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Morata hits brace in Juventus' rally against Lazio
Italian champions Juventus came back with an Alvaro Morata brace to beat guests Lazio 3-1 on Saturday and bolster their third place in Serie A. The Turin side have a game in hand as they sit seven points adrift of leaders Inter Milan, who close matchday 26 at home to fourth-place Atalanta on Monday. Second-place AC Milan are six off the top and visit Verona on Sunday. Joaquin Correa was ruthless when a bad pass from Dejan Kulusevski sent him away to stun Wojciech Szczesny on 14 minutes, and Juventus' Polish keeper had then to save drives from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Luis Alberto. The first...
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Morata hits brace in Juventus' rally against Lazio
Italian champions Juventus came back with an Alvaro Morata brace to beat guests Lazio 3-1 on Saturday and bolster their third place in Serie A. The Turin side have a game in hand as they sit seven points adrift of leaders Inter Milan, who close matchday 26 at home to fourth-place Atalanta on Monday. Second-place AC Milan are six off the top and visit Verona on Sunday. Joaquin Correa was ruthless when a bad pass from Dejan Kulusevski sent him away to stun Wojciech Szczesny on 14 minutes, and Juventus' Polish keeper had then to save drives from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Luis Alberto. The first...
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Bayern come from behind to beat Dortmund and regain Bundesliga lead
Champions Bayern Munich came back from being 2-0 down to beat Borussia Dortmund 4-2 and regain their Bundesliga lead after RB Leipzig went top of the table for a few hours thanks to a 3-0 win over Freiburg earlier on Saturday. Christopher Nkunku scored Leipzig's opener shortly before the break and in-form Alexander Sorloth and Emil Forsberg in the second half secured the three points and a sixth straight league win to underline their big ambitions. Erling Haaland needed only two minutes to put Dortmund ahead and seven more to score a brace as his team had a perfect start into the match. But Ba...
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Bayern come from behind to beat Dortmund and regain Bundesliga lead
Champions Bayern Munich came back from being 2-0 down to beat Borussia Dortmund 4-2 and regain their Bundesliga lead after RB Leipzig went top of the table thanks to a 3-0 win over Freiburg. Erling Haaland needed only two minutes to put Dortmund ahead and seven more to score a brace as his team had a perfect start into the match. But Bayern were able to respond still in the first half with Robert Lewandowski, who slotted it home twice to level things up. Despite not having a brilliant second half, the Bavarians seemed like the most likely side to secure a win and that happened when in the 88th...
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Udinese beat Sassuolo 2-0 in Serie A mid-table fixture
Udinese beat Sassuolo 2-0 Saturday as Fernando Llorente and Roberto Pereyra struck to push the Udine side within four points of their guests in Italy's Serie A. Llorente deftly turned in a deep feed from Nahuel Molina and after the break saw his skipper Rodrigo De Paul hit the top left junction before setting up Pereyra in stoppage time. Spain veteran Llorente, a former Napoli and Juventus striker, netted his first goal for Udinese since his late January transfer from the Naples side. Udinese moved into 10th place, while Sassuolo are ninth with a game in hand. Spezia and visiting Benevento ope...
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Geiger anchors Germany to back-to-back golds in his home town
Karl Geiger produced a monster jump on his home town to help Germany to back-to-back world titles in the ski-jumping team event. Pius Paschke (136.5 and 132 metres), Severin Freund (127.5m, 123m), Markus Eisenbichler (135m, 138.5m) and Geiger (133.5m, 136m) amassed 1,046 points for victory. They finished 11.1 points ahead of Austria with Friday's large hill winner Stefan Kraft and 15.4 clear of bronze medallists Poland with normal hill champ Piotr Zyla. Geiger and Eisenbichler got their second Oberstdorf gold following last week's mixed team event. Geiger also won normal hill silver and large ...
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Fourth gold for ski queen Johaug; hosts Germany top ski-jump
Imperious Therese Johaug made it four world titles from four cross-country races on Saturday when the Norwegian topped the 30-kilometres with the biggest-ever winning margin. Johaug broke the field early and beat second-placed team-mate Heidi Weng by 2:34.2 minutes. The margin was one minute more than the previous record 1:34 minutes Larisa Lazutina won ahead of fellow-Russia Olga Danilova at the 1999 worlds; and over 40 seconds more than the 1:45.9 minutes Norway's Marit Bjoergen won over Finland's Krista Parmakoski at the 2018 Olympics. Johaug, 32, also won 10km, skiathlon and relay gold in ...
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Leipzig win to go top in Bundesliga, Wolfsburg's unbeaten run ended
Visiting RB Leipzig beat Freiburg 3-0 to go top of the Bundesliga for at least a few hours as they put pressure on champions Bayern Munich ahead of their date with Borussia Dortmund later on Saturday. Christopher Nkunku scored Leipzig's opener shortly before the break and in-form Alexander Sorloth and Emil Forsberg in the second half secured the three points to put them one point ahead of Bayern with a sixth straight league win to underline their big ambitions. "We've been plating some really good football recently, and that's despite having a packed schedule. Everything is working out well," ...
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Leipzig win to go top in Bundesliga, Wolfsburg unbeaten run ended
Visiting RB Leipzig beat Freiburg 3-0 to go top of the Bundesliga for at least a few hours as they mounted pressure on champions Bayern Munich ahead of their date with Borussia Dortmund later on Saturday. Christopher Nkunku scored Leipzig's opener shortly before the break and in-form Alexander Sorloth and Emil Forsberg in the second half secured the three points to put them one point ahead of Bayern with a sixth straight league win. Third-placed Wolfsburg saw their unbeaten league run ended after nine games in a 2-1 defeat at Hoffenheim. Wout Weghorst levelled it up after Christoph Baumgartner...
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Spezia and Benevento draw in Serie A lower-reaches clash
Spezia and visiting Benevento drew 1-1 in a newcomers' clash Saturday and both moved six points clear of the drop zone in the Italian Serie A. Adolfo Gaich finished into the closest corner after storming on the left for the Southerners first-half opener, with Daniele Verde flicking home for Spezia's equalizer. Later action pits Udinese against Sassuolo before third-placed champions Juventus host Lazio. The Turin side have a game in hand as they sit 10 points adrift of leaders Inter Milan, who close matchday 26 at home to fourth-place Atalanta on Monday. Second-place AC Milan visit Verona on Su...
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