Chelsea give up points against Brighton

Football: Chelsea give up points – Manchester City wins on

(sda) Chelsea have to be content with a draw in the last game of the year. The Champions League winner conceded the 1-1 equalizer in the 20th Premier League round against Brighton in the 91st minute.

Former England international Danny Welbeck scored for the underdog after Chelsea took the lead through Romelu Lukaku after just under half an hour.

Manchester City benefited from the missteps of its toughest rivals. While Chelsea and Liverpool (0: 1 in Leicester on Tuesday) dropped points, Pep Guardiola’s team celebrated their tenth win in a row with a 1-0 win against newly promoted Brentford. The lead over Chelsea is now nine points.

Chelsea 1-1 Brighton (1: 0). – Goals: 28. Lukaku 1-0. 91.Welbeck 1: 1. – Brentford – Manchester City 0-1 (0: 1). – Goal: 16. Foden 0-1.

Results. Tuesday: Crystal Palace 3-0 Norwich City. Southampton 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur. Watford 1-4 West Ham United. Leicester City 1-0 Liverpool. – Wednesday: Chelsea 1-1 Brighton & Hove Albion. Brentford 0-1 Manchester City – Thursday: Manchester United v Burnley 9.15pm.

Ranking list: 1. Manchester City 19/47 (50:12). 2. Chelsea 20/42 (43:14). 3. Liverpool 19/41 (50:16). 4. Arsenal 19/35 (32:23). 5. West Ham United 19/31 (34:25). 6. Tottenham Hotspur 17/30 (22:20). 7. Manchester United 17/28 (27:25). 8. Wolverhampton Wanderers 18/25 (13:14). 9. Leicester City 18/25 (31:33). 10. Brighton & Hove Albion 18/24 (17:18). 11. Crystal Palace 19/23 (27:27). 12. Aston Villa 18/22 (24:28). 13th Southampton 19/21 (20:29). 14. Brentford 17/20 (21:24). 15. Everton 17/19 (21:29). 16. Leeds United 18/16 (18:36). 17. Watford 17/13 (22:35). 18. Burnley 15/11 (14:21). 19. Newcastle United 19/11 (19:42). 20. Norwich City 19/10 (8:42).

Ice hockey: The U-20 World Cup is canceled

(sda) The U-20 World Cup for ice hockey in the Canadian cities of Red Deer and Edmonton was canceled in three teams after Corona cases and the resulting forfait defeats.

The disaster had loomed: On Tuesday, corona cases in the USA meant that Switzerland won their second preliminary round match 1-0 forfait. The day after, the Czech and Russian players also tested positive. They too lost their games 0-1 forfait and, like the Americans, had to go into quarantine.

In order to protect the health of all participants, the tournament will be canceled, said the international association IIHF. With three forfait defeats in the last four games and three teams that had to go into quarantine for an indefinite period of time, the continuation of the tournament under fair conditions would not have been possible anyway.

Switzerland will return home after just one game. At the start, Marco Bayer’s team lost 4-2 to Russia. “From our point of view, the demolition is the right decision,” said Lars Weibel, who is responsible for the Swiss national teams. “The current situation and recent developments in the pandemic simply no longer allow normal implementation.”

Equestrian sport: again no World Cup in Basel

(sda) The CSI Basel has to be canceled for the second time in a row due to the corona pandemic. The World Cup event with show jumping and dressage riders should have taken place from January 13th to 16th in the St. Jakobshalle.

After the approval for the event was revoked by the canton of Basel-Landschaft, the organizers decided to reject it, even if it might have been possible to hold the event without a spectator. However, since the situation could get worse, the decision was made to take the radical step.

Thomas Straumann, Chairman of the Board of Directors of CHI Basel, emphasized that everything had been tried to the end. «The best riders would have loved to come to Basel. Our sponsorship and hospitality offers were sold out and ticket sales were at a record level. “

Basel has developed into one of the best indoor events in show jumping in recent years. This year, in view of an application for the World Cup Final 2025, dressage should have been included in the program.

How it will continue is open. “Now that we have been canceled for the second time in a row and the realignment of our event, which has unfortunately become impossible, we cannot avoid thinking about fundamental issues,” said Straumann.

Nordic skiing: Cologna with a modest upward trend

(sda) Dario Cologna only convinced to a limited extent in Lenzerheide over 15 km classic with a single start. The Bündner took 20th place, losing 1:39 minutes to the winner Iivo Niskanen from Finland.

Cologna already suffered the second broken pole in the third race at the World Cup level this winter. This mishap explains part of the backlog, but nothing more. The 35-year-old would have hoped for a little more than just being the best Swiss, four seconds ahead of Jonas Baumann (22nd).

Two hours after his sister Kerttu, the classic specialist Iivo Niskanen celebrated a superior victory. Even Alexander Bolschunow, Russia’s defending champion of the Tour de Ski, lost 20 seconds.

Johannes Hösflot Klaebo was one of the winners of the day. The sprint dominator from Norway was a strong fourth. He only lost 15 seconds on Bolshunov. After two of six stages, Klaebo is leading 15 seconds ahead of compatriot Paal Golberg and 37 seconds ahead of Niskanen. Bolschunow lies in wait as fourth with a handicap of 44 seconds.

Soccer: Zakaria will leave Mönchengladbach

(sda) Denis Zakaria leaves Borussia Mönchengladbach in summer at the latest. The 25-year-old informed the Bundesliga club that he would not extend his contract, which was due to expire in six months.

Mönchengladbach’s sports director Max Eberl had asked his players with expiring contracts to be clear before the end of the year. After Zakaria’s negative decision, Eberl was quoted as follows on the club’s website: “I contacted his agency before Christmas and informed them that we would plan without him from summer at the latest.”

In order to still earn money with Zakaria, Mönchengladbach would have to sell 40 times the Swiss international in January. The value of the midfielder, who moved from YB to Mönchengladbach in 2017, is estimated at just under 30 million euros.

Ice hockey: Lausanne is also in quarantine

(sda) In the National League, the game plan continues to be mixed up. HC Lausanne has to be in quarantine after several positive corona cases. Therefore, the Vaudois cannot compete in the SCL Tigers on January 2nd.

According to the current status, two of five scheduled games will take place on January 2nd: ZSC Lions against Friborg-Gottéron and Biel against Bern.

The Lausanne team, whose match against Zug on January 4th had already been postponed due to the situation in Central Switzerland, should be back in action against Friborg-Gottéron on January 7th, according to the schedule.

In addition to Lausanne, Ambri, Davos, Lugano, Zug and the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers are currently in quarantine. Ajoie, which has also recorded several corona cases, is still pending a decision.

Nordic skiing: Kerttu Niskanen surprise winner in the snowdrift

(sda) Kerttu Niskanen surprisingly takes over the yellow jersey of the Tour de Ski leader. The Finn won the 2nd stage over 10 km in Lenzerheide with a classic single start.

The drifting wet snow around the zero degree limit formed the horror scenario for the wax crew, and the snowfall subsided during the race. Surprises were inevitable: the big favorite Frida Karlsson had to make do with 5th place and 44 seconds behind Kerttu Niskanen, or the best-ranked Norwegian couldn’t get past 10th place in the person of the unknown Anne Kjersti Kalvaa.

Nadine Fähndrich ran into 14th place with the high and therefore cheap start number 58 and was even faster than the Tour de Ski defending champion Jessie Diggins.

In the overall classification, Niskanen is 29 seconds ahead of Diggins. Frida Karlsson is 1:13 minutes behind and has therefore grown. After the sprint, the Swede was 1:07 behind. Fähndrich is in 15th place, 1:18 minutes behind – the fall on Tuesday in the sprint should have cost her at least 40 bonus seconds.

Ice Hockey: Janis Moser’s first NHL goals

Two weeks after being promoted to the NHL team, defender Janis Moser scores his first NHL goals. Despite two hits by the Swiss, the Arizona Coyotes lose 7: 8 at the San Jose Sharks. Not only Moser shone. At the San Jose Sharks, Timo Meier also impressed with a goal (to 5: 3), an assist (to 1: 0) and a plus-1 record. In the end, San Jose prevailed in the penalty shootout, the Swiss weren’t among the shooters.

Moser scored his first NHL goal 140 seconds before the first break to equalize 2-2. 23 seconds before the end of the second section, he later shortened the majority to 4: 5. Arizona was never in the lead in the spectacular game with 15 goals, but four times behind with two goals (2: 4, 3: 5, 4: 6, 5: 7).

Although Janis Moser has not yet helped the shaky defense of the Arizona Coyotes, the most unsuccessful NHL team this season, to stability, his first two (interrupted) weeks in the NHL can be described as successful. Even with Moser, the Coyotes conceded 16 goals in three games, but the Bieler played significantly more than other defenders, helped Arizona to three points in three games and earned a plus-3 balance in his first three games.

Chess: 17-year-old Uzbek becomes world rapid chess champion

(sda / dpa) The Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattorow has duped all favorites and sensationally crowned himself rapid chess world champion. The only 17-year-old prevailed in Warsaw in a play-off round.

The Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, who had led the field for a long time two weeks after defending his title in classical chess, came third.

In the end, Abdusattorow had the best rating of the four players who had scored 9.5 points in 13 rounds. In the event of a tie, the regulations stipulated that the first two would play off. As third place with equal points, top favorite Carlsen was out of the race – the Norwegian then spoke of “an absolutely idiotic rule”.

Abdusattorow prevailed in the jump-off against the loser of the classic World Cup, the Russian Jan Nepomnjaschtschi. Rapid chess is played with 15 minutes per player plus ten seconds per move.

In the women’s category, Alexandra Kostenjuk, a Swiss-Russian citizen, won. The Blitz Chess World Championship will follow in Warsaw on Wednesday and Thursday. The total prize money for all four competitions is one million dollars.