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maltatoday SUNDAY, 2 APRIL 2017 Sport 52 PREMIER League leaders Chelsea suffered a shock 2-1 defeat at home to Crystal Palace as Tottenham trimmed the Blues' advantage at the top to seven points. Spurs' hard-earned 2-0 win at Burnley narrowed the deficit thanks to Chelsea's unexpected slip-up against in-form Palace. A manic start at Stamford Bridge saw Sam Allardyce's visitors recov- er from conceding the opener to Cesc Fabregas in the fifth minute to be in front by the 11th, Chris- tian Benteke chipping goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois after a fine move also involving Wilfried Zaha, who had already just equalised. Palace were indebted to Wayne Hennessey with a string of impor- tant saves, and then they lost Scott Dann to a second-half injury as he scrambled another attack clear. But they held on as Chelsea's 10-match run of home victories came to an end, despite seven minutes of add- ed time as they tried in vain to find an equaliser. Tottenham were rocked by first- half injuries to Victor Wanyama and Harry Winks at Turf Moor, the latter taken to hospital for emer- gency treatment after sliding off the pitch and damaging his ankle. But Eric Dier's first league goal of the season arrived on the hour, and Son Heung-min added his 15th of the campaign 13 minutes from time as Burnley suffered a rare home defeat. Everton's 18-year wait for a vic- tory against Liverpool at Anfield will extend several more months at least after their 3-1 Merseyside der- by defeat in the lunchtime kick-off. Sadio Mane and Philippe Coutin- ho's right-foot shots, in the eighth and 31st minutes, gave Liverpool the half-time advantage – either side of Matthew Pennington's first goal in his Everton career. Mane had to go off with an ankle injury early in the second half, but his replacement Divock Origi add- ed a third with another shot from distance on the hour to take the Reds above Manchester City into third place. Manchester United were unable to make any significant ground up from fifth place as they were held to a 0-0 draw by West Brom at Old Trafford. Andy Carroll's 50th Premier League goal put West Ham in front, but it failed to halt relegation- threatened Hull's recent resurgence as the Tigers recovered to win 2-1. Carroll was on target in the 18th minute at the KCOM Stadium only for the hosts to hit back first through Andy Robertson (53) and then Andrea Ranocchia (85) to earn three more precious points and go level on 27 with Swansea. Leicester, meanwhile, were in- debted to Wilfried Ndidi's first Pre- mier League goal – an outstanding long-range strike in the 25th min- ute – as the champions won 2-0 at home to Stoke, extending new manager Craig Shakespeare's 100 per cent record to four matches. Jamie Vardy volleyed in the sec- ond for the Foxes, and his fifth in six matches, early in the second half. There was no respite for bottom- of-the-table Sunderland at Watford, where Miguel Britos supplied the winning goal with a header just be- fore the hour as the hosts prevailed 1-0. In Saturday's final match, a late missed penalty from Harry Arter cost Bournemouth victory as they drew 0-0 at Southampton. After they had resisted much of the hosts' pressure, Arter struck well over the crossbar when he could have secured all three points and further eased the fading threat of relegation. FOOTBALL The Foundation for Medical Services in the Ministry for Health notifies that the following call for tenders was published on 30th March 2017 in the Electronic Public Procurement System at www.etenders.gov.mt CT3029/2016 – Project Management and Technical Supervisory Services for the Paola Primary Health Care Southern Regional Hub. A clarification meeting for interested economic operators will be held on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 9:30am at the Foundation for Medical Services, Gattard House, National Road, Blata l-Bajda, Malta. This will be followed by a site visit to the Pace Grasso (ex-Schreiber) ground, Paola. Electronic tenders in respect of this call will be received up to 9:30am on Tuesday 2nd May 2017. Tenders are to be submitted ONLY online on www.etenders.gov.mt The tender document is free of charge. Tender documents are only obtainable from the Electronic Public Procurement System at www.etenders.gov.mt. Registration is required in order to make use of this website. Maltese economic operators must be in possession of their organisation e-ID in order to access this website. More information is available from the FAQ section of the same website. NOTICE OF ISSUE OF TENDER FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL SUPERVISORY SERVICES FOR THE PAOLA PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SOUTHERN REGIONAL HUB PROJECT Operational Programme I – European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020 "Fostering a competitive and sustainable economy to meet our challenges" Project part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund Co-financing rate: 80% European Union; 20% National Funds Crystal Palace shock Chelsea Lewandowski hat-trick as Bayern crush Augsburg, Leipzig win BUNDESLIGA leaders Bayern Munich demolished Augsburg 6-0 with forward Robert Lewan- dowski scoring a hat-trick to protect their 13-point advantage over second-placed RB Leipzig who beat bottom club Darmstadt 98 4-0 on Saturday. The Bavarians, who face Real Madrid in the Champions League last eight this month, remained firmly on track for a record-ex- tending fifth consecutive Bundes- liga crown with yet another domi- nant performance. Lewandowski, who joined Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Em- erick Aubameyang at the top of the scorers' list with 24, beauti- fully controlled a Thiago Alcan- tara pass with his right foot and turned to shoot Bayern ahead af- ter 17 minutes. Thomas Mueller, who earlier hit the woodwork twice, put the ball over the line with his knee in the 36th and Poland forward Lewan- dowski slotted in 10 minutes after the restart to kill off the game. Thiago grabbed a deserved goal to make it 4-0 before Lewandows- ki completed his hat-trick and Mueller earned his second goal to lift Bayern to 65 points. "What can I say about him?" said Bayern coach Carlo Ancelotti about his prolific Polish striker. "Lewandowski did what he nor- mally does. He scored three goals and set up another two." "I am happy to have a forward who more or less scores in every game." Leipzig are second on 52 af- ter their win, Naby Keita scoring twice against Darmstadt who col- lapsed following the sending-off of Sandro Sirigu in the 72nd min- ute. Dortmund failed to keep pace, stumbling to a 1-1 draw at Schal- ke 04 in the Ruhr valley derby to drop to fourth on 47, a point be- hind Hoffenheim, winners 3-1 at Hertha Berlin on Friday. Aubameyang put visitors Dort- mund ahead with his 24th goal of the season and celebrated by put- ting on a superhero mask, as he had done in past derbies. Bayern Munich's Jerome Boateng and Augsburg's Raul Bobadilla in action