FOOTBALL | Page 3 TRAGEDY | Page 7 Troubled Swiss skiing To Advertise here Marseille champion Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 sack coach dies during Michel fi lm shoot Wednesday, April 20, 2016 TENNIS Rajab 13, 1437 AH Kvitova gets GULF TIMES back to winning ways in Stuttgart SPORT Page 6 SEALINE CROSS-COUNTRY RALLY Al-Attiyah, Catracchia stay in lead as Price tops bikes ‘Tomorrow we start in the dunes and we can push a little but, after what happened today, we can control the race and can push more. Now the others have to catch us and they can make the mistake’ By Sports Reporter Positions on SS2 (Unoff icial) Doha Cars 1. Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu he demanding 345.89km second Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive selective section of the Sealine (3hr 08min 36sec) Cross-Country Rally, between 2. Yazeed al-Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Gottschalk Al-Khararra and Sealine, be- (DEU) Mini All4 Racing (3hr 15min 48sec) Tlonged to Qatar’s Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah 3. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin and the Chilean duo of Jose Cornejo and Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini All4 Racing Ignacio Casale Catracchia yesterday. (3hr 31min 08sec) They won their respective car, motor- 4. Jutta Kleinschmidt (DEU)/Philipp Beier cycle and quad categories, as al-Attiyah (DEU) X-raid CBRA (3hr 39min 29sec) and Casale Catracchia extended their 5. Yuriy Sazonov (KAZ)/Dmytro Tsyro outright leads and Australian Toby Price (UKR) Hummer H3 III (3hr 40min 57sec) topped the motorcycle overall standings 6. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor in the fi ve-day desert round of both the (POL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive FIA and FIM world championships. (3hr 45min 32sec) Al-Attiyah and his French navigator Matthieu Baumel guided their Toyota Bikes Hilux Overdrive to a second successive 1. Jose Cornejo (CHI) KTM 450 Rally stage win from the front of the fi eld and (4hr 10min 30sec) have now established an overall lead of 2. Adrien Van Beveren (FRA) Yamaha 7min 56sec over Saudi Arabian Yazeed WR450F (4hr 13min 02sec) al-Rajhi, driving the fi rst of three Mini 3. Juan Carlos Salvatierra (BOL) KTM 450 All4 Racings inside the top four. The pair Replica (4hr 22min 30sec) were closely matched until the latter kil- 4. Toby Price (AUS) KTM 450 Rally ometres when al-Rajhi lost time with a (4hr 24min 12sec) puncture and a navigational error. 5. Pierre Alexander Renet (FRA) Husq- “Tomorrow we start in the dunes and varna 450 Rally (4hr 24min 34sec) we can push a little but, after what hap- Quads pened today, we can control the race 1. Ignacio Casale Catracchia (CHI) Yamaha and can push more,” said al-Attiyah. Raptor 700 SE (4hr 32min 11sec) “Now the others have to catch us and 2. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 they can make the mistake.” (4hr 46min 29sec) Al-Rajhi was a little defl ated after los- ing so much time late on: “Nasser was too much lucky today. I had a puncture Overall positions (Unoff icial) and the car was sliding at the back for around 40km. I followed him and I see Cars his dust. There were some stones and, 1. Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu with a slow puncture, I stopped. After Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive that, before the fi nish around 20km, I (5hr 09min 04sec) see all the bikes lost. Timo (Gottschalk) Qatar's Nasser Saleh 2. Yazeed al-Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Gottschalk said stay left. We went 3km and came al-Attiyah has now a (DEU) Mini All4 Racing (5hr 17min 00sec) back 4km. It was so frustrating.” lead of 7 minutes 3. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Price had to make his way to the front 56 seconds after SS2. Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini All4 Racing of the motorcycle stage by catching (5hr 42min 59sec) Chile’s Pablo Quintanilla and Dubai- 4. Ricardo Porém (POR)/Tom Colsoul based Briton Sam Sunderland. The (BEL) Mini All4 Racing (5hr 57min 40sec) trio rode together for long sections of Ignacio Casale on 5. Yuriy Sazonov (KAZ)/Dmytro Tsyro the tricky special and Price somehow his Yamaha quad. (UKR) Hummer H3 III (6hr 00min 09sec) reached the fi nish with a lead of 38 sec- 6. Jutta Kleinschmidt (DEU)/Philipp Beier onds over Bolivia’s Juan Carlos Salvati- (DEU) X-raid CBRA (6hr 00min 53sec) erra in the overall standings. 7. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor (POL) All three front-runners got lost for Toyota Hilux Overdrive (6hr 02min 56sec) a long time near the fi nish and fran- 8. Yerdan Shagirov (KAZ)/Vitaliy Yev- tic shenanigans trying to fi nd the cor- tyekkhov (RUS) H3 Evo V (6hr 40min 29sec) rect route played into Chilean rider 9. Hernan Garces (CHI)/Juan Pablo Lat- Jose Cornejo’s hands perfectly and he rach (CHI) Ford Ranger (6hr 49min 17sec) tagged on the end of the group as they 10. Mohamed al-Mannai (QAT)/Kamal found the correct route and managed to Khoder (QAT) Chevrolet Buggy claim an unlikely stage win after major (6hr 50min 09sec) delays on Monday. Frenchman Adrien 11. Adel Hussein Abdullah (QAT)/Nasser Van Beveren set the second quickest al-Kuwari (QAT) Nissan Patrol (T2) time on his factory Yamaha. 6hr 55min 47sec “Defi nitely not easy today,” said 12. Yasir Seidan (SAU)/Sébastien Delaunay Price, who complained of a shooting (FRA) Toyota Land Cruiser (T2) back pain as he arrived in Losail. “The 7hr 04min 33sec last 50 or so kilometres, we made a bit Chilean rider Jose Cornejo 13. Petro Cinotto (ITA)/Mauricio Dominella of a navigational error and got side- was the surprise winner of (ITA) Polaris RXR 1000 (T3) 7hr 40min 42sec tracked. Other than that it was a decent second stage yesterday. day. We just have to regroup and look Bikes forward to tomorrow and try and mini- 1. Toby Price (AUS) KTM 450 Rally mise those mistakes. (6hr 51min 32sec) “The error by Pablo, Sam and myself 2. Juan Carlos Salvatierra (BOL) KTM 450 brings the others back into the race. Replica (6hr 52min 10sec) The way it is situated, a couple of guys 3. Pierre Alexander Renet (FRA) Husq- got in between me, Sam and Pablo, so varna 450 Rally (6hr 53min 26sec) that makes it more diffi cult for myself. me. I took my time to avoid mistakes, dured a troubled second day in the Qa- evening and Peru’s Raul Orlandini was of the route with technical issues and 4. Sam Sunderland (GBR) KTM 450 Rally I guess Pablo made the error, Sam fol- but I did make some. I lost maybe 10 tar deserts. Vladimir Vasilyev climbed promoted into the lead. ceded the T3 lead to his son Pietro Ci- (6hr 53min 30sec) lowed and I was in two minds what to minutes at one point, but the other rid- to third overall in the car category, de- But, when the Peruvian hit mechani- notto in another Polaris RZR 1000s. 5. Pablo Quintanilla (CHI) Husqvarna 450 do. But they were on the gas and I fol- ers lose more than me. spite three fl at tyres. Mini colleague cal trouble early on the second stage, Today is the longest stage of the Rally (6hr 55min 28sec) lowed. One of those things...” “I also lost time at the same place as Ricardo Porém was fourth and Kazakh the Qatari became involved in a battle event, at 355.49km, and starts close to 6. Helder Rodrigues (POR) Yamaha Van Beveren added: “It was nice to- the leaders around km 308. I’m not here Yuriy Sazonov and Jutta Kleinschmidt for the lead with Yasir Seidan. the former bivouac at Sealine. The route WR450 (7hr 10min 39sec) day. Yesterday I had some problem with to win. I am here to learn a lot to win in rounded off the top six. His Nissan Middle East-backed Pa- then heads south towards the Inland Quads the water and my bike stopped. It was the future.” Local driver Adel Hussein Abdullah trol eventually claimed the outright Sea and the Saudi Arabian border area, 1. Ignacio Casale Catracchia (CHI) Yamaha really diffi cult navigation. Casale Catracchia extended his ad- actually began the stage this morn- lead and takes an advantage of 8min before revisiting the western coastline Raptor 700 SE (7hr 36min 43sec) “We started in 11th place because of vantage in the quad category to 14min ing second in the T2 category after 46sec over the Saudi into day three. and turning inland to a fi nish between 2. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 the result yesterday and it was easier for 19sec after Poland’s Rafal Sonik en- the results were amended on Monday Michele Cinotto stopped on the west Umm Qarn and Abu Nakhla. (7hr 51min 02sec) Gulf Times 2 Wednesday, April 20, 2016 FOOTBALL EPL FOCUS Statistics add up for title-chasing Spurs Pochettino proud as Reuters assists for Kane this season London makes that route to goal the most lethal in the division, ahead of the six assists Arsenal’s Mesut f Premier League titles were Ozil has supplied for Olivier Gi- decided by statistics alone roud and the fi ve Riyad Mahrez then Tottenham Hotspur has set up for Vardy. would already have one hand “The best thing I can say Tottenham Hotspur Ion the trophy rather than play- about Spurs is that they are a ing catch-up to Leicester City. team,” said Carragher. “Kane Mauricio Pochettino’s side and Alli are superstars, two fan- lead the charts in pretty much tastic players, but this Spurs every department apart from team is a team.” the all important points column Carragher reckons former where they trail Leicester by fi ve Southampton manager Pochet- with four games to play.