Liverpool began the defence of their champions legaue title in naples tonight, familiar surroundings, having lost to napoli in the group stage last season on their way to winning a sixth european title. And that may serve as some confort tonight, because they slipped to another defeat. Nick parrott was watching. Liverpools path the european glory last season was far from easy. And a repeat of their defeat to nap illegal but in the first reigning champions for a quarter century to lose their opening match. The italians were determined to make history from the start but were in the wrong place at the wrong time to make it count. Liverpools success of them built on strong defence and devastating attack but both were absent for much of the match. Their fabled front three were struggling to find the range. But on his Champions League debut, one was on fine form. A hero in their super cup chelsea once again saving the day. His opposite number was just as good at keeping napoli in contention.
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elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. shares were suspended as the news began to leak out. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster, david davies, and the broadcaster and writer, jemma forte. welcome to you both. let s dive straight into the headlines. the i, which leads with the headline tory open warfare and concludes the prime minister is in peril. the independent using the same photo, but with a wider shot, above its headline the pm is fighting to keep the cabinet in line as splits deepen. the metro also picks the same picture of the prime minister on a building site, but this time, opting with the lines made famous by the children s cartoon character bob the builder, asking, can she fix it? tory infighting also dominates the financial times, along with the story that elon musk agrees to pay $41; billion for twitter. the daily telegraph leads with an image of the home sec
Hello from the bbc sport centre. Defending champions england have suffered a shock defeat at the cricket world cup, losing in delhi to afghanistan. Who in turn have registered the most significant one day win in their history. Afghanistan batted first and after more on all those stories coming up. But lets pause and take a look at todays sport. An Opening Stand of 108, eventually made 284, a total that proved too much for the holders. England lost wickets regularly throughout the chase and were bowled out for 215, 69 runs short, leaving them with two defeats out of their three games so far. At of their three games so far. No time when we were we at no time when we were batting did we think we were running away with the game. We had a decent total, but you he had to bowl well and feel welcome and the guys did that. It was very pleasing, and hopefully a lot of confidence will come from this when competing against the bigger nations. It will have a Knock On Effect not only for this world
To the programme. Lets begin at the Rugby Union World cup in france, where in the last hour england have booked their place in the semi finals, after a narrow 30 21; win over fiji. Andy swiss is in marseilles and joins us now. Andy, england have done it but they were pushed all the way. They certainly were. The england fans have Onlyjust Stop celebrating inside the stadium behind me. They are through to The World Cup semifinals but only after the most extraordinary drama. They got off to an excellent start, they scored two first half tries, the first from man u to langa who bulldozed his way over. How was his First International try for two years. Followed by a try from joe marchand. England were in total control of the star of the second half. They seemed on course for a straightforward victory but back came fiji and harrow, two tries in quick succession. And higher. Not much more than ten minutes left when the score was 2a all and the fiji fans sensed a remarkable comeback. But in th