hase of Africa’s World Cup qualifiers and effectively ended Algeria’s hopes with a 3-1 triumph on Saturday. Barcelona were equally keen to make a statement of intent after Neymar’s rancorous departure, and identified Coutinho as the player most likely to fill that void. into the court to attack Pliskova’s second serve on an unseasonably cool day in New York. No one’s going away anywhere yet, Viktor’s just gotten started — and his fans promise to traverse many lands following his exploits. were given a further window of opportunity when debutant Sakala, 20, was dismissed for a second cautionable foul a minute later. In 2015, he was made the chief coach after Van Ass was sacked following a tiff with then Hockey India president Narinder Batra. ’Jose Brasa, who was also sacked like Roelant Oltmans as India coach, on Saturday expressed surprise. The result left the Serbians top of the standings with 15 points from seven games. The players alleged that Oltmans ‘favoured a couple of players’ despite their poor form, which affected the morale of the team. Rurik Gislasson made Iceland’s task even harder by getting himself sent off with 15 minutes le.