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Dialuna 14 Maart 2022

Neymar and Messi jeered by seething PSG fans in 3-0 home win

tino is widely expected to be PSG’s ultras group — known ing 6-1 away at Barcelona.
replaced next season. as CUP — demanded in a
statement Saturday night that Bordeaux has leaked 68 goals,
At which point Kylian Al-Khelaifi leave. the most in the league, but al-
Mbappe, who scored PSG’s most scored in the first min-
first goal against Bordeaux Some fans in the Auteuil sec- ute on Sunday.
midway through the first tion at Parc des Princes even
half, might be playing for turned up 15 minutes late in With Donnarumma dropped,
Real Madrid. His contract protest at PSG’s midweek it was Keylor Navas in goal.
runs out in June and he can meltdown. He saved Remi Oudin’s
leave on a free transfer. 20-meter strike before Jean
The team’s supporters are Onana’s header from the
PSG’s top scorer was the only seething at the manner of the corner went just wide.
player spared the whistles latest humiliating Champi-
when the team names were ons League exit. Neymar lost the ball against
read out. Madrid and against Nice in
PSG was up 2-0 on aggre- PSG’s 1-0 loss last week-
(AP) - Record-breakers embarked on a trademark run Record seven-time Golden gate but fell apart following end — both times leading to
Neymar and Lionel Messi from deep and hit the post he Ball winner Messi and Ney- goalkeeper Gianluigi Donna- counter-attack goals.
felt the heat from Paris got booed. mar — the world’s most ex- rumma’s error. Madrid star
Saint-Germain’s angry pensive player at 222 million Karim Benzema scored three His goal against Bordeaux
fans following another While the runaway leader euros ($242 million) — were goals in 17 minutes to knock came in the 52nd minute
Champions League hu- moved 15 points clear in a booed throughout. The two PSG out of the competition with a tap-in. A powerful
miliation, getting whistled league it usually dominates, former Barcelona stars were that its cash-rich Qatari own- strike from midfielder Lean-
every time they touched the fans want success else- also on the receiving end of ers crave so much. dro Paredes made it 3-0 in
the ball during a 3-0 home where. some hostile chants encour- the 61st.
win against Bordeaux on aging them to leave. Three years ago PSG became
Sunday. Yet PSG blew it again in the first team to be elimi- Later Sunday, Marseille
the Champions League this A banner read “Direction De- nated after winning the away needed to win at Brest to
Even when Neymar scored week against Real Madrid. A mission” (Directors Resign) leg 2-0, losing to Manchester move level on points with
the second goal against rock- few weeks ago they also got seemingly aimed at sport- United 3-1. In 2017, it was Nice in second place and
bottom Bordeaux the fans knocked out the French Cup ing director Leonardo and the first to be eliminated after the automatic Champions
jeered him. Even when Messi and coach Mauricio Pochet- president Nasser Al-Khelaifi. winning the first leg 4-0, los- League spot.

Hertha Berlin fires coach in bid to stave off relegation

(AP) — Hertha Berlin ternational, is not solely to Last week was another tu- that changes are needed at floundering, too. Hertha is
fired Tayfun Korkut as blame for Hertha’s problems, multuous one at the club, the club’s next general meet- the worst side in the Bundes-
coach on Sunday in a des- which may explain how he with sporting director Arne ing in May. He also said a liga since the second half of
perate attempt to stave off remained coach despite the Friedrich departing and a documentary about the club the season began.
a humiliating Bundesliga long run of bad results. But power struggle breaking out was stopped after a “manage-
relegation for the ambi- Hertha again felt the need for between Windhorst and the ment member described Mr. Hertha next plays Hoffen-
tious club. a fresh start if it is to some- Hertha management. Fried- Windhorst as unsympathetic, heim at home on Saturday.
how claw its way out of dan- rich announced in February and the group made fun of Hoffenheim held Bayern
Hertha said in a statement ger. his intention to leave at the Windhorst.” Munich 1-1 on Saturday and
that assistant coach Ilija end of the season, but said is fighting for Champions
Aračić was also leaving the Korkut’s successor will be the Monday he felt for several The club reacted with a state- League qualification. Hertha
club “with immediate effect” team’s seventh coach since months that he wasn’t able ment saying that the com- then visits third-place Bayer
and that a successor to Kor- investor Lars Windhorst be- “to do justice to my duties as ments not only damaged Leverkusen, before what is
kut will be announced “as gan backing the club in June sporting director.” Hertha but also the Tennor sure to be a highly charged
soon as this matter of person- 2019. Windhorst has seen no Group. city derby against Union
nel has been finally clarified.” return on his investment of Tennor spokesman Andreas Berlin.
374 million euros in Hertha Fritzenkötter said Wednesday Meanwhile, the team is
Korkut had been given every and has publicly expressed
chance to turn around Her- disappointment while criti-
tha’s fortunes after he re- cizing club leadership for its
placed club favorite Pál Dár- failures.
dai last November, but Sat-
urday’s 2-0 loss at Borussia Windhorst dreamed of turn-
Mönchengladbach was the ing Hertha into one of Eu-
team’s fifth consecutive de- rope’s best, but instead has
feat and it stretched its win- seen the club lurch from one
less run in the league to nine crisis, scandal or low point to
games. another. Hertha has fought
against relegation in each of
It also left the “Old Lady” the three seasons since Wind-
second last in the division, in horst got involved through
a direct relegation spot, with his Tennor investments
eight rounds remaining. group.

Hertha hasn’t won a compet- Bobic said recently that
itive game in 2022 and it was Windhorst’s money is
also knocked out of the Ger- “gone,” spent mostly on
man Cup by city rival Union offsetting losses, including
Berlin in January. those caused by the corona-
virus pandemic.
Korkut, a former Turkey in-