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Alisson: Well beaten for Dan Ndoye’s goal but made a superb save to deny Igor Jesus on the brink of half-time and keep Liverpool in the game. Poor penalty to give away for Gibbs-White’s winner. 5Jeremie Frimpong: Struggled defensively but got into some good positions going forward. Did really well in the build-up to Florian Wirtz’s disallowed goal but was just offside. Has to improve consistency with his end delivery. 6Jeremy Jacquet: Made a goal-saving challenge to deny Igor Jesus an early goal and was impressive but still had a few moments where he was slack and lacked discipline. 6Virgil…
Britain’s US Open hopefuls thought they had put the grass behind them when Wimbledon finished, but the smell of it is all around Flushing Meadows and they are not happy about it.Marijuana is legal for adults in New York and while smoking is not allowed on site, the aroma of weed wafts over some outside courts from the nearby Corona Park.Katie Boulter, the British No 1, said: “Yeah, I have experienced it. You go down to the practice courts and down in the park courts, you do smell it a lot. But, yeah, I’m not a huge fan of it.…
Lando Norris says signing a new contract that will keep him at McLaren until at least the end of 2030 was “quite an easy yes for me”.The world champion, whose new deal was announced on Saturday, said he “didn’t even have a look” at other teams before deciding to commit his future to the team he has been with since his Formula 1 debut in 2019.”There was some interest from elsewhere,” Norris said in an interview with BBC Sport, “but I don’t want to go anywhere. I don’t want to be with another team. I don’t want to spend time…
Friday Night SmackDown aired this week in a pre-taped installment from inside the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Canada. The interim WWE Women’s Champion Chelsea Green was backstage holding a bejeweled mask for her face and ran into Tiffany Stratton, who wasn’t sure if she wanted Green to be wrestling; however, the champ spoke to medical and is able to compete, even as Stratton points out that Green has 30 days to defend her title and doesn’t want anything to jeopardize that. Green appreciates her concern, but after everything they’ve been through with Nia Jax and Lash Legend, their opponents…
Britain’s Arthur Fery has reached his first ATP Tour final after opponent James Duckworth retired because of injury at the Winston-Salem Open.The 24-year-old was leading 6-4 2-1 in the semi-final when his Australian opponent, who called for a medical timeout after the first set, forfeited the match.Fery is the first Briton to reach the final of the ATP 250 event and his progress continues after his surprise run to the Wimbledon semi-finals in July.He has also reached a career high of 33 in the world and overtaken Cameron Norrie to become British number one.”I am really happy to be in…
Twelve players have been recruited already and McInnes hopes to sign “a couple more” and expects “one or two” to leave before the closure of the transfer window next week.”We’re not quite there,” McInnes said.”We’ve obviously missed big Youssef [Chermiti, who is injured], the type of striker to go and stretch teams.”I don’t expect us to be perfect at this stage. It’s not been the start we wanted, I’m not the first Rangers manager to get off to a tough start but we are determined to follow this job through and it’s the end that counts and I still believe…
Rayan Cherki refuses to hide his emotions, an open book for all to see and hear in times of joy and disappointment.Moments after Manchester City had put down their first heavyweight marker of the post-Pep Guardiola era by brushing aside Crystal Palace, he was asked live on TV how much he enjoyed the game. Rather than providing the usual textbook answer, he instead gave a colourfully uncomplimentary – and unprintable – description of his own first-half performance.Erling Haaland, standing alongside Cherki as he waited to hand over the player-of-the-match award, could only laugh at the France attacker’s sweary honesty.Indeed, the…
Tour Championship – round two-10 R Gerard (US), V Hovland (Nor); -9 C Morikawa (US), C Gotterup (US); -8 S Scheffler (US), C Young (US)Selected others: -7 M Fitzpatrick (Eng), J Rose (Eng), A Scott (Aus), L Aberg (Swe); R -6 Fox (NZ); -4 T Fleetwood (Eng), A Fitzpatrick (Eng), W Clark (US); -3 R McIlroy (NI); +3 R MacIntyre (Sco)Full leaderboardNorway’s Viktor Hovland and American Ryan Gerard are tied for the lead at 10 under, heading into the weekend at the Tour Championship in Atlanta. Hovland, who was crowned the Fedex Cup champion in 2023, made a birdie on…
Under any normal circumstances Aryna Sabalenka would not have lost her third-round match at the Cincinnati Open last week. For all of her unforced errors, indecisiveness and the obvious tension surrounding her tennis, the world No 1 had led the unheralded Sára Bejlek 5-1 in the first set tie-break and then 4-1 in set two. She gave herself more than enough chances to close out a comfortable win.Instead Sabalenka returns to New York trying to find a path through her greatest crisis since she first reached No 1 in the rankings more than three years ago. That straight-sets loss in…
Leading 14-6 at the start of the second half, Zac Woolford broke from dummy half and found Evalds to score Huddersfield’s third try.Needing a response, Leigh released Josh Charnley up the right wing and sent Hanley over on his 100th Super League appearance.But Huddersfield forced a goal-line drop-out that was taken short, Giants claimed the kick and they drove towards the line before Woolford grubbered in-goal for Geyer to dot down.Leigh kept themselves alive again as they reclaimed the restart, were immediately in behind the defence and sent Mulhern over from the next play.But they soon knocked on to give…