SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2014 SPORTS Soccer results/standings Welbeck rescues Arsenal English Premier League results Stewart 59); Ross County 0 Celtic 5 (Guidetti 11, However, Arsenal goalkeeper Arsenal 2 (Sanchez 13, Welbeck 90) Hull 2 (Diame 17, McGregor 14, Stokes 29, 56, Denayer 35); St Johnstone Arsenal 2 Wojciech Szczesny had already Hernandez 46); Burnley 1 (Boyd 60) West Ham 3 1 (Davidson 10) Kilmarnock 2 (Magennis 19, 22); St made a save himself, getting (Sakho 49, Valencia 54, Cole 70); Crystal Palace 1 Mirren 0 Inverness CT 1 (Tansey 43-pen). behind Michael Dawson’s back-post (Campbell 90) Chelsea 2 (Oscar 6, Fabregas 51); Scottish Football League results header. Everton 3 (Jagielka 18, Lukaku 48, Coleman 76) Aston Championship Villa 0; Manchester City 4 (Aguero 13, 20-pen, 68-pen, Alloa 2 Cowdenbeath 3; Hearts 5 Dumbarton 1; Hull 2 Harper was soon back in action 75) Tottenham 1 (Eriksen 15) Newcastle 1 (Obertan 71) Queen of the South 3 Falkirk 0; Rangers 6 Raith 1. and the 39-year-old, deputising for Leicester 0; Southampton 8 (Vergini 12-og, Pelle 18, Playing later the injured Allan McGregor, dived 69, Cork 37, Bridcutt 63-og, Tadic 78, Wanyama 79, Livingston v Hibernian to stop Santi Cazorla’s shot from Mane 86) Sunderland 0. Division One LONDON: Danny Welbeck earned finding the top corner. Playing today Brechin 1 Stranraer 2; Dunfermline 0 Forfar 0; Morton Arsenal a point in a 2-2 Premier QPR v Liverpool, Stoke v Swansea 0 Ayr 1; Peterhead 1 Airdrie 1; Stirling 0 League draw at home to Hull yes- SANCHEZ OPENER Playing tomorrow Stenhousemuir 4. terday as the teams met for the first A goal was coming, though, and West Brom v Manchester United Division Two Alexis Sanchez was the man who English Football League results Albion 2 Clyde 2; Arbroath 4 East Stirling 0; Berwick 1 time last season’s FA Cup final. Championship Elgin 1; East Fife 1 Annan Athletic 1; Queen’s Park 2 At Wembley, Hull took a 2-0 lead scored it in the 13th minute. The Birmingham 0 Bolton 1; Bournemouth 1 Charlton 0; Montrose 0. before being beaten 3-2 in extra- former Barcelona man cut in from Brighton 1 Middlesbrough 2; Cardiff 2 Nottingham Spanish La Liga results time and this game saw them the right and beat Curtis Davies Forest 1; Fulham 1 Norwich 0; Huddersfield 4 Levante 0 Real Madrid 5 (Ronaldo 12-pen, 61, almost take all three points at the before unleashing a low drive Blackpool 2; Ipswich 1 Blackburn 1; Millwall 3 Wolves Hernandez 38, Rodriguez 66, Isco 82). Emirates Stadium. across Harper and into the bottom 3; Reading 0 Derby 3; Sheffield Wednesday 0 Watford Playing later But the Tigers could not hold corner. 3; Wigan 0 Brentford 0. Athletic Bilbao v Celta Vigo, Barcelona v Eibar, out on this occasion either, with Hull’s response was to level four Division One Cordoba v Malaga. England forward Welbeck netting minutes later through Mohamed Chesterfield 1 Oldham 1; Coventry 1 Bristol City 3; Playing today Diame, who burst through the Fleetwood 3 Doncaster 1; Leyton Orient 0 Milton Atletico Madrid v Espanyol, Deportivo v Valencia, his eighth goal for club and country Keynes Dons 0; Notts County 5 Crawley 3; Elche v Sevilla, Villarreal v Almeria. since a £16 million ($26.6 million, home back-line before placing a Peterborough 2 Barnsley 1; Preston 2 Port Vale 0; Playing tomorrow 20.2 million euros) move from delicate chip over the advancing Rochdale 1 Gillingham 1; Scunthorpe 1 Colchester 1; Real Sociedad v Getafe Manchester United on transfer Szczesny. Walsall 0 Crewe 1; Yeovil 1 Swindon 1. German Bundesliga results deadline day. Arsenal claimed Diame had Playing later Bayern Munich 6 (Lahm 20, 79, Xabi Alonso 27, Mueller Injuries had hit the home side pulled back Mathieu Flamini, who Bradford v Sheffield Utd 43-pen, Goetze 45, 86) Werder Bremen 0; Mainz 05 2 hard and there was the added com- had appeared to win the ball off Division Two (Hofmann 20, Jairo 23) Augsburg 1 (Werner 78); plication of Lukas Podolski, the him, but referee Roger East ignored Burton 0 Morecambe 2; Bury 3 Portsmouth 0; Hanover 96 0 Borussia Moenchengladbach 3 (Kruse 15, their protests and awarded the Cheltenham 3 Northampton 2; Dagenham and 90, Xhaka 49); Freiburg 1 (Kerk 90+1) VfL Wolfsburg 2 Germany forward, pulling out because of illness. goal. Redbridge 0 Newport 1; Hartlepool 1 Luton 2; (Caligiuri 8, 66); VfB Stuttgart 3 (Werner 57, Klein 67, LONDON: Hull City’s Abel Hernandez (left) jumps and misses the ball The Arsenal defence had a That deflated Arsenal but there Mansfield 0 Cambridge 0; Oxford 2 Tranmere 0; Harnik 76) Bayer Leverkusen 3 (Son 4, 9, Bellarabi 41); with Arsenal’s Nacho Monreal during the English Premier League soc- makeshift look about it with Nacho were more problems for Hull just Plymouth 1 Carlisle 0; Southend 1 Exeter 1; Stevenage Cologne 2 (Vogt 40, Zoller 74) Borussia Dortmund 1 cer match. —AP 2 Accrington 1; Wycombe 2 AFC Wimbledon 0; York 0 (Immobile 48). Monreal, normally a left-back, in before half-time when Harper was Shrewsbury 1. Playing later the centre and Hector Bellerin, the hurt and had to be replaced by Gaston Ramirez just just after the Cazorla picking up a booking for Scottish Premiership results Schalke 04 v Hertha Berlin 19-year-old Spanish right-back, Eldin Jakupovic, the former hour mark as Arsenal also made a catching the Egyptian late. Dundee Utd 1 (Ciftci 84-pen) Partick 0; Motherwell 1 Playing today handed a Premier League debut. Switzerland international. change by sending the fit-again Dawson was hurt again and (Ojamaa 62) Dundee 3 (Clarkson 3, Harkins 30, Hamburg v Hoffenheim, Paderborn v Eintracht Frankfurt Hull’s preparations were not The second half began in sensa- Aaron Ramsey on for Flamini. finally had to go off, with Hull man- straightforward either however, tional style, with Hull taking the Then Wilshere was hurt when he ager Steve Bruce’s son Alex replac- English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals with striker Nikica Jelavic hurt in lead within 32 seconds as mis-timed a tackle on Ramirez, ing him at the back. Jakupovic did against, points): the warm-up and hastily replaced Hernandez out-jumped Per which earned him a yellow card, well to tip over a header from Chelsea 8 7 1 0 23 8 22 Rangers 9 6 1 2 24 10 19 by Abel Hernandez, the Uruguay Mertesacker to head home Tom and had to be replaced by Joel Sanchez but was beaten when the Man City 8 5 2 1 18 8 17 Queen of South 10 5 2 3 19 14 17 forward. Huddlestone’s cross from the right. Campbell. Chile international set up Welbeck Southampton 8 5 1 2 19 5 16 Raith 10 4 2 4 13 21 14 Arsenal started strongly with Hull had to defend for a while Twice Hull almost broke through for a final-minute equaliser that West Ham 8 4 1 3 15 11 13 Hibernian 9 3 2 4 11 11 11 after that, with Dawson timing his Man Utd 7 3 2 2 13 10 11 Falkirk 9 2 4 3 8 14 10 Jack Wilshere heading wide from a on the counter attack as Arsenal went in off a defender. Arsenal 8 2 5 1 13 11 11 Dumbarton 10 2 4 4 8 18 10 cross from Sanchez, who went tackle on Welbeck to perfection piled on the pressure and the home Arsenal pushed for a winner for Swansea 7 3 2 2 10 8 11 Cowdenbeath 9 2 2 5 12 21 8 close himself after Hull goalkeeper after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had fans were annoyed when Dawson the the remaining allocated time, Tottenham 8 3 2 3 10 11 11 Livingston 8 2 1 5 8 12 7 Steve Harper could only parry a found the striker in the box. and then Ahmed Elmohamady with Jakupovic again busy, but it Hull 8 2 4 2 13 13 10 Alloa 10 2 1 7 10 18 7 drive from Welbeck. Hernandez was replaced by required lengthy treatment, with finished all square. —AFP Liverpool 7 3 1 3 10 10 10 League One Aston Villa 8 3 1 4 4 12 10 Forfar 10 6 3 1 17 9 21 Everton 8 2 3 3 16 16 9 Dunfermline 10 6 2 2 14 5 20 Leicester 8 2 3 3 11 13 9 Ayr 10 5 1 4 14 12 16 West Ham in West Brom 7 2 2 3 8 9 8 Morton 10 5 0 5 16 13 15 Stoke 7 2 2 3 6 8 8 Stranraer 9 3 4 2 15 15 13 Crystal Palace 8 2 2 4 11 14 8 Peterhead 9 3 3 3 9 9 12 top four Sunderland 8 1 5 2 8 15 8 Brechin 10 3 3 4 16 17 12 Newcastle 8 1 4 3 8 14 7 Stenhousemuir 10 3 2 5 14 16 11 BURNLEY: West Ham Burnley 8 0 4 4 4 13 4 Airdrie 10 2 3 5 13 16 9 gave manager Sam QPR 7 1 1 5 4 15 4 Stirling 10 1 3 6 9 25 6 Allardyce an early 60th Burnley 1 English Football League tables League Two Championship Arbroath 8 7 0 1 18 6 21 birthday present by Watford 12 7 3 2 23 12 24 Queen’s Park 9 5 1 3 13 9 16 moving into the top Derby 12 6 5 1 22 10 23 Albion 8 4 2 2 11 7 14 four with a 3-1 win at Middlesbrough 12 7 2 3 18 9 23 Montrose 9 4 1 4 12 15 13 Burnley yesterday.