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30 FRIDAY 22ND NOVEMBER 2019<br />
www.weekender.news<br />
International Sport<br />
Forging forward<br />
GARETH <strong>South</strong>gate says<br />
his England side are “further<br />
ahead” than they<br />
were at the corresponding<br />
stage of qualifying for the<br />
2018 World Cup.<br />
<strong>South</strong>gate’s side finished<br />
fourth at the finals in Russia<br />
and go to Euro 2020 next<br />
summer as one of the top<br />
seeds.<br />
England’s 4-0 win over<br />
Kosovo on Sunday rounded<br />
off another impressive<br />
qualifying campaign for<br />
<strong>South</strong>gate’s squad, who<br />
topped Group A after winning<br />
seven of their eight<br />
fixtures.<br />
“I think the team have belief,<br />
for sure, you can see the<br />
confidence,” <strong>South</strong>gate said.<br />
“They have got the confidence<br />
to control games with<br />
possession, and they know<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
they’re going to score goals.”<br />
“We’re definitely further<br />
ahead than we were heading<br />
into Russia, but we made<br />
massive strides in this period<br />
when we went into Russia.”<br />
The draw for the finals<br />
will be made a week on Saturday<br />
(November 30th) in<br />
Bucharest.<br />
Two wheel legends<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
SPAIN’S six-time MotoGP<br />
champion Marc Marquez<br />
won Sunday´s final race of<br />
the season in Valencia to<br />
round off a superb campaign,<br />
as his fellow-countryman,<br />
Jorge Lorenzo<br />
retired from the sport.<br />
Marquez(pictured alongside<br />
Honda colleague Lorenzo<br />
after the race), secured<br />
his latest world title by winning<br />
in Thailand in October,<br />
and made it 12 wins for the<br />
season after starting second<br />
on the grid.<br />
“It’s been a perfect season,”<br />
said Marquez. “It will<br />
be difficult to repeat.”<br />
French rider Fabio Quartararo,<br />
who started on pole,<br />
came second.<br />
Spain’s three-time MotoGP<br />
champion Jorge Lorenzo<br />
finished 13th in his final<br />
race before retiring.<br />
The 32-year-old received<br />
rapturous applause from<br />
fans after the race.<br />
Spain´s Maverick Vinales<br />
came fourth on Sunday to secure<br />
him third place in the final<br />
standings behind Italy´s<br />
Andrea Dovizioso.<br />
Heroic Ramsey<br />
by Alex Trelinski<br />
WALES secured qualification<br />
for Euro 2020 as Aaron<br />
Ramsey marked his return<br />
to the team with two<br />
goals to inspire a 2-0 win<br />
over Hungary on Tuesday<br />
night.<br />
Ramsey, starting for the<br />
first time in this campaign,<br />
headed in from Gareth Bale's<br />
first-half cross to fuel a carnival<br />
atmosphere at a heaving<br />
Cardiff City Stadium.<br />
A superb double save<br />
from Wayne Hennessey kept<br />
Hungary at bay and then, 90<br />
seconds into the second half,<br />
Ramsey calmly controlled<br />
the ball in the penalty area<br />
before stroking it into the<br />
top corner.<br />
Next summer's European<br />
Championship will be<br />
Wales' second in succession,<br />
a remarkable transformation<br />
for a country which had to<br />
endure 58 barren years between<br />
its first appearance at<br />
a major tournament, the 1958<br />
World Cup, and its second at<br />
Euro 2016.<br />
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