Uzbeks beat Kuwait
MANAMA, Oct 19, (KUNA): Kuwait’s under-20 volleyball team lost 0-3 to Uzbekistan in the third round of the 17th Asian Junior Men’s Volleyball Championship on Sunday, marking the third consecutive defeat.
Kuwait lost to Japan and Kazakhstan, and has one game left against Taiwan.
The championship, organized once every two years, consists of 18 teams distributed on four grops. The first four teams will automatically qualify for the World Junior Championship. Muntari before cutting in to beat Abbiati.
Milan are now only five points behind leaders Juventus, held 1-1 at Sassuolo on Saturday, while Roma put three unanswered goals past Chievo to reinforce their grip on second spot and reduce their deficit to a point. Sampdoria are three points behind Roma in third after they drew 2-2 at Cagliari despite Manolo Gabbiadini and Spanish midfielder Pedro Obiang giving them a 2-0 interval lead.
Cagliari were given hope 13 minutes into the second half when Fabrizio Cacciatore saw red for a second bookable offence and defender Danilo Avelar stepped up to slam the resulting spot-kick into the top righthand corner of Emiliano Viviano’s net.
The pressure on Cagliari coach Zdenek Zeman eased somewhat when Marco Sau fired a late leveller after superbly controlling Avelar’s quickfire pass into the area.
Elswhere, Palermo moved off bottom spot after Giancarlo Gonzalez’s precision header secured a 2-1 home win for the Sicilians against Cesena.
Fabio Quagliarella’s 62nd-minute strike was enough to secure a 1-0 home win for Torino against Udinese, while in Bergamo Yiadom Boakye bundled home a 90th-minute winner to secure a 1-0 win for Atalanta against Parma.
Parma now sit bottom of Serie Awith six defeats and just one win in seven games.
Earlier, Serbian international Filip Djordjevic scored his fifth goal in three games as Lazio won 2-0 away to misfiring Fiorentina.
Lazio sit sixth, seven points off top spot, with Fiorentina in ninth place, 10 points off the pace.
The point lifts Hamburg up to 16th in the table, while Hoffenheim are third after Borussia Moenchengladbach moved up to second with Saturday’s 3-0 win at Hanover 96 when Germany striker Max Kruse scored twice.
The weekend’s results mean first plays second when Gladbach host Bayern Munich in the league’s top game next Sunday evening.
Pep Guardiola’s Bayern maintained their stranglehold on the Bundesliga with their fifth straight victory on Saturday in a 6-0 rout of bottom side Bremen in Munich.
The Bavarians warmed up for Tuesday’s Champions League clash at Roma as captain Philipp Lahm moved up into the defensive midfield and scored the first double of his career while Germany star Mario Geotze also netted twice.
Ex-Liverpool and Real Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso scored the first goal of his Bayern career when he drove his free-kick under the Bremen wall on 27 minutes after Lahm gave the hosts an early lead.
Thomas Mueller put the hosts 3-0 up when he converted a penalty and Goetze made it 4-0 at the break before both he and Lahm added second-half goals.
Roberto di Matteo got off to a winning start as Schalke 04 coach when the Royal Blues picked up only their third win of the season with a 2-0 victory at home to Hertha Berlin.
The 44-year-old, who won the 2012 Champions League title during his eightmonth reign at Chelsea, is looking for his second win when Schalke host Sporting Lisbon on Tuesday in Europe. Netherlands striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar put Schalke ahead with a long-range header on 19 minutes before Germany midfielder Julian Draxler made it 2-0 with a well-taken goal on 65 minutes.
The result lifts Schalke to eighth while Borussia Dortmund’s horror league run continued as they lost 2-1 at Cologne to go five Bundesliga games without a win.
It was their third defeat in a row ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League clash at Galatasaray.
Cologne took a 1-0 lead as midfielder Kevin Vogt fired home on 40 minutes.
Although Dortmund striker Ciro Immobile equalised, Simon Zoller netted Cologne’s winner on 74 minutes after a mix-up in the Dortmund defence to seal their first home victory against Borussia since 2003.
Meanwhile, promoted Paderborn came from behind to beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-1 in the late game.
Alexander Meier scored with Frankfurt’s first shot on goal in the 57th, converting Takashi Inui’s cross in off the right post.
Marvin Ducksch equalized two minutes after coming on as a substitute with a brilliant strike over the Frankfurt goalkeeper inside the far post in the 66th.
Paderborn captain Uwe Huenemeier made it 2-1 in the 79th and Stefan Kutschke, another substitute, rounded the goalkeeper to seal the result with five minutes to play.
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D“Equaling this record makes me very proud,” Bielsa said. “We were excellent in the first half and the second half was more even. I’m very happy with the job we did and most of the team played at a very high level.
The only tricky moment for Bielsa came when, as he went to sit down on a drinks cooler near the touchline, he inadvertently sat on a small cup of coffee that one of his assistants had placed there seconds earlier.
“I couldn’t even drink it, which is a pity,” Bielsa joked after the game.
Marseille, however, was indebted to goalkeeper Steve Mandanda early on, after he made a superb reflex save to tip forward Denis Braithwaite’s close-range shot onto the crossbar. Then Marseille stepped up a gear and Nkoulou settled the nerves when he turned in a free kick from Dimitri Payet who, like Gignac, returned to the France team last week for a match away at Armenia in which Gignac scored one and set up two in a 3-0 win.
After a flowing Marseille move, Gignac timed his run well to dart over to the penalty spot and turn a cross from Benjamin Mendy past goalkeeper Zacharie Boucher.
“Marseille deserved to win,” Toulouse coach Alain Casanova said. “Unfortunately we couldn’t take our chances.”
Marseille will try and set a new club record for consecutive wins when it travels to play Lyon next Sunday.