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Diabierna 16 OctOber 2020

Washington, Giants once again bringing up rear in NFC East

(AP) — New coaches, ros- In the last two games, the Gi- Barkley or tight end Evan
ter changes and even the ants have lost young starting Engram to be the big-play
deletion of a team nick- outside linebackers Oshane guy this season. Barkley tore
name haven’t changed Ximines (shoulder-IR) and up his knee in Week 2 and
things on the field for the Lorenzo Carter (Achilles Engram has been inconsis-
New York Giants and the tendon). Kyler Fackrell, who tent.Second-year wide re-
Washington Football Club was signed as a free agent in ceiver Darius Slayton has
five games into the NFL the offseason, and Markus picked up the slack. He has a
season. Golden are expected to re- team-high 23 catches for 365
place them. yards and two touchdowns.
The long-time rivals are Fackrell started last week He had his best game of the
again bringing up the rear in against Dallas and returned season last weekend, catch-
a mediocre NFC East, a di- an interception for a touch- ing eight passes for 129 yards,
vision that is wide open with down, the first of his career. and had a touchdown recep-
Dallas (2-3) and Philadelphia Golden, who led New York tion negated by a penalty.
(1-3-1) struggling. with 10 sacks last season,
Washington (1-4) and the picked up a half a sack af- Safety dance
Giants (0-5) will meet for ter replacing Carter. Expect Washington’s defense has al-
the 177th time in a series that rookies Cam Brown and lowed 30 or more points in all
dates to 1932 when they play Carter Coughlin to pick up four losses. It struggled again
Sunday at MetLife Stadium. some time. Brown has been in a loss to the Rams even af-
New York is looking for its impressive on special teams ter No. 2 pick Chase Young
first win under 38-year-old coverage. returned from a groin injury
Joe Judge. Washington has and continued to wreak hav-
lost four straight and changed Allen starts again oc from the edge.
quarterbacks since giving Kyle Allen -- not Alex Smith Strong safety Landon Collins
Ron Rivera a win in the sea- or Dwayne Haskins -- is missed an angle on a 56-yard
son opener. Washington’s starting quar- touchdown pass, but the big-
We get a team into third-and- derstand what we need to do terback for a second consecu- gest problem might be free
With 11 games left in the reg- long and we’ll allow a first better, what we need to clean tive game. Rivera benched safety, where it’s either inex-
ular season, Rivera and Judge down. That’s the frustration, up. But then it’s also my job Haskins after three consecu- perienced Troy Apke or spe-
realize a few wins will get is that the consistency is not to highlight and show them tive losses, and Allen started cial teamer Deshazor Everett.
their teams back in the hunt. where it needs to be.” where they’ve made im- 9 of 13 for 74 yards passing
However, they also know provements and where we’ve and scored a rushing touch- The great gano
their teams have to stop mak- Judge says he has been bru- made progress as a team, so down against the Rams be- If the game comes down to a
ing mistakes and start play- tally honest with his young they understand what we fore injuring his left (non- field goal, the Giants wouldn't
ing complete games to win. team. After every loss, the have really to build with.” throwing) arm in the second mind having Graham Gano
“You hear me talk about it; videotapes are reviewed and If there is a good piece of quarter. Smith took over and taking it. The veteran, who
we have not sustained suc- the good and bad discussed, news for the Giants, it's they played for the first time since was signed after missing last
cess," Rivera said. “When you as well as where they are as a have played well against severely breaking a leg in two season with a leg injury, has
watch the things that we do, team and what needs to im- Washington, winning the last spots in 2018. made 13 of 14 field goal at-
you see it’ll be first-and-10, prove. “That ties into obvi- three games. Quarterback Allen is good to go with tempts. He has tied a team
second-and-3 and then we’ll ously tangible results on the Daniel Jones threw for five Smith as his backup. Haskins single-season record with
do something and end up at field with wins and losses,” touchdowns in December, is third on the depth chart. four field goals of 50 or more
third-and-8. That’s the frus- he said. “It’s a production when the team was known as yards. His only miss was
tration is that we don’t sus- business. We’re all very con- the Redskins. Darius slayton from 57 yards. Against Dal-
tain a positive thing. On the scious and aware of that. It’s New York had expected ei- las on Sunday, he hit from 55,
defensive side, same thing. my job to make sure they un- Banged up backers ther running back Saquon 50, 54 and 28 yards.

Virus threatens to push Bundesliga fans back out of stadiums

Six of the nine home teams warning fans not to sing dur- Borussia Mönchengladbach's
this round have stadiums ing the game. City authorities home city was just within the
in areas with infection rates are concerned that could be limit Thursday to have fans,
above the level set down in the a risk factor, even given the but the club said a “ghost
politicians' agreement which large number of empty seats game” is more than likely.
governs German sports this in the 74,000-capacity Olym- Given the general trajectory
season. Going above 35 new piastadion. of rising case numbers, the
cases per 100,000 people over game “is threatening to have
seven days generally means a The virus threatens to keep to be held in front of empty
club can't have fans. Arminia Bielefeld fans out stands,” the club said. More
Infections are rising across of one of their club's biggest worryingly for Gladbach fans
Germany and hit a new one- games of recent years — the is the prospect of not being
day record Thursday ac- first visit by Bayern Munich able to attend the Champi-
cording to the Robert Koch since 2009. It's a financial ons League game against Real
Institute, the country's pub- blow for a smaller club which Madrid on Tuesday.
lic health body. Berlin has in a normal season would
(AP) — The Bundesliga is navirus pandemic, and later been hit harder than most jump at the opportunity of Even clubs from cities with
moving closer to another its politicians crafted a flex- other major cities, but Her- having the European cham- much lower infection rates
run of what Germans call ible, local model to allow at tha Berlin is still planning to pions in town. — like Leipzig and Wolfs-
“ghost games” as the coro- least some fans back at up to have 5,000 fans when it hosts burg — could have reason to
navirus threatens to re- 20% capacity. This weekend, Stuttgart on Saturday under a Bayern is well used to play- worry. The politicians' agree-
verse the tentative return though, it appears almost special deal with the city au- ing in empty stadiums. The ment last month which al-
of fans to the stadiums. certain that more Bundesliga thorities. only game its fans have seen lowed fans back into German
games will be played without live this season was the Su- stadiums was framed as a six-
Germany's league led the way supporters than with them. However, Hertha will have per Cup win over Sevilla in week trial and is up for re-
in resuming amid the coro- stadium announcements Hungary last month. view at the end of the month.