Now its time to join our colleagues for the news where you are, goodbye. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im gavin ramjaun. Plenty on the way. Nottingham forest lose their appeal against their premier League Points deduction, as the struggling side battle to avoid the drop. Can things get any worse for Manchester United . Another resounding defeat they could be heading for their lowest ever Premier League finish. And Olympic Marathon champion Eliod Kipchoge tells us about the impact of being wrongly blamed for the death of a rival. Also coming up on sportsday a first World Snooker championship for kyren wilson, and he tells us hes not stopping there. I would not be happy with only one world title. I want multiple, i think thats the way you to train your brain. Hello there and welcome along to sportsday, and we start with news around the battle to avoid the drop in the Premier League a blow for Nottingham Forest fans. The club has lost its appeal, against a four point deduction, for brea
Growing up and training in yorker. 42 degrees is the ambient heat. You can add more to that on the court. Show court two, where kyle edmund is playing, they have been on court 41 one half hours. It isjust bright sunshine, no shade. It is the ruling gain. Edmund is the ranking player. He got up to eight fairly slow start. We had a medical timeout to work on his shoulder to loosen it out. He came through with a perfect high rate. Then he broke against the georgian whom he has met and played once before. Then it was turned around. They breakpoint opportunity, asa around. They breakpoint opportunity, as a spit, the georgian hasjust broken as a spit, the georgian hasjust bro ke n kyle as a spit, the georgian hasjust broken kyle edmund in the first game of set free. Could be a long way to go in this one. You mentioned nadal under the lights. Great stuff. Gigi salmon, our tennis reporter in melbourne. All the details on the website of who will be in action. A p plater will be nick kyrgios. He
Diego costa then extended chelseas lead with his 50th Premier League goal. He added a 51st in the 89th minute before another ex Chelsea Player Ryan Bertrand gave the scoreline an air of respectability in added time. Contes men coping perfectly with the psychological pressure of a title run in. We are playing with this pressure from a long time, but its normal because when you play and when you have to fight, and you are fighting for the title, its normal to have this type of pressure. You must be ready for this mental effort also, not only physical effort but also mental effort. But, yeah, its not easy, not easy, but we are fighting and we are ready to fight from now until the end. Over in spain, Atletico Madrids Faint Title Aspirations have surely been snuffed after they were beaten 1 0 at home to villareal. They stay seven points behind the top two having played two games more than real madrid and one game more than barcelona. Former england captain tony adams Battle To Keep Granada
Created the chances. I think they didnt shoot. And it was fantastic. Very pleased. Congratulate the players. And i think the three points we got and we have again reduced the gap to four points with chelsea. Elsewhere, arsenal Beat Leicester 1 0, with an own goal from robert huth. Arsenal are now back up to sixth four points off the Champions League places. And in the battle of the bottom two, middlesbrough recorded their first victory of 2017 by beating sunderland i o. The black cats on the brink of relegation which could come as early as this weekend. Theyre rock bottom and i2 points from safety. In spain, barcelona and real madrid remain level on points at the top, after they both won, and scored 13 goals between them. Lionel messi scored twice as barca thrashed osasuna 7 i, with gomes and alcacer also scoring two each. Javier mascherano got the other his first goal for barcelona in 319 games for the club. And real madrid won 6 2 at deportivo la coruna, where James Rodriguez scored
Shortage of incident. Sergio aguero should have scored. It came off the post from close range. There was an excellent chance before half time for Manchester United but he headed it off target. The Talking Point of the game was the red card shown to fellaini. He was shown a yellow card for a challenge on Sergio Aguero moments before. Within seconds he was involved with another tussle. For heads clashed in a forehead motion. He showed a straight red card. Manchester city brought on Gabrielle Jesus since card. Manchester city brought on gabriellejesus since picking up an injury on the 13th Of February but his header wasjudged offside. It is a share of the spoils which for now leaves Manchester City inside the Champions League places and Manchester United are outside the top four at the moment. We controlled totally and quite easily. Defensively the game was totally under control and we were a lwa ys totally under control and we were always dangerous. We almost scored. Mkhitaryan, Marcus R