a 3—0 win, maurizio sarri will hope his team have sewn up the tie, with let's not forget, victory in the europe league offering a route into next season's champions league. here's sid kohli. it has been a week of the underdog in european football and chelsea in different form have inspired kiera but the upon us and i had it when a single match from their previous 14 visits to england, and it didn't ta ke visits to england, and it didn't take long. olivier giroud haskell six goals in this competition but he turned provider, setting a pager who finished a silky move. —— tax scored six. chelsea were in the mood to eve ryo ne six. chelsea were in the mood to everyone their opponents, but pedro was right the limerick squad turned to frustration. a bit more clinical and he himself a first patrick but was once again denied by dennis who kept a site in the bed. soon enough, afamiliar kept a site in the bed. soon enough, a familiarface kept a site in the bed. soon enough, a familiar face returned. kept a site in the bed. soon enough, a familiarface returned. lillian, the former man scored a sensational

free kick. chelsea had a lead, as they stretch for the away go. but they stretch for the away go. but the blues finished with a flourish. callu m the blues finished with a flourish. callum hudson—odoi all but sealed the march into the quarterfinal. the league leaders manchester city have been hit by news this evening they're being investigated by uefa for alleged financial fair play violations. uefa said it will focus on recent claims made by german news magazine der spiegel. city have said "the accusation of financial irregularities is entirely false." on the pitch of course manchester city remain in the hunt for a quadruple winning season. the league cup in the bag, they go into saturday's premier league match with watford on saturday a point ahead of liverpool in the table. then on tuesday they'll defend a first leg lead against schalke at the etihad in the champions league last 16. speaking to the bbc‘s sport editor dan roan, captain vincent kompany said the week will be prove a defining moment in their season.

it isa it is a defining week for us because we have three different, i'm sure the manager will have spoken about it, three competitions to play for next week. everything hangs on these results. every game will be a final. to win three finals in a row is difficult. we will see. at the moment, it is not on her mind. how impressed have you been by what they have done to your main rivals? they are a different club to what they have been a few weeks ago. what he has done for the club is definitely brought back respectability to the clu b brought back respectability to the club what's up in a way that would not have been anticipated by many. and because results have followed, i think if he is not added to the right side of manchester, added to manchester as a whole and for him to do well, as a person, being a revival, i couldn't wish to enter the person to do as well with the rivals. for the first time in a while, the title is wrecking your hands, your destiny for you to win

all the matches if you retain the title. you are in this fantastic race with liverpool which is different to last year when you really walked away with it. do you enjoy this more being in this battle? yes, i don't know, i think all of us have a massive amount of respect for the verbal because the intensity they add to the game, set the clinical team. —— respect for the clinical team. —— respect for the report. to say we will be champions without winning the next nine games probably not. —— in liverpool. you kind of look, ok how we have enough to win the next nine games but that is the challenge in front of us. we played nine games, none of us are getting complacent because we respect the fact that our competitors are very serious competitors. it was against burnley that the tottenham manager mauricio pochettino watched his side's title challenge falter — he's called the fa's two match touchline ban for his behaviour afterwards unfair he confronted

referee mike dean last on the pitch at turf moor last month after their league defeat. he's also been fined £10,000. pochettino says he will wait to hear the fa's reasons for the length of ban before deciding whether to appeal. i am a little bit in shock, because i think it is completely unfair, but what can i do now? nothing. only to accept that. i need to see the reason, because they are still announcing that i'm going to be banned for two games, but we still don't know the reason, because the letter still has not arrived. a quick look at some of the other stories making the headlines this evening. olympic champion callum skinner has retired from cycling at the age ofjust 26. he won gold for great britain in the team sprint at the 2016 games in rio alongsidejason kenny. he want to focus on reforming sports governance, and encouraging people to get on their bikes.

england's chris and gabby adcock are through to the quarterfinals of the all england open badminton championships. they came from behind to beat their compatriots ben lane and jessica pugh in three sets. the rfu is considering axing the england sevens team in favour of a great britain side as it seeks to overcome financial problems. 60 staff have already been made redundant last year due to lower than expected revenues and now the sevens side could be combined with wales and scotland to form a gb team. the six nations returns this weekend. with wales the only team still on course for the grand slam. scarlets and ospreys players in the welsh side have been training against the backdrop of a bitter row over the on—off merger between the two regions — but centrejonathan davies says they'll be putting those distractions behind them on saturday. i think players are looking forward to a big test match on the weekend. that's what we love doing,

that's what we are here to do, and i think that is the most important thing now for us, is to focus on that. going up to murrayfield's always a difficult place to go and play, so that's where the focus is now with us. as for scotland, captain greig laidlaw will start on the bench on saturday. ali price has been preferred at scrum—half, one of four changes made by gregor townsend following their defeat to france last time out. we're out of the running of the championship, but we still want to play to our potential, show a true picture of what we're capable of and finish as high up the championship as possible. playing at home requires even more determination, because you're playing in front of your supporters and it's the last home game of the season, so it's time we delivered an 80—minute performance. england face italy this weekend

whenjoe cockanasiga will make his first six nations start. he replaces jack nowell who's out injured. eddiejones has also opted for the powerful pair of manu tuilagi and ben te'o in the centre. captain owen farrell admitted he wouldn't fancy his chances against this giant backline. massive, yeah. i would not like to play against it. but we've got to make sure that those boys get in the game, those boys get someone one tackles. we see what they can do with that. they can cause some damage. northern ireland's graeme mcdowell is three shots off the lead in the first round of the arnold palmer invitational in florida. spain's rafael cabrera is the clubhouse leader on seven under par. five—time major winner phil mickelson was presented with the biggest challenge of the day. known as lefty, the american uncharacteristically tried using his right hand, with the club face also the wrong

way round to get out of trouble on one hole. unfortunately the ball rattled around some netting and promtly popped out not far from his feet. he's on four under par. the world triathlon series gets under way in abu dhabi tomorrow. reigning world champion vicky holland will be one of five female british athletes starting their season when the series gets under way. it's probably more me that it is important for than anybody else. i don't think that race matters in terms of what i will get of the whole season or what my goals are, yes, around the world series, but around olympic qualifications, which happens a bit later in the year. but i really wanted to go to that first race of the year as the defending world champion, to start wearing the number one cos i never did that before, and yes,

for me, that is quite special. so i really wanted to do that. a big season ahead. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rachel cunliffe, comment & features editor at cityam and stephen bush, political editor of the new statesman. they've had a bit of an advance what is on the papers. here's your opportunity. britain on a knife—edge.

the mirror has a dramatic image as a stab victim is brought into a london hospital. it's reporter notes the teenager should have his life ahead of him. instead, it is ebbing away. the metro accuses the chancellor, philip hammond, of playing politics over brexit as yet another teenager is stabbed to death. the i reports that theresa may will make a last—ditch eu plea to try and save her brexit deal. the times says cabinet ministers have warned the prime minister that she will lose control of brexit next week unless she holds a series of humiliating votes on alternatives to her deal. the telegraph pictures jacob rees—mogg urging conservative mps to hold their nerve to deliver brexit and warns activists against a ‘purge' of tory mps who want to keep the uk tied closely to the eu. the guardian reports how the uk has granted diplomatic status to nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe raising her case to the level of a dispute between the governments in london and tehran.

so, rachel and steven, so, racheland steven, let's so, rachel and steven, let's begin at what tomorrow morning pass metro. rachel, a fairly stark attack on the chancellor. a really stark attack on the chancellor. all week we have had headlines on front pages about the rise in violent crimes in london and across the country, very sadly today, another stabbing, in london, politicians are urging theresa may to do something, and the home secretary has been involved in what that the chancellor do? he says you can have extra money, for policeman, to stop this, if we don't have a no—deal brexit and beaufort theresa may deal x week. it is completely tone deaf and has really misread the move of the country. —— a deal next week. i think it will be damaging to him and to the prime minister and she continues to grapple and fail to do it with this issue. he has already kind of taken a different line from side to david to save it to police, use the resources from

crimes that are lower priorities and shift into fighting knife crime. doesn't sound that came to open the treasury coffins. he is fiscally relu cta nt treasury coffins. he is fiscally reluctant to open the public funds up reluctant to open the public funds up forany reluctant to open the public funds up for any reason but because he is not the most adept a politician come he didn't seem to realise if you're having an argument about not being willing to spend my money on crime ina time willing to spend my money on crime in a time when we are having this spike in knife crime, you're going to have tragic events with a backdrop of you saying no no no, spend less money on tackling burglaries, it is a really bad luck for him and he will inevitably have to put his hand in his pocket. it is really the question of how much political damage he is willing to suffer between then and now. in terms of this issue and how it is played, how surprising is it that it is taken this long to become front page news because in the sense as u nless we page news because in the sense as unless we have been reporting for over a year now significant numbers of young people, and other parts of

the country, dying and i crimes? there have been a couple quite tragic and very close together which i think is quite a bit, and i think pa rt i think is quite a bit, and i think part of it is also public sentiment and fatigue of a brexit, the idea that politicians are to focus on that politicians are to focus on that and not focus on anything else. it has taken time to catch up with the correlation of cuts of 20,000 police officers in england and well since 2010, we see a spike in crime and the government is saying theresa may was saying that is not a direct correlation. but the numbers look very stark and very bad for her so i think it is to do with the fact that the country is finally catching up with the fact there are more things in brexit and maybe they should be focusing on those instead. in brexit and maybe they should be focusing on those insteadm in brexit and maybe they should be focusing on those instead. it is a solitary sign that the photograph on the front of the metro, a crime i can an investigation at the scene of the latest killing. we will stay with knife crime and the front of the telegraph. this time, a labour politician has been playing politics

with nice. yes, city con is being accused of playing politics. we learn the mayor. after he said the problem here is people referral units and schools can kids out,. —— sadiq khan said. people are not within the control of the mayor of london in those units it is partly about who is to blame for all of that. that is what this route is about. although sadiq khan, when you think of them come he had a pretty good argument. it doesn't say funding for the police come he doesn't set national policy, knife crime is going up in birmingham and cove ntry all crime is going up in birmingham and coventry all around the country. this argument people are making that it is since i think doesn't pass the test. and i think his point about academies perhaps is a bit narrow and he's been accusing her of open simplifying a complex problem but i think what he was trying to say is that it think what he was trying to say is thatitis think what he was trying to say is that it is notjust police funding oi’ that it is notjust police funding or about any one issue, it is about schools and cuts to social services and youth outreach programmes, and

education, all kinds of things and potentially, also funding for priorities within the police itself, a very complex web of problems that have led to this issue, and the fact that the conservatives of the house are looking for an easy fix by blaming them a has backfired on them slightly. let's move on from knife crime. —— and blaming the london mayor has backfired. there are other stories. the telegraph, this is an intriguing photograph of jacob rees—mogg. intriguing photograph of jacob rees-mogg. can't take your either way. it is mesmerizing. it almost looks like something missing. —— you can't take your eyes away. white fluffy cat. exactly what i was thinking. let's just fluffy cat. exactly what i was thinking. let'sjust hide that earlier this week on nestor graham. —— list just tried earlier this week on nestor graham. —— listjust tried that. on instagram. i think it was trying to claim the cat was on her side but you look at it and the cat is clearly not happy to be there. the

serious point about the photo is