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26<br />
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Bale double helps<br />
Real see off Leganes<br />
• Reuters, Barcelona<br />
A first-half double from Gareth<br />
Bale helped Real Madrid cement<br />
their position at the top of La Liga<br />
with a 3-0 win at home to Leganes<br />
yesterday.<br />
Reeling from a chaotic midweek<br />
3-3 draw at Legia Warsaw in the<br />
Champions League, Real got off to<br />
a slow start against neighbours Leganes,<br />
but Bale put them in charge<br />
in the 37th minute.<br />
The Wales international, who<br />
netted a sensational half volley<br />
against Legia, raced onto a through<br />
ball from Isco that split the visiting<br />
defence and rounded goalkeeper<br />
Jon Serantes to tuck the ball inside<br />
the near post from a tight angle.<br />
Bale then cashed in on poor defending<br />
from a free kick to hit the<br />
second on the stroke of halftime,<br />
just beating Serantes to the loose ball<br />
from close range. Real’s Spain striker<br />
Alvaro Morata, standing in for the<br />
injured Karim Benzema, rounded off<br />
the win in the 76th minute.<br />
Real talisman Cristiano Ronaldo<br />
had a quiet game and frequently<br />
strayed offside, but nearly set up a<br />
third for Bale, who was denied by<br />
Serantes, who leapt to his left to<br />
claw away the Welshman’s header.<br />
Sport<br />
Falcao shines again as Monaco<br />
hammer Nancy<br />
• Reuters, Paris<br />
Radamel Falcao scored twice as<br />
Monaco halved Nice’s Ligue 1 lead<br />
with a 6-0 demolition of strugglers<br />
Nancy on Saturday.<br />
The Colombian striker, who also<br />
scored twice in a 3-0 win against<br />
CSKA Moscow in the Champions<br />
Midfield maestro Luka Modric<br />
received a rapturous reception<br />
from the Bernabeu crowd when he<br />
came on in the second half to mark<br />
his return from injury after more<br />
than a month out.<br />
Morata further delighted supporters<br />
by latching onto a Toni Kroos<br />
pass to score the third, moving<br />
ahead of Bale and Ronaldo as Real’s<br />
top scorer this season on eight<br />
goals in all competitions.<br />
RESULT<br />
Real Madrid 3-0 Leganes<br />
Bale 38, 45, Morata 76<br />
“We keep picking up points and<br />
today we did it while playing well,<br />
even if at the start we gave the ball<br />
away a lot. When we found the first<br />
goal the game changed,” said Zidane.<br />
“We bossed the second half and<br />
I’m happy with our performance<br />
and to have kept a clean sheet.<br />
We’re not going to win the title<br />
with 100 points, because it’s becoming<br />
much harder to win games<br />
in this league.”<br />
Real top the standings on 27<br />
points, five clear of champions Barcelona,<br />
who visit fourth-placed Sevilla<br />
later yesterday.•<br />
League in midweek, again demonstrated<br />
he was back to his worldclass<br />
best as second-placed Monaco<br />
moved within three points of Nice.<br />
Falcao opened the scoring for Monaco<br />
in the 25th minute when he headed<br />
home from point-blank range<br />
after Thomas Lemar’s strike had<br />
bounced off the bar into his path.<br />
Monaco’s Colombian forward Radamel Falcao (2R) heads to score during their<br />
French L1 match against Nancy at ‘Louis II Stadium’ in Monaco on Saturday AFP<br />
Real Madrid’s Welsh forward Gareth Bale vies with Leganes defender Diego Rico<br />
during the Spanish league match at the Santiago Bernabeu yesterday<br />
AFP<br />
He doubled the tally five minutes<br />
later. Kylian Mbappe made it<br />
3-0 after the break from close range<br />
but the drubbing was far from over<br />
for a sorry Nancy side.<br />
Second-half substitute Guido<br />
Carrillo found the back of the net<br />
twice in the dying minutes with<br />
Fabinho also scoring a late penalty.•<br />
RESULTS<br />
Monaco 6-0 Nancy<br />
Falcao 25, 30-P,<br />
Mbappe Lottin 65,<br />
Carrillo 87, 90+2,<br />
Fabinho 90-P<br />
Angers 1-0 Lille<br />
Diedhiou 54<br />
Bordeaux 2-1 Lorient<br />
Kamano 28,<br />
Prior 62-og<br />
Rolan 73<br />
Dijon 3-3 Guingamp<br />
Varrault 6, Coco 32,<br />
Diony 26, Mendy 79,<br />
Tavares 44 De Pauw 90+1<br />
Lyon 2-1 Bastia<br />
Lacazette 37-P, Crivelli 90<br />
Bengtsson 86-og<br />
Nantes 1-1 Toulouse<br />
Stepinski 90 Braithwaite 36-P<br />
Bayern draw, Dortmund’s<br />
Aubameyang scores four<br />
• Reuters, Berlin<br />
Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich<br />
stumbled to a 1-1 home draw<br />
against Hoffenheim on Saturday<br />
but stayed three points clear at<br />
the top as Borussia Dortmund’s<br />
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang fired<br />
four goals past Hamburg SV following<br />
his midweek ban.<br />
Bayern fell a goal behind when<br />
Kerem Demirbay’s thundering shot<br />
in the 16th minute left keeper Manuel<br />
Neuer rooted on the spot.<br />
Hoffenheim were doing well<br />
to contain the Bavarians’ attacks<br />
but could do nothing when Steven<br />
Zuber slid into the box to clear a<br />
cutback from Douglas Costa but instead<br />
sent the ball into his own net.<br />
Aubameyang, surprisingly<br />
banned from their midweek Champions<br />
League win over Sporting<br />
following an unauthorised trip<br />
to Italy, redeemed himself with a<br />
four-goal performance in their 5-2<br />
victory at Hamburg.<br />
It took only four minutes for the<br />
Gabon international to open his account<br />
before recording a first-half<br />
hat-trick in just 27 minutes and<br />
scoring again early in the second<br />
half to put Dortmund 4-0 up, while<br />
Ancelotti<br />
plays down<br />
Robben spat<br />
• AFP, Berlin<br />
Bayern Munich boss Carlo Ancelotti<br />
dismissed Arjen Robben’s sideline<br />
spat as just something “from<br />
the media” after the Dutchman<br />
was substituted in the Bundesliga<br />
leaders’ 1-1 draw with Hoffenheim.<br />
Robben was replaced by French<br />
winger Kingsley Coman on 78 minutes<br />
and the Dutch winger stormed<br />
past Ancelotti when he was taken<br />
off, without making eye contact.<br />
The 32-year-old is renowned for<br />
sulking when substituted and Ancelotti<br />
said there was nothing to be<br />
read from Robben’s body language.<br />
“He played really well for 70<br />
minutes and then I used a fresh<br />
player,” explained Ancelotti.<br />
“Every time that I substitute Arjen<br />
Robben, a lot of people seem to<br />
think that there is a problem, but<br />
there isn’t one - at most, it’s from<br />
the media.”<br />
Hoffenheim have so far claimed<br />
the scalps of Bayer Leverkusen,<br />
Schalke and Hertha Berlin in Germany’s<br />
top flight and Ancelotti admitted<br />
his side were given a firsthalf<br />
fright.<br />
“We knew before the game that<br />
Hoffenheim are a good team, but<br />
we were still given a surprise in the<br />
first-half,” said the Italian.•<br />
taking his season’s tally of league<br />
goals to <strong>11</strong>. •<br />
POINTS TABLE<br />
P W D L GD Pts<br />
Bayern 10 7 3 0 18 24<br />
RB Leipzig 9 6 3 0 <strong>11</strong> 21<br />
Hoffenheim 10 5 5 0 7 20<br />
Hertha Berlin 10 6 2 2 10 20<br />
Dortmund 10 5 3 2 13 18<br />
RESULTS<br />
Bayern Munich 1-1 Hoffenheim<br />
Zuber 34-og Demirbay 16<br />
Leverkusen 3-2 Darmstadt<br />
Calhanoglu 32, Colak 47,<br />
Brandt 56, Vrancic 85<br />
Aranguiz 69<br />
Hamburg 2-5 Dortmund<br />
N Mueller 55, 81 Aubameyang 4, 23, 27, 48,<br />
Dembele 76<br />
Ingolstadt 0-2 Augsburg<br />
Bobadilla 86,<br />
Altintop 90<br />
Freiburg 0-3 Wolfsburg<br />
Gomez 41, 53,<br />
Rodriguez 86<br />
Frankfurt 1-0 Cologne<br />
Gacinovic 5
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