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tv   Sportsday  BBC News  December 6, 2023 12:45am-1:01am GMT

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and thanks forjoining us on the show. we start with football and it was a case of so near and yet so far for england, it was a match with so much at stake and in the end, so much drama and heartbreak. england, and by the same virtue, team gb will not be at the olympic games. the english were nominated to represent british hopes for paris 2024 qualification and needed to beat scotland by three more goals than the netherlands in their match against belgium to maintain their chances of grabbing a ticket for next year's extravaganza in the french capital. on the field, serena wiegman side doing everything right with a six nil victory over scotland. they were actually heading to the nations league final as the match between the dutch and the belgians ticked into injury time in tilburg. but amazingly, the netherlands
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scored two goals in the 91st and 95th minute of the match to go through on goal difference. it means the european champions and world cup runners up will not feature in paris next year. so while there's dutch delight, our sports correspondent katie cornwall was watching england destroy scotland at hampden park. she rounds up the match for us. well, no one can question the effort and the heart from england. here they gave everything against scotland to try and keep alive team gb�*s hopes of qualifying for the olympics. but ultimately they came up short in a game with so many twists and turns. they came into this match knowing that they had to beat scotland and better. the netherlands result by three clear goals and they wasted no time here at hampden park. alex greenwood got them up and running afterjust 12 minutes. there were two goals in 2 minutes from laurenjames and then beth mead on her return to the starting line up. after more than a year out with injury, she scored england's
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fourth just before half time. now at that point england were heading through on goal scored, but they knew that one goal either here or in tilburg, could change everything. so even at 5—0 up, things were still tense for england. then heading into stoppage time, that's when things got really, really dramatic. the netherlands scored to go three nil up against belgium. lucy bronze scored england's sixth almost at the same time. it looked at full time as if england had done enough, but they face an anxious wait for the full time score in tilburg. and then the news came through that the netherlands had scored a dramatic fourth goal to top the group and send them through to the knockout stages at the expense of england. england's players looked absolutely dejected on the pitch at full time. their hopes of qualifying on behalf of team gb are over. they've been undone notjust by that result in tilburg, but also by their form earlier in the tournament.
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and it's going to take some time for them to process their heartbreak here at hampden park. we did everything, said i was really proud with our performance the whole week, how we came back friday, how we now scored six goals and we were so close. and in the dying seconds the netherlands scored a goal. yeah, sometimes. you can't control that really. you know, we got it. but i can only say that that i'm proud of the team, what we've done and how we have performed. it's a tough one. i think the girls have worked really hard. i thought we were incredible, this camp and we've done ourselves proud in the games that we've played. unfortunately, it was out of our hands, like i said, and we let ourselves down maybe earlier on in the competition. but we'll keep working hard, we'll keep coming back stronger. and yeah, i'm excited to see what this team is about. so this is how close england came to continuing team gb�*s olympic dream. equal on points. but it's the dutch at the death who go
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to the nations league final and a chance to book their place at paris 202a. and there was pandemonium in the english premier league as arsenal came from three two down to win 4—3 and a seven goal thriller at luton town to go five points clear at the top of the league. declan rice, the gunners hero with a header in the last seconds of added time earlier to david raya, mistakes had seen a seesaw encounter swing in favour of the hosts who twice fought back and threatened to win when elijah adebayo and ross barkley scored in an eight minute period after the break. however, the hatters denied a valuable point and rice met martin odegaard's cross in the seventh minute of stoppage time, 23 seconds, incidentally, after the six official minutes added on had expired. the result leaves luton in 17th, but arsenal extend their lead at the top. first of all, i congratulate luton. you know, the players, coaches and staff, the atmosphere will that they generated, it was a special night to play football. they made life really hard for us.
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it's true that obviously we conceded the goals that we didn't want to concede on set plays. that is one of the main threats. but they've done it and it's because they work on and they are so good and that made us really fight for the game. i think we grow and grow in the game. we started to get control, dominance, chances, and at the end he finishes in a beautiful way. immensely proud of the lads. but yeah, you're disappointed and really flat at the moment. i don't think that's ever happened to me. i'm not sure. i can't remember it that late. a goal to lose a game. so yeah, flat right now for a newly promoted team and to be fighting where we are and we know we're given a lot away to show that character and the quality as well, to not only get back in the game and then get ahead. it shows a lot. but ultimately we've scored three goals and got nothing from it. so we know we're not perfect. we know we've got to still keep improving. meanwhile, burnley have come crashing back to earth after their 5—0 victory over sheffield united at the weekend. they remain in the bottom three, losing 1—0 at wolves on tuesday.
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it means garry o'neill�*s side are now up to 12th in the table with their first win in three games and all thanks to south korea's mwangi chan with the only goal of the game the full half time. it was pretty much how i expected it to go. i thought i hoped we could create more and be more fluid. but i've watched a lot of burnley and not many teams they play against manage to progress through the pitch with the ball. they're very well organised defensively. yeah, i said to the lads after it's a big win, its a big win, you know, the, um, the group stuck together, kept a big clean sheet, never looked in doubt really. i didn't think once we were one two up, neverfelt under threat and big win. manchester united manager erik ten hag says his squad are together, dismissing suggestions that there's a split dressing room at old trafford. united are seventh in the premier league and bottom of their champions league group. adding to the mix, the club took the rather unusual step of excluding four media organisations from their scheduled news conference on tuesday. after reacting rather
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furiously to reports, up to half of the squad were either unhappy with ten hogg or his training and tactics. they should come to us first and not go around in our back. printing articles. that's not the right thing. i think we have another relationship and then they can keep that to us beforehand we have a normal and a professional discussion and debate about it. they are always in every team. players who are not of less playing are less happy, but not not different as. as normal. well, we've had the first premier league sacking of the season with strugglers sheffield united dismissing paul heckingbottom and immediately replacing him with former manager chris wilder. united are bottom of the table
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and four points from safety. after losing ii of their opening 14 matches, wilder returns to the role he left after almost five years in march 2021. in that time, he oversaw sheffield united's rise from league one back to the premier league, clinching two promotions in the space ofjust three seasons following his appointment in may 2016. worth pointing out that by this stage last season, six managers had been sacked, leading to a premier league record 13 departures. will it's not a great situation. everybody knows that it is the best league in the world. everybody knows that and we're playing liverpool first game up. so thanks very much for the fixture list. but listen, 30,000 odd in bramall lane on a wednesday night under the lights against arguably one of the best teams in europe is a tough start, but one that we can go in, attack and have a right go. and i think that's going to be the attitude for me. and the players were up against it. everybody in the world, you guys, every pundit that wants to make an opinion, every support, i think we're done and dusted. so we've always had that underdog tag, that mentality. we've had it right
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the way through. the international olympic committee is being urged to make a decision over whether or not russian and belarusian athletes will be able to compete at next year's paris games as neutrals. ioc president thomas bach says a final decision will be made in march. but summer olympic sports federations say they want clarity over qualification procedures as soon as possible. china, miami, austria, austin, sao paulo and qatar are the six grand prix chosen to host sprint events during the 2024 formula one season. f1 announced the list of races on tuesday and said changes to the format of the events were under discussion. plan to move qualifying for the sprint to friday and hold the shorter race on saturday before grand prix qualifying has been effectively agreed. more radical changes such as reversing the sprint grid are also being considered. and that is sadly all the time we've got left for now.
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from me, mark edwards and the rest of the team here at the bbc sport centre. we'll see you very soon. bye bye. hello again. temperatures have dropped away quite sharply through the night. and as we start on wednesday morning, there will be a hard and a widespread frost, particularly across northern areas of scotland. on top of that, some fog patches around as well. but there will be some sunny spells, certainly a quieter spell of weather for many of us throughout wednesday compared to the last few days. that area of low pressure bringing the rain, clearing away to the east. we've got further weather systems waiting out in the atlantic that will become more of a feature of the weather over the next few days. but a cold start to the day for many of us. temperatures potentially down to —10 degrees in northern areas of scotland, and some freezing fog in the east of wales through parts of the midlands and southern areas of england.
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that could be quite stubborn to clear away, but elsewhere the fog should tend to lift and there'll be some sunshine across many areas before the cloud increases from the west, and with that some outbreaks of rain. but if you're stuck beneath the area of fog, temperatures may only be around about one degree celsius. so feeling particularly cold, but elsewhere we'll see temperatures 4—6 celsius. but in the west, you notice nine, 11 degrees there in plymouth, signs of the less cold air moving in. and as we go through wednesday night, that rain will continue to spread north and eastward. as it bumps into colder air, temporarily, there could be some snow over the higher ground of northern england and across scotland, but that will become increasingly confined to higher ground as we go through thursday because that less cold air, the milder conditions, will spread in from the southwest, moving to pretty much most areas throughout thursday. a strengthening wind to come with that as well. but it means actually where we'll have a bit of snow for the time over higher ground of scotland, heavy rain is going to spread through and that's going to bring the risk of some localised flooding, especially in areas
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where we've seen a bit of flooding over the last couple of days or so, eventually clearing from southern and western areas. temperatures here 10—11 degrees celsius, still perhaps just a little bit chilly beneath the cloud and the rain across eastern areas, 6—7 degrees. now, while that heavy rain does clear away to the northeast, we've got low pressure moving in from the atlantic, strengthening winds around the irish sea coasts and further outbreaks of rain. so certainly rain is going to become more of a feature of the weather over the coming days. there'll be some strong winds at times as well. but we will lose the frosty the icy conditions with temperatures in double figures. bye— bye.
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