Chelsea, Man City romp to easy wins
Chelsea and Manchester City didn’t field a recognized striker between them for their Premier League games on Saturday.
It didn’t stop them combining for 11 goals in ominous displays by the two title contenders.
Missing injured strikers Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner, Chelsea still powered to its biggest win of the season — 7-0 against Norwich — with playmaker Mason
Mount scoring a hat trick.
City doesn’t have an out-and-out striker in its squad after failing to sign a like-for-like replacement for Sergio Aguero in the offseason but that isn’t stopping the champions scoring freely this season. A 4-1 victory at Brighton, secured mainly thanks to two goals by Phil Foden, followed a 5-1 win at Club Brugge midweek in the Champions League.
Elsewhere: Callum Wilson’s goal from an overhead kick rescued a 1-1 draw for Newcastle at Crystal Palace but the team now under Saudi ownership remained without a Premier League win after nine games this season. … Also in the Premier League, Claudio Ranieri claimed his first win as Watford manager as Josh King scored a hat trick in a 5-2 thrashing of Everton. … Maxwel Cornet scored twice for Burnley to salvage a point in a 2-2 draw at Southampton. … Spain striker Rodrigo converted a penalty in the fourth minute of stoppage time to earn Leeds a 1-1
Adraw against Wolverhampton. … In the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich won 4-0 against Hoffenheim with coach Julian Nagelsmann again sending instructions remotely after testing positive for the coronavirus. … Late goals from Zlatan Ibrahimović and Ismaël Bennacer spared AC Milan major embarrassment as it scraped a 4-2 win in Serie A at Bologna, which played for more than half an hour with nine men.
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Tennis: Jannik Sinner reached his fifth tour-level final of the season and stayed in contention for the ATP Finals by beating Lloyd Harris 6-2, 6-2 at the European Open. Secondseeded Diego Schwartzman of Argentina beat American qualifier Jenson Brooksby 6-4, 6-0 in the other semifinal match at the indoor hardcourt tournament in Antwerp, Belgium. … Anett Kontaveit will face Ekaterina Alexandrova in the final of the Kremlin Cup after Maria Sakkari retired from her semifinal match with Alexandrova, citing dizziness.
Skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin won the seasonopening women’s World Cup giant slalom by beating world champion Lara Gut-Behrami in a close fight for her 70th career victory at Solden, Austria.
Gymnastics: Rebeca Andrade of Brazil added a world title to her Tokyo Olympic gold medal in vault and also won a silver medal in uneven bars at the gymnastics world championships at Kitakyushu, Japan.
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