Luna Rossa leads TeamUK 5-1 in AmCup

After a week of storms ashore Ineos Team UK won one of two races sailed in a shifting breeze Saturday to raise the faint hint of a comeback in the America's Cup challenger series final against Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli.

As racing resumed after a week's delay, Luna Rossa won the fifth race of the Prada Cup final by 1 minute, 20 seconds to lead 5-0 in the firstto-seven series. Faced with the possibility of match point, Team UK expertly called the shifts to win the second race by 14 seconds and keep the series alive after six races.

Two races on Sunday will decide whether Britain's Team UK continues in the series or whether Italy's Luna Rossa wins its way into next month's America's Cup match against defender Emirates Team New Zealand.

"No high fives yet," Luna Rossa cohelmsman Francesco Bruni said after the first race of the day with the prescience of a sailor who knows nothing can be taken for granted in the America's Cup. In 2013 Oracle Team USA came from 8-1 down in the Cup match to beat Team New Zealand 9-8 in one of the great comebacks in sport.

All the evidence of Saturday's racing seemed to suggest, and British skipper Sir Ben Ainslie admitted, Luna Rossa is faster than Team UK's Britannia in a straight line in light winds. But the second race of the day showed the advantage held by a leading boat:

Luna Rossa, which controls the Prada Cup as the Challenger of Record, had the ability to demand racing resume after a week-long break due to a small community outbreak of COVID-19 in Auckland which pushed the city to Alert Level 3, at which racing generally can't take place.

When Auckland moved to Alert Level 2 at midnight Wednesday, Luna Rossa was eager to immediately get back on the water. But it was opposed by regatta organizers America's Cup Events Ltd., which only reluctantly accepted a resumption on Saturday.

In a bitter and angry dispute, ACE accused Luna Rossa of poor sportsmanship and of failing to honor and respect New Zealanders who have funded the event and whose effort in limiting community spread of the coronavirus made it possible.

Luna Rossa insisted that racing was permitted at Level 2 and should go ahead, though Team UK suggested it acted out of self-interest because it knew conditions Saturday would be light.

The first race started in around eight to 10 knots. Ainslie was especially aggressive in the pre-start as Team UK wanted the windward end of the start line and the right hand side of the course. Luna Rossa sought to shut it out and in the tussle both boats were over the line early.

Those penalties canceled each other out but Team UK was contentiously penalized again for encroaching on the exclusion zone around Prada. When the boats crossed for the first time on the first leg, Luna Rossa tacked on Team UK's lee bow but Britannia edged just ahead.

The umpires insisted Team UK discharge its penalty, which meant it gave up its slight lead, and when it did so Luna Rossa took charge of the race and led by increasing margins at every mark.

With Ainslie and tactician Giles Scott calling the shifts, Team UK led around all marks, including by 34 seconds at the fourth gate. Luna Rossa cut that to nine seconds at the final mark but Britannia held on.

After scoring the winning goal to help Eintracht Frankfurt beat Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich 2-1 on Saturday, Amin Younes' first thought was for the victims of a racist attack.

The 27-year-old Younes ran straight to the sideline, where he held up a commemorative shirt bearing the name and portrait of Fatih Saraçoğlu, one of nine people with immigrant backgrounds killed in a rampage by a gunman in the nearby town of Hanau just over a year ago.

Frankfurt's players had warmed up for the league game wearing the commemorative tops with "say their names" across the front, and individual victims' names and faces on the back. Ferhat Unvar, Hamza Kurtović, Said Nesar Hashemi, Vili Viorel Păun, Mercedes Kierpacz, Kaloyan Velkov, Sedat Gürbüz, Gökhan Gültekin and Saraçoğlu were all remembered, continuing Friday's commemorations on the anniversary of the killings.

"We wanted to show the faces of the victims. We want to remind people that not forgetting means not letting it happen again," Frankfurt president Peter Fischer told Sky TV before the game. "Opposing racism, hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia is in Eintracht's statutes."

Younes, who troubled Bayern's defense in the first half, was involved in one goal, then scored the other as he helped Frankfurt reinvigorate the title race.

"We didn't learn from the Bielefeld game," Bayern captain Manuel Neuer said, referring to his team coming from two goals down to draw 3-3 in its previous game. "You have to be aggressive from the start."

Leipzig can cut Bayern's lead to two points with a win at Hertha Berlin on Sunday. Frankfurt is level on points with third-place Wolfsburg after maintaining its outstanding start to the year with its eighth win from nine games in 2021.

FRANKFURT FLYING

Frankfurt made a brilliant start with Younes and Filip Kostic combining to set up Daichi Kamada for the opening goal in the 12th minute.

Frankfurt had seven shots compared to Bayern's one before Younes made it 2-0 in the 31st. Kamada played the ball back and Younes unleashed a powerful shot inside the far top corner.

Robert Lewandowski pulled one back in the 53rd to take his season tally to a league-leading 26 goals, but missed out on scoring a late equalizer when Lucas Hernández' cross sailed just over his head at the far post in injury time.

Frankfurt was without topscorer André Silva (18 goals) due to an injury picked up in training, giving Luka Jovic his first start since he returned on loan from Real Madrid.

Bayern also had enforced absences in Thomas Müller and Benjamin Pavard due to the coronavirus, while Corentin Tolisso is out for around three months. Leon Goretzka and Javi Martínez were back among Bayern's substitutes after recovering from their COVID-19 infections. Goretzka came on to help Bayern's improved performance in the second half.

DORTMUND WINS DERBY

Erling Haaland scored twice as Borussia Dortmund sent rival Schalke another step closer to relegation with a 4-0 win in the Ruhr derby.

Jadon Sancho broke the deadlock in the 42nd, then floated in a cross for Haaland to score with a spectacular scissor kick three minutes later.

Schalke responded with a good start to the second half – American Matthew Hoppe hitting the post – but Raphäel Guerreiro effectively decided the result with a goal on the hour-mark.

Jude Bellingham crossed for Haaland's second in the 79th. It was the Norwegian's 17th goal in 17 Bundesliga appearances this season.

Dortmund players celebrated their third consecutive derby win in front of the empty stand where their supporters would usually sit in non-pandemic times.

Schalke remained last with nine points from 22 rounds, nine points behind Bielefeld in the playoff place with 12 rounds to play. Bielefeld has played a game less.

"I hope they stay in the league,"

Dortmund defender Emre Can said of Schalke.

GLADBACH SHOCKED

Kevin Stöger scored late for relegation-threatened Mainz to grab a 2-1 win at Borussia Mönchengladbach.

It was Gladbach's first game since the club announced that coach Marco Rose will be leaving to join Dortmund next season, and it stretched his team's winless run to three games before it plays Manchester City in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Union Berlin won 1-0 in Freiburg to move ahead of Gladbach on goal difference.

Marcus Ingvartsen crossed for Grischa Prömel to head Union's winner in the 64th.

Saša Kalajdžić also headed Stuttgart to a 1-0 win at Cologne.

More Liverpool misery: 1st home loss to Everton in 22 years

A first win at Anfield since 1999 for Everton. The worst form for Liverpool at home in the league since 1923 after a fourth straight loss.

The English title that took 30 years to win again is being surrendered far too easily by Liverpool.

Richarlison scored after three minutes and Gylfi Sigurdsson netted a late penalty to give Everton a 2-0 victory in the Premier League on Saturday.

A first Merseyside derby win since 2010 put Everton behind sixth-place Liverpool only on goal difference with a game in hand, while the champions are 16 points behind leader Manchester City. Chelsea is three points ahead in the fourth and final Champions League place after drawing 1-1 at Southampton.

Even worse for Liverpool was losing yet another center back option as Jordan Henderson was forced off injured in the first half.

October's derby was the start of Liverpool's defensive problems when Virgil Van Dijk was ruled out for the season with an ACL injury after a reckless tackle by Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.

Henderson's problem appeared to be a groin injury as he pulled up running the ball out of defense in the first half, leaving his side with an 18th different — and most inexperienced — pairing of Ozan Kabak and substitute Nat Phillips.