against afghanistan, winning by ten wickets. it followed a batting collapse from the visitors, who lost their last nine wickets forjust 82 runs. sri lanka s prabath jayasuriya took five of them. next, let s update you on the english premier league, where the title race has stepped up a notch after arsenal cut the gap to two points at the top of the table with a 3 1win at home to liverpool. bukayo saka opened the scoring for arsenal, before liverpool equalised through a gabriel own goal. then a defensive mix up between virgil van dijk and alisson allowed gabriel martinelli to put arsenal ahead, before liverpool had ibrahima konate sent off, then leandro trossard made it 3 1 for arsenal. that win moves them up to second in the table, but manchester city could overtake them when they visit brentford on monday evening. well, we know in the past how difficult it has been. only one it was always tight and we lost the two games we played last season. we know the standards that they
thanks very much. we ve got a bit of sunshine breaking through the cloud today. but on the whole, it is a cloudy but very mild start to the new week. the thickest cloud is further north across northern parts of scotland. it has been very grey and gloomy and very wet. there has been over 100 millimetres of rain in highland scotland. 0rfrom that slow moving weather front producing this band of thick cloud. that move southwards over the next few days and following on from that, we see this cold air moving south. at the moment, the cold air isjust in this cold air moving south. at the moment, the cold air is just in the finals of scotland. way from here, we have mild south westerly winds and temperatures at 12 degrees quite widely. across england and wales, cloudy and quite windy overnight. some further light rain or drizzle here and there in the hills. but the main band of rain is moving southwards across scotland overnight into northern ireland. allowing some wintry showers in
at brentford which sees them move menacingly into second place two points behind leaders liverpool with a game in hand while all the pre match talk centred around erling haaland and his return to the starting line up after almost two months out with a foot injury, it s phil foden who will take all the plaudits. his hattrick the catalyst as the champions recorded their seventh successive win. i always had the sense of goal. so at short age that he has, more than 250 games already and this season with an impact with the goals and assists are unbelievable. so he s a really, really important player playing in that position. 14 goals already this season his best for city 16, so he s well on course to beat that. yeah, his numbers are really good. manchester united s lisandro martinez is out for at least eight weeks with knee ligament damage. the defender limped off in the second half during his side s 3 0 win over west ham on sunday. erik ten hag described the injury as a personal
while all the pre match talk centred around erling haaland and his return to the starting line up after almost two months out with a foot injury, it s phil foden who will take all the plaudits. his hat trick the catalyst as the champions recorded their seventh successive win. always had sense of, well, the short age he has on more than 252 games already and this is the impact and is unbelievable, so it is an incredibly important player playing in that position. 14 goals already this season, so well on course to beat that. yes, his numbers are really good. manchester united s lisandro martinez is out for at least eight weeks with knee ligament damage. the defender limped off in the second half during his side s 3 0 win over west ham on sunday. erik ten hag described the injury as a personal disaster for martinez. aberdeen have confirmed that neil warnock will take charge of the club until the end of the season, replacing barry robson, who was sacked last week. warnock is 75