FOOTBALL

Primera Liga

Albacete 1 (Iban Cuadrado 8-own goal) Murcia 0 l Athletic Bilbao 1 (Santi Ezquerro 58) Real Betis 1 (Benjamin 53) l Osasuna 1 (John Aloisi 17) Real Mallorca 1 (Andrija Delibasic 6) l Racing Santander 1 (Rodolfo Bodipo 67) Valladolid 0 l Real Zaragoza 4 (Leonardo Ponzio 2, Cani 21, Dani 39, David Villa 80) Villarreal 1 (Juan Roman Riquelme 64-penalty).

Ligue 1

Olympique Marseille 1 (Didier Drogba 29) Nantes 1 (Viorel Moldovan 41).

Serie A

Bologna 0 Juventus 1 (Mark Iuliano 56) l Brescia 1 (Roberto Baggio 90) Lecce 2 (Ernesto Chevanton 13, Marco Cassetti 88) l Chievo Verona 0 Lazio 0 l Modena 1 (Nicola Amoruso 37) Empoli 1 (Tommaso Rocchi 50) l Reggina 1 (Francesco Cozza 53-penalty) Perugia 2 (Ze Maria 20, Dario Hubner 90) l AS Roma 6 (Antonio Cassano 19, 24, 70, Mancini 31, Marco Delvecchio 82, Francesco Totti 86) Siena 0 l Udinese 3 (Dino Fava 57, Marek Jankulovski 84, David Pizarro 87) Ancona 0.

Bundesliga

Hertha Berlin 1 (Nando Rafael 62) Eintracht Frankfurt 2 (Cha Du-ri 18, Ioannis Amanatidis 66) l Borussia Dortmund 1 (Ewerthon 26) Cologne 0.

Premier League

Aston Villa 2 (Darius Vassell 21, Thomas Hitzlsperger 47) Birmingham City 2 (Mikael Forssell 60, Stern John 90) l Tottenham Hotspur 4 (Michael Brown 6, Jermain Defoe 13, 88, Robbie Keane 28) Leicester City 4 (Gary Doherty 9-own goal, Les Ferdinand 51, Ben Thatcher 72, Marcus Bent 77).

FA Cup

Round V: Portsmouth 1 (Richard Hughes 72) Liverpool 0.

CHESS

Moscow Open

Monday’s Results

Group VI, Group A: Loek Van Wely (Ned, 4.5) drew Alexey Dreev (Rus, 4.5) l Darmen Sadvakasov (Kaz, 4.5) drew Joel Lautier (Fra, 4.5) l Etienne Bacrot (Fra, 4) lost to Ferenc Berkes (Hun, 5) l Sergei Rublevsky (Rus, 4) lost to Valerij Filippov (Rus, 5) l Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov (Aze, 4.5) drew Karen Asrian (Arm, 4.5) l Vasilios Kotronias (Cyp, 4.5) drew Alexander Motylev (Rus, 4.5) l Semen Dvoirys (Rus, 4.5) drew Alexander Graf (Ger, 4.5) l Pavel Tregubov (Rus, 5) bt Yakov Meister (Rus, 4) l Alexander Rustemov (Rus, 5) bt Alexander Lastin (Rus, 4) l Andrei Kharitonov (Rus, 3.5) lost to Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind, 4.5) l Kaido Kulaots (Est, 3.5) lost to Evgeny Alekseev (Rus, 4.5) l Tomasz Markowski (Pol, 4.5) bt Oleg Romanishin (Rom, 3.5) l Artashes Minasian (Arm, 3.5) lost to Alexei Fedorov (Blr, 4.5) l Lanka Ravi (Ind, 3.5) lost to Jaan Ehlvest (Est, 4.5) l Dmitry Jakovenko (Rus, 4.5) bt Rauf Mamedov (Aze, 3.5) l Vladimir Potkin (Rus, 3) drew Neelotpal Das (Ind, 3) l Leonid Yurtaev (Kgz, 3) bt Praveen Thipsay (Ind, 2) l Athan Mastrovasilis (Gre, 3) bt Sandipan Chanda (Ind, 2).

Round VII, Group B: David Arutinian (Geo, 6.5) bt Beniamin Galstian (Arm, 6) l Li Ruofan (Chn, 5) lost to Dzhakaev Dzhakay (Rus, 6) l Iokhan Doukhine (Rus, 5) lost to Anatoli Shvedchikov (Rus, 6) l Vitaly Kunin (Ger, 5.5) drew Levon Babujian (Arm, 5.5) l Vakhtang Chikovani (5) lost to Giorgi Bagaturov (Geo, 6) l Wang Yu (Chn, 5) drew Tejas Bakre (Ind, 5) l Nikolay Ogloblin (Rus, 4.5) lost to P Konguvel (Ind, 5.5) l Vardan Danielian (Arm, 3.5) lost to S. Kidambi (Ind, 4) l Rinat Zhumabaev (Kaz, 3) lost to Dinesh Kumar Sharma (Ind, 4).

Sunday’s Results

Round V, Group A: Valerij Filippov (Rus, 4) drew Etienne Bacrot (Fra, 4) l Alexander Graf (Ger, 4) drew Vasilios Kotronias (Cyp, 4) l Alexander Rustemov (Rus, 4) drew Pavel Tregubov (Rus, 4) l Karen Asrian (Arm, 4) drew Loek Van Wely (Ned, 4) l Alexey Dreev (Rus, 4) bt Kaido Kulaots (Est, 3.5) l Vladimir Malakhov (Rus, 3) lost to Semen Dvoirys (Rus, 4) l Joel Lautier (Fra, 4) bt Artashes Minasian (Arm, 3) l Konstantine Sakaev (Rus, 3.5) drew Dmitry Jakovenko (Rus, 3.5) l Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov (Aze, 4) bt Artyom Timofeev (Rus, 3) l Alexander Motylev (Rus, 4) bt Robert Kempinski (Pol, 3) l Alexander Lastin (Rus, 4) bt Kevin Spraggett (Can, 3) l Kamil Miton (Pol, 3) lost to Darmen Sadvakasov (Kaz, 4) l Yakov Meister (Rus, 4) bt Ernesto Inarkiev (Rus, 3) l Ferenc Berkes (Hun, 4) bt Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 3) l Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind, 3.5) bt Aleksei Lugovoi (Rus, 2.5) l Evgeny Pigusov (Rus, 2.5) lost to Lanka Ravi (Ind, 3.5) l Neelotpal Das (Ind, 2.5) drew Sarhan Guliev (2.5) l Praveen Thipsay (Ind, 2) drew Konstantin Landa (Rus, 2) l Sandipan Chanda (Ind, 2) drew Artem Iljin (Rus, 2).

Round VI, Group B: Beniamin Galstian (Arm, 6) bt Artur Janturin (Rus, 4.5) l Giorgi Bagaturov (Geo, 5) drew Iokhan Doukhine (Rus, 5) l David Arutinian (Geo, 5.5) bt Tigran Kotanjian (Arm, 4) l Tejas Bakre (Ind, 4.5) drew Nikolay Ogloblin (Rus, 4.5) l Dzhakaev Dzhakay (Rus, 5) bt Xu Yuanyuan (Chn, 4) l Levon Babujian (Arm, 5) bt Michail Panarin (Rus, 4) l P Konguvel (Ind, 4.5) bt Yohann Benitah (Fra, 3.5) l Dinesh Kumar Sharma (Ind, 3) lost to Alexei Gubajdullin (Rus, 4) l S. Kidambi (Ind, 3) beat Viktor Sobyanin (Rus, 2).

TENNIS

ATP St Jude Open

MEMPHIS, Final: Joachim Johansson (Swe) bt Nicolas Kiefer (8, Ger) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3.

ATP Buenos Aires Open

Final: Guillermo Coria (1, Arg) bt Carlos Moya (2, Esp) 6-4, 6-1.

ATP World Indoor Meet

ROTTERDAM, Final: Lleyton Hewitt (6, Aus) bt Juan Carlos Ferrero (2, Esp) 6-7 (1-7), 7-5, 6-4.

WTA Antwerp Open

Final: Kim Clijsters (2, Bel) bt Silvia Farina Elia (8, Ita) 6-3, 6-0.

GOLF

Los Angeles Open

Final Round: 267 Mike Weir (Can) 66 64 66 71 l 268 Shigeki Maruyama (Jap) 64 66 71 67 l 270 Stuart Appleby (Aus) 70 64 70 66 l 271 John Daly (US) 68 64 72 67 l 272 Hank Kuehne 65 72 68 67.

For the book

Arsenal have secured funding for its new £357-million ($673 million) stadium and a spokesman said on Monday that the Ashburton Grove ground would open for the start of the 2006-07 season.