MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2017 SPORTS Women and children attacked in Dortmund fan clash BERLIN: Hardcore Borussia Dortmund Dortmund fans,” police said in a state- ers, which was directed against any per- “The attacks of Dortmund fans “We are glad that, according to our fans attacked terrified RB Leipzig sup- ment. RB Leipzig were unable to tell SID, son recognised as a Leipzig fan, regard- against opposing spectators and the information, the injured RB Leipzig fans porters, including children and women, an AFP subsidiary, how many of their less of whether they were small children, police, plus insults and offenses against were able to return home.” in football battles that led to 28 arrests, fans were hurt, but German daily Bild women or families,” said Dortmund women and children, are not acceptable RB Leipzig, who are backed by energy German authorities said. A crowd of claim at least 10 visiting supporters were police. and are embarrasing for the whole of drinks giant Red Bull, are unpopular 81,360 saw Dortmund’s 1-0 home win hospitalised. “In connection with this, four officers football in Germany,” said RB Leipzig in a amongst German fans for the commer- over second-placed RB Leipzig on After a group of around 500 hardcore and a police dog were injured.” Borussia statement. cialism the club is perceived to repre- Saturday, but there were ugly scenes ‘Ultra’ Dortmund fans went on the ram- Dortmund said they “deeply regretted “The fact that people were confront- sent, but Dortmund fans were particu- outside Borussia’s Signal Iduna Park sta- page, police weighed in with pepper the riots” and wished the injured Leipzig ed with violence at a football match is larly unwelcoming. dium before kick-off when some of the spray and batons. Arrests were made for fans a speedy recovery. unacceptable. There were several offensive banners 8,500 visiting fans were targeted. “In the offences including assault, grievous Leizpig, who are in their first season “We expect from Mr Watzke and Mr in the Dortmund stadium aimed at RB, build-up to the match, in the bodily harm, breach of the peace, insult- in Germany’s top flight, have demanded Rauball that these scenes, which were including “Burnout Ralph, go hang your- Strobelallee area (outside the ground), ing behaviour and resisting arrest. “All in an explanation from Dortmund’s CEO committed by several perpetrators, will self!” after Leipzig’s sports director Ralf RB Leipzig supporters were bombarded all, there was extreme aggressiveness Hans-Joachim Watzke and president be fully explained in the interests of the Rangnick resigned from Schalke in 2011 with stones and cans from Borussia and violence from Dortmund support- Reinhard Rauball. entire Bundesliga. with burnout. —AFP Sevilla loses ground after home draw with Villarreal MADRID: A wasted penalty. A goal disal- Asenjo said. “We played a very complete lowed for offside. An inspired goalkeeper. It game and I’m very happy with the out- all led to another disappointing setback for come. Credit goes to these 10 ‘beasts’ that I Sevilla, which was held by Villarreal to a 0-0 have as teammates.” draw at home yesterday and missed a Asenjo was crucial for Villarreal’s draw at chance to move closer to the Spanish the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium in league lead. Seville. In addition to guessing right to Samir Nasri failed from the penalty spot make the stop in the penalty kick taken by in the 49th minute, Wissam Ben Yedder had Nasri, he made two superb saves from his goal disallowed for offside in the 59th, close-range headers, one in each half. The and Vicente Iborra’s close-range header most spectacular one came after Iborra’s was brilliantly saved by Villarreal goalkeep- attempt near the end. er Sergio Asenjo in the 82nd, stopping “We created a lot of scoring chances,” Sevilla from gaining much ground in the Sevilla defender Adil Rami said. “Their goal- standings. keeper must be very happy because he The result left Sevilla in third place with alone salvaged a point for his team. For us 43 points, two behind Barcelona and three this point is not good.” behind leader Real Madrid. Barcelona Forward Adrian Lopez had a couple of defeated Athletic Bilbao 3-0 on Saturday, clear chances for Villarreal, also one in each while Madrid had its Sunday game at Celta half, but failed to capitalize on them. Vigo postponed because of wind damage Ben Yedder’s goal was disallowed in a to Celta’s Balaidos Stadium. Madrid will very close call for offside not long after have two games in hand over Barcelona Nasri’s missed penalty. The league was yet and Sevilla after this weekend’s matches. to set a date for the match between Celta “It’s frustrating to lose these two points,” and Madrid, which had to be called off after Sevilla coach Jorge Sampaoli said. “We Vigo officials said they could not guarantee played up front from the start and we tried the “safety of spectators and players” after to score the goal until the last minute. We winds tore off parts of the roof at Balaidos deserved a better result.” Stadium. There are few dates open to Sevilla was coming off a 3-1 loss at reschedule the game, as Madrid is still play- Espanyol, a result that halted its five-game ing in the Champions League and Celta in winning streak in the league, which revived the Copa del Rey. its hopes of contending for the title. Madrid also still has to play a league Villarreal, which lost only once in its last game at Valencia after it was postponed eight league games, stayed in fifth place because of Madrid’s participation in FIFA’s with 35 points, four behind Atletico Madrid, Club World Cup in December. MANCHESTER: Swansea City’s Spanish striker Fernando Llorente (C) vies with Manchester City’s Serbian defender Aleksandar Kolarov (R) during which beat Leganes 2-0 on Saturday at its On Friday, bad weather in northwestern the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Swansea City at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west Vicente Calderon Stadium. Spain also forced the postponement of the England, yesterday. — AFP “Sometimes things go your way. We match between Deportivo La Coruna and earned a point in a very difficult field Real Betis. Deportivo’s Riazor Stadium also SOCCER against a Sevilla team that pressures a lot,” was damaged by heavy winds. `—AP La Liga results/standings Jesus saves Man City Sevilla 0, Villarreal 0; Atletico Madrid 2, Leganes 0; Barcelona 3, Athletic Club 0; Malaga 0, Espanyol 1; Valencia 0, Eibar 4. PWD LF APts Las Palmas 20 7 7 6 31 31 28 Real Madrid 19 14 4 1 51 17 46 Alaves 20 5 9 6 17 20 24 with last-gasp winner Barcelona 21 13 6 2 55 18 45 Real Betis 20 6 5 9 21 31 23 Sevilla 21 13 4 4 43 28 43 Malaga 21 5 7 9 28 35 22 Atletico Madrid21 11 6 4 36 16 39 Deportivo 20 4 7 9 25 32 19 However, City’s supporters would have been in response and delivered a low cross which hit Villarreal 21 9 8 4 28 14 35 Valencia 20 5 4 11 29 40 19 Real Sociedad 20 11 2 7 31 28 35 forgiven for wondering if their failure to score the foot of Fabianski’s post. Eibar 21 9 5 7 32 29 32 Leganes 21 4 6 11 15 35 18 Man City 2 more than one goal would come back to haunt But the longer City went without adding a Espanyol 21 8 8 5 29 27 32 Sporting Gijon 20 3 4 13 20 39 13 them as Swansea made an improved start to the second goal, the more the anxiety grew at the Athletic Club 21 9 5 7 26 25 32 Osasuna 20 1 7 12 21 43 10 second half. Sigurdsson threatened to equalise Etihad, especially when Mawson headed just Celta Vigo 20 9 3 8 31 33 30 Granada CF 20 1 7 12 16 44 10 in the 49th minute with a magnificently struck wide from Sigurdsson’s corner. Swansea City 1 free-kick that was kept out by a combination of The Swansea defender was pressed into the leaping Caballero’s right glove and his right- action at the other end when he blocked a dan- hand post. Leroy Sane sped down the other end gerous low cross from Sterling.— AFP MANCHESTER: Gabriel Jesus scored two goals including an injury-time winner as Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City recorded a dramatic 2-1 victory over struggling Swansea City at the Parolo hits four in Lazio Etihad Stadium yesterday. The home side looked in complete control rout, Milan booed off during a dominant first-half showing only to sur- render an 81st-minute equaliser to Gylfi MILAN: Marco Parolo scored four goals in Gianluigi Donnarumma the wrong way from Sigurdsson. The Iceland international capitalised Lazio’s emphatic 6-2 win at Pescara in Serie A the penalty spot in the 70th minute to hand on some poor defending, collecting Luciano yesterday while AC Milan’s season continued Milan their third successive league defeat Narsingh’s pass, switching the ball to his left foot to nosedive as they were booed off the San after Gabriel Paletta fouled Fabio Quagliarella. and scoring with a brilliant low drive from just Siro pitch after a 1-0 home defeat against Milan, who are now in eighth place and outside the area.