Football
The three sides who went into the weekend level on points at
the top of the Premier League all won and all scored four goals in the process.
Manchester City returned to winning ways as two goals from
Sergio Aguero and two more from Ilkay Gundogan saw them beat West Brom 4-0.
Arsenal produced three late goals to see off bottom-placed
Sunderland 4-1, with Alexis Sanchez netting twice and Olivier Giroud scoring
with each of his first two touches after being introduced as a substitute.
Crystal Palace twice equalised the first half, before
Liverpool ran out 4-2 winners at Selhurst Park.
Two goals, and a 2-0 win, was enough for Chelsea to remain one
point behind the top three.
Tottenham however slipped three points off the pace and
remain fifth after a 1-1 draw with Leicester, despite being the only unbeaten
team. They had 22 attempts on goal but had only a Vincent Janssen penalty to
show for their efforts.
Manchester United meanwhile drew 0-0 with Burnley despite
having 37 goal attempts. Burnley ‘keeper Tom Heaton, once of United, was in
superb form, and as the Red Devils’ frustration grew, there were sendings off
for Ander Herrera and for manager Jose Mourinho. United have now won just one
of their last seven league matches.
Sunderland remain rooted to the bottom of the table, but
West Ham and Hull remain in trouble after defeats by Everton and Watford
respectively.
Championship leaders Newcastle won 2-1 at Preston, and
Brighton are now second after thrashing Norwich 5-0.
Celtic won 1-0 at Aberdeen to stay nine points clear at the
top of the Scottish Premiership.
Cricket
Bangladesh won an extraordinary second Test in Dhaka to
record their first ever win over England in the five-day format, and square the
two-match series at 1-1. Chasing 273 to win, Alastair Cook (59) and Ben Duckett
(56) put on 100 for the first wicket, before the side crumbled to 164 all out. All
the wickets therefore fell for just 64 runs in a single session of play after
tea on the third day. Teenage off-spinner Mehedi Hasan followed up his
five-wicket haul on debut with six wickets in each innings here.
Earlier in the match, Bangladesh made 220 in the first
innings, having reached 171-1 via 104 from Tamim Iqbal and 66 from Mominul
Haque. Moeen Ali took five wickets for England. England replied with 244 to
claim a first innings lead, but only after Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid had
added 99 for the ninth wicket. Imrul Kayes top scored with 78 in the Bangladesh
second innings to lead his side to 296 and set up a thrilling fourth innings.
England now start a five-match Test series in India on
November 9, and former captain Michael Vaughan has suggested England could lose
that series 5-0 if they display the same poor batting as has been on show in
Bangladesh.
Motor Racing
Lewis Hamilton won the Mexican Grand Prix, ahead of Mercedes
team-mate Nico Rosberg, and in doing so trimmed Rosberg’s lead in the Formula
One world championship to 19 points. There are two Grands Prix remaining for
Hamilton to try and pull off an unlikely title win – in Brazil on November 13
and in Abu Dhabi two weeks later.
Rugby Union
The top three in the Premiership all won, with leaders
Saracens winning 24-10 at home to fourth-placed Leicester. Second placed Wasps
had little difficulty with Newcastle, recording a 31-6 victory, but third
placed Bath required a try with the last play of the match to beat Exeter
13-10. Sale moved within one point of the top four after a 31-13 win at bottom
of the table Bristol.
Northampton beat Gloucester 23-20 and Harlequins were 36-14
winners against Worcester.
Rugby League
England were edged out 17-16 by New Zealand in the opening
match of their Four Nations campaign. England have reached the final on both
previous occasions that this tournament has been staged in England, but they
now face an uphill battle to repeat that this time around.
Tennis
Andy Murray won his seventh title of the year, and his third
in succession, when he beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final of the Erste Bank
Open in Vienna. If he wins next week’s Paris Masters and Novak Djokovic fails
to make the final, Murray will take over as world number 1 even before the ATP
Tour Finals in London later in November.
Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia beat world number 1 Angelique
Kerber in the final of the WTA Finals tournament in Singapore.
Tipster Street.
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