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sports Dialuna 23 november 2020

Vakatawa try earns France 22-15 win over Scotland

(AP) — Virimi Vakatawa the last of his four penal- to touch near the corner flag
scored the crucial second- ties to restore France's sev- and take a lineout. Hogg suc-
half try as France beat en-point lead, which was ceeded only in misplacing the
Scotland 22-15 at Mur- enough to consign Scotland kick and the ball went dead,
rayfield on Sunday to take to its first loss in six tests and before the final whistle was
control of its group in the seal the visitors' first win in blown.
Autumn Nations Cup and Edinburgh since 2014.
move into position for a Scotland beat Italy 28-17 on
shot at the title in the in- All of Scotland's points came the opening weekend and
augural competition. from the boot of flyhalf Dun- is also set to get a 28-0 win
can Weir. over Fiji after their match
With the halftime score at 12- next weekend was canceled
12, the French moved into a France was awarded a 28-0 more than a week in advance
lead they wouldn't relinquish win over Fiji in Round 1 of because of the positive CO-
when Vincent Rattez came in the tournament after the Pa- VID-19 tests in the Fiji camp.
off his wing to take an inside cific Island nation was un-
ball and pierce Scotland's de- able to play following an out- It was another encouraging attritional game at a virtually To have any chance of mak-
fensive line. He offloaded to break of the coronavirus in result for France, which has empty Murrayfield. ing the title match, the Scots
strapping center Vakatawa, its squad. Les Tricolores can lost just once in the pandem- "We’re learning how to win need Italy to beat France.
who shrugged off a tackle secure first place with a win ic-affected 2020 and narrow- and we will have to keep that “We were in an arm-wrestle
by fullback Stuart Hogg and over Italy in Paris next week- ly missed out on the Six Na- going.” today and the effort was out-
managed to ground the ball end, which would ensure a tions title. standing," Scotland coach
over the line in the 42nd spot in the title match on the “It’s just the win that mat- Scotland had the chance to Gregor Townsend said. “But
minute. first weekend of December. ters, we did it and that’s force a draw in the final sec- to take that next step we’ve
great for everyone because onds of the match after be- got to take our opportuni-
Fullback Thomas Ramos France has only lost once to it was hard," France captain ing awarded a penalty, giving ties and be accurate when we
converted and later kicked Italy at home, back in 1997. Charles Ollivon said after an Hogg the opportunity to kick have them.”

Sassuolo beats Verona to go top ahead of Napoli vs. Milan

(AP) — Sassuolo won 2-0 field pass and curled it into Cristian Ansaldi doubled
at Hellas Verona to move the far top corner. Berardi got the visitors’ lead in the 62nd
top of Serie A for a few onto the scoresheet himself from the penalty spot after
hours at least, ahead of AC in the 76th minute as Verona Ashley Young fouled Wilfried
Milan’s match at Napoli players failed to close him Stephane Singo.
later Sunday. down before he unleashed a Inter pulled one back just
shot that took a slight deflec- two minutes later as Lukaku’s
Sassuolo moved a point above tion to dip under the cross- shot came off the crossbar
Milan and Roma, which beat bar. with Alexis Sánchez manag-
Parma 3-0. Napoli would ing to fire in the rebound.
move level with those two Inter comeback Lukaku then hit the post
teams, on 17 points, if it beats Two late goals helped Inter before turning in Sánchez’s
Milan. fight back from 2-0 down cross in the 64th.
It is only Sassuolo’s eighth to beat Torino 4-2 thanks to
season in the Italian top flight an inspired Romelu Lukaku. And Inter’s comeback was
and the team has never fin- Both sides had players ruled complete six minutes from
ished higher than sixth. out with the coronavirus. To- time when Lukaku converted
Verona dominated the match, rino was also missing coach a penalty after Achraf Hakimi matches.
hitting the woodwork four Marco Giampaolo because of was tripped in the area by Other matches Earlier, Cesare Prandelli’s
times. But Sassuolo broke the virus and forward Andrea Nicolas Nkoulou. Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored first match back in charge
the deadlock three minutes Belotti pulled out injured Inter sealed the match in the twice in an impressive first of Fiorentina ended in a 1-0
from the interval and against during the warmup. final minute when Lukaku half for Roma after Borja defeat at home to Beneven-
the run of play. His replacement, Simone ran down the left and rolled Mayoral’s opener. Mkhi- to. Also, Bologna won 2-1
Jérémie Boga latched onto Zaza, fired Torino in front across for Lautaro Martínez taryan has now scored five at Sampdoria. Udinese was
Domenico Berardi’s cross- on the stroke of halftime and to tap in. goals in his past two Serie A playing Genoa later.

Pépé sent off for headbutt as Arsenal draws 0-0 at Leeds

(AP) — Arsenal coped at Leeds in the Premier tional was shown a straight the second half but couldn’t While Arsenal’s strong de-
with the sending-off of League on Sunday. red card in the 51st minute find a way past Arsenal goal- fensive record continued un-
Nicolas Pépé for a head- after an off-the-ball incident keeper Bernd Leno, who der Mikel Arteta, the team
butt to eke out a 0-0 draw The Ivory Coast interna- in which he walked up to produced a flying save to tip has failed to score in four of
Ezgjan Alioski and moved his over a shot from Stuart Dal- its last five league matches.
head toward the forehead of las before seeing efforts from The only goal in that period
the Leeds left back, who fell substitute Rodrigo, striker was a penalty by Pierre-
to the ground theatrically. Patrick Bamford and winger
Raphinha hit the crossbar, Emerick Aubameyang in a
Pépé was making just his post and crossbar, respec- 1-0 win at Manchester Unit-
second start in the league tively. ed.
this season, having struggled Aubameyang played as the
to establish himself in the Arsenal had a chance to sole striker on Sunday, hav-
team after moving to Arsenal snatch victory late on at El- ing typically played on the
from French club Lille in the land Road, only for Bukayo left wing under Arteta with
offseason of 2019 in a deal Saka to have a shot blocked Alexandre Lacazette usually
worth a reported 80 million as he rounded the goalkeep- preferred as the center for-
euros ($89 million). er after being played clean ward, but the tactical switch
Leeds dominated the rest of through on goal. had little impact.