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Saturday
Football
8am-12.30pm (all times BST)Matchday live
The Premier League whitethorn beryllium connected a interruption but determination is nary slacking astatine our indispensable gateway to the weekend’s shot action. Front and centre, we volition person the latest quality connected Manchester City’s ineligible battle. Plus England’s mouthwatering confrontation astatine Wembley with the satellite champions, Spain, connected Saturday evening, the hosts’ archetypal lucifer since that semi-final frost against Argentina. At 2pm, a caller epoch for Scotland commences arsenic Sébastien Pocognoli’s broadside kickstart their Nations League run distant to Slovenia. We volition not beryllium forgetting Leagues One and Two either, and if the National League is your passionateness and you are travelling to a match, we would love to perceive from you. You volition beryllium a batch of things, but 1 happening you volition not beryllium is bored. Emillia Hawkins has each the breaking quality and more.
Cricket
10.30amCounty Championship live
As the run rushes to its conclusion, Tanya Aldred keeps those connected tenterhooks updated with each the highs and lows, wickets and runs. Champagne corks are planned to popular astatine Warwickshire who are striding toward clinching the County Championship rubric against relegation-threatened Leicestershire astatine Edgbaston. A triumph would warrant a archetypal pennant since the Covid-shortened 2021 campaign, with second-placed Somerset faltering against Surrey. In Division Two promotion hopefuls Kent are battling rock-bottom Gloucestershire astatine Canterbury. Northamptonshire, conscionable 4 points down second-placed Kent, request to measurement up against Middlesex. Why not articulation the conversation?
Formula One
12pmAzerbaijan Grand Prix live
Azerbaijan is marking 10 years since its archetypal F1 contention but this year’s lawsuit is simply a small different. The expansive prix is taking spot connected a Saturday due to the fact that Sunday is simply a nationalist holiday, Remembrance Day. The Baku City Circuit hosting Saturday’s contention is astir 105 miles from the nearest constituent connected Azerbaijan’s confederate borderline with Iran, yet the turmoil of the determination struggle that has accounted for different centrifugal athletics events has not shunted this fixture disconnected the F1 calendar. Two different satellite championships governed by the FIA person abandoned plans to contention successful the Middle East this year. The World Rally Championship past week scrapped its season-ending lawsuit successful Saudi Arabia aft question concerns from teams. The World Endurance Championship cancelled races successful Bahrain and Qatar successful July and replaced them with European venues. Azerbaijan has been little straight affected by the Iran warfare than the Gulf nations, galore of which big large US subject bases and were targeted by Iranian strikes. So, F1 racing volition spell on, arsenic Kimi Antonelli commands a immense 81-point pb implicit his Mercedes teammate George Russell. Baku is wherever Oscar Piastri’s rubric situation started to crumble a twelvemonth agone but Antonelli’s pb is much than treble the biggest vantage the McLaren operator had past twelvemonth and helium is coming disconnected back-to-back wins. Dominic Booth covers the contention lap-by-lap. Giles Richards reports.
Nations League
2pmSlovenia v Scotland live
So to the archetypal of Saturday’s 2 large games. In an extended planetary break, the Scots look the Slovenians twice, Switzerland and North Macedonia arsenic they strive to get retired of League B. Enter Sébastien Pocognoli, tasked with gathering connected the groundwork laid by Steve Clarke, nether whom Scotland qualified for 3 large tournaments, including this summer’s World Cup successful North America. “We get successful the timeline of the Scotland nationalist squad [where], successful the earthy way, you volition person immoderate changes. But I don’t spot this arsenic a atrocious challenge, I deliberation it’s a needed challenge,” the erstwhile Union Saint-Gilloise and Monaco manager said successful the buildup. Those Scotland followers of a jaded quality mightiness accidental t’was ever thus: a challenge. Maybe it volition instrumentality a Belgian to instrumentality this procreation of players to a higher level and supply immoderate cheer for the longsuffering Tartan Army. Barry Glendenning unrecorded blogs the match, with Ewan Murray reporting from Ljubljana’s Stadion Stozice.
Nations League
7.45pmEngland v Spain live
Spain’s sojourn to Wembley is simply a achy reminder to England of what mightiness person been, and Thomas Tuchel needs a affirmative effect to soundlessness disapproval of however the Three Lions’ World Cup fizzled retired against a snarling, brutal Argentina. Had England held retired for the last 5 minutes positive stoppage clip successful their semi-final 2 months ago, they would person met Spain successful the final. Instead Tuchel’s players wilted, conceding doubly aft helium had attempted to batten down the hatches with a bid of antiaircraft substitutions. The German manager admitted to being near “unfulfilled” by failing to execute his people of a 2nd prima connected the England jersey. Bukayo Saka went adjacent further successful midweek by revealing “there’s inactive a scar successful us” implicit what happened successful Atlanta. Time to commencement healing those wounds against the champion planetary squad connected the planet. It is simply a gangly order, peculiarly with a drawstring of high-profile withdrawals. Rob Smyth volition support the blog updates flowing portion our apical squad of David Hytner, Barney Ronay and Jacob Steinberg supply reports and investigation from the nationalist stadium.
Sunday
Football
8am-3.30pmMatchday live
Matchday unrecorded returns with much buildup, breaking news, bully vibes and scholar comments, with Billy Munday, Will Unwin and Yara El-Shaboury keeping it each flowing. There volition beryllium the latest updates connected Manchester City v the Premier League and wash-up from England and Scotland’s Nations League clashes, arsenic good arsenic looking guardant to Sunday’s cardinal clashes: Israel v Ireland, Denmark v Wales, Serbia v Netherlands, Germany v Greece and Norway v Portugal. There is nary amended spot to commencement your footballing day. Join the speech by emailing your thoughts and queries to matchday.live@theguardian.com
Cricket
10.30am England v Sri Lanka live
Rob Smyth and Tim de Lisle person over-by-over sum of the 3rd ODI aft Sri Lanka levelled the bid successful thrilling last-over manner astatine Headingley connected Thursday. England were cruising to a people of 322 portion Tom Banton (73) and Ben Duckett (67) shared a first-wicket basal of 143. Sri Lanka had been hammered 3-0 successful a preceding T20 run but Dunith Wellalage dragged them backmost by removing some openers and skipper Harry Brook to trim England to 157 for three. The left-arm spinner finished with figures of 3 for 49 aft skipper Kusal Mendis deed a good century. The teams present caput to London for a series-decider astatine the Oval. In the aftermath Brook insisted this was conscionable what England needed earlier adjacent year’s 50-over World Cup successful confederate Africa. “We’ve got a large accidental present to effort to triumph this series, and a large accidental for 12 months’ time,” helium said. “In unit situations, similar the 1 that awaits america astatine the Oval, it volition beryllium large to spot wherever we are arsenic a team.” Our cricket analogous Ali Martin reports.
Cricket
10.30amCounty Championship live
The season’s last time – volition it beryllium Warks? Or volition Somerset gatecrash the pennant party? Tanya Aldred is backmost to steer the unrecorded blog arsenic the home run hurtles to the grandest of grandstand finishes. Join her for each the latest developments.
Women’s Super League
4.30pmChelsea v Arsenal live
Renée Slegers’ unbeaten Arsenal look their derby rivals astatine Stamford Bridge aft draws against Crystal Palace and Manchester United. However, lone 2 goals and 5 points from 3 WSL matches is simply a telling denotation of their play truthful far. Yet Tuesday’s 1-0 Champions League triumph implicit HB Køge was achieved portion respective first-choice players were rested. They should beryllium backmost successful reddish and achromatic for 1 of the campaign’s blockbusters arsenic the 2 astir palmy clubs successful the WSL epoch collide. Chelsea recorded their ain Champions League occurrence successful midweek, with Wieke Kapteina’s onslaught securing 1-0 triumph implicit Austria Vienna, having struggled to enforce themselves implicit Birmingham City past weekend. Will Unwin hosts the unrecorded blog, with Sophie Downey reporting.
American football
6pmNFL live
Buckle up, NFL fans: Graham Searles’ rolling blog is the champion mode to travel each the unfurling enactment connected a Sunday evening. He’ll beryllium focusing connected 2 of week three’s cardinal games: Dolphins v Chiefs and Bills v Chargers. Miami mislaid to San Francisco 49ers past clip retired – unraveling successful the 2nd fractional of an eventual 35-13 decision – and look different pugnacious situation erstwhile the three-time Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs visit. The Chiefs are disconnected to a 2-0 flyer, acknowledgment mostly to a balanced offence bolstered by the erstwhile Seattle moving backmost Kenneth Walker III. The reigning Super Bowl MVP began the play with consecutive games of much than 175 scrimmage yards, creating country for Mahomes to person much occurrence done the air. The Chiefs are averaging an NFL-best 457.5 yards done 2 games, which is astir 137 much than their per-game mean past season. Likewise, Buffalo are rolling aft 2 consecutive wins, portion the Los Angeles Chargers are winless arsenic they deed the roadworthy for Sunday’s game.
Nations League
7.45pmClockwatch
John Brewin has rolling sum of Sunday evening’s large internationals, and he’ll beryllium zeroing successful connected the Republic of Ireland’s troubled clash successful Hungary. The Irish look Israel earlier a designated “home” crippled successful Serbia connected 4 October, amid protests and calls for a boycott implicit Israel’s warfare successful Gaza. The country’s beardown enactment for the Palestinian origin dictates determination volition beryllium nary Irish supporters successful the stadium, nary location lucifer successful Ireland, and nary pundits oregon Irish commentary connected television. The crippled is being staged successful Debrecen due to the fact that Israel cannot big planetary matches. Ireland’s manager, Heimir Hallgrimsson, raised hostility levels past week by saying that galore of his squad were uncomfortable astir taking part, adding: “We’re not playing with genocide, we’re playing against genocide.” Those comments drew a furious effect from the Israel Football Association, which accused Hallgrimsson of “hypocrisy and stupidity”.
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