METZ Christen Press Jersey , France (AP) — A second French league game in three days was interrupted due to banners deemed homophobic as Paris Saint-Germain beat Metz 2-0 Friday.Referee Frank Schneider stopped the game briefly after the banners were unfurled in the first half. He then allowed play to resume some minutes later when they were removed.The latest incident came after Wednesday game between Nice and Marseille — also in the top tier — was halted for several minutes after Nice fans unfurled two banners with homophobic messages.Metz fans appeared to be responding to that incident by targeting the French league (LFP), showing a banner saying “I won’t be on TV because my words are not very gay.”More banners referenced the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar, which has links to PSG through owner Qatar Sports Investments.The LFP is attempting to cut out homophobic chanting at games. Earlier this month, a referee stopped a second-division match between Nancy and Le Mans for about a minute after an initial appeal made over the speakers to stop homophobic chanting failed to have an effect.Responding to a slew of injuries, PSG coach Thomas Tuchel handed debuts in Metz to 19-year-old goalkeeper Marcin Bulka and 17-year-old midfielder Adil Aouchiche, who became the club’s youngest player to start a league game.Bulka started in place of Alphonse Areola, who is reportedly on the verge of completing a switch to Real Madrid in a swap-deal for Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas.PSG’s injury worries deepened ahead of its Champions League opening game against Real Madrid on Sept. 18, with Angel Di Maria and Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting both picking up knocks.Choupo-Moting was coach Tuchel’s only recognized striker available after injuries to Edinson Cavani (hip) and Kylian Mbappe (hamstring) last weekend, while Brazil striker Neymar remained unavailable and wants to move away from the club.Tuchel was also without the injured Julian Draxler Carli Lloyd Jersey , Thilo Kehrer, Ander Herrera and Abdou Diallo for the game at the Saint Symphorien stadium.Di Maria opened the scoring with a penalty in the 11th minute after Juan Bernat was unceremoniously upended in the area.The visitors had to wait till the end of the half before Choupo-Moting rose above the static Metz defense to head in Marco Verratti’s free kick in the 43rd.Choupo-Moting had to go off toward the end. Di Maria needed treatment in injury time. BERLIN (AP) — Bayern Munich is trying to ensure its future looks even brighter by capturing another rising star.Bayern has completed the deal it agreed on last offseason by signing 19-year-old Fiete Arp, the Bild newspaper reports. It just remains to be seen whether Arp joins Bayern after this season or in 2020, when his contract with Hamburger SV expires.“He’s a great talent, a good player,” Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic acknowledged in Berlin late Wednesday, when he did all but confirm the transfer.Bayern is reportedly paying Hamburg 2.5 million euros ($2.85 million) for Arp.His signing continues the club’s recent policy of snapping up young players before they reach their full potential, such as Canadian teen Alphonso Davies and French defender Benjamin Pavard, or the likes of Leon Goretzka https://www.thetopsoccer.com/uswnt/tobin-heath-jersey , Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman.Dubbed “Germany’s answer to Harry Kane,” Arp came to prominence as Germany captain at the European Under-17 Championship in Croatia in 2017. Arp scored the quickest hat trick in tournament history in 12 minutes against Bosnia and Herzegovina, grabbed another hat trick against Ireland, and scored another goal against the Netherlands before Germany eventually lost to eventual champion Spain in the semifinals.Hamburg’s bid to avoid relegation last season rested largely on Arp’s young shoulders. Still in school, he became the first player born in this millennium to play in the Bundesliga, and also the first to score there, but he was unable to prevent Hamburg’s eventual relegation.Hamburg is on its way straight back to the Bundesliga as second-division leader but Arp has endured a frustrating season so far with just 11 league appearances, seven of those as a substitute.Arp failed to score at all in 2018. It’s possible all the attention and pressure took its toll.“I don’t know at all whether the year 2018 did so much on a sporting level,” Arp told the club magazine HSVlive in December. “I wasn’t able to concentrate properly for a long time. The sporting side was not as central in too many important phases as it should have been.”Despite going a year without a goal Alex Morgan Jersey , Arp tried to remain positive.“I score in training. I haven’t un-learned it,” he said.Hamburg sporting director Ralf Becker defended the player who joined the club at age 10.“With all the hype there was about him a year ago, we shouldn’t forget that he’s still a very young player,” Becker told Kicker magazine. “It’s clear, both he and we as a club expected the first half of the season to go differently. But the expectations of him are ridiculously high.”On Tuesday, Arp played a full game for the first time since December 2017 when he helped Hamburg beat Nuremberg 1-0 in the German Cup.