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SportPremier League
(Russ) 6-3, 7-6, (11-9), 5-7, 7-6 (8-6); P Andujar
(Sp) bt D Dzumhur (Bos-Herz) 6-1, 7-5, 6-1; K
Majchrzak (Pol) bt Andreas Seppi (It) 6-1, 6-1,
7-5; (32) A De Minaur (Aus) bt L Musetti (It) 3-6,
6-3, 6-0, 6-3; A Murray (GB) bt (21) N
Basilashvili (Geo) 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-4; T
Daniel (Japan) bt M Tomas Barrios-Vera
(Chile) 7-6 (7-5), 6-1, 6-1; S Johnson (US) bt
Jordan Thompson (Aus) 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (6-8),
4-6, 6-3, 6-3; (11) J Sinner (It) bt J Sousa (Por)
6-4, 7-5, 6-1; (15) R Bautista Agut (Sp) bt S
Travaglia (It) 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, 5-7, 6-1; P
Kohlschreiber (Ger) bt M Cecchinato (It) 6-4,
7-5, 7-6 (7-0); F Tiafoe (US) bt M Trungelliti
(Arg) 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; (20) T Fritz (US) bt
M Marterer (Ger) 7-6 (10-8), 6-3, 6-2; (26) G
Dimitrov (Bul) bt J Lehecka (Cz) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3,
7-5; B Paire (Fr) bt T Monteiro (Br) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5,
2-6, 7-5; S Baez (Arg) bt A Ramos-Vinolas (Sp)
6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2; (4) S Tsitsipas (Gr) bt M
Ymer (Swe) 6-2, 6-4, 6-3; (5) A Rublev (Russ) bt
G Mager (It) 6-3, 6-2, 6-2; R Berankis (Lith) bt
R Carballes Baena (Sp) 6-1, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; N
Gombos (Slovakia) bt T Skatov (Kaz) 6-3, 6-2,
1-6, 6-4; (27) M Cilic (Cro) bt E Gomez (Ecu) 6-3,
6-1, 6-2; (24) D Evans (GB) bt D Goffin (Bel) 6-4,
6-3, 6-0; A Rinderknech (Fr) bt Alexei Popyrin
(Aus) 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; A Davidovich
Fokina (Sp) bt A Bolt (Aus) 6-3, 6-3, 6-4; (9) F
Auger-Aliassime (Can) bt E Ruusuvuori (Fin)
6-4, 0-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; (13) D Schwartzman
(Arg) bt F Krajinovic (Serbia) 6-3, 6-4, 7-5; C
O`Connell (Aus) bt H Gaston (Fr) 7-6 (7-4),
6-0, 4-6, 6-1; T Machac (Cz) bt J Cerundolo
(Arg) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; M Cressy (US) bt (22) J
Isner (US) 7-6 (7-2), 7-5, 6-7 (7-4), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4;
R Gasquet (Fr) bt (29) U Humbert (Fr) 3-6, 7-6
(7-4), 7-6 (7-3), 6-3; B van de Zandschulp
(Neth) bt J-L Struff (Ger) 6-4, 6-3, 6-2; N
Kyrgios (Aus) bt L Broady (GB) 6-4, 6-4, 6-3;
(2) D Medvedev (Russ) bt H Laaksonen
(Switz) 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3).
Women’s (6) A Kontaveit (Est) bt K Siniakova
(Cz) 6-2, 6-3; C Tauson (Den) bt A Sharma
(Aus) 6-3, 6-4; A Konjuh (Cro) bt S Rogers (US)
4-6, 6-3, 7-5; (27) D Collins (US) bt C Dolehide
(US) 6-1, 6-3; (19 ) E Mertens (Bel) bt V
Zvonareva (Russ) 6-4, 7-5; I-C Begu (Rom) bt
O Dodin (Fr) 2-6, 7-5, 6-3; Shuai Zhang (China)S C Williams st B K G Mendis b Vandersay
48 (56)
W N Madhevere b Karunaratne 1 (7)
S R Butt c Karunaratne b Fernando 56 (46)
R P Burl run out 19 (15)
W P Masakadza c Chameera b Fernando0 (1)
B Muzarabani not out 0 (1)
Extras (b 3, lb 6, w 3, nb 2) 14
Total (8 wkts, 50 overs) 302
T L Chatara and R Ngarava did not bat.
Fall of wickets 1-59, 2-90, 3-196, 4-205, 5-256,
6-297, 7-298, 8-302.
Bowling Fernando 10-0-74-2; Chameera 9-0-
47-0; Shanaka 2-0-14-0; Vandersay 9-0-51-3;
Theekshana 10-0-49-1; Karunaratne 6-0-24-1;
Mendis 2-0-19-0; Asalanka 2-0-15-0.
Sri Lanka (balls)
P Nissanka c Chakabva b Muzarabani16(24)
†B K G Mendis b Chatara 7 (9)
P H K D Mendis c Ervine b Ngarava 57 (82)
L D Chandimal c Butt b Muzarabani 2 (6)
K I C Asalanka b Madhevere 23 (21)
*M D Shanaka c Butt b Chatara 102 (94)
C Karunaratne run out 34 (38)
P Chameera c Masakadza b Chatara 13 (13)
J D F Vandersay c Chakabva b Muzarabani
4 (8)
M M Theekshana not out 4 (4)
A N P R Fernando not out 5 (2)
Extras (lb 5, w 7, nb 1) 13
Total (9 wkts, 50 overs) 280
Fall of wickets 1-19, 2-25, 3-31, 4-63, 5-181,
6-247, 7-266, 8-268, 9-273.
Bowling Chatara 10-1-52-3; Muzarabani
10-0-56-3; Madhevere 4-0-30-1; Ngarava 10-1-
41-1; Masakadza 8-0-34-0; Williams 6-0-48-0;
Burl 2-0-14-0.
ICC U19 World Cup
England U19 v Canada U19
England 320-7 (Thomas 52, Prest 93, Bell 57;
Sharma 3-51). Canada 214 (Chima 38, Singh
44; Boyden 4-44, Bethell 3-45). England beat
Canada by 106 runs.
Tennis
Australian Open
Melbourne: singles, first round
Men’s Alex Molcan (Slovakia) bt R SafiullinScottish Premiership
Aberdeen (0) 1 Rangers (1) 1
Ferguson 73 (pen) Hagi 20
Sent off: Kent (Rangers) 83
Dundee Utd(0) 1 St. Mirren (1) 2
Power 73 (og)
4,978Henderson 15
Brophy 60
Hearts (0) 2 St Johnstone(0) 0
Ginnelly 46, 75 16,589
Livingston (0) 2 Dundee (0) 0
Anderson 46, 56 0
Ross County(1) 3 Motherwell(0) 1
Solholm Johansen
45+4 (og)
Charles-Cook 72, 79
(pen)Roberts 55Sent off: Tillson (Ross County) 59
P WD L FA GD Pts
Rangers..................21 16 4 1 44 15 29 52
Celtic........................21 15 3 3 44 12 32 48
Hearts......................21 11 6 4 31 1813 39
Motherwell........... 219 4 8 26 30-4 31
Hibernian..............21 8 5 82424 029
Aberdeen.............. 218 4 9 26 25 1 28
Dundee United.. 21 7 4 10 17 25-8 25
Livingston............. 216 5 10 18 26 -8 23
St Mirren................ 21 4 10 7 20 32 -12 22
Ross County........ 215 6 10 30 36-6 21
Dundee................... 214 4 13 18 39 -21 16
St Johnstone....... 21 3 5 13 11 27 -16 14
Cricket
Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe, second ODI
Kandy (Zimbabwe won toss.): Zimbabwe
beat Sri Lanka by 22 runs
Zimbabwe (balls)
T Kaitano b Vandersay 26 (28)
†R W Chakabva st B K G Mendis b Vandersay
47 (50)
*C R Ervine b Theekshana 91 (98)Port Vale (0) 0 Salford City(0) 1
4,311 Elliott 50Stevenage (1) 2 Crawley (1) 1
Taylor 29
Norris 74Nichols 45+1
1.942
Sutton Utd (1) 3 Colchester (2) 2
Olaofe 9, 64
Randall 90+2Edwards 3
Sears 44 (pen)P WD L FA GD Pts
Forest Green......24 15 7 2 48 22 26 52
Tranmere.............25 13 6 6 27 15 12 45
Sutton Utd...........25 13 4 8 41 33 8 43
Northampton.....24 12 5 7 32 24 8 41
Swindon................24 11 7 6 39 30 9 40
Newport................25 10 8 7 42 34 8 38
Mansfield Town 2411 5 8 32 31 1 38
Exeter 24 9 10 5 35 26 9 37
Port Vale...............23 10 5 8 36 27 9 35
Salford City......... 259 7 9 29 24 5 34
Bradford............... 24 7 116 31 29 2 32
Crawley Town... 24 9 5 10 29 34 -5 32
Leyton O............... 22 7 105 37 21 16 31
Harrogate Town 23 8693535 030
Walsall 24 78 9 29 32-3 29
Bristol Rovers....22 8 5 929 33 -429
Hartlepool............ 258 5 12 24 36 -12 29
Rochdale............... 236 9 8 30 32-2 27
Carlisle................... 256 9 10 19 30 -11 27
Stevenage........... 26 6 9 11 24 41 -17 27
Barrow................... 24 6 8 10 25 28-3 26
Colchester........... 24 5 7 12 19 35 -16 22
Scunthorpe......... 25 3 10 12 19 44 -25 19
Oldham.................. 24 4 6 14 22 39 -17 18
Vanarama National League Maidenhead 3
Chesterfield 2; Stockport 3 Eastleigh 0.
National League North Gateshead 4 AFC
Telford 1; Hereford FC 2 Kidderminster
Harriers 0; Southport 1 Bradford (PA) 0.
National League South Chippenham Town 1
Tonbridge Angels 0; Dulwich Hamlet 1
Dorking Wanderers 3; Hampton & Richmond
2 Braintree Town 4.Football
Premier League
Brighton (0) 1 Chelsea (1) 1
Webster 60
30,880
Ziyech 286 Table above
Sky Bet Championship
Fulham (4) 6 Birmingham(1) 2
Roberts 10 (og)
Kebano 35
Carvalho 38, 75
Cairney 43
Robinson 90+3
Sunjic 45
Gardner 74
16,491Preston (0) 2 Sheff United(2) 2
Browne 71
Riis 90+1
12,954
Bogle 17
Sharp 39 (pen)Sent off: Hughes (Preston) 38
P WD L FA GD Pts
Fulham................26 16 6 4 70 23 47 54
Bournemouth...26 14 7 5 43 23 20 49
Blackburn...........26 14 7 5 44 28 16 49
QPR.......................25 13 5 7 38 30 8 44
West Brom.........26 11 9 6 31 2011 42
Middlesbrough.26 12 6 8 31 25 6 42
Huddersfield......27 11 8 8 33 30 3 41
Stoke....................25 11 5 9 30 25 5 38
Coventry.............24 10 7 7 33 28 5 37
Nottm Forest.....26 10 7 9 33 28 5 37
Sheff Utd............. 24 9 6 9 31 32 -1 33
Millwall................ 258 9 8 27 28 -1 33
Preston................ 258 9 8 29 32-3 33
Blackpool........... 26 9 6 11 27 32-5 33
Luton....................2388 73429 532
Bristol City......... 26 8 6 12 32 45 -13 30
Swansea..............237792732-528
Birmingham...... 26 7 7 12 26 39 -13 28
Hull........................ 256 5 14 20 31 -11 23
Cardiff.................. 256 5 14 26 44 -18 23
Reading............ 258 4 13 30 45 -15 22
Peterboro........... 24 5 4 15 21 48 -27 19
Derby................. 26 8 11 7 25 24 1 14
Barnsley.............. 24 2 8 14 16 36 -20 14
deducted 21pts. deducted 6pts
League One
Wimbledon(0) 0 Portsmouth(0) 0Cambridge (1) 3 Doncaster (0) 1
Knibbs 45+1
Dunk 62
Smith 90+3Dodoo 71
4,575Morecambe(1) 1 Wigan (1) 2
Stockton 7
5,359Keane 45+1
Humphrys 73P WD L FA GD Pts
Wycombe.............27 15 7 5 44 30 14 52
Wigan.....................23 16 3 4 44 22 22 51
Sunderland..........27 15 6 6 52 33 19 51
Rotherham..........25 15 5 5 45 18 27 50
MK Dons...............26 13 7 6 46 31 15 46
Plymouth..............25 12 7 6 40 2911 43
Oxford Utd..........26 12 7 7 40 29 11 43
Sheffield Wed....25 10 10 5 34 29 5 40
Portsmouth.........25 10 8 7 29 24 5 38
Accrington..........26 10 6 10 32 41-9 36
Ipswich.................. 26 9 8 9 43 36 7 35
Burton Albion....25 105 10 32 31 1 35
Cambridge.......... 26 8 9 9 36 39-3 33
Cheltenham........ 26 7 109 32 45 -13 31
Charlton................ 26 8 6 12 32 32 0 30
Shrewsbury........ 26 8 6 12 26 29-3 30
Bolton..................... 258 5 12 32 37 -5 29
Lincoln City......... 25 7 7 11 29 33 -4 28
Fleetwood............ 25 7 7 11 38 43 -5 28
Wimbledon......... 24 6 9 9 30 36-6 27
Morecambe........ 26 6 6 14 35 51 -16 24
Crewe..................... 26 5 7 14 24 44 -20 22
Gillingham........... 25 3 9 13 19 41 -22 18
Doncaster............ 26 4 4 18 18 49 -31 16
League Two
Carlisle (0) 0 Hartlepool (0) 0
4,570Forest Green A Mansfield A
Abandoned due to fogPerhaps the most troubling sight for
any Chelsea fan who followed Thomas
Tuchel’s team to the south coast
would not have been the sloppiness of
their performance, or the continued
ineffectiveness of their star striker, but
the impassive air of their head coach.
Tuchel is one of the more animated
figures in the Premier League, the
perfectionist who could find fault in the
finest of performances, but his usual
touchline energy was absent last night
as he slumped to the bench as his team
slipped up for the ninth time in 13
games.
Emotionless and, quite possibly,
exhausted, Tuchel expressed relief at
having four days off before their next
fixture as he sprinkled a sweet layer
over an unconvincing performance.
With a surname like his, Graham
Potter suggested that he could never be
regarded as a “sexy” name in manage-
ment but any Premier League side
would be attracted to what he has
achieved with Brighton & Hove
Albion. A few too many draws, maybe,
but this was another encouraging
display and a deserved point for Potter,
thanks to Adam Webster’s thunderous
headed equaliser after Hakim Ziyech’s
opener. The result pulls Tuchel’s team
further into a top-four battle.
Days off, Tuchel said, were needed
“so, so badly” after three away games in
seven days. “You can say its an excuse
or whatever but look at our schedule,”
the German said. “We arrive in a game
where we don’t reach our full potential.
OK, welcome to reality.
“The noise at the end was like we lost
the game and can very easily give you
the impression we lost, but we didn’t.”
History suggested this was a game
Chelsea would welcome with the
pressure on, having lost away to
Manchester City on Saturday and
allowed their lead at the top of the table
to reach, according to Tuchel, an
“unacceptable” 13 points. Chelsea had
tey, the lively full back signed from
Chelsea 18 months ago, who had
suffered a groin injury. There appeared
to be no signs of damage as he raced
down the right wing, drawing audible
intakes of breath from the home fans
after accelerating past Mount, Kanté
and Silva with such ferocious speed.
Lamptey’s departure was really about
opportunity, given the number ofacademy products in front of him,
including Callum Hudson-Odoi, who
was back in the starting line-up for a
league game for the first time since the
reverse fixture. Hudson-Odoi had been
given the chance to extend Chelsea’s
lead moments before half-time, played
in by Romelu Lukaku, but he blazed
wildly over the crossbar.
Lukaku had another off night innever lost to Brighton in the league,
their only defeat coming 89 years ago in
the FA Cup, but the record books fail to
represent the balance of competition
and, in recent meetings, Brighton
were far from inferior.
And so the trend con-
tinued, as Potter’s team
controlled possession for
large parts, played
the more aesthetically
pleasing football and
generated greater chan-
ces, only to be left ruing
their misses. “Sometimes
the football gods are with
you and sometimes they’re
not but we gave ourselves a
chance,” Potter, the Brighton head
coach, said.
Tuchel had opted for a 4-2-2-2
formation, the system trialled in the
Carabao Cup semi-final victories overResults
Tom Roddy
Tuchel turns from magician to
Tottenham Hotspur and, incidentally,
deployed by Frank Lampard, his prede-
cessor, at the Amex Stadium two years
ago.
Judging by Tuchel’s demeanour on
the touchline, the way it was being
executed was far from his vision. Chel-
sea’s players were careless in posses-
sion, with Rüdiger, Jorginho and Mason
Mount among those guilty of misplac-
ing passes in the opening stages. Tuchel
threw his hands in the air and glared at
the coaches sitting behind him.
César Azpilicueta had set the tone
with a weak clearance that almost
proved damaging after only 136
seconds. Luckily for the Chelsea cap-
tain, Jakub Moder dragged an effort
wide after slick interplay involving
Pascal Gross and Danny Welbeck.
Chelsea knew of Brighton’s — and
Welbeck’s — danger having fallen to a
stoppage-time equaliser by the 31-year-
old former Manchester United striker
at Stamford Bridge three weeks earlier.
Welbeck threatened to put his name on
the scoresheet much earlier this time
but struggled to test the Chelsea goal-
keeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga.
Gross was the creator-in-chief, play-
ing a delicious ball between Rüdiger
and Thiago Silva that Welbeck was
unable to reach before looping a cute
pass over the Chelsea defence that left
Azpilicueta stretching. Kepa, standing
in for Édouard Mendy, who is at the
Africa Cup of Nations, began to close
but paused and was fortunate to go
unpunished when Welbeck failed to
connect after 27 minutes.
Ziyech gave Chelsea the lead
a minute later with a lethal
strike from the edge of the
area, hit with the kind
of frustration that
reflected a half in which
Chelsea had been
second best. N’Golo
Kanté and Ziyech had
traded passes on the edge
of the area and, when
Alexis Mac Allister failed to
close down the Morocco attacker,
he wound up his left leg with a shot that
Robert Sánchez, the Brighton goal-
keeper, could not contain.
One of three changes Potter had
made was reintroducing Tariq Lamp-Brighton
Webster 60Chelsea
Ziyech 281
1
Webster connects perfectly with an inswinging Mac Allister corner in the 60th16
Last night continued
Chelsea’s disastrous run of
league form. They have
dropped 16 points from
nine matches since the
beginning of
DecemberZiyech spat with
Lukaku is ‘normal’
O
n a night when Thomas
Tuchel tinkered with his
attack in search of the
right formula, the unexpected
result was a dispute between his
forwards Hakim Ziyech, left, and
Romelu Lukaku.
Despite Ziyech giving Chelsea
the lead, the Morocco forward
had words with Lukaku as the
pair left the pitch at half-time.
Tuchel insisted he had no issue
with their spat, saying: “It’s
normal that they’re not happy. In
the reaction of the goal, you can
see that we are tired. We are
relieved but there is no joy.”