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FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012
BUENOS AIRES: Boca Juniors recovered
from a nervy start to beat fellow
Argentine side Arsenal 2-1 and
put their Libertadores Cup campaign
back on track on Wednesday.
The victory gave Boca four points
from three matches in second place
in Group Four, five points behind
leaders Fluminense after the
Brazilians beat Venezuela’s Zamora
1-0 in Rio de Janeiro. “We’re playing
well, we’re going to fight for it in the
Cup and the (domestic) championship,”
Boca captain Juan Roman
Riquelme told reporters.
“It was a very important victory,
what we came looking for. The start
got complicated with the goal
through bad luck but we were able
to turn it round with attitude.” It
was the third match in eight days in
which Boca fell behind in the opening
10 minutes after losing 2-1 to
Fluminense last Wednesday and 5-4
to Independiente in the league on
Sunday. Arsenal, hosting the match
at their Julio Grondona ground,
went ahead after 10 minutes when
Boca defender Clemente Rodriguez
turned a low cross into his own net.
But the visitors equalized just
before the half hour when winger
Pablo Mouche latched onto a half
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Boca Juniors keep hope alive
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s Boca Juniors footballers celebrate the team’s
second goal against Argentina’s Arsenal FC during their Copa Libertadores
2012 group 4 football match in Sarandi. — AFP
Ex-players hold key to
Juve pursuit of Milan
MILAN: Juventus hope former forward
Amauri does not suddenly find his form this
weekend and further curtail their Serie A title
bid while another ex could boost their
chances if Sebastian Giovinco downs leaders
AC Milan. Brazil-born Amauri signed for
Juventus for 22 million euros ($28.66 million)
from Palermo in 2008 but after a promising
start his career nosedived and he now plays
for struggling Fiorentina, who host Juve
tomorrow (1945 GMT).
Italy coach Cesare Prandelli gave Amauri
his international debut in 2010 but it turned
out to be his only cap and the 31-year-old’s
last goal was on loan at Parma last April.
“Amauri has promised me his first goal for
Fiorentina tomorrow,” the Florence club’s
chief executive Sandro Mencucci told
reporters. Juve, who have slipped four points
behind champions Milan after drawing three
straight matches, will think it is just their
recent luck if Amauri breaks his drought
against them. Still, to many Juve fans the fact
they are in a title race after several seasons of
Everton target
missing trophy
MANCHESTER: Everton resume the priority
of securing a tangible memento
for manager David Moyes’s decade of
service when they host Sunderland
tomorrow (1245 GMT) in the FA Cup
quarter-finals. Moyes celebrated 10
years at Goodison Park this week and
has been lauded for his longevity in the
hire-and-fire culture of the Premier
League as well as for his ability to create
a reliable team on modest
resources. What he has not done is
brought a trophy to the club whose
glory days of the 1980s are getting ever
more distant. The closest he came was
in 2009 when he led Everton to the FA
Cup final where they were beaten 2-1
by Chelsea and this season the Scot is
determined to go one better.
By effectively sacrificing Merseyside
bragging rights by fielding a weakened
team for Tuesday’s 3-0 league defeat at
Liverpool, Moyes made it clear what
took precedence this season. “I think
you have to juggle your squad and
decide where you prioritize,” he told
reporters.
With Everton staring at mid-table
security in the league, lying ninth on
the same points as Sunderland, booking
a trip to Wembley for an FA Cup
semi-final is enticing. “The boys have
been doing really well and hopefully
we can continue the decent cup run we
have had,” said defender Phil Jagielka.
“After Tuesday’s result it puts a little bit
more pressure on the cup because 3-0
is not good enough.” —Reuters
woe following their 2006 match-fixing
demotion is progress enough.
President Andrea Agnelli backed coach
Antonio Conte this week for helping return
the Turin club, the most successful Italian
side domestically, to the upper echelons of
the game. “The manager and his players are
enjoying a truly commendable season” he
told reporters. “They know that there are 11
championship games to go and possibly
another two in the Coppa Italia, they’re
aware that there’s the possibility to obtain
prestigious results so we’ll be perfectly calm
in trying to reach our targets.” While hoping
Amauri does not score tomorrow, Juve will
be urging on fellow former forward
Sebastian Giovinco when his stuttering
Parma side entertain Milan (1700).
Robinho is a slight doubt for Milan after
injuring his calf in training while Philippe
Mexes is banned but Clarence Seedorf and
Maxi Lopez may be fit enough to return on
the bench. Milan centre back Daniele Bonera,
who may again fill in for Mexes, is an ex-
Parma player and is expecting a difficult
game. “Opponents give something extra
when they play Milan and Parma at home
have always done well. We have to be careful,”
he told Milan Channel before hailing
Antonio Nocerino, the midfield revelation of
the year after average spells at Juve and
Palermo. “It’s a great advantage for us to
have a player like Nocerino. When he came
in, perhaps we didn’t expect that he could do
what he is doing.”
Fourth-placed Napoli, fresh from their
Champions League heartbreak in the last 16
against Chelsea, travel to Udinese in fifth on
Sunday (1945) as the fight for the third and
final Champions League qualifying spot for
next term hots up. —Reuters
clearance in the box and shot under
goalkeeper Cristian Campestrini’s
dive. The Argentine champions
sealed the points in the 68th minute
when Rodriguez crossed from the
left and with two defenders keeping
a close eye on burly striker Santiago
Silva, substitute midfielder Pablo
Ledesma ghosted in through to tap
home. Striker Luciano Leguizamon
squandered an easy opportunity
right in front of goal that would
have given Arsenal a late equaliser.
Boca needed the win not only to
stay in the hunt for a seventh title
in South America’s elite club competition
but also to put behind
them a week in which their home
defeat by Fluminense was their
first in 37 matches. Mexico’s Cruz
Azul retained the Group Six lead
with a 0-0 draw at home to secondplaced
Corinthians in Mexico City.
After three matches Cruz Azul have
seven points and the Brazilians
five. Libertad of Paraguay stayed
top of Group Five after a 1-1 draw
with Brazil’s Vasco da Gama in an
ill-tempered match in Asuncion.
The same two players who scored
the goals, Vasco’s Diego Souza and
Jose Nunez of Libertad, were sent
off. — Reuters
Mourinho eyeing
Chelsea reunion
MADRID: Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho was hoping for a
dream Champions League final against his former club
Chelsea yesterday after the Spanish giants cruised into the
quarter-finals. Nine-time winners Real beat CSKA Moscow 4-1
in the second leg of their last 16 tie for a 5-2 aggregate win
with Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo grabbing two of
the goals.
No sooner had the night’s business been settled, however,
than Mourinho was already eyeing Chelsea, who won an
extra-time thriller to defeat Napoli, as potential final opponents
in May. “People can’t understand how much I love
Chelsea and I know if I get them in the quarter-finals or the
semi-finals, they would be great opponents,” said Mourinho,
who has been widely-tipped to retake the reins at Stamford
Bridge in the summer. “I’m happy Chelsea have got through,
but I’d love to play them in the final.” The Real coach was also
happy to heap more praise on Ronaldo whose brace took his
Real Madrid career total to 19 goals in 24 appearances in the
Champions League.
Compared to 16 goals during his 55 outings as a
Manchester United player, the Portuguese star is flourishing
at Real. “Ronaldo is unbelievable,” said Mourinho. “You would
have thought with the number of goals he scored last season
you couldn’t improve, but he is at another level.” Gonzalo
Higuain and Karim Benzema were also on target on
Wednesday as Real joined bitter rivals Barcelona in the last
eight, the draw for which will be held today. The only negative
on the night for Madrid was a yellow card for Xabi Alonso
that means he will miss the first leg of their quarter-final tie.
“It’s not a problem that Xabi can’t play, we are not going
to cry about it, there is no problem for (Lass) Diarra or
(Esteban) Granero to play with (Sami) Khedira,” added
Mourinho. The coach added he was happy with his team but
underlined how difficult the match had been until Ronaldo
got Madrid’s second goal of the evening. “We suffered more
than we should have until the second goal and the game was
demanding until the end but all Champions League games
are like this,” he said. “We gave a mature and balanced performance
and now we’ll take on whoever the draw pairs us
with today.”— AFP