Incredible Man Utd fightback Delays Man City Title Celebrations
Paul Pogba scored two goals in two minutes to overturn City's first-half lead before Chris Smalling's header completed the dramatic turnaround.
Vincent Kompany had scored a thumping header before Ilkay Gundogan's sublime skill and precise finish doubled City's lead.
But City, who would have been crowned champions with victory, will have to wait as second-placed United narrowed the gap to 13 points ensuring there were no celebrations on derby day.
City will need to win at Tottenham next Saturday and hope United lose at home to bottom side West Brom the day after to be confirmed as league winners.
Bayern Wrap Up Sixth German Title In A Row
Jupp Heynckes' side picked up the Bavarian derby win they needed to become champions with five games to spare.
They had trailed through Niklas Sule's own goal but Corentin Tolisso and James Rodriguez set them on their way towards a 28th German championship.
Arjen Robben converted Rodriguez's cut-back and Sandro Wagner headed a fourth.
Treble-chasing Bayern rested a host of players with Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final second leg against Sevilla in mind. Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Muller, Thiago, Franck Ribery, Mats Hummels and Javi Martinez were all on the bench.
They had looked in trouble when Sven Ulreich's parried save hit Sule and flew into their own net. But Tolisso headed in Joshua Kimmich's cross and Rodriguez then smashed home from close range.
Robben's powerful third - his 95th Bundesliga goal - confirmed the victory - and Wagner completed the rout late on.
Vettel On Pole As Hamilton Starts Ninth In Bahrain
Hamilton qualified fourth behind Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen and his team-mate Valtteri Bottas but has a five-pace drop for an unauthorised gearbox change.
The star of qualifying was arguably Pierre Gasly in the Toro Rosso, who qualified sixth behind Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.
Gasly's performance was embarrassing for McLaren, who are down in 13th and 14th.
Ferrari have looked to have an edge on Mercedes all weekend, Hamilton and Bottas battling inconsistent handling on the stop-start Sakhir circuit in the desert south of the Bahraini capital Manama.
Mercedes got closer in qualifying than they looked like they might at one point but Vettel was still 0.166 seconds quicker than the fastest Mercedes of Bottas.
Raikkonen had looked to be faster than Vettel until qualifying but the four-time champion pulled it out when it mattered.
A mistake at the last corner on his first run in the top 10 shoot-out left Vettel second but a blistering final lap gave him pole ahead of Raikkonen by 0.143secs.
"It was quite intense," Vettel said. "First run in Q3 I was very happy and then I tossed it away last corner. Really happy I got the second run and got it clean. The car was excellent all weekend so far."
Commonwealth Games: D’Tigers Lose 67-82 To Canada
The Nigerians had lost their first preliminary qualification game against the Tall Blacks of New Zealand on Friday and have now all but crashed out of the tournament.
Canada were favourites going into the game, and in the game’s first quarter Canada took a 23-16 points lead, while D’Tigers took a narrow lead of 21-20 in the second period.
D’Tigers also rallied to take another slim lead in the third quarter, pipping Canada by 15-14 points, with both leads doing little to peg the North Americans back.
It was in the final period, however, that Canada extended their domination, taking 25 points against D’Tigers’ 15.
The Nigerian basketball team are now in the bottom of Pool A, having played two matches and lost both.
Pool toppers New Zealand and second-placed Australia played their group’s other game later in the day.
Two teams will qualify for the semi-finals from each preliminary group, while the bottom two teams from Pools A and B will play for a place in the qualifying finals.
Nigeria’s final group match is against hosts Australia on Tuesday at 12 noon Nigerian time.
from Bola Esho's Blog
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