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Football. English Championship. 14th round. Chelsea - Newcastle - 0:0, Liverpool - Fulham - 0:0, Manchester City - Arsenal - 3:0, Middlesbrough - Bolton " -- 1:3, "Portsmouth" -- "Hull" -- 2:2, "Stoke City" -- "West Bromwich" -- 1:0, "Aston Villa" -- "Manchester United" -- 0 :0, Tottenham - Blackburn - 1:0, Sunderland - West Ham - 0:1. Leading: Chelsea, Manchester United - 33 points each.
Russian national team forward Roman Pavlyuchenko scored his fourth goal in the English Championship and sixth for Tottenham. The Russian striker's strike in the 9th minute brought his club a victory, which allowed the Spurs to make a leap from 19th to 15th place in the standings. Meanwhile, not a single club from the “Big Four” managed to score a single goal in the last round. Arsenal was completely crushed by Manchester City, whose owners expressed a desire to acquire goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon for a record 35 million euros.
Spanish Championship. 12th round. Real Madrid - Recreativo - 1:0, Villarreal - Valladolid - 0:3, Sevilla - Valencia - 0:0, Mallorca - Malaga -- 2:2, Osasuna -- Almeria -- 3:1, Numancia -- Atlético -- 1:1, Racing -- Espanyol -- 3:0, Sporting " - Betis - 1:2, Barcelona - Getafe - 1:1, Deportivo - Athletic - 3:1. Leading: Barcelona - 29 points, Real Madrid - 26, Villarreal - 25.
The tour was not very successful for the leaders. Barcelona failed to win at home against a middling team and ended its nine-game winning streak, while Villarreal managed to suffer its first defeat in the championship, and immediately by a large score. Now in the Spanish Championship there is not a single undefeated team left, as well as not a single club that has not known the joy of victory. The last gap in this column of the standings was filled by Osasuna.
Italian Championship. 13th round. Fiorentina - Udinese - 4:2, Inter - Juventus - 1:0, Chievo - Siena - 0:2, Lazio - Genoa -- 1:1, Lecce -- Roma -- 0:3, Napoli -- Cagliari -- 2:2, Bologna -- Palermo -- 1:1, Regina "- "Atalanta" - 3:1, "Sampdoria" - "Catania" - 3:0, "Torino" - "Milan" - 2:2. The leaders are: Inter - 30 points, Milan - 27, Juventus - 24.
The next round of the Italian Championship was marked by the confrontation between Milan and Turin. It ended in favor of the larger city: Inter defeated Juventus with a minimal score, breaking the long unbeaten streak of Zenit's closest rival in the Champions League, and Milan made peace with Torino.
German Championship. 14th round. "Karlsruhe" -- "Borussia" D -- 0:1, "Wolfsburg" -- "Stuttgart" -- 4:1, "Schalke" -- "Borussia" M -- 3:1, "Bayern" -- " Energi - 4:1, Cologne - Hoffenheim - 1:3, Arminia - Bayer - 2:1, Bochum - Hertha - 2:3, Eintracht - Hannover - 4:0, Hamburg - Werder - 2:1. The leaders are: Hoffenheim - 31 points, Bayer, Bayern - 28 each.
Hoffenheim will not calm down. The next victim of the debutants who single-handedly topped the table was Cologne, and their main scorer Ibisevic, having scored a double, with 16 goals, took a significant lead in the scorers' dispute: his closest pursuers, Helmes from Bayer and Grafite from Wolfsburg, had only 11 goals each. balls.
Meanwhile, Lukas Podolski announced that he still intended to leave Bayern in the next transfer window, and Armin Fe was fired as head coach of Stuttgart - a credit of confidence that he earned by winning the championship with the team in 2007 year, after a six-match winless streak was exhausted.
Benefit performance of Zubrus
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Carolina” – “Nashville” – 2:5, “Tampa” – “New Jersey” – 3:7.
Lithuanian New Jersey veteran Dainius Zubrus became the main hero of the game day, scoring four goals against Tampa. Previously, in all previous matches of the season, Zubrus scored half as much. The Lithuanian explained his surge in performance by changing partners. “Since I've been on the ice with Brian Gionta and Patrik Elias, I've had a lot more opportunities to score,” Zubrus said.
FIDE approved Sofia
The dates and venue of the match of candidates for the chess crown 2009, in which US grandmaster Gata Kamsky and Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov will meet, have been confirmed. The meeting will take place from February 16 to 28. The candidates' match will take place in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, and will take place over 13 days. The match was originally planned to take place on February 3-15, but Kamsky insisted on postponing it to a later date. The organizers guaranteed a prize fund of 300 thousand euros. The winner will fight Viswanathan Anand for the world title.
Meanwhile, regular meetings took place at the Chess Olympiad. Both the Russian men's and women's teams won.
World Chess Olympiad. 10th round. Women. Russia - Hungary - 3:1 (Kostenyuk - Tan Hoan - 0.5:0.5, T. Kosintseva - Vaida - 1:0, N. Kosintseva - Madl - 1:0, Korbut --Rudolph -- 0.5:0.5), China -- Georgia -- 1.5:2.5, Serbia -- Ukraine -- 2:2. The leaders are: Poland - 17, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia - 16 each, USA, Russia - 15 each . Men. Slovenia - Russia - 0.5:3.5 (Belyavsky - Kramnik - 0.5:0.5, Pavasovich - Svidler - 0:1, Lenich - Morozevich - 0:1, Borisek - - Yakovenko - 0:1), Ukraine - Israel - 2.5:1.5, Serbia - Armenia - 1:3, Azerbaijan - Egypt - 4:0, England - China - 1 ,5:2.5, Germany-1 - USA - 1.5:2.5, Spain - Bulgaria - 3:1, Hungary - Switzerland - 3:1. The leaders are: Armenia, Ukraine - 17 each, Israel, China - 16 each, Russia, Holland, Spain, USA - 15 each.