Dagg double as West Indies beat All Blacks whip India by one run feisty Wallabies in record run blitz SUNDAY, AUGUST 28,16 2016 17 Liverpool pricked by Rose thorn in Tottenham draw Page 18 HULL: Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, left, wins the header from Hull City’s Andrew Robertson during the Premier League soccer match Hull City versus Manchester United at the KCOM Stadium, Hull, England, yesterday. — AP Rashford strikes to extend United’s perfect start leaders Chelsea only on goals scored. Zlatan Ibrahimovic despite the return of defender Harry Maguire from injury. The visitors almost took the lead in the eighth minute, went close twice in the first half for United, while Rooney Hull’s stand-in manager is continuing to have to field when Ibrahimovic glanced a header onto the roof of the Hull City 0 was denied by a brilliant first-half block from Hull captain players out of position, with midfielder Jake Livermore net from Anthony Martial’s clever cross. They found it dif- Curtis Davies. once again filling in as a centre-back, and winger Sam ficult to create clear chances after that and Hull did cause Hull, themselves looking to maintain a perfect league Clucas figuring in a holding midfield role. The club’s lack problems at the other end. Man Utd 1 record, spent most of the match on the defensive but did of signings has been a sore point with supporters, who Marouane Fellaini conceded a free-kick right on the have threatening moments of their own. Robert have called for owners Assem and Ehab Allam to leave edge of the penalty area which Snodgrass, a regular Snodgrass’ free-kick flew just wide in the opening half, the club. threat from set-pieces, curled just wide. United should KINGSTON UPON HULL: Marcus Rashford extended while Tom Huddlestone’s shot was deflected just wide off have gone in front eight minutes before the interval Manchester United’s 100 percent start to the Premier Eric Bailly inside the final 15 minutes. ADVERSITY when Juan Mata raced past Andrew Robertson and League season with a dramatic strike two minutes into Indeed, David Meyler lifted a shot over the bar from a Ehab, writing in the match programme, indicated that crossed for Rooney six yards out, but the England cap- stoppage time to seal a 1-0 win at Hull City yesterday. promising position just seconds before Rashford struck, a deal has been agreed to sell the club, with a Chinese tain’s effort was blocked by Davies, and the visitors’ Teenage forward Rashford, left out of the starting line- leaving the home side wondering what might have been. consortium led by commercial property investors Dai appeals for handball went unheeded. Ibrahimovic then up for each of United’s opening three matches, made his Aside from the agonising manner of the defeat, a Yongge and Dai Xiu Li believed to be taking over, having backheeled into the side-netting just before half-time, case for greater involvement as he came on as a substi- major concern for their caretaker manager Mike Phelan, been in negotiations for several weeks. and United’s search for a goal continued with little suc- tute to convert Wayne Rooney’s low cross from close though, will be an injury to Scotland international Despite chaos off the pitch, Hull’s players have shown cess for much of the second period. Paul Pogba and sub- range. Up to that point, it looked like being an evening Snodgrass, who had to come off early in the second half. remarkable strength in adversity on it, withstanding stitute Henrikh Mkhitaryan both had long-range efforts of frustration for Jose Mourinho’s team, but they leave Phelan, who is hoping to sign goalkeeper David Marshall United’s pressure until the final seconds in torrential rain that missed the target, and the match looked set for a the KCOM Stadium in second place in the table behind from Cardiff City, is desperately short of senior players, in east Yorkshire. draw until Rashford’s late intervention. — AFP Vardy helps Leicester clinch first win byline, but the striker’s touch let him down and he con- ceded a goal-kick with two frustrated team-mates wait- Leicester 2 ing for a cross. Gylfi Sigurdsson had a long-range shot saved by Kasper Schmeichel in the Swansea goal before Vardy made up for his earlier frustration with the open- ing goal. He raced onto a first-time, volleyed pass from Swansea 1 Danny Drinkwater and outmuscled Jordi Amat before blasting home a shot off Fabianski’s left-hand post. LEICESTER: Jamie Vardy scored his first goal of the sea- son as Leicester energised their Premier League title CRUCIAL CLEARANCE defence with a 2-1 win against Swansea in a torrential Sigurdsson tried his luck again from distance thunderstorm yesterday. moments later but this time his effort cleared the cross- Vardy’s 32nd-minute strike gave Claudio Ranieri’s bar. Swansea enjoyed a better spell as half-time side a deserved half-time lead and captain Wes Morgan approached and a right-wing cross from Modou Barrow, added the Foxes’ second goal on 52 minutes at the King which was flicked towards goal by Wayne Routledge, Power Stadium. Leroy Fer scored for Swansea with nine brought a crucial clearance from Morgan inside his six- minutes remaining but Leicester stood firm for their first yard box. win of the season despite Foxes winger Riyad Mahrez But just before half-time Leicester could have dou- having a penalty saved at 2-0. bled their lead when Shinji Okazaki let fly with a right- It was the Algerian’s third failure in his last four footed shot that brought a fine save from Fabianski. Premier League penalties but it did not cost his side. Leicester should have been more than a single goal After defeat at Hull on the opening day of the season clear at half-time but they made their advantage pay LEICESTER: Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy, left, scores his side’s first goal of the game during their Premier League and a draw with Arsenal last week, this was the perfect just seven minutes into the second half. soccer match against Swansea City at the King Power Stadium, Leicester, England, yesterday. — AP way for Leicester to head into the international break. Morgan and Robert Huth leapt to meet a Marc Leicester built up a head of steam in the early Albrighton corner and, when the ball dropped for made a smart save low to his right. ed wide by Morgan. exchanges and they won a free-kick just outside the Morgan, the defender lashed home with a powerful vol- There was a further blow for the Foxes when it Swansea gave themselves hope with nine minutes Swansea area when Federico Fernandez chopped down ley. Swansea rallied briefly with Sigurdsson sending an emerged Schmeichel had picked up an injury and the remaining when a cross by Barrow was headed into the Jamie Vardy on his way to goal. effort over the crossbar before Schmeichel raced from Dane had to be replaced by summer signing Ron- bottom corner by Fer but it was not enough to trigger a Mahrez struck a shot with his left foot but it crept his goal to deny the advancing Fernando Llorente. Robert Zieler. The Leicester pressure was maintained, comeback, with Mahrez curling a shot just wide for just past Lukasz Fabianski’s left-hand post. But the hosts should have extended their lead though, and two inviting crosses could have led to Leicester in stoppage-time. With the pitch now close to The momentum was maintained when Vardy used moments later when a clumsy challenge by Amat felled goals. The first was flashed across the face of goal by unplayable due to the heavy rain, Leicester had a final pace and strength to get past Kyle Naughton and to the Okazaki and handed them a penalty. Drinkwater but was missed by his team-mates and the chance when substitute Ahmed Musa raced clear but However, Mahrez’s spot-kick was poor and Fabianski second was bent to the far post by Albrighton but guid- fired straight at Fabianksi. — AFP.