to a close on sunday. liverpool trail manchester city by a point and need a favour from their former captain now aston villa manager, steven gerrard, if they are to win the title. liverpool bossjurgen klopp has been having his say on the situation. ifi if i would play a game and could help dortmund, i could help, whatever, it would mean, for me, and extra motivation, that is how it is, but i don t play. and steve doesn t play, so that is a shame, and much more of a shame than steve not playing than i am not playing, but so. of course, i have this. we re all human up with these of things, but steve will take its 100% seriously. i m sure, without me calling him or whatever, i don t have to. but the rest of the club did it already, but i didn t. arsenal women are keeping their star striker, vivienne miedema has signed a new contract. the gunners didn t reveal how long
or all spanish affair. last night, manchester city beat real madrid in a remarkable match. there s a second leg remaining in that contest. and tonight at anfield another spanish english clash, as liverpool host villarreal. 0ur sports correspondent nesta mcgregor is there. yes, there is more than 90 minutes to go until kick off but the atmosphere is ramping up it has often been said there is nothing quite like a european night at anfield. as you can see, they are building a new stand to increase capacity and boss jurgen building a new stand to increase capacity and bossjurgen klopp says he wants the fans to increase the volume and has asked for a special atmosphere similar to that in 2019 when they beat barcelona 4 0 in a semifinal and of course went on to win the trophy as well. liverpool will start as favourites but a spanish side villarreal keep surprising everyone, including their opponents, having beaten italian
it s still goalless approaching half time. city should be ahead. lauren hemp sent this effort over the bar. manchester united have never beaten city in the league. but they re currently three places above them. that match is on bbc two right now. a week on from winning the africa cup of nations with senegal, sadio mane could be back in liverpool colours today in their game away at burnley. mane scored the winning penalty in the shootout against egypt in the final and if that wasn t enough, he s having a stadium named after him in south west senegal. liverpool bossjurgen klopp says that the 29 year old forward returns to merseyside on a different level. he 100% made a massive stamp, great player, outstanding world class player, outstanding world class player when he left for the tournament but he comes back as a leader on a different level. good for him, good for senegal but i was really impressed by the way he handled the situation.
meanwhile takumi minamino was liverpool s hero on wednesday night at anfield as he scored a 95th minute equaliser in the quarter finals of the english league cup against leicester city, with the score three all. the match went to penalties which liverpool won, they ll face arsenal in the last four whilst chelsea will play tottenham, a good night for klopp who made 10 changes from the last game with several players out with covid. with a busy fixture list and growing concerns around covid cases, liverpool captain jordan henderson says he s worried that player welfare is not being taken seriously. former captain steven gerrard now the aston villa boss, says the covid situation at his club is changing by the hour and that s proving tough for players. we have a situation at the weekend where one of the players was reluctant to get out of his car because he had some symptoms, he s got a young family, so totally understand the situation and how he felt at the time and that s where i ve got t
and madix and yourfamily are well and we wish you the very happiest of christmases. indie happiest of christmases. we wish ou happiest of christmases. we wish you a happiest of christmases. - wish you a merry christmas. thank you much, good night. now it s time to get all the latest from the bbc sport centre. hello i m chetan pathak with your sports news. we start in spain where real madrid will go into the winter break eight points clear at the top of la liga. karim benzema scored twice in the first seven minutes as real made a dominant start at athletic bilbao. sancet did pull a goal back for the hosts three minutes after going 2 0 down but that was the end of the goals, it finished 2 1. the champions atletico were beaten for the fourth game in a row as they lost 2 1 at granada which means diego simeone s side are 17 points off top spot. liverpool bossjurgen klopp says managers will meet with the premier league on thursday to discuss issues around the pandemic. nine of the past 20