Substitute Cristian Suarez scored four minutes from fulltime to give Mexico’s Atlas a surprise 1-0 away win over 2013 champions Atletico Mineiro of Brazil in the Copa Libertadores on Wednesday.
Juan Medina split the Mineiro defense with a well-weighted through-ball for Suarez, who beat the offside trap and shot low past goalkeeper Victor in a match played in heavy rain.
It was Mineiro’s second defeat of the competition and it leaves the Brazilian side bottom of Group 1 after last week’s 2-0 loss to Colo-Colo in Santiago.
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“We’ve turned worse situations around in the past and we’ll continue to believe we have chances,” striker Andre told reporters.
In Group 7, Argentine striker Guido Carrillo scored his first hat-trick to give four-time champions Estudiantes de La Plata a 3-0 win over Ecuador’s Barcelona in Argentina.
It was the third hat-trick in two weeks of Libertadores group action after two by Racing Club de Avellaneda forward Gustavo Bou, who leads the scoring charts with six goals after his team’s 4-1 home victory over Paraguay’s Guarani in Group 8 on Tuesday.
Racing won their opening group game 5-0 against Venezuela’s Deportivo Tachira.
Bou’s Libertadores and league form has prompted calls for him to be given a chance with the national side, not least from veteran strike partner Diego Milito.
“Let’s hope he gets a call. It would be a reward for what he’s doing,” said Milito, who scored Racing’s other goal against Guarani.
“I scored Racing’s 100th goal in the Cup, I became a part of history,” Bou said of his first strike in Tuesday’s game.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB