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
i will be representing the uk at the eurovision song contest! pop star and actor olly alexander is announced as the united kingdom s entry for next year s eurovision song contest. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan. britain and germany are calling for an urgent sustainable ceasefire in gaza. last week both countries abstained on a united nations resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. but in a change of tone which echoes a shift in the us, the foreign ministers of both countries say too many civilians have been killed in israel s war against hamas and the sooner a truce comes, the better. france meanwhile has also called for an immediate and durable ceasefire. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has strongly reiterated his opposition to a ceasefire. speaking before a cabinet meeting, he insisted they will fight till the end to eliminate hamas which many countries consider a terror group. israel stepped up its bombardment of gaza overnight and into sunda
to score the third goal. i think yeah, in the last ten minutes everything looked like it was against us. as i said, sometimes you have those nights. away from old trafford, were three other quarter finals taking place on thursday evening. juventus have the advantage in their tie against sporting lisbon federico gatty with the only goal in their match. elsewhere feyenoord beat roma by the same scoreline, whilst bayer leverkusen drew 1 1 with union saint gilloise of belgium. and in the europa conference league, fiorentina are all but through to the semi finals, after they thrashed lech poznan 4 1. anderlecht beat az alkmaar whilst there were draws at basel and gent. in germany bayern munich have dropped sadio mane after reports he d punched his teammate leroy sane at the end of their champions league defeat to manchester city. mane won t play against hoffenheim on saturday after the incident, which reports in germany say led to the two players needing to be separated by tea
with a cracking match at old trafford as the europa league quarter finals got underway. one of the favourites for the trophy, manchester united appeared to be cruising towards the semi finals, leading sevilla 2 0 in therfirst leg. but two late goals saw the spanish side snatch a draw and leave the tie delicately poised. our reporterjohn murray was watching. a damaging night for manchester united in so many ways. certainly in how they conceded to our goals in eight minutes late in the match. and so crazily frittered away a strong position in the type of data been given them by marcel saponara in the first quarter. so bills may have been red carded but far back as i did not. var looked up the jitters was set again. ross and the first on goal. ms. eries had her went off an unfortunate maguire for an equaliser for the in between united laws martinez to a nasty looking injury and had to finish with ten men and bruno fernandez will be suspended for the second leg for the after t