C Rly prevail over Bombay Republicans
MUMBAI: Central Railway had to work hard to score a narrow 3-2 verdict over a fighting Bombay Republicans for their second successive win in the Super Division hockey match of the MHAL League at the Mahindra Stadium, Churchgate, on Monday. RESULTS
Indian Navy 4 (Rana Pratap 2, Amit Goswami 2) bt MS Police 0; C Rly 3 (Victo Singh, Harmeet Singh, Rajendra Pawar) bt Bombay Republicans 2 (Munis Qureshi 2).
RAJIV ON TARGET
Rajiv Yadav bulged the goal nets in the 40th minute for Jolly Boys’ 1-0 win over Indian Gymkhana in the Mumbai District Football Association’s Second Division league at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel, on Monday.
OTHER RESULTS
Second Division: FC Mithagar 1 (Devendra Thakurdesai) bt Athens XI 0; Dadar XI ‘B’ 2 (Clyde Cardoz, Donald Gibbs) bt Samuel FA 1 (Viresh Walke).
MAMTA, VIREN BEST Mamta Prabhu won her second title of the season defeatingashlesha Trehan 4-2 in the women’s final of the Mumbai Suburban District Table Tennis Championships at the Khar Gymkhana on Monday.
Viren Patel clinched the men’s title defeating Bhavitvya Shah 4-3.
Reagan Albuquerque and Srushti Haleangadi won the boy and girls’ youth and junior titles with commanding display in their finals. MUNICH: New Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes sounded confident on Monday that he will be able to turn things around for the German champions following a lacklustre start to the season that led to the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti.
The 72-year-old Heynckes, in his fourth stint at the club, takes over with Bayern in second place in the Bundesliga, five points behind leaders Borussia Dortmund after twice wasting two-goal lead in consecutive matches to draw 2-2. The Bavarians are also second in Champions League Group B with three points from two games, after beating Anderlecht and losing 3-0 at Paris St Germain. “I think it is a difficult situation, the team is in a phase of change,” Heynckes told reporters at his
official presentation on Monday.
AUSTRALIA HAVE ONLY VICTORY IN MIND
SYDNEY: Coach Ange Postecoglou has just one result in mind when he sends Australia out to face Syria in the second leg of their Asian World Cup qualifying playoff against Syria here on Tuesday — an emphatic victory.