MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 15 Havertz winner breaks Leverkusen’s losing streak Insigne double inspires AFP | Berlin ising Germany star Kai RHavertz ended Bayer Leverkusen’s miserable los- ing start to the season with a Napoli, AS Roma crash second-half winner to seal a 1-0 victory over Mainz and AFP | Milan mer which saw Di Francesco’s escape the Bundesliga’s bot- side lose goal-keeper Alisson tom three. orenzo Insigne bagged a to Liverpool with midfielders Havertz, 19, who made his brace to inspire Napoli to Radja Nainggolan and Kevin St- Germany debut in the 2-1 La 3-1 win over Torino and rootman also exiting the Italian friendly win against Peru join Juventus at the top of Serie capital. earlier this month, claimed A yesterday, as Roma plunged Mattiello curled in Bologna’s his first Bundesliga goal of further into crisis with a 2-0 loss first goal of the season after the season with a powerful at Bologna. 36 minutes with Paraguayan header midway through the Carlo Ancelotti’s Napoli have Santander adding the second first half. 12 points from five games, equal after 59 minutes. After losing their first with champions Juventus who Roma -- last year’s Champions three games of 2018/19, can pull ahead again when they League semi-finalists -- also fell Leverkusen climbed up to travel to promoted Frosinone 3-0 at Real Madrid midweek, 15th, leaving bottom side later yesterday. and have not won a league game Schalke, who were beat- But Roma coach Eusebio Di since their first game against en 2-0 at home by league Francesco is under increasing Torino. leaders Bayern Munich on pressure after a fourth league “There’s no inner fire,” Saturday, as the only team game without a win sees last lamented the Roma coach. in Germany’s top flight to year’s third-placed team slump “Something is wrong.” have lost all four games this to 12th with five points from as Next weekend Roma face bit- season. many games. Napoli’s Italian forward Lorenzo Insigne scores a goal during the Italian Serie A football match between Torino and Napoli ter city rivals Lazio, who saw off However, Leverkusen Federico Mattiello and Feder- at the Olimpico Grande Torino stadium, in Turin Genoa 4-1 yesterday with Ciro made hard work of the win ico Santander scored in either Immobile scoring a double, to at their own BayArena. half to give Bologna, who occupy condemn me.” got his first start for the Serie A The Italian international got move up to fifth place. Only an intervention by the first relegation spot of 18th In Turin, Ancelotti switched runners-up. the first after just four minutes Before the derby Roma will the video assistant referee position, their first goals and things around following Napoli’s “I’m satisfied, we dominated when poor Torino defending try to boost morale against denied Mainz the opening win of the season. uninspiring goalless draw at Red in Belgrade but we couldn’t fin- saw Emiliano Moretti clear to Frosinone midweek with Lazio goal just after the break “I’m not the type to look for Star Belgrade in the Champions ish things off like we did today,” Nicolas N’Koulou with the re- heading to Udinese, who won when their Sweden striker excuses, I need solutions and League midweek. said Ancelotti. bound favouring Insigne, who 2-0 at Chievo. Robin Quaison, who had I can not find them,” said Di Insigne played a more central “Insigne was decisive, but finished off under the crossbar. Inter Milan snatched a late 1-0 just come on, headed the Francesco. role along with Dries Mertens everyone put in a strong per- In Bologna, Roma plunged win against Sampdoria in Genoa ball into the net, but replays “The facts condemn us, they as defender Sebastiano Luperto formance.” further into crisis after a sum- on Saturday to move up to ninth. showed the ball clipped his hand in the build-up. After the let off, Leverk- usen took their chance to Marquez extends MotoGP lead claim their first win of the Celtic beaten again at Kilmarnock season when Havertz head- ed home a cross from his in Aragon, Lorenzo crashes Germany team-mate Julian to fall further off the pace Brandt on 62 minutes. AFP | Glasgow, United Kingdom eltic’s awful start to the Real Madrid Cseason continued as Stuart Findlay’s header deep into stop- Santiago Bernabeu page time handed Kilmarnock a upgrade approved 2-1 win at Rugby Park. A second defeat in the Scot- AFP | Madrid tish champions’ first six league games, after also failing to qual- eal Madrid’s plan to ify for the Champions League, Rupgrade the Santiago leaves Celtic six points behind Bernabeu by 2022 at a cost early leaders Hearts. of 525 million euros ($618 Brendan Rodgers’s men could million) was given the green (FromL) Ducati Team’s Italian rider Andrea Dovizioso rides in front of Repsol also fall to sixth in the table light yesterday. Honda Team’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez and Team SUZUKI ECSTAR’s should Rangers beat St. John- The financing of the plan Spanish rider Alex Rins stone later at Ibrox to move was approved at the club’s ahead of their Glasgow rivals. annual assembly, with work AFP | Alcañiz, Spain One on the opening lap when Rodgers made six changes due to begin on the stadium he crashed his Ducati, dislo- from the side that laboured to at the start of next year. pain’s Marc Marquez, rid- cating his toe to boot. a 1-0 Europa League win over Kilmarnock’s Stuart Findlay celebrates at the final whistle with Jamie The proposed changes do Sing a Honda, won yester- With the Spaniard out, his Rosenborg in midweek. MacDonald not include an expansion day’s Aragon MotoGP to ex- compatriot Marquez, after Leigh Griffiths was recalled to the stadium’s capacity of tend his lead atop the cham- two second and one third to the starting line-up after over of £100 million ($130 straight Scottish title. just over 81,000. pionship standings but it was placed finishes in the last coming off the bench to grab million) this week, but their They have now scored just six Madrid have announced a miserable day on the track three Grand Prix, finished the winner against the Norwe- failure to strengthen in the times in their opening six games record revenue of 750.9 mil- for Jorge Lorenzo. in 41min 55sec ahead of Ital- gian champions and his diving transfer window despite sell- and rarely looked like adding to lion euros for 2017-18 and Lorenzo had sealed pole in ian duo Andrea Dovizioso header put the visitors in front ing star striker Moussa Dem- their lead before Chris Burke president Florentino Perez spectacular fashion but his bid (Ducati) and Andrea Ianonne 11 minutes before half-time. bele to Lyon is already being ex- fired in off the post from 20 believes the completed pro- for glory lasted only until Turn (Suzuki). Celtic posted a record turn- posed in their bid for an eighth yards to bring Kilmarnock level. ject will bring in an extra 150 million euros per year. Perez said the loan would amount to up to 575 mil - lion euros, over a maximum period of 35 years, without Chelsea stumble as West Ham battle to 0-0 draw “any impact on sporting ac- AFP | London tivity”. stant threat on the break. proving a real handful. “It will be more modern, helsea dropped their first Olivier Giroud won his battle After a cagey opening spell, more secure,” Perez said. Cpoints of the season yester- with Alvaro Morata for a start- Chelsea established control but “There are two objectives: day as West Ham held Maurizio ing spot up front for Chelsea, the home side could have taken to improve the comfort and Sarri’s team to a 0-0 draw at the keeping his place for the second a lead against the run of play just accessibility for our fans London Stadium. Premier League match in suc- before the half hour. and secondly, to obtain Chelsea had won all five of cession. But Marko Arnautovic, Felipe Anderson was quick to more income.” their Premier League matches West Ham’s leading goalscor- seize on a loose ball and played Perez said Madrid want before the weekend, going toe er this season, missed out after in Antonio, who blasted over “to be the first club in the to toe with Liverpool, who won failing to recover from an injury with his left foot. world to exceed the one bil- again on Saturday to make it six he sustained against Everton That chance breathed new lion euro revenue mark”, an wins out of six. last week. life into the home crowd and aim shared by his Barcelona The visitors dominated pos- Chelsea enjoyed more than the players and Antonio drew counterpart Josep Maria session at the home of their Lon- 70 percent of possession in the a smart save from Kepa Arriza- Bartomeu, who has also em- don rivals but failed to create first half but West Ham were balaga in the West Ham goal just barked on a redesign of the many clear-cut chances and had West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski stops a shot from Chelsea’s Alvaro dangerous when they were able two minutes later after a fine run Camp Nou. to deal with West Ham’s con- Morata to break out, Michail Antonio from Andriy Yarmo-lenko..