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50 maltatoday, SUNDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2014 Sport PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ATTARD FOOTBALL SPORTTODAY Football fixtures BOV Premier League Naxxar Lions - Sliema Wanderers ..... 1-0 Zebbug Rangers - Valletta ................ 0-2 Today Victor Tedesco Stadium 14:00 Pieta Hotspurs - Qormi 16:00 Mosta - Tarxien Rainbows Hibernians Stadium 14:00 Balzan - Hibernians 16:00 Birkirkara - Floriana England - Premier League Liverpool - Chelsea ......................... 1-2 Burnley - Hull City ........................... 1-0 Manchester United - Crystal Palace... 1-0 Southampton - Leicester City ........... 2-0 West Ham United - Aston Villa .......... 0-0 Queens P. Rangers - Manchester C. ... 2-2 Today 14:30 Sunderland - Everton 14:30 Tottenham Hotspur - Stoke City 14:30 West B. albion - Newcastle Utd. 17:00 Swansea City - Arsenal Italy - Serie A Sassuolo - Atalanta ......................... 0-0 Sampdoria - AC Milan ...................... 2-2 Today 12:30 Cagliari - Genoa 15:00 ChievoVerona - Cesena 15:00 Empoli - Lazio 15:00 Juventus - Parma 15:00 Palermo - Udinese 18:00 Fiorentina - SSC Napoli 20:45 Inter - Hellas Verona 20:45 Roma - Torino Spain - Liga BBVA Cordoba - Deportivo La Coruna ......... 0-0 Ameria - Barcelona ......................... 1-2 Getafe - Elche ................................. 0-0 Real Madrid - Rayo Vallecano ........... 5-1 Celta Vigo - Granada ........................ 0-0 Malaga - Eibar ................................. 2-1 Today 12:00 Sevilla - Levante 17:00 Espanyol - Villarreal 19:00 Valencia - Athletic Bilbao 21:00 Real Sociedad - Atletico Madrid Germany - Bundesliga Hertha Berlin - Hannover 96 ............ 0-2 Augsburg - Paderborn ..................... 3-0 Bayer Leverkusen - Mainz 05 ........... 0-0 Eintracht Frankfurt - Bayern Munich . 0-4 Freiburg - Schalke 04 ...................... 2-0 Hoffenheim - FC Cologne ................. 3-4 Werder Bremen - VfB Stuttgart ......... 2-0 Today 15:30 Wolfsburg - Hamburger SV 17:30 Borrusia Dortmund - Borussia M. France- Ligue 1 Rennes - Lorient ............................. 1-0 Lens - Bordeaux .............................. 1-2 Bastia - Montpellier ......................... 2-0 Caen - Nantes ................................. 1-2 Evian T. Gaillard - Nice ..................... 1-0 Toulouse - Metz .............................. 3-0 Today 14:00 Lyon - Guingamo 17:00 Reims - Lille 17:00 Saint Etienne - Monaco 21:00 Paris Saint Germain - Marseille Valletta earn comfortable victory over Zebbug Zebbug Rangers ........ 0 Valletta ................... 2 VALLETTA moved within two points of second placed Birkirkara following a 2-0 victory over Zeb- bug Rangers. Goals by Hamza Barry and Ab- delkarim Nafti either side of half time gave the Citizens a third con- secutive 2-0 win against the bot- tom placed club. A hapless Zebbug registered their seventh defeat of the cam- paign, leaving them with a meagre four points from 11 games. Valletta manager Gilbert Agius started yesterday's game with the lineup which faced Balzan while Zebbug coach Alfonso Greco kept faith with the starting 11 team which drew with Qormi on Mon- day. Rangers went close to open- ing the score in the 19th minute thanks to a Carlo Monti shot which just missed the target. However, two minutes later Val- letta took the lead when they were awarded a penalty after the former Cameroon Under/20 international striker Raphael Kooh Sohna was brought down inside the area. Gambia international Hamza Barry stepped up to put the ball in the back of the net to put Valletta ahead. Five minutes later, Zebbug were reduced to 10 men in the 26th minute after Thomas Paris was sent off for a tough challenge on Malta international Roderick Briffa. Following the break, Valletta doubled their lead after Tunisian international midfielder Abdelka- rim Nafti chipped the ball over Zebbug goalkeeper Fabricio Rap- chan from inside the box. In the 75th minute, Zebbug went close to scoring but Valletta goalkeeper Nicky Vella pulled off a suberb save from Matthew Bar- tolo's point-blank shot. In the dying minutes, Valletta kept possession well without tak- ing any further risks, to take home all three points. ZEBBUG R ANGERS Fabricio Rapchan dos Santos Morales, Jacob Borg, Yessous Camilleri, Javier Diaz Serrano, Matthew Gauci, Matias Muchardi, Thomas Paris, Clif ford Gauci (71'Melvin Farrugia), Matthew Gauci, Mat- thew Bartolo, Mauricio Rod- rigues Britto (62' John Ogechukwu Nwoba), Carlo Monti (85' Miguel Ciantar) Subs not used: Luke Pace, Lee Galea, Lee James Agius, Ratko Mandic. VALLETTA Nicky Vella, Jonathan Caruana, Ian Azzopardi, Steve Borg (61' Luke Dimech), Ryan Camilleri, Ryan Fenech, Raphael Kooh Sohna (36' Alex Barboza Terra), Roderick Brif fa, Lateef Elford-Alliyu, Hamza Barry (72' Luke Montebello), Abdelkarim Nafti. Coach: Gilbert Agius Referee: Andre Arciola Assistant Referees: Chris Franca- lanza, Luke Portelli Fourth Of ficial: Alan Mario Sant Yellow cards: Kooh Sohna, S. Borg Red Cards: 26' Thomas Paris Scorers: 21' Hamza Barry, 54' Ab- delkarim Nafti BOV Player of the Match: Hamza Barry