hello, i'm tulsen tollett and this is sport today, live from the bbc sports centre and coming up on the program: thomas muller scores a hat—trick as bayern munich book their place in the final of the german cup. holders japan are through to the afc asian cup women's cup final after a 3-1 asian cup women's cup final after a 3—1semi—finalwin over china. grigor dimitrov comes from a set down to win at the monte carlo masters. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with news bayern munich are through to the final of the dfb cup in germany after a something 6—2 win over bayer leverkusen and they will play schalke or last year's runners—up, frankfurt. it didn't take long for the bundesliga champions to make their mark, martinez‘s shot deflected off lewandowski to give them the lead inside three minutes before lewandowski, the polish

international, added a second six minutes later and a second—half hat—trick to thomas muller sees them with the chance to win the title for the 19th time. third tier team are through to the french cup final after a 2—0 win over a team that plays in the same division, chambly. both sides fought off opponents above them to make it this far. they will now play the winner of the other semi—final on wednesday between paris st germain and hull one. barcelona's set a new spanish la liga record for the longest unbeaten run since the start of the season despite drawing on tuesday 1-1-- season despite drawing on tuesday 1—1—— cannes. the previous record was held by real sociedad in the eighties. —— 2—2. asteras scored 20 plus league goals

ina campaign asteras scored 20 plus league goals in a campaign for celta vigo. —— aspas. translation: the match changed a lot. there were some moments when we dominated the match, some other moments that they dominated. i think we were better controlling the match but we suffered the red card and we had to reorganise ourselves and that gave them the chance to overturned the situation and that's how they got a draw and we had to suffer. after picking upjust draw and we had to suffer. after picking up just one draw and we had to suffer. after picking upjust one point draw and we had to suffer. after picking up just one point we draw and we had to suffer. after picking upjust one point we need two more victories to be champions. we would like to find them and then we will see. in italy's serie a, inter are up to third for 2h hours after a comprehensive 4—0 win over calgary & zero. perisic was among the goals as they leapfrogged roma zero. perisic was among the goals as they lea pfrogged roma and zero. perisic was among the goals as they leapfrogged roma and lazio, who feature in wednesday's fixtures. brighton have moved a step closer to premier league survival after

drawing i—i premier league survival after drawing 1—1 with tottenham after harry kane got his 26th premier league goal of the season, three minutes after half—time chris hughton‘s side wasted little time restoring parity after serge aurier conceded a penalty and gros made no mistake. brighton are eight points clear of relegation and spurs made no ground up on third placed liverpool. it's disappointing because of the way we conceded the goal, they scored in the next section and it disappointed us. we can play better and we dominated and created chances. everything was even. brighton are a very good club. it's a result that we deserved. over the 90 minutes. i think most people would have thought when they got that goal early in the second half that goal early in the second half that they are probably going to get

a second and maybe a third. to reply as quickly as we did gave us the left to go into a second—half that we knew would be difficult but i thought we handled most things relatively well. it took a huge effort from the team. guangzhou ever grand are through to the last 16 of the asian champions league after beating japanese side asada 3-1. the league after beating japanese side asada 3—1. the chinese super league champions will be joined asada 3—1. the chinese super league champions will bejoined in asada 3—1. the chinese super league champions will be joined in the knockout phase by a chinese club. former italy captain fabio can of ra has already tasted success with grime show ever grand but he's yet to win asian football's biggest prize —— guangzhou ever grand. if theirform this year prize —— guangzhou ever grand. if their form this year is anything to go their form this year is anything to 9° by their form this year is anything to go by then they should be one of the favourites to win it. after first half goals from each side, brazilian striker alan sealed qualification with two close range effort is. the chinese super league champions are unbeaten in group g as they chase a

third champions league title. joining them in the last 16 is this club. their winning goal sparked wild celebrations. the time champions have every reason to be happy, they are through to the knockout phase for only the second time in their history —— thai. syd ney time in their history —— thai. sydney fc might be running away with things in australia but their champions league campaign has been a disaster. only a win would do to give them any chance of progressing from group h. despite 22 shots on goal, they couldn't break down a stubborn shanghai shenhua defends. with one win in their last ten games in the competition, sydney can't have too many complaints. —— defence. suwon blue rings topped the group after beating kashima antlers, this was the only goal of the game, a foot deflected shot past eight stranded goalkeeper. —— suwon

bluewings. the j—league side stranded goalkeeper. —— suwon bluewings. thej—league side still go through to the last 16 despite that defeat. joe lynskey, bbc news. holders japan are through to the afc asian cup ins cup final after a 3—1 semi—final win over china at the oman international stadium in jordan on tuesday. this was the first of the match just before half—time. on tuesday. this was the first of the matchjust before half—time. —— afc asian cup women's cup final. they play australia in a repeat of the 2014 final. the matildas won a penalty shootout against thailand, leading to—1 a second yellow card on 87 minutes here and lana kennedy equalised in stoppage time, taking it to extra time, which didn't give a goal, so it went to the dreaded penalty shootout with samantha kerr

taking her side through —— leading toa taking her side through —— leading to a second yellow card. dimitrov came from behind to book his place in the last 16 in monte carlo. he was shocked in the opening set with herbert taking it 6—3. but the fourth seed found his touch from then on, taking the second set 6—2 before going on to win the match in three sets. fifth—seeded dominic thiem is another seed who had to come from behind to book his place in the last 16, he lost the first set to russia's rublev but the austrian grew into the match on his favourite surface, levelling it up at 1-1 favourite surface, levelling it up at 1—1 before going on to take the decider by 7—5. davit goffin needed more than two hours to beat his opponent in their second round match. the sixth seed

eventually secured a 7—6, 7—5 victory and next up is a third—round match against bautista agut or feliciano lopez. alexander zverev of germany came from one set down to beat gilles muller. zverev, who got a first round bye, won 4—6, 6—3, 6—2 after more than three hours on court. garcia won't be making excuses after his borderfence of garcia won't be making excuses after his border fence of the masters at augusta earlier this month. the spaniard failed to make the cut end the season's first golf major and ahead of the texas open this week he said he is keen to get back on the course. it's one of those things that happens and it's happened to me before and it will probably happen again in the future. that's the nature of golf. it can happen at augusta. it's what it is and at the end of the day i'm excited to come here and keep playing well, like i've been playing pretty much all

year, and see if we can get on a good run. when you come to start a tournament, if my ball with a six iron bounces up and goes to five feet or something like that, even if i don't make eagle, we're probably having a different conversation, i'm probably shooting even park or maybe one over that first round and with a decent run on friday i have a chance of contending. unfortunately, what happened happened and you can start trying to make excuses of, you know, i had trying to make excuses of, you know, ihada trying to make excuses of, you know, i had a lot of things to do coming into the week, during the week. yes, but we're used to those things and i'm not going to put that as an excuse of why the week went the way it went. just enough time to mention the nhl and nba play—off action and in the mbia, toronto 98—82 up, 1—0 up in the series against the washington wizards with three minutes remaining

in the third period —— the nba. boston, 1—0 up against milwaukee, they are in the second quarter. for me, tolson toller, and the rest of the team, goodbye for now. —— from me, tulsen tollett. hello there, good morning. the temperature on tuesday was just over 20 celsius in dorset but temperatures are going to rise higher than that over the next few days. this was the scene in cambridgeshire, where we enjoyed a good deal of sunshine and warmth as well but with more sunshine, and the winds becoming lighter and pushing away the rain, the temperatures will be rising even higher. and talking of rain, there was some of that on tuesday across some western parts of the uk. wales was quite cloudy, some rain from to time. it came from that band of cloud there. that has been weakening, and the rain petering out as the cloud has thinned.

but this is the thicker area of cloud and that is heading its way northwards and taking rain back across ireland, some heavier rain in northern ireland early in the morning, spots of rain through the irish sea. it all clears up towards the north—west of scotland, allowing more and more sunshine to develop widely. the winds still southerly, not as strong. it will feel warmer and temperatures will be a shade higher. 18 in the central belt. 24 or even 25 now in the south—east of england. still that rain towards the north—west of scotland, could come back into northern ireland, western scotland for a while overnight, then that tends to peter out. we're left with cloud through the irish sea, a little bit misty here as well. otherwise further east, clearer skies, lows of 9 or 10 degrees. that band of cloud there is a very weak weather front. it is more a band of cloud but even across northern ireland and scotland, that cloud should break up. still rather misty and cool around some of these western coasts, so not quite the sunny skies here. widely getting into the high teens in scotland and northern ireland. inland england and wales, low 20s. 26 possible in the south—east of england. that's probably the peak

of the heat on thursday. the really high temperatures get pushed away into central europe. we start to get more of an influence from the atlantic. so instead of the southerly, we're picking up more of a west to south—westerly. still a warm day, though, on friday. and a lot of dry weather too. maybe some showers coming into the north—west of scotland but otherwise some good spells of sunshine around and those temperatures, just a little bit lower than they're likely to be on thursday but still pleasant in the sunshine. this time, it could be rather misty around the coasts in the english channel and around some north sea coasts as well. high pressure building in across the uk. going to keep these weather fronts at bay for the time being. so the fine weather continues into saturday. again, some areas of misty low cloud in the morning perhaps. that should tend to break up more in the afternoon, allowing the sunshine to develop more widely. temperatures a little bit lower by this stage, mind you. the air‘s not quite as warm, but it's still going to be a warm

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