Liverpool kept their hopes of winning the English Premier League alive by beating Southampton 2-1 in the 37th round of the competition. Liverpool’s goals came from Takumi Minamino (27) and Joel Matip (67), while Nathan Redmond scored Southampton’s only goal (13). Liverpool’s balance sheet rose with this win to 89 points, one point behind leaders Manchester City, with one round to go, while Southampton’s balance sheet froze at 40 points in fifteenth place.
Atwi Praises the Survival of Wisdom
Locally, Wisdom captain Ahmed Atwi expressed his great happiness by remaining in the first division for next season, with a victory that Al-Akhsar achieved on Tuesday at the expense of Al-Saf by one. goal to no, in the last round of the final elimination of the last clubs., the fall of serenity to the second degree. Speaking to electronic newspaper Al-Sport, Atwi said: “The match was very difficult against a strong opponent, but we were men and fought for survival. Without conceding a single goal. The first and last goal of the Al-Hikma club was to stay, it is true that we struggled to resolve the issues, but in the end we reached our goal.”
In tennis, Tunisian Malek Jaziri suffered an unexpected defeat in the first round of the Tunisian International Tennis Championship, during a match that brought him against Dutchman Gilli Sells, ranked 258th in the world, and this confrontation ended in two groups of 6-6 people. 4, 2-6 and 1-6.
Butler led the Heat to victory over the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals
In basketball, the Miami Heat won Game 1 against the Boston Celtics 118–107 in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals Series.
Miscellaneous international and local:
Swiss Xherdan Shaqiri, who moved from the French “Lyon” to “Chicago Fire”, became the highest paid player in the NBA. Shaqiri’s base salary is $7,350,000 for a total salary of $8,153,000 and Lorenzo Insigne, who joined Toronto this summer from Naples, is expected to exceed Shaqiri’s salary.
– The UAE Football Association has announced the postponement of the final match of the Emirates President’s Cup to next season, with the date and venue to be announced at a later date.
British police have announced that they are currently investigating the attack on Sheffield United player Billy Sharp (on loan from Nottingham Forest) after the match he played in the Champions League semi-final qualifier against Nottingham Forest, which ended in victory for the latter. penalty shootout.
– After Senegalese wise player Bukonta Sarr managed to keep his team in the first division by scoring the winning goal against Al Safa in a match organized at the Fouad Shehab Stadium in Jounieh, Senegalese player and goalkeeper Ahmed Taktouk joined the ranks of the Lebanese “Nedzhma”. club participating in the AFC Cup.
Source: El Iktisad