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sports Dialuna 26 OctOber 2020

Truex bumped back in Texas, docked 20 points over spoiler

(AP) — Martin Truex Jr. the championship run for
was sent to the back of the the fourth straight year. The
field for NASCAR's Cup Toyota driver was supposed
race at Texas and docked to start on the outside of the
20 points while crew chief third row.
James Small was ejected
for an illegal spoiler. While Truex is winless in 30
starts at Texas, his only win
The 2017 Cup champion and this year was in Martinsville.
runner-up the past two sea- Joe Gibbs Racing also was
sons also was fined $35,000. docked 20 points.
The points deduction still
leaves Truex seventh in the NASCAR said Truex, Daniel
points standings going into Suarez and Chad Finchum
Sunday's race, but he's now failed inspection twice. Su-
51 points behind the cutoff arez also was moved to the
line for the final four. back of the field. Finchum
was already there. There
Truex likely will need to win were no further penalties for
either at Texas or next week Suarez and Finchum.
in Martinsville to qualify for

Wolfsburg beats Bielefeld 2-1 for 1st Bundesliga win

(AP) — Wolfsburg held Honors even
on to beat visiting Ar- Werder Bremen was held to
minia Bielefeld 2-1 on a 1-1 draw by Hoffenheim
Sunday for its first win of in the late game.
the season in the Bundes- Maximilian Eggestein fired
liga. the home side into an early
lead in the fifth minute, but
Sven Schipplock’s 80th- Dennis Geiger equalized for
minute strike gave Bielefeld Hoffenheim in the 22nd.
hope of a point and prompt- Hoffenheim’s Robert Skov
ed the home side to scram- came closest to getting a
ble to prevent an equalizer winner when he hit the right
for what would have been corner of the goal frame
its fifth consecutive draw in with a free kick late on.
five games.
Leipzig leads
Manuel Prietl struck the Leipzig is top of the table by
post minutes later but it was one point from eight-time
as close as the visitors came. defending champion Bayern
Two goals in two minutes Munich and last season’s
from Wout Weghorst and runner-up Borussia Dort-
Maximilian Arnold in the mund after five games.
19th and 20th proved to be
enough for Wolfsburg’s first On Saturday, Julian Nagels- enjoyed another rout with Eintracht Frankfurt. Dort- Bayer Leverkusen hosts
win at home in the league mann’s Leipzig beat Hertha Robert Lewandowski hitting mund defeated Schalke 3-0 Augsburg to conclude the
for eight months. Berlin 2-1, while Bayern a hat trick in a 5-0 win over in the Ruhr derby. round on Monday.

VAR takes center stage again in Spanish league

(AP) — Video review at- to the decision, but it still left field in such a manner. Koeman had claimed Satur- scored as Alavés won at last-
tracted the wrong kind plenty of space for debate. day that only calls against Bar- place Valladolid, which is yet
of attention again in the A victory against Villarreal celona were being checked. to win this season. The hosts
Spanish league after a Video review also played a could have left promoted Unai Emery’s Villarreal went a man down in the 21st
disallowed goal in the 0-0 role in Alavés’ 2-0 win at Val- Cádiz at the top of the league could have taken sole pos- minute after video review
draw between Cádiz and ladolid, leading to a red card along with Real Madrid, but session of the lead had it won determined that Nacho Mar-
Villarreal on Sunday, a for the hosts in the first half instead it stayed in seventh the match in Cádiz. It is one tínez deserved a red card for a
day after VAR helped to and influencing two other place, two points back. The point behind Madrid, which foul. VAR later helped to dis-
award a decisive penalty calls after the break. club from southern Spain has a game in hand. allow one goal by Alavés and
kick for Real Madrid in its was coming off a 1-0 win at confirm another.
“clásico” win against Bar- Most front pages in Spain on Madrid. “The team did well and
celona. Sunday mentioned the VAR showed improvement, but
call that helped to give Ma- “What bothers me is if it wasn’t enough for the
Cádiz’s first-half goal by drid a 3-1 victory over Barce- only some plays are being win," Emery said. "The point
Álvaro Negredo was called lona after Sergio Ramos’ jer- checked,” Cádiz coach Álva- wasn’t enough.” Villarreal is
back for offside after a wait sey was pulled inside the area ro Cervera said. “If they went yet to score goals away from
of nearly five minutes while at the Camp Nou Stadium. to check and it’s offside, then home in the league this sea-
the play was analyzed by the Barcelona and coach Ronald it’s offside, no problem. But son.
officiating crew. The league Koeman loudly complained, which ones are checked and
released the photo with the saying the pull on Ramos did which ones are not checked?” Other results
superimposed lines that led not cause him to drop on the Tomás Pina and Borja Sainz