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sports Dialuna 4 Januari 2021

Man City surges to 3-1 win over Chelsea in Premier League

(AP) — Manchester City City had been missing five
left Chelsea in disarray by players due to coronavirus
sweeping to a 3-1 victory infections and there was off-
on Sunday with a ruth- field tumult in the buildup to
less attacking display that the game caused by defender
consigned Frank Lam- Benjamin Mendy breach-
pard's team to a fourth ing pandemic restrictions on
loss in its past six Premier inter-household mixing by
League games. holding a New Year's Eve
party.
İlkay Gündoğan, Phil Foden
and Kevin De Bruyne scored With Ederson in isolation re-
in a devastating 16-minute covering from COVID-19,
first-half spell as City rose to goalkeeper Zack Steffen start-
fifth in the standings despite ed his first Premier League
coronavirus cases depleting game. It was a nervy start for
the squad. the 25-year-old American,
earning a booking for han-
Chelsea is only three points dling outside the penalty area
behind City but has played after five minutes.
two games more and the
manner of this defeat will But thanks to City’s scintil-
be alarming to notoriously lating forays forward and
impatient owner Roman Chelsea’s attacking deficien- gium playmaker was inter- headed to Sterling to launch in this way.”
Abramovich. cies, Steffen wasn’t tested. cepted by Thiago Silva, but a breakaway down half the
he regained the ball to set up length of the pitch unchal- Only Mendy's quick reaction
“Everyone a month ago Instead it was opposite num- Foden for the second. It was a lenged before hitting the goal in the Chelsea goal prevented
was saying we can win the ber Edouard Mendy picking slick final touch from Foden frame with a shot. By that a close-range header from
league," Lampard said. “I was the ball out of his net three that allowed him to beat time, De Bruyne had arrived Rodri going into the top cor-
pretty sure in the fact that times. Mendy at his near post. to meet the rebound in the ner at the start of the second
where we’re at, in terms of a 34th minute, scoring on the half.
rebuild, the ban, new players In the 18th minute, Foden re- “We conceded two really day the playmaker was de-
in the team, the youth, that ceived a pass from De Bruyne poor goals back to back in ployed as the central striker. Rarely has City been so un-
there were periods of pain we and teed up Gündoğan on the game,” Lampard said. “I troubled in a game against
were going to go through as a the turn to net his third goal felt it knocked us, and that “A little bizarre in the begin- Chelsea, which endured an-
club and individuals. It was a in four games. we didn’t react as well as I’d ning — I’ve done it a couple other disappointing game
painful first half for the play- want. Serious lessons in the of times in my career," he in front of goal from striker
ers.” City was in devastating form, first half. Good character in said. "Obviously there are a Timo Werner.
The absence of any crowd orchestrated as so often by the second half but the game lot of strikers, forward play-
due to coronavirus restric- De Bruyne with less than was done.” ers who are out. The coach There was consolation in
tions spared Lampard from three minutes between the asked me to do this job so I stoppage time with Callum
any negativity from his own opening two goals. The third was started and tried to do it as best as pos- Hudson-Odoi netting from
fans at least. An initial cross from the Bel- completed by De Bruyne. He sible, and it is good we won Kai Havertz's cross.

Sancho's 1st goal seals hard-fought triumph for Dortmund

(AP) — Jadon Sancho sist of this season Sunday the unscheduled break as the scare from lowly Mainz be- dream,” the 22-year-old
scored his first Bundesliga when he sent in the corner game was repeatedly inter- fore returning to the top of Dahmen said.
goal of the season on Sun- for Manuel Akanji’s break- rupted by Gräfe’s whistle. the Bundesliga with a 5-2
day but Borussia Dort- through in the 66th minute, win in the late game. Mainz captain Danny Latza
mund returned from the but it had been a frustrating Dortmund had to wait un- hit the post after the break,
winter break looking like game for Dortmund despite til first-half injury time for The defending champions and then Bayern struck back.
it needs another one in a star striker Erling Haaland’s its first big chance, missed were stunned to be 2-0 down Lewandowski set up Joshua
hard-fought 2-0 win over return from a month out by Sancho when he failed to at break, though perhaps it Kimmich in the 50th, six
Wolfsburg. with a muscle injury. connect properly with a re- was no surprise as it marked minutes before Kimmich laid
bound. There was still time the eighth consecutive game the ball off for Leroy Sané to
Sancho only made sure of “We knew what to expect but before the break for Marco in which Bayern conceded equalize.
the result on a counterattack we also made it difficult for Reus to test Wolfsburg goal- first.
in injury time, shrugging ourselves,” Dortmund's new keeper Koen Casteels with a Robin Quaison rattled the
off defender Paulo Otávio’s coach Edin Terzić said after free kick. Jonathan Burkardt shrugged crossbar for Mainz before
challenge before firing inside his first home win. off Jérôme Boateng’s meek Bayern was celebrating again
the right post when he just Casteels produced a fine one- challenge before opening the when Alphonso Davies
had the goalkeeper to beat. There was a lengthy holdup handed save to deny Haaland scoring in the 32nd minute forced an own goal from Le-
It was the England forward's midway through the second after the break, but Akanji fi- and Alexander Hack headed andro Barreiro.
first goal in his 12th league half for a VAR check on a nally made the breakthrough in Daniel Brosinski’s free kick
appearance this season, a possible handball by Axel when he powered in a header in the 44th — after Boateng VAR provided the visitors
marked decline from last sea- Witsel. The Dortmund mid- from Sancho’s corner. had fouled Burkardt. some respite after finding
son when he had 17. It led fielder had no time to avoid Mainz goalkeeper Finn Dah- Davies was marginally off-
to interest from Manches- Renato Steffen’s close-range The visitors pushed hard men, who was making his side, but there nothing wrong
ter United in a big-money header and referee Manuel for the equalizer until Emre debut due to an injury to with Niklas Süle’s goal for
transfer. Sancho had seven Gräfe eventually allowed play Can sent Sancho free after a the club’s No. 1, had made a Bayern in the 70th. Lewan-
goals and eight assists after 12 to continue. Wolfsburg corner. brilliant save to deny Robert dowski added a penalty six
Bundesliga appearances last Lewandowski an equalizer in minutes later, then scored his
season. Wolfsburg had looked the BAYERN BOUNCES between. 19th goal of the season in the
more likely side to score, but BACK 83rd to wrap it up.
Sancho made his sixth as- there were few chances after Bayern Munich survived a “The first half was like a