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Marseille makes Cup quarters
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 02 - 02 - 2017

Marseille's star recruit Dimitri Payet made his debut Tuesday but it was Brazilian Doria who booked the team's French Cup quarterfinal berth with a 2-1 extra time win over Lyon.
Payet rejoined the Ligue 1 side on a four-and-a-half-year deal Sunday after Marseille paid 30 million euros ($31.3 million, £25 million) to bring him back to the Stade Velodrome.
And the 29-year-old former West Ham player came on to a standing ovation after 94 minutes as the Cup clash was deadlocked 1-1 and heading into extra-time.
Despite the arrival of the star of the winter transfer window it was old recruits who kept 10-time Cup winners Marseille on track in the 100th edition of the tournament in which they hold the joint record number of trophies along with defending champion Paris Saint-Germain.
Rod Fanni, recalled last summer by former coach Frank Passi, headed in the opener on 24 minutes before Corentin Tolisso equalized for the visitors on 64 minutes.
And 22-year-old Doria, who had been sidelined by former Marseille boss Marcelo Bielsa and loaned out twice, stole the show.
He came on in place of another new recruit Patrice Evra who picked up a thigh injury three minutes after the break and fired in the winner after 109 minutes at the Velodrome.
Lyon, who had beaten Marseille 3-1 just ten days ago, exit the tournament they have won five times, most recently in 2012.
Ligue 1 sides Bordeaux, Lille and Lorient also advanced, as Nantes and Dijon exited.
Lille ground out a 1-0 win at home against Nantes with Sebastien Corchia slotting in a penalty after 81 minutes.
A last-gasp Gaëtan Laborde goal two minutes into time added on helped Bordeaux past Dijon 2-1 as top flight tailenders Lorient were made to work hard for a 3-2 extra time win at Chateauroux.
Lazio ends Inter's run
Inter Milan's run of nine successive wins in all competitions ended when it lost 2-1 at home to Lazio in the Italian Cup quarterfinal Tuesday.
Both teams finished with 10 men after a bad-tempered game littered with angry exchanges.
The visitors went ahead in the 20th minute when Felipe Anderson beat two defenders to a cross and scored with a glancing header.
Lucas Biglia added Lazio's second from a penalty in the 56th minute after Inter defender Miranda fouled Ciro Immobile and was sent off.
Stefan Radu followed for Lazio for a second bookable offense in the 76th minute and Marcelo Brozovic pulled one back for Inter with a looping header with six minutes left.
Bundesliga splashes out record transfer sum
German clubs shattered the previous record in splashing out 97.35 million euros ($105m) on fresh talent during the Bundesliga's January transfer window.
Bayern Munich, Germany's richest club, kept its purse closed but has signed Hoffenheim's Germany pair Niklas Suele and Sebastian Rudy for next season.
However Bayern's rivals took the chance to boost their squads.
The combined winter spending of the Bundesliga's 18 clubs, based on transfer sums according to transfermarkt.de, easily beat the previous record of 65 million euros set during the 2014/15 season.
However, the 97.35 million euros was dwarfed by the £215 million (250 million euros) that Premier League clubs shelled out.
Dortmund made one of the most eye-catching buys when it snapped up Sweden's 17-year-old striker Alexander Isak — dubbed the next Zlatan Ibrahimovic — from AIK.
Isak heads a trio of teenage talent which Bundesliga clubs want to nurture despite no experience in a top league.
Promising Jamaican teenager Leon Bailey, 19, joined Bayer Leverkusen from Belgium's Genk.
France's Dayot Upamecano, 18, swapped Red Bull Salzburg for RB Leipzig, which is having a stellar first season in Germany's top flight.


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