FIORENTINA DRAW PUTS BRAKES ON EURO PUSH
FIORENTINA were held to a 0-0 draw by Chievo yesterday which kept them in fifth place in Serie A and facing a potentially tortuous route in next season’s Europa League. Fiorentina are four points behind Inter Milan – a fourth-place finish in Serie A guarantees a group phase spot in the Europa League but a fifth-place means featuring in two preliminary rounds. Chievo had the best chances yesterday with Nicola Rigoni hitting the post in the 57th minute and Antonio Floro Flores twice squandering good openings. Watzke told broadcaster WDR2. “Anyone who insulted him has already gambled away the right to belong to us, because that is not Borussia Dortmund’s way.” Watzke praised the “90 or 95%” of the fans who had neither booed nor whistled Hummels. The Dortmund captain said he knew where the boos came from. “It wasn’t from fans. It was only some 300, who didn’t particularly love me before this happened and used their chance on the stage,” said Hummels. “I saw where it came from.” matic entry to the Champions League. The former multiple French champions are in a tight battle with Monaco for second, with only goal difference splitting the teams. Monaco kept the pressure on Lyon with a 3-2 defeat of Guingamp to set up a winner-takes-all clash between the sides next weekend. Nantes delivered a damaging blow to Nice’s Champions League hopes as they inflicted a 1-0 defeat on Claude Puel’s side. Nice slipped to fifth, one point behind Saint-Etienne who drew 0-0 with Toulouse as Nantes snapped a run of five games without a win. Toulouse have 34 points, two adrift of Reims, who lost 3-2 to Montpellier. On Friday, Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Rennes 4-0 to equal their own Ligue 1 points record.