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Beijing Guoan top Superleague after beating Shanghai Greenland Shenhua
Starting with football and Beijing Guoan have jumped to the top of the Chinese Superleague after their two-nil thrashing of Shanghai Greenland Shenhua Last night.
They now lead the table by two points following three wins from three matches.
Last night's match was goalless until close the break, when the home team were awarded a penalty five minutes before the end of the first half.
That was duly scored by Zhang Xizhe who then extended the lead in the early minutes of the second half.
Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, who now sit tenth in the 16 team league, have not beaten Guoan in beijing since 2009.
Elsewhere in the league Shanghai East Asia FC sit second in the table while Guizhou Renhe are now third both on seven points, while defending champions Guangzhou Evergrand slide down to fourth in the league following their loss Changchun Yatai at the weekend.
League leaders, Beijing will face their greatest test so far this season on Friday when they take on second placed Shanghai East Asia FC away at 7:45pm.
Arsenal overturn player match ban following red card blunder
Over in the English Premiere League Arsenal have succeeded in ensuring that neither Kieran Gibbs nor Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will be suspended following Saturday's red card blunder against Chelsea.
During Arsenal's 6-0 thumping by the Blues Oxlade-Chamberlain purposefully deflected a shot on goal with his hand but the referee booked the wrong man.
This farcical display has once again applied pressure on the Football Association to allow referees access to video replays.
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Arsenal's devastating defeat during Arsen Wenger's 1,000th game at the helm of the club has sent the French manager and the club to new lows. While the fans and bosses seem to be still behind him for now, cracks are beginning to show.
Speaking only to fan-site Arsenal TV Wenger said there's a tough task ahead of them:
"It looked like we missed the start of our game and were caught on counter-attacking and we had the desire to accept to play and to go, and we were caught on the break and after that, of course the game became a very long, because down to 10 men, down to 3-0, it became, of course, an impossible task, and you just wonder, OK let's finish it. We tried to come back and we always tried to continue to have a go, I give credit to the players for that, at least we tried to score a goal, it was too difficult."
When you have to attack with 10 men and you're down three-nil you know you have more chances to concede another goal, and that's
what happened.."
Wenger led Arsenal to the top of the Premiere League early in the season, but he has been criticized for failing to adapt the club's tactics to counter opponents in the biggest games.
The gunners next game is against Swansie City in a few hours, at 3:45 Beijing Time.
Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams breeze into next round of Sony Open
In Tennis,
World Number One Rafael Nadal has stormed past Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin at the Sony Open in Miami.
The Spaniard took just under an hour to crush his opponent for a bagel 6-1 6-0.
The 27-year-old is joined in the fourth round by Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka, who defeated his French opponent Edouard Roger-Vasselin 7-5 6-4.
The Swiss player will next face Ukraine's Alexander Dolgopolov while Nadal will be up against Italy's Fabio Fognini.
In the women's event Serena Williams made light work of fellow American Coco Vandeweghe as she advanced to the quarter finals with a 6-3 6-1 win, she'll face Angelique Kerber in the next round.
Meanwhile Russian fourth seed Maria Sharapova recovered from a set down to make it to the last eight with a 3-6 6-4 6-1 victory over Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium.
Amir Khan to face Luis Collazo in Mayweather undercard bout
In Boxing,
Amir Khan will meet Luis Collazo in the undercard event of Floyd Mayweather's fight on May-the-third it has been announced.
The British fighter had been angling for a match-up against Mayweather, considered the world's best pound-for-pound boxer, but the American instead opted to fight Marcos Maidana of Argentina in Las Vegas.
The former world-champion Khan defeated Maidana in a unanimous points decision in 2010, and had won a fans' poll for who should be Mayweather's next opponent.
Mayweather had agreed to fight the Bolton-born brawler should he win in a match against 24-year-old American Adrien Broner, but Broner rejected the fight.
Both Mayweather and Khan insist their highly anticipated bout will happen one day.
