Claudio Echeverri ‘a bit sore’ as Man City wait on teenager’s ankle injury
Manchester City were checking on the fitness of Claudio Echeverri after the teenager’s impressive first start for the club was cut short by injury.
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Ilkay Gundogan ‘very happy’ at Manchester City as he eyes stay at top level
Ilkay Gundogan insists he is happy to remain at Manchester City and has “several years” left at the highest level.
Ilkay Gundogan rues Manchester City’s failure to score seventh against Al Ain
Ilkay Gundogan bemoaned Manchester City’s failure to score seven after thrashing Abu Dhabi side Al Ain 6-0 at the Club World Cup.
RB Salzburg, Al-Hilal tussle to 0-0 draw at Club World Cup
RB Salzburg and Al-Hilal played to a scoreless draw in a Group H match of the Club World Cup on Sunday in Washington. Salzburg (1-0-1, 4 points), a 17-time Austrian Bundesliga champion, had an opportunity to become the first from Group H to advance to the quarterfinals but instead is second to Real Madrid (1-0-1, 4 points) on goal differential, which favors the Spanish club by one. They face each other in the final group match in Philadelphia on Thursday. Al-Hilal (0-0-2, 2 points) of the Saudi Pro League, where they have won 19 titles, play Pachuca (0-2-0, 0 points), which has been eliminated, in Nashville on Thursday. Yassine Bounou made five saves for Al-Hilal.
Real Madrid beats Pachuca 3-1 in Club World Cup while playing most of the match with 10 men
CHARLOTTE, N.C.: Jude Bellingham and Arda Güler scored first-half goals and short-handed Real Madrid bounced back from a disappointing performance in its Club World Cup opener to beat Pachuca 3-1 on Sunday in front of 70,248 spectators at Bank of America Stadium. Seven minutes in, defender Raul Asencio received a red card, forcing Real Madrid to play the remainder of the match with 10 men. It hardly mattered as Madrid dominated the Mexican club rest of the way to give Xabi Alonso his first win as coach of the Spanish power. Bellingham got Madrid on the board in the 35th minute when he took a pass from Fran Garcia just inside the box and belted a perfectly placed left-footed shot past goalkeeper Carlos Moreno into the right corner. Eight minutes later, Güler made it 2-0 when he delivered a right-footed shot from the center of the box to the bottom left corner off an assist from Gonzalo García. Federico Valverde put the final touches on the win in the second half with a sliding right-footed shot off an assist from Brahim Díaz. Goalkeeper Thabaut Courtois was on form with five saves in the first half.
Spain’s Alcaraz crowned king of Queen’s for second time
LONDON: Carlos Alcaraz clinched his second Queen’s Club title as the world No. 2 warmed up for Wimbledon with a 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 win against Jiri Lehecka in Sunday’s final.
Yildiz stars as Juventus beat Wydad at Club World Cup
PHILADELPHIA: Kenan Yildiz scored two goals and had a hand in another as Juventus beat Wydad Casablanca 4-1 at the Club World Cup on Sunday to close in on a place in the last 16.The Turkish international forward was unlucky not to be credited with Juve’s early opener which went down as an own goal by Abdelmounaim Boutouil.However, there was no doubt that Yildiz was the scorer of the second with a tremendous strike from outside the box.Thembinkosi Lorch pulled one back for Wydad before the break, but Yildiz got his second of the afternoon on 69 minutes before a late Dusan Vlahovic penalty sealed the victory for the Italian side.Having already defeated Emirati side Al Ain 5-0 in their opening match, Juve have scored nine goals and have the maximum six points after two outings in Group G.Their qualification for the knockout phase will be assured if group rivals Manchester City avoid defeat against Al Ain later.That puts Igor Tudor’s Juve in an excellent position with a final group game to come on Thursday against City in Orlando.Moroccan giants Wydad, meanwhile, are eliminated with this defeat following a 2-0 loss at the hands of City in their first outing.Yildiz, the 20-year-old German-born winger, was among the scorers against Al Ain and he was the star of the show here in front of 31,975 fans at Lincoln Financial Field.Juve, who finished fourth in Serie A in the campaign just finished, went with an unchanged starting line-up meaning the likes of Vlahovic and Manuel Locatelli began the game on the bench.Prolific against Al Ain, they wasted no time in putting the team that finished third in the Moroccan league to the sword.The opening goal came on six minutes as Khephren Thuram teed up Yildiz and his shot beat goalkeeper
Canelo and Crawford clash at intense face-off in New York
NEW YORK: A packed Fanatics Fest crowd at Jevits Center in New York witnessed the second leg of the global media tour ahead of the blockbuster Riyadh Season fight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Terence Crawford, the two best pound for pound fighters in the world, on Sept. 13 in Las Vegas.