MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 SPORTS Football Results/Standings Arsenal 0 Chelsea 1 (Costa 23); Everton 1 Guingamp 1 (Giresse 90+4-pen) Bastia 0 ; (Cork 26-og) Swansea 2 (Sigurdsson 17- Nice 2 (Ben Arfa 35, Koziello 43) Lorient 1 pen, Ayew 34); Crystal Palace 1 (Jouffre 23). (Vertonghen 30-og) Tottenham 3 (Kane Spanish La Liga results 63, Alli 84, Chadli 90+5); Leicester 3 Athletic Bilbao 5 (Aduriz 12, 52, Merino (Drinkwater 42, Vardy 66, Ulloa 87) Stoke 27, Laporte 40, Dos Santos 80-og) Eibar 2 0; Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 (Baston 4, 49-pen); Malaga 1 (Juanpi 32) (Austin 87); Norwich 4 (Mbokani 29, Barcelona 2 (El Haddadi 2, Messi 51); Naismith 41, Hoolahan 54-pen, Bassong Espanyol 2 (Caicedo 3, Moreno 39) 90+2) Liverpool 5 (Firmino 18, 63, Villarreal 2 (Trigueros 23, Musacchio 88); Henderson 55, Milner 75, Lallana 90+5) Granada 3 (Rico 27, El-Arabi 36, Rochina Sunderland 1 (Van Aanholt 45+1) 77) Getafe 2 (Scepovic 71, MoisÈs 73); Bournemouth 1 (Afobe 13); Watford 2 Rayo Vallecano 3 (Miku 21, Tito 26, (Ighalo 46, Cathcart 58) Newcastle 1 Jozabed 36) Celta Vigo 0 (Lascelles 71); West Brom 0 Aston Villa 0; West Ham 2 (Valencia 1, 56) Manchester Italy Serie A results City 2 (Aguero 9-pen, 81). Fiorentina 2 (Ilicic 24, Rodriguez 83) Torino 0; Verona 1 (Pazzini 39) Genoa 1 French Ligue 1 results (Coppola 19-og); Inter Milan 1 (Palacio Monaco 4 (Silva 28, Coentrao 36, Carrillo 39) Carpi 1 (Lasagna 90+2); Lazio 4 70, Costa 90+3) Toulouse 0; Paris Saint- (Candreva 66-pen, 81, Cataldi 72, Keita Germain 5 (Ibrahimovic 32, Lucas 40, van 90+6) Chievo 1 (Cesar); Palermo 4 der Wiel 54, Di Maria 63, 66) Angers 1 (Quaison 35, Hiljemark 56, Lazaar 77, (Capelle 59); Montpellier 1 (Bensebaini Trajkovski 87) Udinese 1 (Thereau 79); 23) Caen 2 (Rodelin 40, Delort 52); Lille 1 Sampdoria 2 (Correa 45, Eder 73) Napoli 4 (Boufal 25-pen) Troyes 3 (Cabot 77, 80, Pi (Higuain 9, Insigne 18-pen, Hamsik 60, 86); Nantes 2 (Sigthorsson 1, Bedoya 30) Mertens 79); Sassuolo 0 Bologna 2 Bordeaux 2 (Diabate 84, Cana 90+1-og); (Giaccherini 68, Floccari 90+4). European league tables after yesterday’s early match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): English Premier League table Spanish La Liga table Leicester 23 13 8 2 42 26 47 Barcelona 20 15 3 2 52 16 48 Man City 23 13 5 5 45 23 44 Atletico Madrid20 15 2 3 30 8 47 Arsenal 23 13 5 5 37 22 44 Real Madrid 20 13 4 3 57 19 43 Tottenham 23 11 9 3 41 19 42 Villarreal 21 12 5 4 28 18 41 GENOA: Napoli’s forward Gonzalo Higuain (R) from Argentina scores during the Italian Serie A football match Sampdoria Vs Napoli on January Man Utd 23 10 7 6 28 21 37 Celta Vigo 21 10 4 7 32 33 34 24, 2016 at ‘Luigi Ferraris Stadium’. — AFP West Ham 23 9 9 5 36 28 36 Eibar 21 9 6 6 34 26 33 Liverpool 23 9 7 7 30 32 34 Sevilla 20 9 5 6 28 22 32 Southampton 23 9 6 8 32 24 33 Athletic Bilbao 21 9 4 8 32 30 31 Seria A Roundup Stoke 23 9 6 8 24 25 33 Deportivo 20 6 10 4 27 24 28 Watford 23 9 5 9 27 26 32 Getafe 21 7 5 9 26 31 26 Crystal Palace 23 9 4 10 24 27 31 Valencia 20 5 9 6 25 21 24 Malaga 21 6 6 9 16 19 24 Higuain becomes Europe’s Everton 23 6 11 6 40 34 29 Chelsea 23 7 7 9 32 34 28 Espanyol 21 6 4 11 20 35 22 West Brom 23 7 7 9 22 30 28 Real Sociedad 21 5 6 10 24 33 21 Swansea 23 6 7 10 22 31 25 Real Betis 20 5 6 9 13 28 21 top scorer as Inter stumble Bournemouth 23 6 7 10 27 38 25 Granada 21 5 5 11 24 43 20 Norwich 23 6 5 12 28 43 23 Rayo Vallecano 21 5 4 12 26 45 19 Newcastle 23 5 6 12 25 41 21 Las Palmas 20 4 6 10 19 30 18 MILAN: Gonzalo Higuain struck his 21st goal in beat Pepe Reina first-time from 12 yards. Giuseppe Rossi moved on loan to Spanish Sunderland 23 5 4 14 28 46 19 Sporting Gijon 20 5 3 12 22 35 18 as many games to help Napoli tighten their grip A superb piece of individual skill from Napoli league side Levante, made their debuts in the Aston Villa 23 2 7 14 18 38 13 Levante 20 3 5 12 17 36 14 on Serie A with a 4-2 win at Sampdoria as title captain Marek Hamsik helped Sarri’s men restore final stages. Costa replaced Ilicic midway challengers Inter Milan were stunned by a late their lead, the Slovakian shimmying past three through the second half and Zarate replaced French Ligue 1 table Italian Serie A table Carpi leveller. As Napoli battled to their 14th win players inside the area to toe-poke the ball past Nikola Kalinic with seven minutes remaining. Paris SG 22 19 3 0 56 10 60 Napoli 21 14 5 2 45 18 47 of the campaign, Inter paid the price for a series Viviano at his far post on the hour. Sampdoria Fiorentina’s 13th win moved them up to provi- Monaco 22 10 9 3 33 25 39 Juventus 20 13 3 4 37 15 42 of first-half misses when Kevin Lasagna levelled pulled one back on 73 minutes when Eder rose sional third place at three points behind leaders at the death for the league minnows to secure a to meet a corner to fire a glancing header Napoli ahead of the remaining Serie A fixtures, Nice 22 10 6 6 37 26 36 Fiorentina 21 13 2 6 39 21 41 1-1 draw at a stunned San Siro. Napoli now sit through the legs of Reina, but six minutes later with Inter Milan, who host strugglers Carpi, Rennes 22 8 10 4 32 25 34 Inter Milan 21 12 5 4 26 14 41 five points ahead of Juventus, who host Roma in the match was effectively over. dropping one place to fourth. Angers 22 9 7 6 21 18 34 Roma 20 9 8 3 37 23 35 Sunday’s late game, and have a six-point lead on Dries Mertens had replaced Insigne with 15 Caen 22 10 3 9 24 28 33 AC Milan 21 9 6 6 29 25 33 Fiorentina after their 2-0 win over Torino earlier minutes remaining and only four minutes later Milan held by Empoli Saint-Etienne 21 10 2 9 24 24 32 Sassuolo 21 8 8 5 25 23 32 in the day. the Belgian international took on two Samp Mario Balotelli struggled to make an impact Bordeaux 22 7 9 6 27 30 30 Empoli 21 9 5 7 27 26 32 Inter have dropped to fourth at six points defenders before beating Viviano with a low in a second-half substitute’s appearance as Marseille 21 7 8 6 31 22 29 Lazio 21 9 4 8 29 30 31 adrift, enforcing the pundits’ belief that it is now shot at his far post. Empoli dug deep to hold AC Milan 2-2 and dent Lyon 21 8 5 8 27 25 29 Chievo 21 7 6 8 27 26 27 a two-horse race for the title. After what has Elsewhere, Lazio and Palermo gave their stut- the Rossoneri’s European hopes on Saturday. Nantes 22 7 8 7 20 22 29 Torino 21 7 5 9 27 28 26 been a trying week for Napoli, the Azzurri tering campaigns a boost by recording impres- Milan travelled to the Castellani stadium buoyed Lorient 22 6 9 7 30 32 27 Bologna 21 8 2 11 24 27 26 showed their mettle. Coach Maurizio Sarri was sive 4-1 wins over Chievo and Udinese respec- after a 2-0 defeat of Fiorentina last week that left Ajaccio 22 6 8 8 24 27 26 Atalanta 21 7 5 9 21 24 26 caught in the eye of a homophobic storm after tively. Bologna’s purple patch under coach Sinisa Mihajlovic’s men 12 points behind leaders Lille 22 5 10 7 17 18 25 Palermo 21 7 3 11 23 34 24 calling fellow coach Roberto Mancini a “poof” Roberto Donadoni continued with a shock 2-0 Napoli and within sight of the European qualify- Bastia 22 7 4 11 21 27 25 Udinese 21 7 3 11 19 35 24 during a post-match tirade following defeat to win away to Sassuolo, who remain seventh but ing places. But the visitors had left themselves Genoa 21 6 5 10 24 27 23 Guingamp 22 6 6 10 20 29 24 Inter Milan in the quarter-final of the Italian Cup. are now only one point ahead of a resurgent exposed on the half hour when Empoli forward Sampdoria 21 6 5 10 31 36 23 Montpellier 22 6 4 12 23 29 22 Inter drew a line under the controversy on Friday Lazio. Piotr Zielinski was unmarked to level Carlos Carpi 21 4 6 11 20 36 18 Reims 21 5 7 9 22 29 22 by publicly accepting Napoli and Sarri’s apology.