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Marseille survive late VAR drama to stay in Champions League hunt

PARIS: Marseille kept up their hunt for Champions League football on Saturday despite losing in-form striker Mario Balotelli to injury after VAR saw them escape last-gasp penalty drama to beat Nimes 2-1. Balotelli has helped kick-start Marseille’s chase for European football with seven goals in 11 Ligue 1 appearances since

Pogba saves Man United Tottenham go up third

LONDON: Manchester United needed two Paul Pogba penalties to stay in contention for a top-four Premier League finish by beating West Ham 2-1, while Tottenham moved up to third thanks to Lucas Moura’s hat-trick in a 4-0 win over Huddersfield on Saturday. United had lost four of their previous five

SPAL put Juventus title celebrations on hold, Kessie keeps Milan fourth

MILAN: Juventus slumped to a shock 2-1 defeat at lowly SPAL on Saturday to put their Serie A title celebrations on hold, while Franck Kessie scored from the spot to keep AC Milan in the Champions League places with a 1-0 win over Lazio. Massimiliano Allegri’s side had needed just

Dortmund top with nerve-jangling win over Mainz

BERLIN: Jadon Sancho’s first-half brace and Roman Buerki’s goalkeeping heroics helped pile the pressure back onto Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga title race as Borussia Dortmund survived a late scare to secure a 2-1 win over Mainz on Saturday. Dortmund were left licking their wounds after a 5-0 humiliation in

‘Lucky’ MU must improve for Barcelona: Solskjaer

MANCHESTER: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted on Saturday that Manchester United will have to improve significantly on their performance against West Ham if they are to knock Barcelona out of the Champions League. A much-changed United were unconvincing as they beat Manuel Pellegrini’s side 2-1 at Old Trafford to maintain their

Molinari seizes two-shot lead over Woods, Finau

AUGUSTA (United States): Francesco Molinari fired a flawless six-under par 66 on Saturday, seizing a two stroke lead over Tiger Woods and Tony Finau in a thrilling Masters third round at Augusta National. Italy’s Molinari, the reigning British Open champion, stayed patient through five opening pars as birdies broke out

Mickelson must get aggressive to chase oldest major win

AUGUSTA (United States): Phil Mickelson said he must flirt with Augusta National’s course record yesterday for any hope of winning the Masters but the five-time major champion says the round is in him. The 48-year-old American left-hander, who would become the oldest major winner in golf history with a victory

Seventh heaven as Marquez grabs MotoGP pole in Austin

LOS ANGELES: World champion Marc Marquez maintained his domination at the Grand Prix of the Americas on Saturday, sweeping to yet another pole position as he chases a seventh straight victory in Texas. The Spanish MotoGP star bagged his seventh consecutive pole at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas after posting

Disney throws down gauntlet in war on Netflix

WASHINGTON: The battle is on. Walt Disney Co. is bringing its biggest weapons to a new streaming service, including “Star Wars” and Marvel superheroes, in what is expected to be bruising war with Netflix and others for television dominance. The media-entertainment colossus announced its Disney+ streaming service would launch in

Warning issued on industrial plants as ‘Triton’ hack resurfaces

SAN FRANCISCO: Security researchers this week confirmed that they spotted new activity by hackers using “Triton” malware capable of doing real-world damage to oil, gas or water plants. The security firm FireEye said in a blog post  that it had identified and was “responding to an additional intrusion by the attacker