hello, i'm sarah stone, and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: river plate will be joining real madrid at the club world cup in abu dhabi after they beat boca juniors in the copa libertadores final. newcastle boss rafa benitez says the premier league needs video assistant referees immediately as his side lose to wolves and have a player sent off. and louis oosthuizen won his first south african open by a record—equalling six shots. hello there, and welcome along to the programme. we start with football, and the final of the copa libetardores. it was an incredible end to the match, in a game that took so long to finally take place and went through so much on the way. river plate beat boca juniors 3—1 on the night and 5—3 on aggregate. boca's breakthrough came two minutes before half time with a brilliant

individual goal from dario benedetto. the equaliser came in the 68th minute from lucas pratto, and locked at 1—1. the no away goals rule meant extra time. then the turning point — boca had wilmar barrios sent off for a second yellow card. that allowed juan quintero to score for river plate and make it 2—1. gonzalo martinez added a third right at the end, so river plate will be joining real madrid at the club world cup in abu dhabi in a couple of weeks time. staying with football, and in the premier league matt doherty headed home in the fifth minute of injury time to give wolves victory over 10—man newcastle at st james‘s park. doherty netted the rebound after diogo yota's shot was pushed into his path by goalkeeper martin dubravka. the victory is wolves‘s second

in succession in the premier league, and the first time they have secured back—to—back wins since early october. newcastle manager rafa benitez protested against the red card shown to deandre yedlin after the match and called for the immediate introduction of var technology in the english premier league. when you have a player in the corner of the box with the ball two or three metres away, he was pulling deandre, deandre was pulling him, i cannot believe that every time that he touched the ball he would put the ball in the top corner, and he has had a clear chance, i cannot believe that. it was an ugly scene at stamford bridge on saturday, as a group of chelsea supporters appeared to hurl racist abuse at manchester city's raheem sterling. "another great day of football has been damaged by prejudice," say anti—discrimination group kick it out. chelsea and the metropolitan police are investigating, and now stirling himself has had his say on instagram, blaming newspaper coverage for fuelling racism because of the way they portray

young, black footballers. here is former england footballer alex scott talking to the bbc with her take on what happened. we've gone back to a stage that we fought a0 years ago had been eradicated, when clearly it hasn't, and what the last couple of weeks has highlighted is there is still much there even though some people have thought it was gone. and it is sad that these couple of weeks these things have come to light. but we need to stamp it out. strong punishment needs to be taken. you can't get away with this sort of thing any more. and i think — not just in football, when you look across that — diversity is needed in all different forms to educate to stop these things, these incidents, happening. former premier league player karl henry, who's still playing at bradford in the third tier of english football, agrees with sterling that sections of the media are making the problem worse.

he has absolutely got a point and the newspaper in question needs to look itself and look at those articles, because, to compare two, two manchester city players, one is black, one is white, they have done identical things, buying properties for their mothers, and one is almost demonise and the other one is lauded. i think there is a feeling, and certainly seeing the comments from other footballers, other black and ethnic minority footballers under raheem's comments, shows there is a huge amount of support and certainly a feeling of institutional racism within sectors of the media. wales forward gareth bale scored the winner as real madrid moved back into la liga's top four with a hard—fought victory at bottom side huesca. bale ended a run of ten matches without a goal in spain's top flight. elsewhere, there was an eight—goal thriller at abar, as they drew a—a with levante. real betis are up to seventh after a 2—0 victory over rayo vallecano. there were six goals and two red

cards as sassuolo and fiorentina drew 3—3 in italy's serie a. there was a big win for empoli over fellow strugglers bologna. and in the late kick—off, milan and torino finished goalless. in just their second year, atlanta united have won the mls cup, beating the portland timbers 2—0 in front of a record crowd in their home stadium. in the week he'd been named the league's most valuable player, josef martinez opened the scoring for atlanta with his 35th of the season. they then doubled their lead in the second half thanks to franco escobar. more than 73,000 were at the mercedes—benz stadium to see the city of atlanta's first major pro sports title since 1995. and they look pretty happy about it. to cricket now, and india are closing in on a first test victory in australia for ten years

after continuing to dominate the opening match of their series in adelaide. for the very latest we can cross there now and join our reporter seth bennett. what's happening, seth? well, sarah, it is hot work for the indian fielders, they are doing everything they can to sneak out the stallion batsmen who have been resolute, working very, very hard. so much rested on the shoulders of shaun marsh, but he has gone. a wonderful ball to get him out, just nipped away off the seam and then he was caught behind by pant, the wicket—keeper. and since then, there was a real thought that india would run through the bottom end of the australian lineup and it is to victory, but australia have really hunker down and out it is their captain, tim payne, who is that the crees, with him is pat cummins, he has survived two reviews, very close

to catching his glove on one of those —— crease. you do look at these two, though, at the bottom end of that australian order, there are only four wickets remaining. india are very much favourites. they are about ten minutes away from the lunch break. india havejust taken the new ball and, sarah, lunch break. india havejust taken the new balland, sarah, i lunch break. india havejust taken the new ball and, sarah, i will leave you with this thought. tim payne has won first—class century to his name. it came i2 payne has won first—class century to his name. it came 12 years ago. since then, former australian fast bowlerjason gillespie has scored two centuries in the first class level and the former australia coach darren lehmann has scored one. they are gonna need something very, very special from their skipper if they are gonna win this game. they absolutely well. thank you so much, seth. to golf now, and in the south african 0pen, louis 0osthuizen won on home soil by a record—equalling six shots. the south african, who won the 2010 0pen, had an eagle and five birdies in a four—under 67 to win on 18 under. france's romain longasque finished second with england's 0liver wilson

a shot further back in joint third. it is very special. i mean, i knew in the back of my head, you know, winning the open and the open would be special, the two oldest 0pens winning the open and the open would be special, the two oldest opens in the world and, you know, that was i think everything — you could see the motion on 18 — it was really special. now to rugby union, and the saracens made it three wins from three in europe's champions cup. they were down at half time but came back to beat cardiff blues 51—25. 0ur rugby correspondent chrisjones was there. well, at half—time here it looks like an upset might be on the cards, the cardiff blues led 18— 13 and had played some excellent rugby in defence and in attack. matthew morgan's try for example one of the scores of the weekend. but saracens we re scores of the weekend. but saracens were a different beast after the interval, they upped intensity and a ccu ra cy interval, they upped intensity and accuracy and scored six second—half tries, second in total with sean

maitland scoring a couple. there was a big boost both for england and for the saracens. then they remained unbeaten in the premiership and in europe. but, ominously forthe competition, both the captain and the boss were dissatisfied with today's performance. barrett sent a warning. he said his team are nowhere near the finished article. well, now to a snooker. ronnie 0'sullivan has won a record seventh uk snooker championship. it's 25 years since he first won the competition. on sunday, he completed his victory over mark allen ten frames to six in the best of 19 final and then thanked the fans and his coaches. our top story: an extra—time strike helped river plate come from a goal down to beat 10—man boca juniors in madrid and win the copa libertadores. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport.

but from me, sarah stone, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello. monday is looking pretty quiet for most of us on the weather front and, in fact, if you're wondering about the week ahead, it is not looking bad at all. it is going to turn progressively colder through the week but nothing dramatic happening on the weather front. so let's see what's happening then on monday. for many of us it is actually going to start off fairly bright, if not sunny. a touch of frost is on the way. certainly for scotland and northern parts of england. so here's the forecast then. through the early hours of monday morning, chilly north—westerly winds blowing in. not much cloud out there. just a couple of showers maybe here and there. here's that frost again across scotland and northern england. down into yorkshire as well, —1, —2 degrees but to the south of that it's closer to plus five for cardiff and for london. so it starts of bright if not sunny.

sunny particularly in the east but very quickly this cloud you can see out west will be brought in by an increasing south—westerly breeze, so it will end up pretty cloudy if not grey across many of these western areas. the milder spot will be plymouth, 12 degrees. pretty balmy here compared to newcastle, only around 5 degrees celsius. then on tuesday, slightly less cold air. even quite mild air heads our way. you can see the south—westerly wind and the sort of tunnel of warmth all the way up into the north. with that also a couple of weather fronts. 0ne here which is actually not going to bring as much rain, even though you can see rain here. this is another weather front here which is basicallyjust a fair bit of cloud. so tuesday, across much of scotland, england and wales, probably staying fairly cloudy, with some sunshine poking through. here's the other weather front. it's not making much progress so it'll stay to the west of us, i think, so belfast should be dry on tuesday. and 12 degrees here.

12 for plymouth as well. then, on wednesday, we start to see a little bit of a change. the winds die down and, in fact, we start to develop an ever so slightly more easterly wind, that also means that the temperatures will start the deep. so i think for most of us it is down to single figures. sixes and sevens, that sort of thing. maybe just about scraping a 10 there in plymouth. the bigger picture shows where colder air is coming from on thursday. in fact, all the way from russia, across the baltic, southern scandinavia, the north sea. you can see that colder air ends up right across the uk. not desperately cold, but you will feel those temperatures dipping away as we go through the week. in fact, let's take a look at london. you can see on monday it's 10 degrees, by wednesday, it's eight, and on thursday and friday around five or six degrees. and at times pretty cloudy too so it will feel cold. bye— bye.

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