tv Sport Today BBC News February 28, 2018 1:45am-2:01am GMT
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this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme. espanyol score in the last minute of stoppage time to beat real madrid and record a first win over them in 11 years. rafael nadal withdraws from the mexican open in acapulco just hours before he was due to make his return from a hip injur. -- injury. and chris wilkes strikes early, taking two wickets —— quick wickets for england against new zealand in the second one—day international of their series. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with football and the news that espanyol have stunned real madrid in spain's primera division. gerard moreno‘s winner in the third minute of stoppage time gives his side a first win over real since 2007. gareth bale started up front for real with cristiano ronaldo rested for this match as los blancos had gone six matches unbeaten, but the hosts almost snuck the lead
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when oscar duarte hit the cross bar less than five minutes after half time, before moreno‘s late strike takes his side up to 13th, while real now sit third, and 1a points behind barcelona, who have a game in hand which they play on thursday night. translation: in football, sometimes you have to accept the difficult moments. the second half was not good for us after 56 —— five consecutive matches, we had good games and good results. today we did not have that, especially in the second half. maybe in the first half with the chances we created, we could have scored a goal and the match would have changed, but not now. this is a defeat, we lost, and it is very hard. so, confirmation of that result while girona are have moved up three places to seventh after beating celta vigo i—o. cristian portu with the goal in the 15th minute. swansea are through to the fa cup quarter—finals after a 2—0 win over sheffield wednesday in theirfifth round replay.
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substitute jordan ayew who came on at the interval and picked up the man of the match award slotted in the rebound for the first off a sam clucas effort, before nathan dyer added the second. the welsh side are now at home to either tottenham or rochdale who face each other in their replay at wembley in less than 2a hours. iam very i am very proud about what we have achieved so far. because it is a long record, and we can say that we are making a little story in the club, and this is very important. against the opponent, that has created a lot of problems for us in the first game, and the organization is very good, they are very solid on the work. we must put a very serious game to win against them. paris saint germain coach unai emery has confirmed that neymar won't undergo an operation on a cracked bone in his foot. the brazilian twisted his ankle
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gainst marseille on sunday night. emery says the world's most expensive player still has a ‘small chance' of playing against real madrid in the second leg of their last 16 champions league tie next week. translation: he had inflammation of the ankle after the heart against marseille. we have carried up new tests a nd marseille. we have carried up new tests and eight crack in the fifth metatarsal has shown up. so for the moment, we are closer to a node than a yes in the march against real madrid, but it is not out of the question. we will watch for developments in the next few days, he has a great desire to play, but the decision will depend on how far the decision will depend on how far the injury progresses, and to what extent the injury prevents him from being able to play in this game. 4 brazil's national team doctor has travelled to paris to judge for himself how badly hurt neymar was whilst playing on sunday. we cannot think about that yet, we will just have we cannot think about that yet, we willjust have to think about the
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operation and our friendly games, what we have in march. for the world cup, we will have time to think about a. in the team doctor for brazil has gone to paris? he has -- he is there to follow what is happening, but the decision is from greece. but we have to do is to be next to me ashton newmar and parents a domain, and when the —— whatever the doctors say, we have to do, and we have them make a decision. reigning copa libertadores champions gremi got their defence of the title underway with a 1—1 draw away to uruguayan‘s defensor sporting. the match was headed for a goalless draw until maicon scored for the brazilians with just eight minutes remaining in the group one match after the ball had been cleared off the line initially, butjust three minutes later, the hosts equalised when gonzalo maulella was awarded the goal after the corner kick found an unmrked player to leave both teams with a point.
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in the past couple of hours, rafael nadal has withdrawn from his anticipated return to action following a hip injury. he was due to take on fellow spaniard feliciano lopez at the mexican open in acapulco, which would have been his first appearance since withdrawing in the quarterfinals of the australian open against marin cilic. in that time, he has since lost his number one ranking to roger federer, and this is the fifth successive tournament he's withdrawn or retired injured from. someone who is there and making progress is nadal‘s fellow spaniard, david ferrer. he beat russia's andrey rublev 6—4, 6—3. he'll play the winner ofjuan martin del potro and mischa zverev. at the dubai tennis championships, there was a shock result for top seed grigor dimitrov, the world number four who won the atp world tour finals at the end of last year, lost in three sets to tunisian wild card malekjaziri. dimitrov claimed the opening set
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before the world number 117 produced a stunning fightback and he'll play robin haase in the second round. roger federer isn't playing in either of those tournaments, instead he's been winning awards in monaco. the world number one fought back the tears as he was named sportsman of the year. the 36—year—old australian open champion also won the comeback of the year prize as he became the most decorated person in the awards' history. it's been wonderful not to prove people wrong, but to prove myself right and my team right, that we did have a plan, we were right, we believed we could beat the best, we believed we could beat the best, we believed you could be the best, and i believe we could —— i could win more slam. that is what i think makes me so greatly proud and happy right now to receive these two awards. very well knowing that many other athletes deserved these as much as me, maybe even more, but i ta ke much as me, maybe even more, but i take them very happily. england have won the toss
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and elected to field in the second of their one day international against new zealand in mount maunganui. the black caps lead the five match series 1—0 but the visitors got off to the better of the starts with colin munro losing his wickets to chris woakes in just the second over. new zealand is currently 35—2. williams opened up to 3—0 lead, and... he held on to reach next round. williams is going for a third welsh open title, but his attention was elsewhere on tuesday, concerning earlier, spied williams. here's what williams said on twitter. in response, morgan hit back, —— calling williams a bully. the head
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of morgan, here's what he said afterwards. clearly you feel that jackson page, as a youngster, should have been here in the first place. he was there in the end as we turned out, we saw him through the brown too, but he felt he should've gotten there away, this talk other should not have been an issue? he's got in, and it is what is. but you said to darren, he has beenjackson page five times this season, in the tournament to determine who qualifies for the welsh open, so we knew what they had to do from the outset. you can ask me any questions today, about the tournament of the next match. a ceremony has taken place in beijing to mark the start of the tour of the limbic flag leading up to the city's 2022
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olympic and paralympic games. the flag was carried up on stage at the battling session of the great wall in china -- battling session of the great wall in china —— of china, which will host, distance for bobsleigh and skiing. president xijinping has placed 300 million chinese on skates in time for the game. dutch team has won like six from hong kong to auckland. it's the team's first win in this edition of the race. they set off on february seven and completed the journey in more than 600 knuckle miles in 20 days. —— nautical miles. new zealand are 39—2 in the 12th over of their second one—day international against england being played and matt wanted away. chris wilkes has taken both of those wickets but —— thus far, after england... six games in the nba
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taking place as well, one of those to mark up his brooklyn, who are at the cleveland cavaliers, they won... everything else is on the website, including the cricket. hello there. the coldest snap of this winter season is likely to continue for the rest of this week and there's more snow in the forecast. most of the country has seen some snow. it is falling in the form of showers, but some parts in eastern england have got some pretty impressive snow depth. the are likely to add a further. more snow is forecast. there is going to be more travel disruption as a result. the disruption as a result. source of this freezing ice h! has the source of this freezing ice here has been coming from siberia and northern europe and our shores,
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driving all the snow showers into eastern areas. some pushing their way westward as well. during the start of wednesday, looks like most of the showers again will be confined to eastern coastal areas, particularly the northeast of england and in towards eastern scotland. it's going to be a very cold start to wednesday, below freezing across the board. and an amber warning remains in place. northeast england, some places could see 5—10 cm. -- 5-15 —— 5—15 cm. there could be some significant disruptions to the course of wednesday morning, for central parts of scotland. at the east showers continue, they will be frequent and heavy. more in the way of sunshine, but it will be a very cold day, today might be the coldest of the week. factor in the wins, it will feel more like —5 — minus ten
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degrees celsius. this big area of low pressure is being named storm emma, it will work its way slowly up from the south full of moisture as it bumps into the united kingdom, it will turn into snow. particularly the southwest of england and into north of wales as we head to the course of thursday. meanwhile there will be further heavy snow showers across the eastern side of the country, in particular northeast england and eastern scotland. we will have to amber warnings in the afternoon, one across the northeast and this new one across the southwest, this know will be heavy, prolonged, and disruptive. another cool day in store, particularly factions of winds, gale forces of southeasterly winds will make you feel very cold. quick snapshot and friday, snow will continue across the northeast of the country, this banda said —— of snow slowly moving its way across. likely to cause some significant disruption.
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