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City to a draw
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WORLD SPORT
Gulf Daily News Sunday, 1st February 2015
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LONDON: Spanish
midfielder
David
Silva equalised as
Manchester
City
prevented Chelsea pulling eight points clear at the
Premier League summit in
a hard-fought 1-1 draw at
Stamford Bridge yesterday.
Manchester United climbed
into third place with a 3-1 win
over basement club Leicester at
Old Trafford.
The Foxes produced one of
the upsets of the season in coming from 3-1 down to beat United 5-3 when the teams last met
in September.
United will only be in the top
three briefly if Southampton regain third place by avoiding defeat at home to Swansea today
when Arsenal, also vying for a
top-four finish, face Aston Villa
at the Emirates.
Tottenham Hotspur completed a fine week with a 3-0 win
away to West Bromwich Albion
where Harry Kane scored twice
to take his tally for the season
to an impressive 20 goals.
Crystal Palace saw a run
of four successive wins in all
competitions since manager Alan Pardew arrived from
Newcastle end with a 1-0 home
loss to Everton.
Second-from-bottom Queens
Park Rangers’ dreadful away record continued as they suffered
a 3-1 defeat to former manager
Mark Hughes’s Stoke City.
Jermain Defoe scored his
first goal since returning to English football from Toronto as
he netted Sunderland’s second
in a 2-0 win at home to Burnley
n Chelsea’s Remy scores past City goalkeeper Joe Hart
after Connor Wickham put the
Black Cats ahead.
Yesterday’s early kick-off
saw John Carver enjoy his first
win as Newcastle boss after a
3-0 success away to Hull ended
a run of four games without a
victory since Pardew’s exit.
Loic Remy put Chelsea in
front in the 41st minute, but Silva touched in a shot from Sergio
Aguero four minutes later to keep
the defending champions five
points behind Jose Mourinho’s
side with 15 matches remaining.
Manuel Pellegrini’s City have
won only one of their last five
league games, but following
successive defeats by Arsenal
and Middlesbrough, they at least
prevented Chelsea from streaking
away into the distance.
Chelsea great Frank Lampard, sent on by City as a late
substitute, was afforded a warm
reception on what was likely to
prove his final appearance at
Stamford Bridge, and it was a
broadly positive afternoon for
the hosts.
While the sight of Willian
limping off late on was a concern, they coped well without
the suspended Diego Costa and
the injured Cesc Fabregas, and
remain very much on track for a
first league title since 2010.
With Costa beginning a
three-game ban for treading
on Liverpool’s Emre Can,
Mourinho plumped for the pace
of Remy over the battering-ram
qualities of Didier Drogba up
front, but it was City’s attackers
who showed their opponents a
ENGLISH LEAGUE
Premiership
Crystal Palace
Hull
0
Everton
1
0
Newcastle
3
2
West Ham
0
3
Leicester
1
3
QPR
1
2
Burnley
0
0
Tottenham
3
1
Manchester City
1
(Cabella 40, Ameobi 50, Gouffran 78)
Liverpool
Man United
(Sterling 51, Sturridge 80)
(Van Persie 27, Falcao 32, Morgan 44-og) (Wasilewski 80)
Stoke
(Walters 21, 34, 90) (Kranjcar 36)
Sunderland
West Brom
Chelsea
(Wickham 20, Defoe 34)
(Eriksen 6, Kane 15, 64-pen)
(Remy 41) (Silva 45)
P
W
D
L
F
Chelsea
23 16
5
2
52
Man City
23 14
6
3
46
Man United
23 12
7
4
39
Southampton
22 13
3
6
37
Tottenham
23 12
4
7
35
Arsenal
22 11
6
5
39
Liverpool
23 11
5
7
33
West Ham
23 10
6
7
35
Stoke
23
9
5
9
26
Swansea
22
8
6
8
26
Newcastle
23
8
6
9
29
Everton
23
6
8
9
31
Crystal Palace
23
5
8 10
25
Sunderland
23
4 11
8
21
West Brom
23
5
7 11
20
Aston Villa
22
5
7 10
11
Burnley
23
4
8 11
21
Hull
23
4
7 12
20
QPR
23
5
4 14
24
Leicester
23
4
5 14
21
Playing today:
Arsenal v Aston Villa
(Starting at 4.30pm, Bahrain time)
Southampton v Swansea
(Starting at 7pm, Bahrain time)
A
20
23
22
16
30
25
27
27
28
30
35
34
34
33
32
25
38
33
42
37
Pts
53
48
43
42
40
39
38
36
32
30
30
26
23
23
22
22
20
19
19
17
Birmingham
Blackburn
Blackpool
Bolton
Brentford
Cardiff
Charlton
Huddersfield
Ipswich
Nottingham Forest
Reading
0
2
1
2
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
Norwich
Fulham
Brighton
Wolves
Middlesbrough
Derby
Rotherham
Leeds
Wigan
Millwall
Sheffield Wednesday
0
1
0
2
1
2
1
2
0
1
0
League One
Barnsley
Bradford
Chesterfield
Coventry
Crawley
Crewe
Leyton Orient
Oldham
Peterborough
Sheffield United
2
1
2
2
2
0
1
3
1
2
Port Vale
Colchester
Doncaster
Rochdale
Preston
Milton Keynes Dons
Scunthorpe
Notts County
Yeovil
Swindon
1
1
2
2
1
5
4
0
0
0
League Two
Accrington
Burton
Carlisle
Dagenham and Redbridge
Exeter
Hartlepool
Luton
Morecambe
Newport
Southend
Stevenage
Wycombe
1
1
2
3
1
3
3
1
0
1
0
0
Northampton
Bury
Mansfield
Cheltenham
Tranmere
Plymouth
Cambridge
AFC Wimbledon
Shrewsbury
York
Oxford
Portsmouth
5
0
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
0
2
0
Karim
Benzema
scored
twice as Real Madrid
thrashed Real Sociedad
4-1 at home yesterday without
the suspended Cristiano Ronaldo to ensure they remained top
of the Spanish league.
Sociedad defender Aritz
Elustondo headed in his first
goal for the Basque club 36 seconds into the match, but James
Rodriguez headed the hosts
level in the third minute and
Real never looked back.
Sergio Ramos scored in the
37th and Benzema made it 3-1
in the 53rd before he struck an
exquisite second goal in the 76th.
Ronaldo watched from the
stands at the Santiago Bernabeu
Stadium as he served the first of a
two-game ban for kicking a Cordoba player in the last round.
Real opened a four-point gap
over Barcelona before they host
Villarreal today. Real also have a
game in hand that they will play
against Sevilla on Wednesday.
David Moyes’ Sociedad displayed little of the verve they
relied on to overcome a 2-0
deficit and fight back for a stunning 4-2 victory over Real in
August, before Moyes’s arrival.
Only Geronimo Rulli’s goalkeeping spared Sociedad a
bigger defeat as Sociedad remained in 11th place and the
only team yet to win away in
the league this season.
Sociedad caught Madrid slow
to start the game as left back Yuri
Berchiche charged up the pitch to
win a corner kick, which Ruben
Pardo sent into the area for Elustondo to thump in.
But the European champions didn’t take long to respond
as Rodriguez slipped between
Sociedad’s pair of center backs
to head Marcelo’s pass into the
corner of the net.
Sociedad never looked steady
at the back, but they threatened
until forward Carlos Vela hurt his
right knee and had to substituted in the 17th. Rulli saved shots
from Benzema and Rodriguez
before turning back Benzema a
second time, only for Ramos to
put Real in front for good.
WORLD RESULTS
Premier League
Basketball
Dundee
Inverness
Motherwell
1
1
1
W
16
15
15
14
12
10
8
8
6
5
5
2
P
22
23
24
23
25
24
25
23
23
24
25
23
Celtic
Aberdeen
Inverness
Dundee United
Hamilton
St Johnstone
Dundee
Kilmarnock
Partick
Motherwell
St Mirren
Ross County
Hamilton
Ross County
St Johnstone
D
L
F
3
3
43
3
5
37
3
6
35
3
6
46
4
9
39
4
10
21
9
8
37
4
11
23
7
10
32
3
16
16
3
17
20
6
15
21
A
12
21
22
30
32
25
38
30
28
46
41
45
1
1
1
Pts
51
48
48
45
40
34
33
28
25
18
18
12
Division One
Airdrie
Ayr United
Forfar Athletic
Peterhead
Stranraer
1
0
1
2
1
Brechin
Dunfermline
Greenock Morton
Stenhousemuir
Stirling Albion
1
2
2
0
0
Division Two
Albion Rovers
Arbroath
Berwick Rangers
East Stirlingshire
Montrose
2
1
0
1
2
Queen’s Park
East Fife
Elgin City
Clyde
Annan
2
Aberdeen
Playing today:
Celtic v Rangers
(Starting at 4.30pm, Bahrain time)
1
Scottish Championship
0
3
1
1
Queen of the South
Dumbarton
Raith Rovers
Hearts
National Basketball Association on Friday:
Phoenix
99 Chicago
93
Miami
72 Dallas
93
Atlanta
105 Portland
99
Boston
87 Houston
93
Brooklyn
122 Toronto
127
(Overtime)
Cleveland
101 Sacramento
90
Utah
110 Golden State
100
108
LA Clippers
103
New Orleans
Philadelphia
103 Minnesota
94
Ice hockey
National Hockey League on Friday:
Vancouver
5 Buffalo
Anaheim
1 Chicago
Colorado
3 Nashville
New Jersey
1
Pittsburgh
(Overtime)
Carolina
2
St Louis
(Shootout)
2
4
0
2
3
Soccer
1
1
2
2
1
Scottish League Cup
Semi-final:
Dundee United
Cowdenbeath
Falkirk
Hibernian
Alloa Athletic
BARCELONA:
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
The Championship
(Lukaku 2)
clean pair of heels in the early
stages.
Inside the first minute, Jesus
Navas drifted past Cesar Azpilicueta and worked Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois with a
rising shot, while Fernandinho
had a shot deflected wide.
Aguero gave Chelsea three
scares, obliging Kurt Zouma
to make a perfectly timed lastditch tackle, drawing a parry
from Courtois and then rolling a
shot a foot wide after John Terry
failed to cut out a long ball.
Benzema hits
brace as Real
sink Sociedad
5
3
1
4
German league:
Mainz
Schalke 04
Hamburg SV
Freiburg
Stuttgart
Bayer Leverkusen
Italian league:
Genoa
AS Roma
Spanish league:
Real Madrid
Eibar
Granada
5
1
0
4
0
0
SC Paderborn
Hanover 96
Cologne
Eintracht Frankfurt
Moenchengladbach
Borussia Dortmund
0
0
2
1
1
0
1
1
Fiorentina
Empoli
1
1
4
1
1
Real Sociedad
Atletico Madrid
Elche
1
3
0
7 10 16 33 39 44 15