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Spurs and City set up Champs showdown
By Robert Millward
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 02 - 05 - 2010

Tottenham edged Bolton 1-0 and Manchester City beat Aston Villa 3-1 Saturday to stay neck and neck in the race for a Champions League spot, while Villa slipped out of contention and has to settle for a Europa League berth.
Tom Huddlestone fired Tottenham's winner, while City came from behind with goals from Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor and Craig Bellamy to beat Villa at Eastlands.
The results mean that fourth-place Spurs have 67 points and City has 66 with two rounds left. The two face each other Wednesday. Villa slipped to sixth with 64. Liverpool still has an outside chance of finishing fourth but has to play leader Chelsea Sunday. Huddlestone's 38th-minute goal at White Hart Lane was a quality strike from 22 meters. Spurs dominated the game and should have won by a bigger margin as it chases its highest place since finishing third in 1990. Signed on a loan deal after a shoulder injury to Shay Given, Manchester City goalkeeper Marton Fulop was beaten by John Carew in the 16th minute in his first appearance for the club.
Tevez equalized with a 41st-minute penalty after Stephen Warnock had tripped Adam Johnson inside the area. Carew then hit the City bar, but Adebayor turned home Johnson's cross in the 43rd and Bellamy added the third goal in the 89th after break down the left by Shaun Wright-Phillips.
The leading two teams are in action Sunday when Chelsea goes to Liverpool and Manchester United, one point behind, visits Sunderland. Third-place Arsenal visits Blackburn Monday.
In Saturday's other games, Birmingham beat relegated Burnley 2-1, last-place Portsmouth won 3-1 over Wolves and Stoke and Everton drew 0-0.
PSG wins Cup
An extra time header from striker Guillaume Hoarau helped Paris St. Germain salvage its season when it beat Monaco 1-0 in the French Cup final Saturday.
PSG, which lies 11th in the Ligue 1 table, secured a berth in next season's Europa League with this eighth Cup triumph.
Date set for Ribery appeal
Bayern Munich's appeal against the three-match ban handed to Franck Ribery, which is set to keep him out of the Champions League final, will be heard by UEFA on May 5 in Nyon.
The Frenchman was shown a straight red card for treading on the foot of Lyon striker Lisandro Lopez in the first-leg semifinal on April 21 which Bayern won 1-0 in Munich.
UEFA handed down a three-match ban for "assault", meaning Ribery missed the 3-0 second-leg win and also that he will miss the final in Madrid on May 22 against Italian side Inter Milan.


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