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U19 Viet Nam beat Singapore 6-0 at AFF event

U19 Viet Nam beat Singapore 6-0 at AFF event

VietNamNet Bridge – U19 Viet Nam defeated Singapore 6-0 at the AFF U19 Championship Group B match in Laos on Saturday. Nguyen Tien Linh. W...

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Swansea end Manchester Utd’s unbeaten start

Second-half goals from Andre Ayew and Bafetimbi Gomis earned Swansea City a stirring 2-1 victory over Manchester United on Sunday as Garry Monk’s side went fourth in the Premier League.
Manchester United’s English defender Luke Shaw (C) vies with Swansea City’s English midfielder Jonjo Shelvey (2nd L) during the English Premier League football match at The Liberty Stadium in Swansea, south Wales. (AFP PHOTO/PAUL ELLIS)
SWANSEA: Second-half goals from Andre Ayew and Bafetimbi Gomis earned Swansea City a stirring 2-1 victory over Manchester United on Sunday (Aug 30) as Garry Monk’s side went fourth in the Premier League.
Juan Mata’s 48th-minute strike put United ahead at the Liberty Stadium, but Swansea hit back with quick-fire goals to take all three points and edge Louis van Gaal’s men into fifth place.
It was a third successive league win over United for Swansea and ended the visitors’ unbeaten record, bringing them down to earth after their mid-week 4-0 win over Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off round.
On a pitch that was made just about perfect by early-morning drizzle, United’s first chance of the game came inside 90 seconds. Swansea conceded a free-kick 25 yards from goal and were delighted to see goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski palm Memphis Depay’s shot to safety.
Mata was a yard too high, a minute later, from distance and though Swansea tried, it was the visitors who controlled the game in a midfield dominated by Mata, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Morgan Schneiderlin.
Mata was causing all sorts of problems with his movement in the final third, but when the ball was dished up on a plate to the Spaniard in the 16th minute, he dragged his shot wide of Fabianski’s near post.
Swansea’s first chance fell to Gomis. Jonjo Shelvey won a tackle in his own half, but when Ayew picked out Gomis with a lofted delivery, the Frenchman screwed his shot wide.
Two minutes later, Swansea missed a golden opportunity to break the deadlock. Shelvey’s free-kick was turned into the path of Gylfi Sigurdsson, who from nine yards dragged his shot wide of the far post.
Shelvey’s attempted chip, barely a minute later, was comfortably dealt with by Sergio Romero, but Gomis then went closer by driving towards goal and stabbing a shot against the post.
Having settled, Swansea were beginning to pose one or two serious questions of a United side who looked vulnerable at the back. Two minutes into the second half, Matteo Darmian was too slow to react to a ball across the back four from Daley Blind and was forced to trip Wayne Routledge.
Williams thwarts Rooney
The Italian full-back escaped a yellow card and was fortunate to see Shelvey’s free-kick land in the arms of Romero.
A minute after that, United found themselves in front. Luke Shaw broke down the United left and delivered a cross to the far post that Mata converted despite the attentions of Ashley Williams.
Williams came close to gifting United a second in the 51st minute. Depay crossed from the right and when Williams went to clear, the ball sliced off his left boot and forced Fabianski into a smart save.
Gary Monk replaced the ineffective Routledge with Ki Sung-yueng with 32 minutes remaining and immediately sent Ayew to partner Gomis in a 4-4-2 formation with a midfield diamond.
The new shape worked immediately. Williams released Sigurdsson down the right and when the Icelandic midfielder delivered toAyew, the Ghanaian’s downward header flashed past Romero.
The game moved on quickly and with United second best in all areas, Swansea seized the moment and took the lead through Gomis. Shelvey and Sigurdsson combined on halfway before Ayew brilliantly sent the Frenchman through using the outside of his left foot.
Gomis failed to get a good connection on his shot, but it was enough to beat Romero at his near post.
The introduction of Marouane Fellaini gave United more presence in the final third but Swansea defended with a degree of comfort throughout the final quarter with Williams, once again, a tower of strength.
Rooney had one final chance to snatch a point, but having worked his way into a shooting position, he delayed his shot and allowed Williams to clear the danger. It summed up a frustrating afternoon for Rooney and United.
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Roma send Juventus to second straight defeat

Roma condemned Juventus to a second straight defeat at the start of the season for the first time in the Old Lady of Turin’s history with a 2-1 Serie A victory on Sunday.
Juventus’ forward Juan Cuadrado (C) fights for the ball with Roma’s midfielder Radja Nainggolan and Roma’s defender Lucas Digne (R) during the Italian Serie A football match at the Olympic stadium in Rome. (AFP PHOTO/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
MILAN: Roma condemned Juventus to a second straight defeat at the start of the season for the first time in the Old Lady of Turin’s history with a 2-1 Serie A victory on Sunday (Aug 30).
Runners-up to Juventus the past two seasons, Roma raced into a 2-0 lead with 11 minutes to play thanks to Bosnia pair Miralem Pjanic and Edin Dzeko after Juventus had been reduced to 10 men following Patrice Evra’s sending-off.
The champions pulled a consolation goal back, their first of the league season, through Paulo Dybala in the final minutes. But Roma held on to beat Juventus in the league for the first time since a Francesco Totti winner sealed a 1-0 win in February 2013.
“We dominated them so we’re looking at the glass half-full, but we went to sleep at the end and gave them a really soft goal,”Roma captain Daniele De Rossi told Sky Sport. “But I think we played incredibly. You can’t forget, Juventus were challenging for the Champions League (in the final) a few months ago.”
Beaten 3-1 by Barcelona in the final of last season’s Champions League, Juve have now failed to win their opening two games of a Serie A season for the very first time, having lost 1-0 at home to Udinese last week.
“I’m not worried, but we have to change something, namely our mental approach,” said Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri, whose side has undergone several changes since last season. “Unfortunately, in football these things happen.”
French left back Lucas Digne made his Roma debut following a loan move from Paris Saint-Germain and held his own amid a tense and high-octane encounter.
Roma went about their task with a swagger in a dominant first half that left Juve’s Gianluigi Buffon by far the busier of the two goalkeepers.
Iago Falque, Mohamed Salah, Radja Nainggolan and Alessandro Florenzi kept the Roma midfield ticking as Juventus struggled to find their rhythm, with Buffon relieved when Pjanic’s angled effort came off the far upright.
A Giorgio Chiellini yellow card, for the defender’s second foul from behind on Pjanic, was indicative of a niggly encounter in which several players clashed. Roma had earlier seen claims for a penalty waved away after Florenzi came crashing down in front of Mario Mandzukic as he ran in to the box.
The first chance of the second half fell to Juventus, but Martin Caceres skewed off target after De Rossi had cleared Chiellini’s header into his path. But Roma turned the tempo up a notch again.
The pace and movement of Florenzi and Salah were causing problems, and Pjanic again came close to the opener when he held off markers to spin on a loose ball in the area.
Roma had the momentum and a Salah-led counter-attack edged the hosts closer to the opener, Dzeko winning possession just outside the penalty box only for Buffon to save desperately with his legs.
Moments later, Buffon was left rooted to the spot after Pjanic stepped up and curled a free kick over the wall and in to send the stadium into raptures.
On a rare Juve attack, Paul Pogba flashed a header wide from a corner but Pjanic almost had his second when his snap-shot from Dzeko’s pass in close was blocked.
On-loan Chelsea winger Juan Cuadrado came on for Simone Padoin in the closing stages but Juve had to reshuffle when Evra saw red for a second bookable offence when he and Pogba sandwiched Nainggolan.
Roma capitalised immediately. Iturbe, who had replaced Salah moments earlier, was afforded space on the left of the area and lobbed an inviting cross for Dzeko to meet high in the air and head into Buffon’s bottom left corner.
Dybala’s consolation three minutes from time gave Juve brief hope but at the death Roma keeper Wojciech Szczesny performed heroics to keep out Bonucci’s header from a corner.
Italy’s Serie A results:
Roma 2 Juventus 1
Genoa 2 Verona 0
Chievo 4 Lazio 0
Atalanta 2 Frosinone 0
Udinese 0 Palermo 1
Torino 3 Fiorentina 1
Napoli 2 Sampdoria 2
Carpi 1 Inter Milan 2
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Vietnamese, Japanese runners win Da Nang international marathon titles

Koji Nishizawa from Japan and Vietnam’s Hoang Thi Thanh won the men’s and women’s marathon (42km) at the Danang International Marathon Race on August 30.
This was the second time in a row that Thanh, a member of the national athletics team of Viet Nam, won the title.
“It’s a great honour for me to clinch the title again. The cool weather helped me and all participants during the race,” Thanh said after crossing the finish line.
“The race is actually a tough test for us in preparation for major races in the future.”
In the half-marathon (21km) event, Vietnam’s Le Van Tuan finished first in the men’s division, while Japanese Uekuma Hiromi from Japan stood on the victory podium for the women’s event.
The race, which was organised in the city for the third time, drew 4,200 runners from 37 countries and territories competing in the marathon, half marathon and Fun Walk (5km).
The ‘Run for Peace’ race, was organised by the city’s Culture, Sport and Tourism Department, the World Marathon Company and Pulse Active.
It is the first Vietnamese marathon certified by the International Amateur Athletics Association-Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, and used the automatic timing system, the Chronotrack, to clock runners’ times.
According to the organising committee, athletes who finish the Danang International Marathon Race are eligible to participate in the Boston Marathon.
Last year’s race involved 4,000 participants, 400 of whom were professional athletes from 27 countries and territories.
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Tadic’s double gives Southampton lift-off

Dusan Tadic scored a quick-fire brace as Southampton beat 10-man Norwich City 3-0 at St Mary’s on Sunday to record a first win of the Premier League campaign.
Southampton’s Italian striker Graziano Pelle (R) tries an unsuccessful overhead shot during the English Premier League football match against Norwich City at St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton, southern England. (AFP PHOTO/JUSTIN TALLIS)
SOUTHAMPTON: Dusan Tadic scored a quick-fire brace as Southampton beat 10-man Norwich City 3-0 at St Mary’s on Sunday (Aug 30) to record a first win of the Premier League campaign.
Seventh last season, Ronald Koeman’s Southampton had drawn two and lost one of their first three games, but victory lifted them into the top half of the table, one point above promoted Norwich.
After Norwich right-back Steven Whittaker had been sent off for two bookable offences, Graziano Pelle opened the scoring in first-half stoppage time and Serbia winger Tadic struck twice in the second half.
It was the first time that 34-year-old Norwich manager Alex Neil had tasted defeat in an away league game since his appointment in January.
Showing three changes to the team eliminated from the Europa League by Danish champions FC Midtjylland on Thursday,Southampton were quick to put their opponents on the back foot.
James Ward-Prowse extended Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy with a dangerous free-kick in the second minute, while Pelle headed wide at a corner, Sadio Mane saw a shot held by Ruddy and Tadic drilled a shot wide.
Cameron Jerome squandered a chance to put Norwich ahead when he could not make telling contact with Graham Dorrans’s volleyed cross and in the 31st minute, the visitors’ chances took a hit with Whittaker’s dismissal.
Having just been booked for preventing Matt Targett from taking a quick throw-in, the Scotland international was shown a second yellow card for holding Tadic back on halfway.
Neil adjusted by sending on defender Andre Wisdom for schemer Wes Hoolahan, but his side’s hopes of holding out until half-time were dashed in first-half stoppage time.
After Ward-Prowse had done well to recover possession wide on the right, Mane crossed and Pelle swept the ball home at the near post.
Norwich survived a flurry of chances around the hour mark, with Ruddy parrying well from Mane and half-time substitute Jay Rodriguez before Pelle curled a shot into the side-netting from the edge of the box.
But Tadic scored twice in three minutes to break Norwich’s spirit, applying an assured first-time finish to Mane’s right-wing cross in the 64th minute and then following in to tap home when Pelle’s powerful header was parried by Ruddy.
Southampton goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg denied Bradley Johnson an injury-time consolation for Norwich, with Johnson’s fellow substitute Gary Hooper wastefully dragging the rebound wide.
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Ernst takes two-shot lead into LPGA final round

American Austin Ernst took a two-stroke lead into the final round of the LPGA Classic on Sunday, seeking a second LPGA title in a marathon final day at the weather-hit event.
Austin Ernst tees off on the ninth hole during the third round of the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Capitol Hill in Prattville, United States. (Todd Warshaw/Getty Images/AFP)
PRATTVILLE: American Austin Ernst took a two-stroke lead into the final round of the LPGA Classic on Sunday (Aug 30), seeking a second LPGA title in a marathon final day at the weather-hit event.
Ernst completed a bogey-free third-round 68 on the Senator course on Sunday morning to take a two shot lead over Taiwan’s Tseng Ya-ni and American Lexi Thompson.
Tseng, a former world number one vying for her first title since 2012, carded a one-under 71, while Thompson posted a 69 for 205. They were one stroke in front of American Kris Tamulis and South Korean Kim Sei-Young, who both shot 67 for 206.
Weather delays totalling five hours on Saturday saw Ernst and Tseng complete just four holes before darkness halted play.
So Ernst knew she was facing a long march in her effort to add another title to the first career trophy she lifted in Portland last year.
“It will basically just be get as many birdies as I can,” she said. “I know the scores are still going to be low. It’s just going to be more continuous golf than usual.”
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U19 Vietnam beat Singpore 6-0 at AFF event

U19 Vietnam beat Singpore 6-0 at AFF event

U19 Vietnam defeated Singapore 6-0 at the AFF U19 Championship Group B match in Laos on August 29. With this win, Vietnam temporarily toppe...

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