Where west ham have comfortably beaten freiburg to reach the last eight of the competition. West ham put themselves 2 0 up at half time, to take a 2 1 lead on aggregate in the tie, but went on to win 5 0, Mohamed Kudus with a brace, to win the tie 5 1. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarter final for the third year in a row. Elsewhere, rangers are out after being beaten 1 0 on the night by benfica at ibrox. While liverpool scored four in the opening 15 minutes against Sparta Prague they won the first leg 5 1 rememeber, so safe to say theyll be in the next round. Brighton dont look likely to bejoining them, 4 0 down against roma from the first leg. It is goalless there. And Bayer Leverkusen Versus Karabec is also goalless. In the europa conference league, aston villa v ajax. Ollie watkins escort for aston villa and i can tell you as well Ollie Watkins has just gone off injured but aston villa are leading i o. Rory mcilroy has had a great start to the players champio
Lewis hamilton led a mercedes one two in second practice in bahrain. Team mate George Russell was second with Aston Martins Fernando Alonso third. Max verstappen whos aiming to win his fourth consecutive title was down in sixth, nearly half a second off the pace. Paul pogba says hes sad and shocked after being banned from football for 4 years for a doping offence. The juventus midfielder and world cup winner was provisionally suspended in september after elevated Testosterone Levels were found in his system. He says hell appeal the ban as Michael Redford reports absolute best is driving Manchester United from a career that always promise so much for that once the worlds most expensive footballer could now be over after his give given a 48 bed for doping. In a statement he said. The band was given after the midfielder tested positive for elevated levels of test or burn in a system back in august. The second positive sample released in october confirmed the doping violation. Less than tw
we will hear from nigel mansell in a moment, a former world champion and ferrari driver but first here is our formula 1 correspondent. we thought he would see out his career at mercedes and that would be how he would spend the rest of his days. this move to ferrari something that tempted him and has been a temptation for his whole career. he has always flirted with the idea of being a ferrari driver. he owns ferraris as well. and this seems to be a good time for him to move. the regulations are changing in 2026 as we have already heard, and he has done this before. he has lined up a move and almost found the time for that move before it was due to happen. and it seems like he is pre empting what is going to happen in 2026, and hopefully, for him, and of the world championship. i think the timing could be right for lewis hamilton because ferrari has been knocking on the door of the world championship for the last four or so years so they are ready to win and i m sure if lewis
it, and of course i am super happy to be in anotherfinal of it, and of course i am super happy to be in another final of the grand slam, and hopefully i can do in the bit better than the last time. a little bit better. jhung, on the other hand, is through to her first grand slam final, ending ukrainian qualifier dayana yastremska s incredible run with a 6 4, 6 4 win. jhung is aiming to become the second chinese woman to win the australian open singles title, 10 years after li na s famous victory. cricket now, and india trail england by 127 after day one of the first test in hyderabad, after a brilliant unbeaten innings from yashasvi jaiswal. the tourists won the toss and elected to bat and once again were indebted to ben stokes. the captain came in with england in trouble at 121 4. from there, he struck 70 off 88 balls to help england to 246 all out eight of the wickets falling to spin. in reply, jaiswal finished the day 76 not out at more than a run a ball, as india rea