i'm tulsen tollett. this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: david de gea helps rescue manchester united with a string of saves against sevilla as the opening leg of their last 16 champions league tie finishes goalless in spain. sofia "the samurai" goggia cuts through the snow and her opponents to win a first women's downhill gold for italy at the winter olympics. and defending champion, elina svitolina, is through to the quarter finals of the dubai tennis championships. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with the footballing news from spain that sevilla and manchester united have played out a goalless draw in the first leg of their last 16 uefa champions league tie despite numerous chances for a goal. club record signing, paul pogba, was left out ofjose mourinho‘s starting line—up, but an early injury to ander herrera meant the french international came on afterjust 17 minutes. but it was david de gea who spared united's blushes just before half time with a miraculous save at close

range from a luis muriel header. and despite the hosts having the better of the chances, they'll head to old trafford in three weeks‘ time knowing an away goal could prove crucial againstjose mourinho‘s side. for sure. for sure, old forsure. forsure, old trafford means a knockout. last season we had that, which is not the same. in previous years, we were out in the group phase. i think old trafford is a big champions league night. translation: yes, i am pleased with oui’ translation: yes, i am pleased with our performance, full of character against a high—level opponent managed via a top—quality coach. we could have scored at least one goal. we created so many chances. it is a shame. we are sorry. but the tie is

totally open and all is to play for in the return leg. shakhtar donetsk will head to italy with a 2—1 advantage over roma. turkish international, shengiz oonder, scored the opener for roma in his first ever game in this competition, but two goals in the second half, the first through facundo ferreyra and the second from brazilian international fred means they hold the upper hand heading into the return leg. in spain's primera division, real madrid have closed the gap on unbeaten league leaders barcelona to 1a points after winning their game in hand against leganes 3—1. despite going behind early in their derby match, goals from lucas vasquez, casemiro and a late penalty from sergio ramos takes them third with cristiano ronaldo rested for this match. shanghai and sydney fc drew 2—2. shanghai and sydney fc drew 2—2. shanghai went ahead before luke wilshere and the captain made it 2—1

to the visitors. all goals were scored in the first half. a second made it 2—2. sydney fc are at the bottom after two matches. day 12 of the olympics saw seven gold medals handed out in pyeongchang. only one came from a woman who described herself as a samurai. sofia goggia is the first italian woman to get the gold. she met herfriend, italian woman to get the gold. she met her friend, lindsey vonn, italian woman to get the gold. she met herfriend, lindsey vonn, who had to get bronze. the action. was this the last olympic pariah for lindsey vonn? —— hurrah. she wanted gold. but unfortunately, she was trailing in the wake of sofia goggia, eight years herjunior. the rugged hills of norway. she hinted

this could be it. every single time iamon this could be it. every single time i am on the mountain i had so much fun. i wish my body was a little bit younger because i still have the same enthusiasm for the sport that i had when i was a kid. but, yeah, we will see what happens in the next four years, but i am pretty sure it was my last downhill. in the men's skiing, there was redemption. the canadian crashed out last year. this year, in periods, the ninth gold medalfor canada. year, in periods, the ninth gold medal for canada. —— imperious. year, in periods, the ninth gold medalfor canada. —— imperious. the women's bobsleigh. a former hammer thrower without much bobsleigh pedigree, this was a true turn up for germany to be bad in partnership, they edged out the us.

—— but in. spare a thought for nigeria, finishing last seven seconds behind the germans. mark cavendish pulled out of the abu dhabi championship after falling mark cavendish pulled out of the abu dhabi championship afterfalling on the same shoulder he fell on last time. the race director's car slowed out of the peloton. had to withdraw. the norwegian rider, alex, went on to win. defending champion, elina svitolina, moved through to the quarter—finals of the dubai tennis championships with a hard—fought three set win against wang qiang on wednesday. despite racing through the first set, the ukrainian saw wang fight back to take the second, but the third once again proved to be svitolina's as she saw off the chinese lucky loser to secure a 6—1,5—7, 6—2 win in two hours and ten minutes.

she'll now face japan's naomi osaka in the last eight. unseated, vesnina, got two from two against ostapenko. she was a there to there challenge in the second set, but could not beat vesnina. and that's because kasatkina wrapped up a 4—6, 7—6, 6—2 victory over yohanna konta. the british number one wasted two match points in the second set as the russian won out after almost three hours on court. and wimbledon champion, garbine muguruza, eased to a straight sets win over american cici bellis. the second seeded spaniard won 6—3, 6—3 and will now go on to play france's caroline garcia for a spot in the semi—finals. scotland head coach, gregor townsend, has named an unchanged starting line—up for saturday's six nations encounter with england at murrayfield. he's kept faith with the side that beat france but has made three

changes to his replacements, recalling fit—again prop, wp nel, who hasn't played since breaking an arm in november, lock, tim swinson, and centre, nick grigg. tony bellew and david haye have come face to face again ahead of their heavyweight rematch in may. the fight will take place a year after bellew defeated haye with an 11th—round stoppage. the original december date was postponed because ofan injury december date was postponed because of an injury to haye. where there was love after their fight, there was love after their fight, there was still some mutual respect between the boxers, before the insults came. i have given you every credit since the first fight. i always give you credit. you are a fabulous athlete. you have had a great career. but it doesn't matter. it has been and gone. on the fifth of may, you are finished. i promise you that. it will all end on the fifth of may. this time, i feel i have done more

than needs to be done in terms of my mindset, trying not to focus my energy on animosity, but on training, focus, positivity. i believe he gets the best out of me. rory mcilroy believes the united states could be even harder to beat in the forthcoming ryder cup than they were in minnesota in 2016. europe lost 17 to 11 in hazeltine and will be out for revenge in paris this september. the northern irishman believes the americans are now looking more long—term in their selection of players. they have got a great team many young players that will be around a long time. the ryder cup, it is not a whitewash every time. but europe got seven of nine, whatever it is. that will be pretty tough to

replicate in coming years. but in on a home—court advantage, paris, a little bit more set up to the way europeans love to play, that will save us a europeans love to play, that will save us a little bit as well. speaking of curling, great britain's men's team are on the verge of claiming a semi—final place leading switzerland while the big news is that austria's marcel hirscher is out of the men's slalom after missing a gate early. hirscher was looking for a third gold medal at the games having never won one before these winter olympics in three previous attempts. all five of these curlers have the same last name, kim. they are from a town that is famous for making garlic. it is all on the website. you can

read all about it. until next time. goodbye for now. a very cold spell of weather is on the way, it is just a little too early to say whether it's going to be particularly exceptional for the end of february and early march but one thing is for sure, it looks like temperatures could struggle to get above freezing, some time next week and there is snow on the way as well, just uncertain exactly how deep and where. but this high pressure continues to build as forecast, from scandinavia across western parts of europe. so the forecast so far is going according to plan. those easterly winds are starting to strengthen and they will keep strengthening as we go over the next few days. by the end of the night, early on thursday morning, not too cold, not at this stage. temperatures in towns and cities will be around about zero,

maybe a little below. outside of town a good frost on the way. in these situations when we get an area of high pressure, there is always a bit of cloud floating around so not everybody is going to get the sunny skies but on balance it is going to be a bright day for most of us and it is starting to feel a little bit colder now. those temperatures will be struggling in the east. four degrees in norwich, briefly during the day. most of the day it will be lower than that. still relatively mild in belfast, around 8 degrees. this is thursday's forecast across europe. these are the daytime highs. minus 10 in moscow — the big freeze has hit that place. minus 2 in warsaw. not quite across western parts of europe. still in a relatively mild air but the wind will start to feel stronger and colder as we go towards the weekend. just a hint briefly of a southerly, maybe just around ireland and the western isles but that is pretty much it. so the temperatures will keep on dropping away by day, by around a degree or so. as we go through the weekend, that high—pressure continues to strengthen and build from russia, and when high—pressure strengthens, the winds around it

strengthen as well and they keep pushing in the colder air, straight out of russia. so the temperatures will keep on dropping away during the course of the weekend. i suspect even those values here are too high, it could be even as low as a couple of degrees above freezing, by sunday, in some major towns and cities. then the high—pressure gets even more intense and, yes, there are snow showers developing. you can see those blobs of white effecting almost any part of the country. so the big freeze is on the way, it is just too early to say where the coldest of the air is going to go. it could actually sink towards more southern parts of europe and into france, or it could go straight over us, or, as we have been talking in the last two days, it could engulf the whole of europe. so for npow, we do know that it is going to be cold next week with widespread frost, possibly by day as well, a bitter wind and snow for sure. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley.

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