Monaco remain winless

Bordeaux claim first win of season

PARIS, Aug 25, (RTRS): AS Monaco had a player sent off for the third time in as many matches this season as they squandered a two-goal halftime lead to draw 2-2 at home to Nimes on Sunday, a result that left them still without a win in Ligue 1.

The 2017 champions at least picked up their first point of the season but were left languishing one off the bottom of the table after yet another frustrating match.

After losing their first two games 3-0, Monaco seemed to have finally slipped into gear as Algeria forward their first win of the Ligue 1 season awhen they beat struggling Dijon 2-0 away on Saturday with goals in each half from Hwang Ui-Jo and Loris Benito.

The six-times French champions, who changed coach twice last season on their way to finishing a modest 14th, went ahead in the 11th minute when Hwang side-footed the ball in after being set up by Samuel Kalu, the South Korean’s first Ligue 1 goal following his move from Gamba Osaka.

Benito volleyed the second two minutes after halftime to hand Dijon their third defeat in as many games this season.

Angers, thumped 6-0 by Olympique Lyonnais in their last match, climbed to fourth with a 3-0 win over Metz as Farid El Melali, Baptiste Santamaria and Rachid Alioui scored.

Nantes needed an 84th-minute goal from Moses Simon to win 2-1 at Amiens who played for nearly an hour with 10 men after Bakaye Dibassy was given a straight red card.

Kalifa Coulibaly headed Nantes in front in the 53rd minute but Bongani Zungu levelled in the 71st.

An 86th-minute goal from Gaetan Charbonnier, last season’s top-scorer in Ligue 1, gave promoted Brest a 1-0 win over Reims, their first of the season. back-foot redirect early in the second half and New York City FC edged the rival Red Bulls.

Heber’s 13th goal was enough to put NYCFC (13-5-8) six points ahead of the fourth-place Red Bulls (12-11-5).

The Red Bulls scored in the 10th minute when local product Alex Muyl made a nice move to get inside the box and slot the ball inside the post.

A penalty kick by Maximiliano Moralez, his seventh, tied the game late in the first half.

In Foxboro, Gustavo Bou’s leftfooted shot from the top of the box

San Jose Earthquakes midfielder Judson (left), scores a goal against the Vancouver Whitecaps during the first half

of an MLS soccer match in San Jose, Calif on Aug 24. (AP)

at the 85th-minute gave New England a win over Chicago.

Bou intercepted a pass attempt by two Fire defenders trying to clear in the Chicago end before letting go the shot from about 20 yards out past outstretched keeper Kenneth Kronholm.

New England (10-9-8) opened the scoring in the 17th minute when Wilfried Zahibo one-touched a cross by Brandon Bye. The Fire (8-12-9) tied it on Nico Gaitan’s free kick from the left in the 41st.

In Sandy, Utah, Joao Plata scored in second-half extra time and Jefferson Savarino added another goal minutes later for Real Salt Lake.

Plata scored on a penalty kick in the 96th minute following a handball in the penalty area by Lalas Abubakar. Plata sneaked a rightfooted shot underneath keeper Tim Howard, who got a piece of the ball. Real Salt Lake forward Joao Plata (center), celebrates with teammates after scoring against the Colorado Rapids during stoppage time in the second half of

an MLS soccer match on Aug 24 in Sandy, Utah. (AP) Three minutes later, Savarino punched it in after taking a short centering pass from Albert Rusnak to seal the win.

RSL (13-10-4) beat Colorado (7-14-6) earlier this year and claimed the Rocky Mountain Cup for the fourth straight year.

In Toronto, Justin Morrow scored in the 81st minute to lead Toronto past Montreal.

The win pushed Toronto (10-107) past the Impact (10-14-4) and into the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Morrow converted a pass from Jozy Altidore inside the box on a play started by Michael Bradley. Montreal goalkeeper Evan Bush got his arm on Morrow’s shot along the ground, but the ball crossed the goal line.

Toronto’s Marky Delgado scored his first of the season in the 63rd minute to tie the game at 1-all. DUBAI, Aug 25, (RTRS): Iranian women fans will be allowed to attend a men’s soccer World Cup qualifying match in the Islamic Republic in October, the official IRNA news agency quoted a Sports Ministry official as saying on Sunday, amid heightened pressure from FIFA.

While foreign women have been allowed limited access to matches in Iran, Iranian women have been banned from stadiums when men’s teams are playing since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

FIFA wrote to the Iranian Football Federation in June asking it to provide a timeline towards women being able to buy tickets for the qualifiers, or face consequences.

Former Barcelona forward Bojan Krkic scored a long-range goal early in the second half to give the visiting Impact a 1-0 lead.

In San Jose, Chris Wondolowski scored his MLS record 155th goal and San Jose overwhelmed Vancouver, ending a three-match losing streak.

Jakob Nerwinski put the Whitecaps on the board first scoring six minutes in but it was all San Jose from there.

Wondolowski set up Judson a minute later before Wondlowski converted the go-ahead at the 34th minute. Andres Rios ended the scoring at the 73rd minute.

The Earthquakes (12-10-5) established MLS records with 43 total shots and 19 on goal. Vancouver (6-13-9) keeper Maxime Crepeau tied Tony Meola’s 22-year-old MLS record with 15 saves on the night.

“Women can go to Tehran’s Azadi stadium to watch the match between Iran’s national team and Cambodia in October for the Qatar World Cup qualifier,” IRNA quoted deputy Sports Minister Jamshid Taghizadeh as saying.

The AFC, the Asian football governing body which has 47 members including Iran, said on Tuesday it was working to help world soccer governing body FIFA find an “amicable solution” that would allow Iranian female fans to attend future games in Iran.

“There is no legal ban for women to watch the football matches in the stadium. The activation of the infrastructure is underway,” Taghizadeh said.