The party, presumably, is still on going. While Bayer Leverkusen are the clear german champions, the English Premier League title race is a far tighter affair and there were a couple of slip ups over the weekend. Liverpool were defeated by Crystal Palace and arsenal lost 2 0 to aston villa at home. Its their first defeat in the league since new years eve. Arsenal could have returned to the top of the table, but remain in second, two points behind manchester city. Leon bailey and Ollie Watkins scored villas goals inside the final ten minutes at the emirates stadium. That gives them a three point cushion in fourth. Arsenal saw their title Challenge Unravel at around the same time last season, and they also have to win at Bayern Munich on wednesday to stay in the champions league. But arteta says this loss is a blip. We should have scored three, four, five goals and it would have been a completely different game. The impact is now how you react to that. It was going to be always a bump in
arsenal manager mikel arteta says that his luton counterpart rob edwards deserves more praise for the job he has done so far this season. the two sides played out a seven goal thriller at kenilworth road in december with arsenal coming out 4 3 winners courtesy of a 97th minute declan rice winner. arsenal currently sit two points behind leaders liverpool and arteta called on his players to make the most of the remainder of the campaign. the end is coming. nine games is still a lock. just embrace the moment. make sure we fully prepare for tomorrow to perform well. big compliments to the coaching staff. it is an amazing journey. they deserve more credit than any other team in the league. they generated. what they generated. kaiserslautern await the winners of wednesday s second german cup semifinal between bayer leverkusen and dusseldorf after ending the dream of third tier saarbrucken on tuesday. saarbrucken of the third tier of german football had knocked out three bundesli
taking centre stage rebecca welch will become the first female referee of a premier league game. brighton and west ham are hoping tojoin liverpool in bypassing the europa league playoff round with an immediate place in the last 16 a possible prize tonight. seven wickets, but a bit of sunburn england s bowlers have a tough first day of the women s test against india. also coming up on sportsday a world champion, an olympic champion and pete the horse they re all part of the international horse show in london this week. hello again. will come along to sportsday this evening. the premier league will have a female referee take charge of one of its matches for the first time. it represents another landmark along a path of growing influence of female officials in men s sport. joy neville has been doing it in rugby union since 2016. while at the last men s rugby league world cup, kasey badger made history by taking charge of a game. this summer, sue redfern made the breakt
wash out, and it will be windy, particularly on saturday. saturday s low pressure hurtling in will bring a band of wet weather, tight isobars. on sunday, more low pressure moving through. you will notice how much milder it will feel than last week. rainfall totals will continue to mount up over the next few days, particularly southern and western areas, and we have a number of severe flood warnings or flood warnings in place across the uk. this is likely to increase over the next few days with all the rain expected. if you have concerns, head to the bbc weather website to check out the details. this afternoon, it looks unsettled for large parts of scotland, northern ireland and north west england and wales. heavy rainfall at times, blustery winds, very windy across the northern isles, with further rain. the south east quadrant of england escaping the rain, not a afternoon, with sunshine. double figure temperatures in central and southern areas, single digits in the north. ton