Football
The top four in the Premier League all won this weekend. Chelsea
recorded their seventh consecutive win, and ended Tottenham’s unbeaten league
record, with a 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge.
Second placed Liverpool and third placed Manchester City both remain one
point behind Chelsea. Liverpool beat Sunderland 2-0 and City triumphed 2-1 at
Burnley.
Arsenal stay fourth after a 3-1 win over Bournemouth, in which Alexis
Sanchez scored twice.
Manchester United remain sixth, but are now 11 points off the pace after
being held 1-1 by West Ham. It was United’s fourth successive draw in home
league matches, and manager Jose Mourinho was sent to the stands for the second
time in a month after showing dissent against a decision to book Paul Pogba.
An extraordinary 5-4 win over Crystal Palace allowed Swansea to move
away from the foot of the table. Palace were leading 4-3 before Fernando
Llorente scored twice in stoppage time, and the South London side have now
suffered six consecutive defeats. Sunderland now return to the foot of the
table.
Other Premier League results were: Southampton 1 Everton 0, Watford 0
Stoke 1, Leicester 2 Middlesbrough 2 and Hull 1 West Brom 1.
Newcastle lost 1-0 to Blackburn but stay two points clear in the
Championship. Second placed Brighton, third placed Reading, fourth placed
Birmingham and fifth placed Leeds all won.
Celtic won the Scottish League Cup by beating Aberdeen 3-0 in the final.
Celtic have a commanding lead in the Scottish Premiership, but the ‘Old Firm’
now occupy the top two places for the first time in a number of years. Rangers
won 2-1 against Partick to move into second spot.
Motor Racing
Nico Rosberg is the Formula One Drivers champion for the first time
after he finished second in Sunday’s final Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi. His
Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton completed his strong end to the season by
winning the race, but with Rosberg coming in second, all Hamilton could do was
trim the German’s championship lead to five points. There was controversy as
Hamilton defied team orders and started slowing down the race in the hope he
could bring other drivers into contention and force Rosberg down to fourth
place or lower. Britain’s Jenson Button was forced to retire after 12 laps in
what was his final race before retirement.
Rugby Union
England recorded their 13th straight victory with a 27-14 win
over Argentina. However, in some ways this might go down as the best victory of
all, given that England played almost the entire match with 14 players. Elliot
Daly was sent off in the fifth minute for taking out a player in the air, and
although Argentina would themselves have a player red carded, this did not
occur until the dying minutes of the match. Despite their numerical
disadvantage, England took a 16-0 lead, and the only points Argentina scored in
the entire match were during a period when England had a man in the sin-bin and
were thus down to just 13 players. England conclude their autumn programme
against Australia next week, and will be without number 8 forward Billy
Vunipola who suffered a serious knee injury during Saturday’s match.
Ireland’s superb form continued as they beat Australia 27-24. They thus
become the first team to beat Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in the
same year since England in their World Cup winning year of 2003.
Wales beat South Africa 27-13, with the Springboks seemingly in the
midst of a slump.
Scotland negotiated a potentially tricky fixture with a 43-16 win over
Georgia. Stuart Hogg scored two tries as his team-mates contributed four more
touchdowns.
In the English Premiership, Saracens sneaked past Gloucester 24-20 and
remain four points clear of Wasps, who beat Sale 34-24. Bristol gave a spirited
fight in their quest for their first win of the season but lost 21-16 to
Leicester.
Cricket
England are up against it in the Third Test against India in Mohali.
Already 1-0 down in the series, they batted disappointingly in the first
innings and posted just 283, with Jonny Bairstow top scoring with 89. India
took a commanding lead after replying with 417, and although Ben Stokes took
five wickets and Adil Rashid four, India’s lower order prospered – number eight
Ravindra Jadeja top scored with 90, and Ravi Ashwin and Jayant Yadav also made
half-centuries in the latter part of the Indian innings. During the final
session of day three, England were also struggling with the bat second time
around at 47-2.
Boxing
Britain’s Terry Flanagan
successfully defended his WBO lightweight belt as he stopped Puerto Rican
challenger Orlando Cruz in the eighth round.Tipster Street
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