15 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 sports David de Gea signs new deal at Man Utd Marseille stun struggling Monaco AFP | London avid de Gea has signed Marseille battled back from 2-0 down to beat AS Monaco 4-3 Da new long-term con- tract with Manchester Unit- AFP | Paris ed, the Premier League club announced yesterday, end- arseille came back ing months of speculation from two goals down over his future. Mto beat winless Mo - “David de Gea has signed naco 4-3 in a Ligue 1 thriller KNOW WHAT a new long-term contract in the principality on Sunday with Manchester United, as close-season signing Dario keeping him at the club Benedetto scored twice. Dario Benedetto until at least June 2023,” Andre Villas-Boas’ side United said on climbed to fourth in the early has now scored four their official table after recovering from fall- goals in five Ligue 1 website. “There ing 2-0 behind to Wissam Ben appearances is an option to Yedder’s double in the first half extend for a fur- an hour. the last quarter of an hour we ther year.” “It’s four goals away from suffered too. It’s not always nice home, it’s good. And with the to watch, but you have to know David victories, confidence is com- how to be efficient.” de Gea ing back,” Dimitri Payet, who Monaco grabbed the lead in scored Marseille’s third goal, the 17th minute after Bouna told Canal+. Sarr inadvertently handled a D e Monaco, who only narrow- ball over the top towards Is - Gea ly avoided relegation last term, lam Slimani, with Ben Yedder Olympique de Marseille’s Argentine forward Dario Benedetto (L) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal joined United remain second-bottom with just stepping up to slam home the from Atletico two points from their opening penalty and score his second utes before the break, as Valere onto Monaco by powering home third as Kalifa Coulibaly’s goal Madrid in 2011 five matches and have already goal for the club since joining Germain ended a seven-match his side’s fourth goal midway secured a 1-0 win over Reims, and has made conceded 14 goals. from Sevilla. goal drought with a back-post through the second half. while Saint-Etienne came back 367 appearances The pressure is once again Ben Yedder wasted little time diving header. Keita Balde came off the from two goals down to draw for the club. mounting on coach Leonardo in netting his third, latching bench to pull one back for the 2-2 with Toulouse. “It has been Jardim, who was sacked early onto Slimani’s perfectly-weight- More misery for Monaco hosts with 15 minutes to play, Neymar scored a spectacular a privilege to last season before returning af- ed through ball nine minutes lat- Monaco’s defensive woes con- and seconds later Mandanda de- overhead kick in injury time on spend eight ter an ill-fated spell in charge er, before slotting into an empty tinued and they fell behind just nied Balde and Slimani in quick Saturday to snatch PSG a 1-0 win years at this great from Thierry Henry. net after his initial effort was after the hour mark when some succession to prevent Monaco over Strasbourg, despite being club and the op- Marseille are now only two kept out by Marseille goalkeeper sloppy play in midfield allowed from levelling. relentlessly booed by his team’s portunity to con- points adrift of reigning champi- Steve Mandanda. Payet to advance and drill an But Marseille closed out their fans at the Parc des Princes after tinue my career ons and leaders Paris Saint-Ger- But the away team hit back excellent long-range strike into most impressive victory under failing to force a close-season at Manchester main, and behind Rennes and as Argentinian striker Benedet- the bottom corner. Villas-Boas with relative com- return to Barcelona. United is a genu- Nantes on goal difference. to scored for the third straight Benedetto, who signed for fort in the final moments. Benedetto has now scored ine honour,” said “Maybe we’ve dared to play game. Marseille from Boca Juniors Earlier on Sunday, Christian four goals in five Ligue 1 ap - the 28-year-old. a little more,” added Payet. “In They were level three min- last month, piled further misery Gourcuff’s Nantes moved into pearances Root plots Ashes success Watford battle back to salvage draw against Arsenal AFP | London Down Under after series draw rsenal squandered a two- Agoal lead as Watford hit AFP | London back to draw 2-2 in new man- ager Quique Sanchez Flores’s aptain Joe Root put the fo- first game of his second stint Ccus firmly on winning the in charge at Vicarage Road on Ashes in Australia after Eng- Sunday. land levelled their home se - Flores’s return following the ries on Sunday, saying he was dismissal of Javi Gracia after “desperate” to take the team four games of the Premier forward. League season seemed to be England won at The Oval by going flat as Pierre-Emerick 135 runs in the fifth and final Aubameyang struck twice in Ashes Test to tie the series at the first half. 2-2, ending their historic World But Tom Cleverley halved the Watford’s Roberto Pereyra celebrates scoring their second goal with Cup-winning season on a high. deficit in the 53rd minute after Abdoulaye Doucoure It meant the series finished some dreadful Arsenal careless- brought down by David Luiz. by Bernd Leno after a coun - in a draw for the first time since ness and Watford were reward- Watford came agonisingly ter-attack. 1972, although holders Austral- ed for a much-improved display close to winning it with Gerard Victory would have put Ar- ia retain the urn. England captain Joe Root celebrates after taking a wicket when substitute Roberto Pe- Deulofeu curling just wide and senal into third place but they Root described the summer reyra converted an 81st-minute then Abdoulaye Doucoure hav- ended the day seventh in a clus- as “a huge success for English for going down there and hope- penalty awarded after he was ing stoppage-time shot saved ter of clubs on eight points. cricket” after their World Cup fully doing something very spe- triumph in July. cial.” He said the foundations were At times we’ve Root said the performance in in place for England to build on, been out- the fifth Test was a “blueprint” praising Rory Burns for his con- of how he wanted his team to Paine proud of Australia despite defeat tributions at the top of the or- skilled... but play but there was still room for der and paceman Jofra Archer, we’ve always improvement. AFP | London puts a bit of a dampener on it.” who only made his Test debut fought very hard “You look at this week in par- “We can be really proud of last month. and that’s a very ticular,” he said. “It looks as like ustralia captain Tim the way we’ve come over here, “Throughout the whole se- pleasing thing we just started to really get to Paine said it was mis- which is a challenging place for ries we’ve shown a lot of char- grips with Test cricket after sion accomplished even Australians to come and play JOE ROOT A acter,” said Root, who described a very long period of one-day though his team lost the fifth and win,” he added. 2-2 as a fair result. cricket. and final Ashes Test against “To win two Test matches “At times we’ve been out- place in Australia in 2021-22 “We’ve got a period now and England on Sunday to draw the pretty convincingly, should skilled... but we’ve always and Root said he was “in it for an opportunity in the next two- series 2-2. have won a third (at Head - Tim Paine plants a kiss on the Ashes fought very hard and that’s a the long haul”. and-a-half years to really push Paine said Australia, who ingley) -- let that slip no urn very pleasing thing,” he said. “I’m desperate to take this and do everything we can to won at Edgbaston and Old Traf- doubt.” “Hopefully that will be a mas- team forward,” said the skipper. prepare extremely well for that ford but lost agonisingly to a “We’re taking the urn home Paine said winning the first sive stepping stone and starting “I’m in a very privileged po- tour of Australia so that’s go- Ben Stokes-inspired England at so that’s certainly what we Test at Edgbaston, where Aus- point for us to really kick on as sition to be captain of the Test ing to be a huge focus for me Headingley, had achieved their came to do,” he said. “We’re tralia triumphed by 251 runs, a team now.” team and I’ll do everything I and I like to hope for English main objective in retaining the thrilled by that, a little disap- had been crucial for his side’s The Ashes will next take can to get us very well prepared cricket.” urn. pointed by this game obviously, confidence..