playing today Thistle 2 (Higginbotham 81, Forbes 84). Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool v Scottish Football League results Manchester Utd, West Brom v Swansea City. Championship English Football League results Cowdenbeath 3 Dumbarton 2; Falkirk 1 C Palace 3 Championship Hamilton 2; Morton 1 Raith 1; Queen of the Barnsley 2 Huddersfield 1; Birmingham 1 South 0 Alloa 0. Ipswich 1; Blackburn 4 Bolton 1; Blackpool 1 Division One Watford 0; Brighton 1 Millwall 1; Charlton 2 Arbroath 2 Brechin 1; Ayr 2 Airdrie 2; Leicester 1; Derby 0 Burnley 3; Doncaster 0 Sunderland 1 Dunfermline 3 Stranraer 1; Forfar 1 Bournemouth 1; Leeds 0 QPR 1; Stenhousemuir 2; Rangers 5 East Fife 0. Middlesbrough 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1; Division Two Wigan 2 Nottingham Forest 1; Yeovil 0 Reading 1. Albion 0 Montrose 2; Berwick 4 Annan Athletic LONDON: Late strikes from Dwight Gayle and Division One 2; East Stirling 1 Peterhead 4; Elgin 1 Clyde 0; Queen’s Park 0 Stirling 2. Stuart O’Keefe saw promoted Crystal Palace Brentford 0 Carlisle 0; Colchester 1 Leyton beat Sunderland 3-1 yesterday to claim their Orient 2; Gillingham 1 Bristol City 1; Notts German Bundesliga results County 0 Rotherham 1; Oldham 0 Tranmere 1; Borussia Moenchengladbach 4 (Arango 36, first victory of the Premier League season. Peterborough 0 Crawley 2; Port Vale 1 Wolves Raffael 53, Kruse 74, Herrmann 85) Werder Danny Gabbidon gave hosts Palace a fortu- 3; Sheffield Utd 0 Milton Keynes Dons 1; Bremen 1 (Nordtveit og-69); Hanover 96 4 itous early lead, only for Steven Fletcher to Shrewsbury 1 Coventry 1; Stevenage 1 (Diouf 31, Sobiech 37, Ya Konan 80, Prib 83) mark his comeback from injury with an Bradford 1; Swindon 5 Crewe 0; Walsall 0 Mainz 05 1 (N. Mueller 12); VfL Wolfsburg 2 equaliser mid-way through the second peri- Preston 3. (Olic 42, Diego 45+2) Hertha Berlin 0; od. Division Two Nuremberg 0 Augsburg 1 (Vogt 84); Hamburg 4 Accrington 0 Burton 1; AFC Wimbledon 2 (van der Vaart 7, Zoua 17, Calhanoglu 80, 90+1) It looked like both teams would have to Fleetwood 0; Bristol Rovers 1 Northampton 0; Eintracht Braunschweig 0; Schalke 04 2 (Hoeger wait for their first victory of the campaign, Bury 4 Cheltenham 1; Exeter 2 York 1; 30, Farfan 83-pen) Bayer Leverkusen 0. only for Gayle to restore Palace’s lead with a Mansfield 3 Dagenham and Redbridge 0; Playing today 79th-minute penalty after Sunderland captain Morecambe 2 Plymouth 1; Oxford 1 Rochdale VfB Stuttgart v Hoffenheim; Eintracht Frankfurt John O’Shea was sent off for a last-man foul 1; Portsmouth 0 Chesterfield 2; Scunthorpe 1 v Borussia Dortmund. on the 23-year-old. English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals O’Keefe then curled a marvellous shot into against, points): the top-left corner from the edge of the box to further delight the home fans basking in Chelsea 3 2 1 0 4 1 7 the late-summer sunshine at Selhurst Park. Man City 3 2 0 1 8 3 6 Scottish Football League tables Ian Holloway’s Palace will now go into their LONDON: Sunderland’s English midfielder Jack Colback (left) vies with Crystal Liverpool 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 Championship daunting trip to Manchester United in two Tottenham 2 2 0 0 2 0 6 Hamilton 4 4 0 0 9 2 12 Palace’s Australian midfielder Mile Jedinak during the English Premier League foot- Stoke 3 2 0 1 3 2 6 Falkirk 4 2 1 1 8 4 7 weeks’ time with three points on the board, ball match. —AFP Man Utd 2 1 1 0 4 1 4 Dundee 4 2 1 1 7 4 7 while Paolo Di Canio’s Sunderland have taken rebounded into the net. header into the bottom-left corner. West Ham 3 1 1 1 2 1 4 Alloa 4 2 1 1 4 2 7 just one point from a possible nine. Fletcher made his return from a five-month Palace substitute Jonny Williams spurned a Norwich 3 1 1 1 3 3 4 Raith 4 1 2 1 5 5 5 Sunderland had conceded goals from set lay-off with an ankle injury as a half-time sub- good chance to restore the hosts’ lead when Southampton 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 Queen of South4 1 2 1 7 8 5 pieces in both their previous games, a 1-0 loss Cardiff 3 1 1 1 3 4 4 Dumbarton 4 1 1 2 7 9 4 stitute, but Palace continued to threaten. he screwed badly wide from the edge of the Newcastle 3 1 1 1 1 4 4 Morton 4 1 1 2 5 7 4 at home to Fulham and a 1-1 draw at Mile Jedinak shot narrowly over for the area, before Gabbidon almost put through his Arsenal 2 1 0 1 4 4 3 Cowdenbeath 4 1 0 3 7 11 3 Southampton, but Palace’s ninth-minute second time in the game, while Gayle almost own goal at the other end as he toed the ball Aston Villa 3 1 0 2 4 4 3 Livingston 4 0 1 3 3 10 1 opener suggested they had not learn their lobbed Sunderland goalkeeper Keiren away from Fletcher. Crystal Palace 3 1 0 2 4 4 3 lesson. Westwood after centre-back Modibo Diakite It was Sunderland who cracked first, Everton 3 0 3 0 2 2 3 Division One A left-wing corner from Jose Campana was sloppily allowed the ball to run across him. however, with close-season signing Gayle Fulham 3 1 0 2 2 4 3 Rangers 4 4 0 0 18 1 12 Hull 3 1 0 2 1 4 3 Dunfermline 4 3 0 1 11 8 9 allowed to land inside the six-yard box and However, the visitors survived, and in the drilling home from the penalty spot before West Brom 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 Stenhousemuir4 3 0 1 8 6 9 after bouncing off Sunderland defender 64th minute they drew level when Fletcher O’Keefe added a glorious third in stoppage Sunderland 3 0 1 2 2 5 1 Ayr 4 2 2 0 8 3 8 Ondrej Celustka, it struck Gabbidon and met Jack Colback’s left-wing cross with a time.—AFP Swansea 2 0 0 2 1 5 0 Brechin 4 2 0 2 6 7 6 Arbroath 4 2 0 2 6 8 6 English Football League tables East Fife 4 1 0 3 2 9 3 Championship Airdrie 4 0 2 2 5 12 2 Blackpool 5 4 1 0 7 2 13 Forfar 4 0 1 3 5 9 1 Stoke see off QPR 5 4 1 0 6 2 13 Stranraer 4 0 1 3 2 8 1 Burnley 5 3 1 1 8 4 10 Nottingham 5 3 1 1 7 3 10 Division Two West Ham Leicester 5 3 1 1 7 5 10 East Stirling 4 3 0 1 10 6 9 LONDON: Jermaine Bournemouth 5 3 0 2 6 12 9 Stirling 4 3 0 1 7 4 9 Watford 5 2 2 1 11 6 8 Berwick 4 2 1 1 9 4 7 Pennant came off the Wigan 5 2 2 1 10 6 8 Albion 4 2 1 1 6 4 7 bench to score an West Ham 0 Reading 5 2 2 1 7 6 8 Clyde 4 2 0 2 4 4 6 82nd-minute free- Leeds 5 2 2 1 5 4 8 Peterhead 4 1 2 1 8 7 5 kick that gave Stoke Blackburn 5 2 1 2 10 7 7 Annan Athletic4 1 2 1 7 8 5 City a 1-0 win at West Huddersfield 5 2 1 2 8 5 7 Montrose 4 1 1 2 5 5 4 Ham United in the Brighton 5 2 1 2 6 5 7 Elgin 4 1 1 2 4 7 4 Stoke 1 Derby 5 2 1 2 6 6 7 Queen’s Park 4 0 0 4 1 12 0 Premier League yes- Middlesbrough5 1 3 1 6 6 6 terday. Ipswich 5 1 1 3 6 6 4 German Bundesliga table The 30-year-old Charlton 4 1 1 2 5 6 4 Bayern Munich4 3 1 0 7 2 10 former Liverpool winger bent an unerring shot inside Doncaster 4 1 1 2 5 6 4 Borussia 3 3 0 0 7 1 9 the right-hand post to register his first league goal since Birmingham 5 1 1 3 4 6 4 Bayer Leverkusen 4 3 0 1 8 5 9 May 2011, having been brought back to Stoke by new Barnsley 5 1 1 3 6 13 4 Hanover 4 3 0 1 8 5 9 Sheffield 5 0 3 2 6 8 3 Mainz 4 3 0 1 8 7 9 manager Mark Hughes after being released at the end Yeovil 5 1 0 4 1 7 3 Hertha Berlin 4 2 1 1 9 5 7 of last season.