Confirmed their influential midfielder rodri will be out for a long time. He went off injured in city's 2—2 draw with arsenal on sunday and went to spain for further tests on monday. The full extent of the injury is not yet known, but there have been reports he could be out for the rest of the season. The confirmation of rodri's injury came after city booked their place in the fourth round of the english league cup. They overcame championship side watford 2—1. Jeremy doku gave city an early lead before matheus nunes doubled it before half time. Watford did get one back late on through tom ince, but the eight—time champions hung on to progress. Will be out for a long time, a while, but there are some opinions and it maybe will be less than we expect, but unfortunately he was injured. Right now, still i cannot tell you because we are awaiting the last phone calls from him and the doctors, to know exactly what definitely he has and the type of surgery that he has to get. City were one of four premier league teams in action on tuesday, all hoping to avoid an early exit to lower—league opposition. No problems for chelsea as they eased past barrow, a team that plays in a division three tiers below to the premier league. Christopher nkunku scored a hat—trick while pedro neto and an own goal from barrow�*s goalkeeper paul farman gave them a 5—0 win at stamford bridge. This kind of game, i'm always worried a lot, because they are tricky games. And football is full of these games where you underestimate the other team and you concede goals, you concede chances, tonight i think the performance was very good and we show how serious we are. The shock of the night nearly came at walsall�*s bescot stadium as they held leicester to a goalless draw, but steve cooper's side avoided a shock defeat, winning 3—0 in a penalty shootout. Aston villa are also into round four after they beat wycombe wanderers 2—1. Off the pitch, manchester united manager erik ten hag says it's unavoidable that players will get injured — because they're playing too many games. Players�* welfare has been an ongoing theme of late, after fifpro began legal proceedings injune against world football's governing body fifa in an attempt to guarantee breaks for players. There are too many games. It's clear, too many competitions. The top players, they are overloaded and this is not good for football in the end of the day. It's maybe good for commercial, but there is a limit. Yeah, players getting injured, it's almost unavoidable, the players getting injured, because of the overload, from so many games. I don't really think there's yet, or there will be eventually, something which you can prepare for this, because it's getting more every season and, yeah, every season, you see more and more injuries. So, i think eventually, if you see this altogether, it's too much. To italy, and a big shock in serie a, as como got their first win of the season, beating atalanta 3—2. Whilst in spain, real madrid have closed the gap on leaders barcelona to one point after surviving a scare against alaves. Real lead 3—0 at one stage, but late goals for the away side saw it finish 3—2. Elsewhere, sevilla beat vallidolid while valencia and osasuna ended goalless. Uefa has stripped the san siro of hosting the champions league final in 2027. It's after authorities in milan couldn't guarantee that refurbishment work at the stadium and the surrounding area wouldn't affect the match. Uefa has reopened the bidding process and a new host city will be announced next year. Cricket now, and england's one—day series against australia is very much alive after a captain's performance from harry brook. Australia had won the first two matches and looked in control in durham — an unbeaten 77 from alex carey helping them to 304 from their 50 overs. England were in trouble at 11—2, but willjacks hit 84 and brook scored his first odi century and was unbeaten on 110 when the rain came down, which led to the match being abandoned. England won by 46 runs on the duckworth—lewis method, australia still lead the series 2—1. The fourth odi is on friday at lord's. It's nice to finally get a score out there. And not only in odi cricket but this summer, it's just not been the summer i want it to be, so i'm glad i got a score in the end. And for the team moving forward, you've kept this series alive. What's your messaging going to be going to lord's? just the same, keep on doubling down on the messages we've said, which is, put the bowlers under pressure and always take wickets throughout and then chase the ball hard to the boundary. Obviously disappointed to lose. I thought we did really well to get to 300 after our start and the ball nipping around. We knew towards the back end of our innings that the wicket had changed a lot, but, yeah, fair play to england. Willjacks and harry brook were outstanding and we just couldn't break that partnership. Did you think that 300 was above par at the halfway stage? i think these days, it's always hard to get a gauge on what par is, with the scores that can be so high at times. But i certainly thought we had enough. The wicket flattened out, we knew that was the case, but, like i said, wejust couldn't make that partnership and they got on top of us in the end. So defeat for australia's men, but a better day for their women, as they completed a 3—0 clean sweep in their t20 series against new zealand. They chased down 147 in the final match to win by five wickets with five balls remaining. The two sides will meet again next month in the group stages of the t20 world cup. To tennis and a moment of history for marin cilic. The croatian has become the lowest—ranked player to win an atp tour title after winning the hangzhou 0pen, beating home favourite chung chi—chen in straight sets. Cilic, who was given a wild card to play, started the tournament ranked 777th in the world after spending the majority of the past two seasons out with a knee injury. It's incredible, absolutely. Absolutely incredible. I'm so proud of this achievement — for myself, for the team, for my family, everyone that was with me these past 20 months. It's been a difficult time, coming back from a first surgery, then the second, and, you know, coming back in this way, playing great tennis. Meanwhile, in chengdu, there was some success for the home crowd as chinese teenagerjunchen shang won his first tour title. He shocked the top seed lorenzo musetti to win 7—6, 61. Shang, ranked 55th in the world, is only the second chinese male player to win a atp tour title. England rugby are closing in on their new defence coach, withjoe el—abd close to agreeing a deal. El—abd, who's currently the head coach of french side 0yannax, is expected to be in place for the upcoming november internationals. He'll replace felixjones, who resigned last month. Now, electric powerboat racing is a new sport — and 18—year—old 0ban duncan from scotland's loch lomond is one of its pioneers. She took part in the first world championships this year and has been telling us about her experience. I must have spent nearly 1,000 hours on loch lomond training, all different types of boats, learning how to drive boats from a really young age. And then when i was eight, we went to a training day for kids to get into boats and to teach them water safety. Following that, the instructor said there was a competition coming up and that we should enter it. I was second in scotland that year and then it grew and grew. So from eight, i've raced pretty competitively and then it's just got better and better, really. Team drogba contacted me to be involved in the team and we are a small team. It's basically like a family, which is great. I think there's a lot of people that are still quite against the electric side of it, because they don't think it's as good as the traditional methods. Electric is definitely the way forwards. For young girls and women that want to get into it, i'd say go for it. Definitely, gender isn't affecting it at the minute. We've all still got seats and we're all still racing with the men, just as good, if not better. Amazing there, some fabulous pictures of that! a reminder of our top story before we go. Manchester city manager pep guardiola has confirmed his midfielder rodri — such an important part of the team — will be out for a long time after he injured his knee in city's 2—2 draw with arsenal on sunday. Full details on the bbc sport website and app. But from me and the team, we'll see you soon. Bye— bye. Hello there. Well, following the recent heavy rain, there's plenty of saturated ground out there, particularly across the south midlands, and a lot of standing water too. This photo taken by our weather watcher in warwickshire on tuesday, when there was a bit of a break in all of the wet weather. A drier—looking day, but there's more rain to come, including here over the next couple of days, and then it turns colder but also drier as we head into the weekend. So this was tuesday, then, on the satellite picture. You can see this break in the weather systems there, a nice little gap. But wednesday's low pressure system approaches from the southwest. And ahead of that for the rest of the night, there will be some heavy showers across parts of southern england. Clearer skies further north, and actually across parts of scotland, temperatures could drop as low as freezing. This is a sign of things to come, of course. But a lot milder further south under quite a lot of cloud and, of course, some misty conditions over the flooded fields. And then on wednesday morning, heavy, persistent rain will push into south—west england, moving further northwards and eastwards up through wales, approaching the south midlands and central—southern england by the time we get into the middle part of the afternoon. It does stay largely dry further north and west, a few showers across northern scotland, the cloud amounts increasing across eastern england as we head through the second half of the day. And then on wednesday night into thursday, our low pressure system continues to push further northwards and eastwards. Notice the brisk easterly winds developing across parts of north—east england, just driving more rain into northeast england. This is where we'll see the heaviest downpours, particularly over the higher ground of the north york moors. The rain stretching further west, out into northern ireland. Some showers to the north and to the south, but plenty of dry weather too. Feeling coolest, of course, across parts of scotland. And then our front starts to take a bit of a dive further south. It will really take its time as we head through thursday evening and into friday, not really clearing until the end of the day on friday. But behind it, we draw in more of a northerly wind, so temperatures are going to drop away to well below the seasonal average. And actually on friday night, as we see high pressure build in from the south—west and the winds lighten, there could be quite a widespread frost. So, these will be the temperatures as we head through the weekend. Feeling cooler but largely dry, i think, for many on saturday. Bye—bye for now. Live from washington. This is bbc news. The death toll continues to rise in lebanon, where at least 500 have been killed and thousands more displaced, following the latest israeli strikes joe biden addresses the un, appealing for an end to the fighting. Full—scale war is not in anyone's interest. Even a situation as escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible. And, a �*succession' style battle to decide the heir of the murdoch empire wraps up. But who will be the chosen one? hello, i'm catriona perry. You're very welcome. President biden has led calls at the un general assembly to prevent a slide into full—scale war between israel and hezbollah in lebanon. He says a diplomatic solution was still possible. Authorities in lebanon say more than 560 people — including 50 children — have been killed by israeli strikes since monday — the deadliest bombardment the country has seen in decades. Fierce cross—border clashes are continuing — with israel striking southern lebanon, and hezbollah firing dozens of rockets into northern israel.