| Pavlyuchenko's team is in last place
Football. English Championship. 6th round. Everton - Liverpool - 0:2, Fulham - West Ham - 1:2, Newcastle - Blackburn - 1:2, Manchester United - " Bolton - 2:0, Middlesbrough - West Bromwich - 0:1, Aston Villa - Sunderland - 2:1, Stoke City - Chelsea - 0 :2, Arsenal - Hull - 1:2, Portsmouth - Tottenham - 2:0, Wigan - Manchester City - 2:1. The leaders are: Chelsea, Liverpool - 14 points each, Aston Villa - 13, Arsenal, West Ham - 12 each.
The next round of the English Premier League turned out to be extremely extraordinary - not a single draw in ten matches and six wins for the guests. The team of Russian national team forward Roman Pavlyuchenko, Tottenham, still cannot win a single victory and is in last place in the standings, two points behind the other three outsiders. The Russian entered the field in the starting lineup and was replaced in the 73rd minute, without distinguishing himself in anything special. It is possible that serious personnel changes will occur at Hotspur in the near future. Club owner Joe Lewis has a lot of questions for Spurs sporting director, Frenchman Damien Comolli.
Spanish Championship. 5th round. Betis - Real Madrid - 1:2, Sporting - Villarreal - 0:1, Espanyol - Barcelona - 1:2, Numancia - Osasuna -- 0:0, Almeria -- Recreativo -- 1:0, Malaga -- Valladolid -- 2:1, Athletic -- Getafe -- 0:1, Racing "- "Mallorca" - 1:2, "Valencia" - "Deportivo" - 4:2, "Atlético" - "Sevilla" - 0:1. The leaders are: Valencia, Villarreal - 13 points each, Real Madrid - 12, Sevilla - 11, Barcelona, Almeria - 10 each.
European champion in the Spanish national team, Valencia forward David Villa scored a double and is the sole leader in the list of top scorers of the “examples” - six goals.
Italian Championship. 5th round. Sampdoria - Juventus - 0:0, Fiorentina - Genoa - 1:0, Roma - Atalanta - 2:0, Catania - Chievo -- 1:0, Udinese -- Siena -- 2:1, Bologna -- Napoli -- 0:1, Palermo -- Regina -- 1:0, Lecce "-"Cagliari" - 2:0, "Torino" - "Lazio" - 1:3, "Milan" - "Inter" - 1:0. The leaders are: Lazio - 12 points, Napoli - 11, Udinese, Inter, Catania - 10 each.
The only goal in the Milan derby was scored by the Brazilian Ronaldinho.
French Championship. 7th round. Sochaux - Lorient - 1:1, Caen - Nantes - 3:0, Auxerre - Le Havre - 3:0, Lyon - Nancy -- 2:1, "Rennes" -- "Nice" -- 1:0, "Le Mans" -- "Marseille" -- 1:1, "PSG" -- "Grenoble" -- 0:1, " Monaco - Lille - 0:2, Valenciennes - Toulouse - 0:1, Bordeaux - Saint-Etienne - 1:1. The leaders are: Lyon - 19 points, Toulouse - 14, Marseille, Grenoble - 13 each.
Former player of the capital's Spartak, Argentine forward Fernando Cavenaghi, who plays for Bordeaux, scored his fourth goal in the current championship, that is, he provided exactly half of the team's performance.
Khimki failed to cope with water procedures
Football. Russian Championship. Premier League. Match of the 23rd round. "Terek" - "Khimki" - 1:0 (Buli 62) .
The game in Grozny, which ended late on Sunday, took place in heavy rain. The field quickly became covered with deep puddles, making it almost impossible for the players to demonstrate any technical techniques. In the second half, the home team's Cameroonian midfielder Jean Bouli was on time to finish. This is his second goal in the championship. In the last eight matches, Khimki, led by Sergei Yuran, won only one victory, and that was on the opening day of their new stadium and in a meeting with their neighbors from Ramenskoye Saturn. Khimki, which has such a cult performer as the former captain of Spartak Moscow Yegor Titov, remains the only Premier League team that has not won a single match on a foreign field.
Jankovic and Nadal lead the title race
Serbian tennis player Jelena Jankovic (4055 points) strengthened her leading position in the WTA championship race, in which she is ahead of American Serena Williams by 375 points. After winning the final in Beijing, Jankovic said that this victory brought her even closer to the first line of the BTA rankings. True, now the athlete does not think about it, preferring to concentrate on improving her playing technique. The Russian Dinara Safina (3553) closes the top three, followed by Elena Dementieva (2965).
For men, the list of race favorites is headed by Spaniard Rafael Nadal (1265). Swiss Roger Federer occupies second position (921), Serbian Novak Djokovic is in third (899). Russian Nikolay Davydenko is listed fifth (417).
According to RIA Novosti, in connection with recent investigations by the ATP against tennis players, allegedly related to betting on the outcome of tennis matches, Davydenko may go to court to restore his reputation. Before the start of the Davis Cup semi-finals, the Russian was found innocent and completely acquitted, as was the Argentinean Martin Vassallo-Argello. However, according to Davydenko’s lawyer, the ATP management did not make an official apology to the athlete, which could negatively affect the sponsors’ attitude towards him.
Sad outcome of the Road World Championship
The worst performance of the Russian national team cyclists in the last 12 years - this is for us the sad result of the World Road Racing Championship that ended in the Italian city of Varese. For the first time since 1996, the Russians failed to win a single award.
In total, six sets of medals were played, and Italy took first place in the team competition - two golds and two silvers. In the last two days of the competition, the most interesting types of the program were held - group races for women and men. In the peloton of representatives of the fairer sex, the strongest was Nicole Cook (Australia), the other two podium places were taken by Marianne Vos (Holland) and German Judith Arndt. For men, the first to cross the finish line was the owner of the track, Alessandro Ballan, 3 seconds. he was beaten by compatriot Damiano Cunego, winner of the 2004 Giro D'Italia. “Bronze” went to the little-known Dane Matti Breschel. The best among Russians at these starts were Yulia Martisova (10th place) and Vladimir Karpets (20th). Participation in the group race was a farewell to big sport for the Olympic champion of Athens 2004, twice winner of the world championship gold (2006, 2007), 34-year-old Italian Paolo Bettini, nicknamed the Cricket.
Guus Hiddink reveals the list of players
Today, the coaching staff of the Russian national team announced the list of players who will be called up to prepare for the 2010 World Cup qualifying matches against Germany and Finland.
Due to an injury, Dynamo defender Denis Kolodin will not be able to play in the match against Krylya Sovetov. At the same time, army player Dzagoev and Spartak player Prudnikov were called up to the national team for the first time. Football players and coaches of the Russian national team will gather to prepare for the games on October 7, with a flight to Dortmund scheduled for the 9th.
Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA), Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit), Sergei Ryzhikov (Rubin). Defenders: Alexander Anyukov (Zenit), Alexey Berezutsky, Vasily Berezutsky, Sergei Ignashevich (all - CSKA), Renat Yanbaev (Lokomotiv). Midfielders: Yuri Zhirkov, Alan Dzagoev (both CSKA), Sergei Semak (Rubin), Igor Semshov (Dynamo), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Dmitry Torbinsky (both Lokomotiv), Konstantin Zyryanov, Igor Denisov (both "Zenit"), Ivan Saenko, Vladimir Bystrov (both - "Spartak" Moscow). Forwards: Andrei Arshavin, Pavel Pogrebnyak (both Zenit), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham), Alexander Prudnikov (Spartak Moscow). Prepared by Olga ERMOLINA and Ilya TRISVIATSKY
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