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Iniesta leaps to defence of goal-shy Fernando Torres” plus 5 more- Andrés Iniesta leaps to defence of goal-shy Fernando Torres - Aquilani has Liverpool future if Juventus choose not to buy - Harlequins end Gloucester’s winning streak in style - Sauber excluded from Australian GP for infringement - Duff hails ‘massive win’ as Ireland edge Macedonia - Australian Grand Prix 2011: Vettel storms to victory Andrés Iniesta leaps to defence of goal-shy Fernando Torres Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:08 PM PDT It will not be long until Chelsea striker Fernando Torres rediscovers his goalscoring touch, according his international team-mate Andrés Iniesta. Torres is yet to find the net since his £50m switch from Liverpool to Chelsea in January, and the 26-year-old forward extended his goal drought in Spain’s 2-1 win over the Czech Republic on Friday. The Chelsea front man—who has not scored in his last nine games—played the second half of Spain’s Group I encounter, and watched David Villa become his country’s record goalscorer with two goals after the break. But Iniesta insists Torres will soon explode into form and praised his fellow countryman’s contributions to the world champions’ latest victory. “Fernando is doing really well,” said Iniesta. “It’s clear that strikers live to score, but in Granada he gave us plenty of things which people don’t see such as hard work, helping out in defence and allowing others the space to play. “He does work which is not noticed, but it is very fundamental for the team. “As for the goals, I think it’s only a matter of time. He has always scored and he will continue doing so and therefore there are no problems.” And Torres’s former Liverpool team-mate Alvaro Arbeloa, now at Real Madrid, also believes the striker need not worry about his dip in form. “Fernando has been playing at the top level for many years and it’s not the first time he has been through a bad patch in front of goal,” said Arbeloa. “When you are as good as him you don’t need to worry. He needs to keep doing his job and the goals will come.” Aquilani has Liverpool future if Juventus choose not to buy Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:49 AM PDT The future of Liverpool midfielder Alberto Aquilani remains uncertain as his loan spell at Juventus nears its conclusion. The Reds allowed Aquilani to join Juventus on a season-long loan last August and the Turin club can make the deal permanent if they match Liverpool's £14m valuation of the 26-year-old Italian. But the Serie A club are understood to be unwilling to match Liverpool's price tag, leaving the door ajar for Aquilani to resurrect his Premier League career despite claims from the player’s agent that his future lies with Juventus. “On 30 June Juventus will be able to buy Aquilani and they should act now,” said agent Franco Zavaglia last week. Zavaglia added: “The agreement between Liverpool and Juventus is already there, it all depends on the willingness of Juventus. I think Aquilani will stay at Juventus and there will not be any obstacles.” The timing of Aquilani's £17m transfer from AS Roma to Liverpool in 2009 suggested he was a direct replacement for the Real Madrid-bound Xabi Alonso. But the popular Spain international had built a legacy as Liverpool's deep-lying playmaker while Aquilani prefers a more offensive role which suits his shorter but dynamic passing game. In truth, Aquilani would be a more suitable candidate to replace Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard rather than Alonso. The sizeable fee spent on the midfielder during a period in which former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett restricted Rafael Benítez’s involvement in the transfer market inevitably led to calls for Aquilani become an instant hit and justify his hefty price tag. But he had undergone a knee operation at the end of his last season with Roma which rendered him unavailable for the start of the 2009-10 Premier League campaign. Unable to participate in pre-season training at Liverpool, the Italian only returned mid-way through Benítez’s turbulent final year in charge at Anfield. Benítez used his expensive acquisition sparingly, and when Aquilani was handed a rare start he was heaped with pressure as the Kop craved for the Italian to help save a season devoid of optimism. As the season drew to a close Aquilani was given a handful of opportunities to showcase his talent and produced a number of eye-catching performances in the league as well as an impressive display in the Europa League semi-final against Atlético Madrid. But Roy Hodgson opted to allow Aquilani return to Serie A when he took the Anfield reigns to allow the midfielder to regain match fitness following two injury-plagued seasons. Since his return to Italy Aquilani has forged a partnership with Felipe Melo in the Juve midfield and has retained a regular starting berth under manager Luigi Delneri. Any question marks over his fitness have been dispelled. He has made 24 starts in Serie A with two goals, three assists, and boasts one of the best pass-completion percentages in the division. Aquilani promises plenty for the future and at 26 would fit into Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group's long-term plans should Juventus opt not to retain his services. Harlequins end Gloucester’s winning streak in style Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:00 AM PDT Harlequins ran in seven tries to demolish visitors Gloucester 53-15 in their first Aviva Premiership game since the Six Nations. Ugo Monye scored a hat-trick against the recently-crowned LV Cup champions in front of a delighted sell-out crowd at the Twickenham Stoop on Saturday. Conor O’Shea’s side earned a bonus point which lifted them to sixth, level on points with London Irish in fifth and within touching distance of a play-off place and Heineken cup qualification. After a disappointing end to their own LV= Cup campaign, losing to Newcastle Falcons in the semi-final, Harlequins were looking to make amends and steer their season back on track. Standing in for fly-half Nick Evans, 21-year-old Rory Clegg kicked impeccably all game. His penalty got the first points on the board to put Quins 3-0 up in the 10th minute. The forwards then applied some pressure from a lineout to allow Joe Gray to cross over to score the home side’s first try after 24 minutes, which Clegg converted. Robinson scored a penalty for the west country visitors, which only spurred Quins on to inflict more damage. In the last five minutes of the first half Chris Robson and Ugo Monye ran in tries, both converted by Clegg. A penetrating run by George Lowe set up an overlap, which Care exploited by whipping it out wide to Robson who despite fumbling the ball ran straight for the try line unopposed. Monye’s try gave the hosts a commanding 24-3 lead at half time. The second half continued in much the same vein. Quins bulldozing their way through the cherry and whites poor defence. After Clegg’s second penalty eight minutes into the second half Monye and George Lowe kept the try tally ticking over. The same two players were to score again in the dying stages of the game as Gloucester looked simply shell-shocked for 80 minutes, rapid England international Monye grabbing a well deserved hat-trick. Harlequins director of rugby O’Shea said: “It came from a combination of a lot of hurt we felt from a couple of weeks ago and the run we have been having. “And with Gloucester you are bound to have a comedown of some sorts when you win a bit of silverware and then they were hit by a team that had a lot of pain, a lot of hurt.” Gloucester’s worst defeat of the season was also their first loss since New Year’s day, and head coach Bryan Redpath said: ”We were dreadful. I think Quins had more energy than us, that was pretty obvious. “In the first half the game was gone at 24-3 because we never controlled any field position or possession.It happened we have got to get on with it and deal with it.” Harlequins: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Gonzalo Camacho, 13 George Lowe, 12 Jordan Turner-Hall, 11 Ugo Monye, 10 Rory Clegg, 9 Danny Care, 8 Nick Easter, 7 Chris Robshaw (c), 6 Maurie Fa’asavalu, 5 George Robson, 4 Ollie Kohn, 3 John Andress, 2 Joe Gray, 1 Joe Marler. Replacements: 16 Chris Brooker, 17 Ceri Jones, 18 Mark Lambert, 19 Tomas Vallejos, 20 Will Skinner, 21 Dave Moore, 22 Benjamin Urdapilleta, 23 Tom Williams. Gloucester: 15 Freddie Burns, 14 Charlie Sharples, 13 Tim Molenaar, 12 Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu, 11 Tom Voyce, 10 Nicky Robinson, 9 Rory Lawson, 8 Luke Narraway (capt), 7 Akapusi Qera, 6 Alasdair Strokosch, 5 Dave Attwood, 4 Will James, 3 Paul Doran-Jones, 2 Scott Lawson, 1 Alasdair Dickinson. Replacements: 16 Olivier Azam, 17 Yann Thomas, 18 Rupert Harden, 19 Alex Brown, 20 Matt Cox, 21 Jordi Pasqualin, 22 Henry Trinder, 23 Jonny May Sauber excluded from Australian GP for infringement Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:45 AM PDT Sauber’s Sergio Pérez and Kamui Kobayashi have been disqualified from the Australian Grand Prix after their cars were found to breach technical regulations. The duo, who finished seventh and eighth in Melbourne, were excluded from the results following post-race checks on the concave radius of sections of the three rear wing elements that are in contact with the external air stream. The same checks were made on a number of cars including those of Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari, as well as Renault's Vitaly Petrov and Toro Rosso's Sébastien Buemi, but they all passed. Melbourne stewards decided that both C30s were in breach of technical regulations 3.10.1 and 3.10.2 which were introduced this year as part of the ban on F-ducts. It will be a huge blow to Sauber who were impressive in pre-season and looked to have continued that across the first race weekend of 2011. Pérez was particularly impressive on his debut, looking after his unpredictable Pirelli tyres enough to make just one stop. The disqualification for their rear wing being "too curved" means a reclassification of the results with Felipe Massa moving up to seventh, Buemi eighth, while Force India are the biggest winners as Adrian Sutil takes ninth, with rookie Paul di Resta securing his first point on his Formula 1 debut in tenth. Sauber technical director James Key said: "This is a very surprising and disappointing result. It appears that there is a question over the top surface of the uppermost rear wing element, this area is not the working surface of the component and therefore relatively unimportant to its function. "Certainly this has not lead to any performance advantage. We are checking the design of the parts now to better understand the situation and we intend to appeal the decision made by the stewards." Article 3.10.1 Any bodywork more than 150mm behind the rear wheel centre line which is between 150mm and 730mm above the reference plane, and between 75mm and 355mm from the car centre line, must lie in an area when viewed from the side of the car that is situated between 150mm and 350mm behind the rear wheel centre line and between 300mm and 400mm above the reference plane. When viewed from the side of the car no longitudinal cross section may have more than one section in this area. Furthermore, no part of this section in contact with the external air stream may have a local concave radius of curvature smaller than 100mm. Once this section is defined, 'gurney' type trim tabs may be fitted to the trailing edge. When measured in any longitudinal cross section no dimension of any such trim tab may exceed 20mm. Article 3.10.2 Other than the bodywork defined in Article 3.10.9, any bodywork behind a point lying 50mm forward of the rear wheel centre line which is more than 730mm above the reference plane, and less than 355mm from the car centre line, must lie in an area when viewed from the side of the car that is situated between the rear wheel centre line and a point 350mm behind it. Duff hails ‘massive win’ as Ireland edge Macedonia Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:31 AM PDT Aiden McGeady and Robbie Keane both struck first-half goals to help the Republic of Ireland seal an unconvincing 2-1 victory over Macedonia on Saturday. McGeady put the hosts in front after just 84 seconds and Keane doubled their lead in the 21st minute as the pair capitalised on two goalkeeping errors from Macedonia's Edin Nuredinoski. Ivan Trickovski out-foxed Aston Villa defender Richard Dunne and stroked a finish past Keiren Westwood to slash the hosts’ lead just before the break. But Giovanni Trapattoni’s men held on, and Russia's stalemate against Armenia in the earlier game on Saturday afternoon ensured the Republic moved joint top of Group B, level with Russia and Slovakia. And Republic of Ireland and Fulham winger Damien Duff is confident his side can qualify for the 2012 tournament. “There are no easy games in Europe anymore,” said Duff. “Macedonia put up a great fight but it’s a massive three points. “We believe we can do it. We went close to the last World Cup and we’re going to put in a big effort to get to Ukraine and Poland.” Duff added: “We knew the Russia result coming in so that gave us a little lift. “We have to make this [Aviva Stadium] a fortress like Lansdowne Road used to be and this result goes a long way to that.” Australian Grand Prix 2011: Vettel storms to victory Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:58 AM PDT World champion Sebastian Vettel cruised to victory at the Australian Grand Prix to get his title defence off to the perfect start in Melbourne. The Red Bull driver, who had dominated the weekend, led from pole and opened up a comfortable lead over McLaren rival Lewis Hamilton on the opening lap at the season’s curtain-raiser Down Under. Vettel’s margin of victory was 22 seconds to Hamilton, who had earlier damaged his car in running wide at turn one. "I'm very pleased, it was a very good weekend and I had a very nice car to sit in this afternoon," Vettel said. "It was a good race–towards the end things calmed down a bit. Lewis didn't push as hard, so we tried to control the last part of the race. I don't think it was easy today. "The start was crucial and being on the clean side I had a very good getaway. “I got a cushion on lap one and we tried to hold the gap for the first stint. When the tyres went off, Lewis caught up and we came in. I think it was the right time, as I couldn't have done more laps. "After my first stop it was crucial to get past Jenson, which I did. That was important. In the second part of the race I didn't know what was going on behind Lewis, if he was under pressure or not, but towards the end of the race I could control it more.” The 23-year-old added: “We learned a lot of things today. It's good coming here after a long winter and setting the pace." Hamilton was able to keep within sight of Vettel despite a problem with a detached undertray, and second place is a huge boost for the McLaren driver and his Woking-based team after their pre-season problems which forced an unscheduled upgrade to the car for the first race. Vitaly Petrov showed Renault that he can lead a team as he secured a surprising third place to become the first Russian driver to finish on the podium in just his 20th race. It marks the highlight of an excellent weekend for the 26-year-old following his best qualifying performance and an excellent getaway at the start of the race to move up to fourth. While there was little action at the front, a combination of pit stops and tyre wear made for some exciting racing and Petrov was able to jump Red Bull’s Mark Webber with a two-stop strategy to move up to third. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was the highest-placed three-stopper, but a poor start which saw him drop back four places on the opening lap meant he was always trailing his championship rivals. The Spaniard stayed out one lap longer before his final pit stop which saw him jump Webber for fourth, but there was no real effort to challenge Petrov for third. Webber's run of underperforming in his home race continued as a decision to switch to hard tyres at his first pit stop failed to pay off. He was jumped by both Petrov and Alonso, however the Australian settled for fifth place, equalling his best finish in Melbourne. McLaren’s Jenson Button, who started fourth on the grid, received a drive-through penalty for cutting Turn 12 as Felipe Massa pitted preventing Button from giving the place back. Button was another of the two-stop drivers, with some excellent use of the drag reduction system to get past Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi, before securing sixth place. Sauber rookie Sergio Pérez had the race of his life on a one-stop strategy, with his soft tyres lasting 35 laps after changing from the hard to soft compound on lap 23. The young Mexican, making his F1 debut finished the race in a superb seventh place ahead of team-mate Kobayashi as Sauber once again showed they have made progress in 2011. "I will never forget this race, that is certain," Pérez said. "After we changed from the hard to the soft tyres, I thought at first I had to push. But then I realised I could manage the tyres quite well and we decided to go to the end with them. "I lost some time behind Sebastian Vettel, but I was then able to overtake him. I used the rear wing and he also left room. I am very proud of my team, the strategy worked and it was a nice surprise the tyres lasted so long." Ferrari's Felipe Massa also had a disappointing afternoon and could only manage ninth ahead of Toro Rosso's Sébastien Buemi who survived a collision with team-mate Jaime Alguersuari. You are subscribed to email updates from The Sport Review To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 -- Posted By Mas Item Arekjowo to The Sport Review at 3/28/2011 12:06:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gugukluhayat" group. To post to this group, send email to gugukluhayat@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gugukluhayat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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