Are in sweden to take on malmo, and Fenerbah E play the belgian Side Union Saint gilloise. All those over on the Bbc Sport website. Its a big night of European Football in the Womens Game as well with the second round of the champions league. Just a few of them there, all those are second leg ties. Psg looking to turn around a two goal defecit againstjuventus. Manchester City Shouldnt have too much trouble against paris, Real Madrid taking on sporting lisbon. British sides celtic and arsenal also look to have tricky games. Again, full details of all those on the website. Britains Jack Draper is through to the last 16 of the Japan Open following a straight Set Win over mattia bellucci. Draper, who is now World Number 20, beat the italian in straight sets for his first victory since Defeat Byjannik Sinner in the Us Open Semi Finals earlier this month. The victory marks a return to form for the 22 year old after a disappointing Davis Cup in manchester where he lost his two singles matches
I think were getting to a real sort of dangerous level of what our expectations are around players. Because instead of focusing on 1 2 tournaments, its about the calendar year. Thats more of an issue, players dont get a break between seasons like they used to. Theres more tournaments, international, at a club level, continental level. So itll get to a point where we wont have the best players out there playing, and probably even worse as them breaking down for various reasons. So its definitely that needs to be addressed. Something that needs to be addressed. And its notjust the british clubs struggling. Ajax Take On Besiktas in another of Tonights Europa League matches, and their midfielder Jordan Henderson has described the current workload on players as crazy. Something that looks neat needs looking something that looks neat needs looking up something that looks neat needs looking up properly. Theyjust dont et looking up properly. Theyjust dont get any looking up properly. Theyjust
For the quadruple. It is quite different. If it is always like this, the team up with a Higher Quality shows good attitude, what we did, it will be tricky. Where is the chance . The long time in my life, ive worked for smaller clubs, so you can win games but you need a little bit of help from the apartment, we didnt give any help. We showed at the top, top, top attitude, so it was difficult. Elsewhere, Bayer Leverkusen remarkable unbeaten season goes on but only after a dramatic finish in their second leg against qarabag. The german side were trailing 2 1 but then scored twice in stoppage time to win 3 2 on the night and 5 4 on aggregate. The win extends leverkusen s unbeaten run to 37 matches in all competitions this season. Not such a good night for fellow german side freiburg as they lost 5 0 at west ham in their second leg whilst ac milan comfortably beat slavia prague. Fellow italian side atalanta beat Sporting Lisbon whilst Roma Lost At Brighton but still progress winning 4 1 on
Will save the average worker about £75. But is that the budget rabbit that conservative backbenchers were after . The answer plainly is no, but the truth is, there was simply not enough money to deliver the cut in income tax they had demanded. After the measures announced today, the Office For Budget Responsibility estimated the chancellor has just £8. 9 billion of headroom left, down from the 13 billion he had in the autumn statement. That the second smallest on record, yet the chancellor gave us a relatively optimistic view of the economy, after covid, a war in europe, and the damage inflicted on the british economy economy this, he said, was a budget for long term growth. Todays obr forecast also shows that we have made Good Progress on the Prime Ministers three economic priorities. Compared to when the three pledges were made, inflation has halved, debt is falling in line with our fiscal rules, and growth is fully 1. 5 Percentage Points higher than predicted. Clamouring. And as g
He joined two other strikers as the leading goal scorers in the Champions League this season. Surprisingly, no further addition to the scoreline after the break as city cruised to an eighth win out of eight in the defence of their title this season. Remarkably scoring exactly three goals in each match. Manchester city have reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League for seven seasons in a row now. They may make it look easy, but manager Pep Guardiola says its anything but. It looks like aggregate 6 2, ok, its not. It looks like aggregate 6 2, ok, its easy its not. So, at the end today, madrid suffered to go through with leipzig, and we have played them in the past, oh, it is easy. It is not, it is difficult, everything is difficult. Premier league difficult, fa cup, difficult, go to luton and win, difficult. But people take it for granted now, thats good, our standards are there but we know internally, me as a manager, the players, everything is difficult. 14 time european champi