LONDON: The top two teams in the Champions League standings meet Wednesday as Arsenal hosts Bayern Munich in a game between the leaders in the Premier League and Bundesliga.
Arsenal has yet to concede a goal in four straight wins in the eight-round opening phase but is still second behind Bayern on the tiebreaker of more goals scored, with both having the same goal difference.
Five of Bayern’s 14 Champions League goals were scored by Harry Kane, who returns to North London where he averaged 30 per season in his last nine years at Arsenal’s archrival Tottenham.
Inter Milan is the only other team on 12 points — in third place in the 36-team standings — and looks for a fifth straight win at Atletico Madrid.
Real Madrid is at Olympiakos after its 1-0 loss in the fourth round at Liverpool, which now hosts PSV Eindhoven.
Paris Saint-Germain is at home to Tottenham in a repeat of their Super Cup game in August that the Champions League title holder won in a penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw.
Two Europa League winners in the past four seasons, Eintracht Frankfurt and Atalanta, meet in Germany, and Sporting Lisbon hosts Club Brugge.
This is the fourth season of UEFA excluding teams from Russia in its competitions during the war on Ukraine but Pafos hosting Monaco is a meeting of clubs whose owners include Russian billionaires.
Pafos is co-owned by Sergey Lomakin and Monaco’s majority owner is Dmitry Rybolovlev, who once bought a property in Florida from future US President Donald Trump.
The other early game Wednesday sends Kairat Almaty from Kazakhstan to face Copenhagen. Each team has just one point and is, respectively, No. 35 and No. 33 in the standings.
Arsenal hosts Bayern in clash between Champions League’s top two. Inter aims for 5th win at Atletico
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Arsenal hosts Bayern in clash between Champions League’s top two. Inter aims for 5th win at Atletico
- Arsenal has yet to concede a goal in four straight wins. Bayern is still top on the tiebreaker of more goals scored as both teams have the same goal difference
- Inter Milan is the only other team on 12 points and looks for a fifth straight win at Atletico Madrid
Mumbai Cobras confirm first place in Baseball United Season 1 standings
- The India franchise will meet either Mid East Falcons or Arabia Wolves in the season-ending United Series
DUBAI: The Mumbai Cobras beat Mid East Falcons 6-3 on Thursday night to secure first place in the Baseball United Season 1 standings.
Lord de Vera went 3-for-4 with two RBIs, and Miguel Ojeda hit a two-run home run in the second inning. Chander Woolridge had a perfect 2.1 innings relief to earn the win (0 H, 0 ER, 4 SO, one Fire Ball Scored).
Chase Gearing (2.2 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 4 SO), Akshay More (1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 SO), Brandon Kaminer, (1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 BB) and Akeel Morris, who got the save, (1.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO) completed the work up the mound for Mumbai.
Along with De Vera and Ojeda, Gedionne Marlin went 2-for-5 with a triple, two runs scored and one RBI, while Brantley Bell went 2-for-3 and Manuel Ascanio batted 1-for-3 with two runs scored, to highlight Mumbai's offense.
The result secures first place for Mumbai in the Baseball United Season 1 standings, with a final win-loss record of 6-3. They will face the still-to-be-decided second-placed team in the United Series; Mid East Falcons and Arabia Wolves will close the regular season against each other this weekend.
Other highlights:
- Shuhei Fukuda and Hiroyuki Nakajima went 2-for-3 with one RBI each, while Munenori Kawasaki went 2-for-4 with one run scored and one RBI, to seal the Falcons offense.
- Haru Yoshioka took the loss after 3.0 IP, where he allowed eight hits, one home run, five earned runs, and struck out four. Shotaro Kasahara (2.0 IP, 0 H 0 ER, 1 BB), Shotaro Nakata (0.1 IP, 1 H, 2 BB), Kodai Hamaya (1 H, 0 ER 3 SO), Shingo Hirata (1.0, 0 ER, 1 BB) and Severino González (1.0 IP, 0 ER, 1 SO), completed the pitching line for Mid East.
- The Falcons, who had a total of 11 players left on base, currently have a 3-3 record.
