with plenty of opportunities, and this one that danny ings put in the net was disallowed for an earlier foul when var became involved as united set up a lith round clash at home to middlesbrough. new figures from the premier league show the number of positive covid i9 tests among players and staff have fallen for the second successive week. in the seven days up to and including the 9th of january, there were 72 new positive cases out of almost 13,000 tests. 94 new cases were recorded in the previous seven days. covid is still impacting on the league though everton s premier league home match with leicester city on tuesday has been postponed because the foxes don t have enough players to fulfil the fixture. at the africa cup of nations it was a big day for the comoros, playing in the competition for the first time. the archipelago is one of football s youngest nations they onlyjoined fifa in 2005. they were up against gabon, and aaron boupendza s first half finish was the difference
hello, i m tulsen tollet, and this is your sports news where we start with football and 12 time winners manchester united have moved through to the 4th round after a 1 0 victory over aston villa at old trafford. united took an early lead in the 8th minute with fred s ball into the box seeing scott mctominay gettting on the end of it to head it past emiliano martinez. villa had their chances when 0llie watkins hit the bar when through on goal on a night that saw steven gerrard s side with plenty of opportunities, and this one that danny ings put in the net was disallowed for an earlier foul when var became involved as united set up a 4th round clash at home to middlesbrough. new figures from the premier league show the number of positive covid 19 tests among players and staff have fallen for the second successive week. in the seven days up to and including the 9th of january, there were 72 new positive cases out of almost 13,000 tests.