SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2020 10 Dendoncker sinks Villa to boost Bremen snatch survival chance Wolves’ Euro bid Six-goal Werder Bremen• avoid automatic relegation KNOW WHAT Bayern demolish Wolfsburg• 4-0 to end Wolves’ Leander Dendoncker (C) Bremen have spent celebrates after scoring season on high more seasons than AFP | London any other team in the • Kramaric scores all Bundesliga, having only four as Hoffenheim stun spent one term in the uno Espirito Santo Borussia Dortmund Nbacked Wolves to step second tier, in 1980-81 up their bid to qualify for the Champions League af- AFP | Berlin ter Leander Dendoncker That result allowed Hoffen- sealed a 1-0 win at Aston erder Bremen gave heim to leapfrog Wolfsburg and Villa that lifted them into themselves hope of take sixth place, although both fifth place in the Premier Wavoiding relegation sides will go into the Europa League . from the German Bundesliga by League next season along with Nuno’s side made it three thrashing Cologne 6-1 to grab a Leverkusen. successive victories since Mainz’ Danny Latza (C) fights for the ball with Bremen’s Christian Gross and Joshua Sargent play-off place on the last day of Before kick-off in Dortmund, the Premier League restart the season, while champions Fuellkrug -- all in the space of final round of matches in the Wolfsburg captain Josuha Mario Goetze, whose winning thanks to Dendoncker’s Bayern Munich routed Wolfs- eight minutes -- had Werder 3-0 second division. Guilavogui was sent off for a goal sealed Germany’s victory clinical finish in the second burg before lifting the trophy. up at the break against Cologne second yellow card after foul- in the 2014 World Cup final, was half. Japan striker Yuya Osako at the Weserstadion. Hundred up for Bayern ing Cuisance, leading to Le - given a send-off by the club. Wolves have yet to con- scored twice as Bremen stole Former Everton midfielder At Wolfsburg, Bayern striker wandowski’s penalty. He will leave this summer cede a goal following the the lifeline of the relegation/ Davy Klaassen then fired home Robert Lewandowski scored a with his contract having ex - coronavirus hiatus and are promotion play-off place from a rebound just after the break penalty for his 34th league goal Gladbach into Champions pired, but the 28-year-old at- now just two points behind Fortuna Duesseldorf, who lost before Osako, facing his old side, of the season, finishing as the League tacking midfielder has not an- fourth-placed Chelsea and 3-0 at Union Berlin and were added his second and USA inter- top scorer for the fifth time. Meanwhile, Borussia Mo - nounced his future club. three ahead of sixth-placed relegated with Paderborn, fin- national Josh Sargent complet- Kingsley Coman, Michael enchengladbach and RB Leipzig Elsewhere, Timo Werner Manchester United. ishing one point behind Bremen. ed the rout. Dominick Drexler Cuisance and Thomas Muel- secured qualification for next signed off with a brace in RB Both Chelsea and Unit- Florian Kohfeldt’s Werder pulled a goal back for Cologne. ler also got on the scoresheet season’s Champions League af- Leipzig’s 2-1 win at Augsburg in ed have a game in hand on will face second-tier opponents Werder, the four-time Bunde- as Bayern, champions for the ter 2-1 wins over Hertha Berlin what was his final appearance Wolves due to their FA Cup in either Heidenheim or possi- sliga champions, also needed a eighth straight season, finished and Augsburg respectively, as for the club before moving to involvement this weekend. bly neighbours, rivals and fellow favour from Berlin and got one 13 points clear of second-placed fifth-placed Bayer Leverkusen Chelsea. But with fifth place po- fallen giants Hamburg in the as Union beat Fortuna 3-0 with Borussia Dortmund. missed out by two points despite Schalke’s disastrous second tentially offering Champi- play-off first leg on Thursday. goals from Nigerian duo Antho- Mueller set up Coman for beating Mainz 1-0. half of the season was complet- ons League qualification if Bremen have spent more sea- ny Ujah and Suleiman Abdullahi Bayern’s opening goal to finish Dortmund, who had already ed with a 4-0 thrashing at the second-placed Manchester sons than any other team in the either side of veteran midfielder the campaign with a league re- wrapped up second place, hands of Freiburg as they fin- City’s European ban is up- Bundesliga, having only spent Christian Gentner’s effort. cord 21 assists, and his goal that crashed to a 4-0 home defeat by ished the season 12th, having held, Nuno’s men are firmly one term in the second tier, in Bremen will find out their rounded out the win was also Hoffenheim, for whom Croatia been third in December. in contention to play in the 1980-81. play-off opponents on Sunday, Bayern’s 100th league goal this striker Andrej Kramaric scored Eintracht Frankfurt beat bot- continent’s elite club com- A burst of goals from Osako, with Heidenheim currently in season -- one short of the Bun- all four goals, including one pen- tom side Paderborn 3-2 in yes- petition for the first time in Milot Rashica and Niclas the play-off place ahead of the desliga record. alty. terday’s other game. 60 years. Title blow as Barcelona draw with Celta Murray on right track AFP | Madrid when everyone expected him despite Evans defeat arcelona’s title hopes suf- to shoot. Bfered a hammer blow yes- Yet Barcelona’s defensive terday as they were held to a frailties hurt them again and 2-2 draw by Celta Vigo, handing Celta should even have won it Real Madrid the chance to move in injury-time, only for Nolito two points clear at the top of to miss a golden chance at the La Liga. back post. Luis Suarez twice put Barca Celta climb to 16th, eight in front at Balaidos with his first points clear of the bottom three. goals since January but Iago Quique Setien answered calls Aspas bent in a late free-kick to to start 20-year-old Riqui Puig earn Celta a draw, in what could and 17-year-old Ansu Fati, and prove a pivotal moment in the the duo impressed, injecting title race. energy and speed into Barca’s Barcelona edge a point ahead attack. of Madrid but Zinedine Zidane’s Antoine Griezmann was left side will hope to take a big step Denis Suarez of RC Celta Vigo is tackled by Riqui Puig and Arturo Vidal on the bench and when he came Andy Murray hits a return towards becoming champions on, he was on the side of the AFP | London by winning away at bottom club lans, who play Atletico Ma- have to win all our games. But wall that Aspas breached with heading back to his best. Espanyol today. drid next on Tuesday, the tro- we now have to rely on Madrid his free-kick to find the bottom “I thought I started the Madrid own the superi- phy appears to be Madrid’s to to drop points.” corner. ndy Murray insists he is match well and then like in or head-to-head against Bar- lose. Suarez played his best game Messi was at the heart of Aon the right track follow- all of my matches this week, ca and have won four out of “The feeling is a negative since undergoing knee surgery everything going forward and it ing his return from injury de- my levels dropped off a bit,” four since La Liga restart - one,” said Suarez afterwards. in January, his first goal com- was his early corner that Gerard spite losing to Dan Evans in the Murray said. ed earlier this month. With a “If we want to stay in the title ing from a surprise free-kick Pique headed against the cross- semi-finals of the ‘Battle of the “My game is there, I just kinder run-in than the Cata- race and have it in our hands we from Lionel Messi, who crossed bar. Brits’ tournament yesterday. need more time to practise and Murray was beaten 1-6, 6-3, prepare and I’ll get there. 10/8 behind closed doors in “It was a big step up this the exhibition event in Roe- week from what I’ve been do- hampton. ing, and I coped with it physi- Zidane: Coaching wears you out, I won’t do it for 20 years It was the former world cally relatively well. Reuters | London number one’s fourth match in “Some of the tennis this two years later, explaining he Madrid beating Real Mallorca my head. What keeps me going five days in his first event since week has been very encourag- felt the club needed a change. In on Wednesday to go top of La is the day-to-day. In my head I last November after beng side- ing, I just wasn’t able to do it eal Madrid’s Zinedine Zi- his goodbye press conference, Liga with seven games left. have always been in football, I lined because of bone bruising for long enough in the match- Rdane says being a coach is Zidane said he had not forgotten “I won’t coach for 20 years, spent almost 18 years as a player on his pelvis. es.” exhausting and insists he has no “the hard moments” of the job. I will retire before that,” said and I said I would never be a Murray, a two-time Wim- Murray is unlikely to play intention of doing it for 20 years.