added two more to hit further. they added two more to hit the 50 point mark, an impressive irish performance. one more in paris next week and the longest six nations in history will be theirs. craig templeton, bbc news. and ireland up against italy in the women's competition which also paused during the pandemic. ireland leading iii—7, having won two of their three matches before the pandemic struck. england top the group with what has been an impressive four wins from four. to twickenham next where exeter are hoping to add to their trophy collection today. as they chase an historic double. crowned champions of europe last weekend, they're hoping to become english champions with victory over wasps in the premiership final. henry slade had pulled exeter back in front early on after a jimmy gopperth penalty for wasps.

with an extra penalty. joe simmonsds with three penalties of his own to give exeter the advantage in the closing stages 16—13. wasps with a fighting chancem despite missing four key players following those postive covid—i9 tests in their camp in the lead up/ it couldn't be tighter as the giro d'italia reaches its conclusion tomorrow. tao geoghegan hart is in with his first chance... there's nothing to split the ineos grenadiers rider and australia'sji hindley heading into tomorrow's time trial. nick parrott reports. tao geoghegan hart came to the giro d'italia to help geraint thomas when. but after he dropped out early on due to injury, the 25—year—olds took charge. he won the 15th stage but it wasn't until today that his tea m but it wasn't until today that his

team looked back to their best, dictating the paste that that pace. 15 seconds behind and promising to get stuck in. with just under six miles to go, they took the lead but there was a problem. australianj hindley is also a contender for overall victory and stuck to them like glue. tao geoghegan hart said he expected to have to go full gas and after a miles, he expected to have to go full gas and aftera miles, he he expected to have to go full gas and after a miles, he still had enough left in the tank to win the stage. now with nothing to separate him from hindley at the top of the standings, tomorrow's final time trial stage could see the closest finish to a giro d'italia in history. nick parrott, bbc news. it was stage five of the vuelta a espana today, won by belgium's tim wellens in a gruelling climb to the line. ireland's dan martin — winner of a stage on thursday was involved in a crash in the peleton. defending champion primoz roglic finished fourth to retain the overall lead.

chis froome in his final race for ineos grenadiers finished way down in 100th place. manchester city dropped more points in their title challenge, with the premier league proving unpredicatable this season. they were held to a 1—0 draw with west ham, a result that leaves them in the bottom half of the table — as austin halewood reports. in need of a win, there are few stadiums manchester city would rather visit. pep guardiola's side have won all five of their matches at the london stadium, scoring 22 goals, but after the start to the season west ham have had they're full of confidence — and when you're confident you can do things like this... in towards antonio. that's brilliant! michail antonio with a spectacular volley and west ham with an early lead. so not quite the start manchester city had in mind, then. eric garcia with their best effort in a disappointing first half. city needed a spark and they found it in phil foden.

on at half—time and straight into the game. foden with a shot, and that's what he came on to do! a twist, a turn and then the finish. city back level and from then they looked like a different team. the chances started to come. kevin de bruyne are coming close with this free kick, before the best chance to win it fell to raheem sterling — a glorious opportunity but he just couldn't convert. honours even at the london stadium and manchester city's frustrating start to the season continues. austin halewood, bbc news. manchester united and chelsea met at a wet old trafford this evening, the best chances fell to the home side in the second half, this edinson cavani effort, the new signing coming on as a second—half substitute. his first touch for the club. and then marcus rashford, who's been making the headlines this week for his efforts off the pitch, almost put his name in tomorrow's with this chance late on. as united remain in the bottom half of the table, down in 14th place.

i think it's an even game. but i think, of course, if you look at the chances, not many. but the keeper made two fantastic saves, i have to say. the one in the first half, and especially the second one in the top corner. i'm standing right behind it and i'm celebrating it like it's the winning goal in the champions league final. fulham remain bottom and still in search of their first win of the season. after they were beaten by crystal palace 2—1. wilfried za ha with his side's second. tom cairney did pull one back for fulham who had a player sent off, it only proved a consolation as palace move up to fifth in the table. it's been a busy day in the championship. in the lunchtime kick—off bournemouth scored a 95th minute equaliser to maintain their unbeaten start to the season. one all it finished against watford who took the lead in the first half and it looked like they were going to take all three points before chris mepham scored in stoppage time.

it means bournemouth are fourth whilst watford move into second in the table. there were 10 matches in the championship this afternoon. league leaders reading beat rotherham 3—0 to remain five points clear at the top. third placed bristol city drew 1—1 with swansea city, while blackburn produced a convincing 4—0 victory away at coventry. hibernian are back up to third place in the scottish premiership after a 1—0 win at kilmarnock kevin nisbet scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot — his eighth of the season. kilmarnock had won their previous three league games but they stay in fifth after this defeat. motherwell were 4—0 winners over ross county. stjohnstone and dundee finished goalless. league leaders rangers and champions celtic play tomorrow. barcelona were already playing catch—up heading into the first el clasico of the season,

and they continue to do so. new manager ronbald koeman watched his side beaten 3—1 by real madrid. the scores were level in the first half until sergio ramos put madrid ahead from the penalty spot. and luka modric added a third, with barcelona six points off madrid who now top the table. lewis hamilton is poised to break michael schumacher‘s record of race victories as he qualified on pole ahead of tomorrow's portuguese grand prix. it's mercedes one two with valterri bottas starting from second and max verstappen third. although as our formula one reporterjennie gow can tell us qualifying was not without incident in portimao. i think his 97th pole position has helped him to try and break that record tomorrow. of course, 92 race wins, more than anybody else has

ever done. the record currently held by michael schumacher, set back in 2006 in china. people thought that would never go and here we are on the verge of another record going by lewis hamilton. and, worth pointing out, portugal hasn't staged a formula 1 race for some time and it looks like they weren't quite prepared for it with a number of issues out on the track in qualifying today. yes, it has been 2a years since formula 1 was last in portugal but even then, it wasn't at this circuit. so it doesn't have the problems of cars going over, lifting them with the downforce, but that's what happened today. it was sebastien vet all got unlucky. no major damage to his car, but damage to the circuit, so a half—hour delay to qualifying just to put everybody on the edges of their seats and luckily, they got away with the rest of the session without any problems, but certainly, a concern going forward and there will be more work done overnight i'm sure.

finallyjenny, is there going to be anyone to challenge lewis hamilton tomorrow? theyjust might be, i'm not trying to give false hope because hamilton is extraordinary in his ability. he beat valtteri bottas, also max verstappen, maybe he could do something. but i think a few eyes will be on charles leclerc. it could be quite feisty at the beginning of the race. so i think, you know, there are some opportunities and at the circuit that the drivers don't know, with the possibility of rain around more from jenny tomorrow. britain's cal crutchlow will start from seventh for tomorow‘s teruel moto gp. he was almost half a second behind japan's takaki nakagami who claimed the first pole position of his career at the motorland circuit in aragon in spain. franco morbidelli and alex rins

will line up alongside him on the front row. a quick look at some of the day's other stories.. dan evans is out of the european open at the semi—finals stage after losing a three set battle against france's ugo humbert in antwerp. the british number one had four match points in the second set, but lost out in over three hours. england's tyrell hatton is three shots off the lead, heading into the third round of the zozo championship in california. american justin thomas leads on 1a under par. and mac swiney took victory in the final grade one race of the flat season at doncaster. the vertem futurity trophy — ridden by kevin manning and trained byjim bolger.

exeter have beaten wasps 19 points to 13. in a rain—lashed premiership final in a near—empty twickenham on saturday a week after winning the european champions cup. they the european champions cup. have completed a cl winning they have completed a cup double by winning the trophy today against wasps who just managed to get a team out today after all of those positive covid—19 tests. that's all from sportsday. goodbye. hello, there. good evening. it's that night of the year when the clocks go back an hour, marking the end of british summer time, but, as far as the weather goes, well, summer feels like it's a long way behind us. a very autumnal satellite picture —

you can see this big swirl of cloud. it's been bringing some outbreaks of really heavy rain eastwards through today, plenty of showers following on behind, brisk winds as well. so, as we had through tonight, still some rain to clear eastwards across central and eastern parts of england, some of that clipping into southern scotland for a time, and then we see clear spells following on, but plenty of showers rattling in from the west blowing in on a brisk wind. it is going to be quite a cool night as well, temperatures across some parts of scotland getting down to 1 or 2 degrees, more widely between 4 and 10 degrees, but for tomorrow it is looking like an autumnal day. yes, there'll be some spells of sunshine, but some brisk winds and some blustery showers. now, the showers will focus in across western areas, so through northern ireland, western scotland, lots of north—west england, wales and the south—west, we also see some blowing in from the english channel coast. the further east you are, not as many showers, parts of north—east england, eastern scotland may well stay largely dry

with some spells of sunshine. windy for all — those are the average wind speeds, gusts will be higher than that. we could see gusts of around 50 mph for exposed spots in western scotland, and a fairly cool feel as well, top temperatures between 10 and 1a degrees. as we head through sunday night, further showers rattling in from the west, could see a slightly more prolonged spell of rain for a time across western scotland, and then, as we get into monday, well, it stays very unsettled. but i think the focus of the showers will shift a little bit further southwards, particularly across england and wales, northern ireland seeing some as well, but scotland should start to dry out a little bit from the north with some spells of sunshine. stays very cool, though, at 11 to 1a degrees. now, the area of low pressure that's been with us through the weekend, that clears away but things don't really settle down. there's a big low that's going to sit the north—west of the uk. that will drive showers or longer spells towards the end of the week, and perhaps a more widespread wet weather towards the end of the week. so, certainly an unsettled outlook with some outbreaks of rain at times, but hopefully there will also be some spells of sunshine.

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