Taipei-based Tatung yesterday netted two late goals to beat the Royal Blues 2-0, leapfrogging into second place on the Taiwan Premier Football League table, while Taipei’s Ming Chuan University secured their first points of the season with a hard-earned draw against Hang Yuen/Fu Jen University.
Kaohsiung’s Taipower remained in first place with five wins and one draw for 16 points, after their match at Tainan was rescheduled due to rain rendering the pitch unplayable.
In the afternoon match at Fu Jen University in New Taipei City, the hosts took a 1-0 lead into halftime, after forward Wei Mao-ting took advantage of a scramble in the box to slot home at close range in the 14th minute.
Photo: Courtesy of the Chinese Taipei Football Association
Ming Chuan striker Pai Shao-yu dribbled his way through the hosts’ defense to put the equalizer past the goalkeeper in the 57th minute, with the score holding at 1-1 for the draw.
Ming Chuan players and coaches took consolation from the result, as they have suffered six defeats this season, with their efforts finally earning them their first point in the league this year.
The second game of the afternoon was a battle for second place, as Tatung and the Royal Blues were level on 10 points before the contest.
It was a tense affair with no scoring before halftime, and both teams sought to break the deadlock by launching offensive forays, but defenders and goalkeepers on both sides were up to the task of denying threats.
Tatung striker Marc Fenelus, from the Turks and Caicos Islands, finally broke through in the 84th minute, sending a centering pass to midfielder Su Te-tsai, who headed in the go-ahead goal.
The Royal Blues went all out for an equalizer, but a brilliant Taitung counterattack put the result to bed with a second goal in injury time.
The 2-0 victory lifted Tatung into second place on 13 points, displacing the Royal Blues into a tie for third place with National Sports Training Center.
By the time Cameron Menzies finally left the arena on Monday, the blood gushing from the gash on his right hand had trickled down his wrist, part of his forearm and — somehow — up to his face. Smeared in crimson and regret, and already mouthing sheepish apologies to the crowd, he disappeared down the steps, pursued by a stern-looking Matt Porter, the chief executive of Professional Darts Corp (PDC). The physical scars from Menzies’ encounter with the Alexandra Palace drinks table after his 3-2 defeat against Charlie Manby at the Darts World Championship would be gone within a few weeks.
Manchester United on Monday blew the lead three times to miss out on moving up to fifth in the Premier League as AFC Bournemouth would not be beaten in a thrilling 4-4 draw at Old Trafford. United have lost just once in their past 10 games, but Ruben Amorim would be frustrated as more points at home were frittered away despite arguably the best attacking display of his reign in charge. Amad Diallo and Casemiro gave the hosts a halftime lead either side of Antoine Semenyo’s equalizer. Two Bournemouth goals from Evanilson and Marcus Tavernier in seven minutes at the start of the
LOW-GOAL SHOOT-OUT: Of the nine penalties in the shoot-out, only three went in, with Flamengo’s Samuel Lino, and Vitinha and Nuno Mendes of PSG netting Matvei Safonov on Wednesday made four straight penalty saves in a penalty shoot-out to help Paris Saint-Germain beat Flamengo in the Intercontinental Cup final and win a sixth trophy of the year. The Russian goalkeeper was thrown in the air by his teammates after his exploits in the shoot-out, which was won 2-1 by PSG after a 1-1 draw after extra-time. It completed a trophy-laden 12 months for the French team, who had already won the Trophee des Champions, Ligue 1, the Coupe de France, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup — also on penalties against Tottenham Hotspur in
Italian Luca de Aliprandini described Saturday’s World Cup giant slalom at Val d’Isere as the hardest race of his life, coming two days after his Swiss partner Michelle Gisin suffered a heavy fall in training which required neck surgery. De Aliprandini finished 26th in the men’s event won by Loic Meillard, but the result paled into insignificance with two-time Olympic ski champion Gisin in hospital with injuries to her wrist, knee and cervical spine (neck). “It was Michelle’s wish that I race here. I couldn’t say no to her, but it was the toughest race of my entire life,” an emotional De
RSS