in the scottish premiership. scotland beaten by france — their autumn nations cup hopes now out of their hands. and who will bring the curtain down at london's 02 with victory in the atp tour finals? the champions liverpool are up against leicester in the premier league, a win for the latter would send them to the top of the table tonight. it is liverpool who lead after a jonny evans own goal. more in a moment but in the early game, everton beat fulham three two in what was the most entertaining match of the day at craven cottage. everton up to sixth in the table. nick parrot was watching.

everton would have relished the prospect of visiting craven cottage. it is little coincidence there poor run ofform... it is little coincidence there poor run of form... the brazilian quickly made up for as absence. the hosts recovered from that early setback when bobby found it way through. calvert—lewin put everton back in front. and they should have cruised to victory. but fulham boss second tactical change almost turn things around. his heart might have sank when cavallaro became the latest fulham player to miss a penalty. 83 seconds later though, they were back in contention. this time, his shot

was deflected in. that failed to add momentum for fulham, everton held on to get their season back on track. those two goals take calvert—lewin to ten in nine premier league games. the leaguie‘s top goal—scorer, but the england striker more concerned with his team ending their bad run of form than his own goal—scoring exploits. the most important thing today was that we got the three points. it sounds cliche but i thought the second half, we didn't play very well. we didn't really have much of the ball. first half, we did well to get the lead. we should have continued that. but i thought on another day, perhaps we would get punished for not playing well enough oi'i punished for not playing well enough on the second half. but most important was to get back to winning. and we build from here. arsenal manager mikel arteta called nicolas pepe‘s conduct "unacceptable" as he was sent off in his side's draw with leeds. arsenal created little, and the sending off proved the most telling moment as pepe was dismissed for violent conduct, for pushing his head

into the face ezjan alioski. leeds hit the arsenal woodwork on several occasions, their best effort came from rodrigo after a nice piece of play. arsenal in the bottom half of the table seven points off league leaders tottenham. speaking to match of the day's martin fisher, arsenal boss mike arteta was far from happy. i'm never happy with a draw, but considering the circumstances a point we have to take. any complaints about the red card?m unacceptable. that's it. had a chance to speak to yet? what kind of reaction did you get? at this level, you cannot do it. do you think you let down his team—mates? you cannot do it. do you think you let down his team-mates? it is unacceptable. just one point from nine games is all sheffield united have to show from the start of their season. they slipped to another defeat today, this time to west ham. sebastian haller got the game's only goal in a 1—0 win for david moyes's side.

sheffield united are just the third side in premier league history to have so few points at this stage — both of those sides were relegated. serious concerns for their site. it's tough, it's a tough gig at the moment. i understand that. we have to stay positive, which i certainly will. there are worse people in worse positions in life than us. as premier league manager and premier league players. it is a different challenge to what we had last year. we've got to try and come through it. as i said to the players, it is a ruthless leak, it is a cut—throat league. hopefully kick—start everything again. without a of confidence in the team. look, times today we showed that we were up against a team that were fighting

really ha rd against a team that were fighting really hard and doing everything they could to try and stop us. thankfully, in the end, we came away with three points. what a goal it was. here's the latest score between liverpol and leicester — less than ten minutes to go until half—time. marcella tested positive for coronavirus this week. liverpool leading by thatjonny evans own goal with about ten minutes to go in the at anfield. rangers have opened up an ii—point lead over second placed celtic at the top of the scottish premiership. they beat aberdeen 4—0 taking full advantage of celtic‘s dropped points yesterday. asjoe lynskey reports. rangers celebrate each win with just a fist bump and renewed focus. for nine years in a row, they have watched their rivals win the league. they know to be champions it has to be perfect. but this is their best start

to a top—flight season in 53 years. they have players full of confidence taking shots from 30 yards. ryan kent's brilliant strike was helped by a deflection, but rangers were dominant against the team third in the league. aberdeen had been depleted by injuries and covid. already this match looked settled with kemar roofe's strike for 2—0. rangers completed the job with two more second—half goals. after seeing celtic draw yesterday, this side had set a course to win a big. a penalty would set up rangers' mst goal of the season, they have only let in three. and while they are still a long way to go, this side have set their standard and their lead at the top is 11 points. joe lynskey, bbc news. scotland were beaten by france at murrayfield in rugby union's autumn nations cup. victory would have seen them top group and clinch

a place in the final. but it's france, who continue their brilliant run, victory against italy next weekend will see them feature in the showpiece. katie gornall reports. this year, scotland have been a team on the rise, no longerjust good to watch, but also hard to beat. here, their new—found resilience would be tested to the limit. france have staged their own renaissance. widely considered to be the form team in world rugby, they gained an early foothold at murrayfield. but scotland would match them stride for stride, the ever reliable duncan weir kicking for the horizon in a first half dominated by the boot. 12—12 at the break but immediately after it, france would showcase their attacking flair, scything through the scottish defence and setting up vakatawa, who crashed over. the try is given. another ramos penalty would leave scotland needing a bit of magicjust to draw level, but when they needed them most, their attacking powers deserted them. the gamble has not paid off. it was an unfortunate end to scotland's five—game winning

streak and with france now in pole position to make the final, their hopes of silverware in this competition look increasingly out of reach. two domestic rugby now. after a routine win for champions exeter on friday, today premiership finalists wasps faced a much tougher task at home to bristol on what's been the opening weekend in the premiership. it looked like bristol were going to end their 20—year wait for a league win at wasps and avenge last season's semifinal defeat. but jack willis' try in the final minutes gave wasps a 23—20 win. despite only having 14 men for most of the second half, ospreys managed to come from behind to beat benetton in the pro“; devvy lake with the final try. 2a—22 the final score, they remain third in conference a. not such a good day for another welsh side. they were thrashed 40—5 by leinster, dave carney scoring the opening

try inside a0 seconds. leinster remain top of conference a whilst blues are fourth in conference b. it is perhaps not the final many would have predicted but it is danil medvedev and dominic thiem who bring to a close the season ending atp tour finals in london. it's been a match of high quality so far with some great rallies, with thiem taking the first set 6—4. we should be able to bring you some live pictures now. a break in play at the moment. this is life on bbc two. it is 6—5 to danil medvedev. remember, danil medvedev will need the set. these two are the real form players of the year. with danil medvedev and thiem having knocked out djokovic and refined adele respectively, they are looking to make their mark on the men's game.

thiem us open champion. you can watch it live over on bbc one at the moment. earlier, the men's doubles final was won by wesley koolhof and nikola mektic, who came through in a champions tie break by ten points to five. there was no record tenth different winner as the motogp season drew to a close in portugal. miguel oliveira made the most of home advantage to win for the second time this year. jack miller's second place saw ducati win the constructors' title. newly crowned championjoan mir failed to finish due to technical problems with his suzuki. britain's cal crutchlow finished 13th in his final race as a full—time rider. ronnie o'sullivan trailsjudd trump by five frames to three after the first session of the northern ireland open final. trump started the better but o'sullivan won the crucial final frame of the session with this total clearance of 137 to reduce the deficit to two frames.

the first to nine, will win the title when they resume later this evening. and another world record to tell you about. and adam peaty set a new record in the men's 100 metre breastroke on the last day of competition in budapest. he touched the wall in a time of 55.41 seconds, beating the short course record he set in the pool a week ago. he now holds three world records — this and the long course record in the same event. and the 50 metre breastroke. is there nothing the man cannot do? that's all from sportsday. hello, good evening. most of us got cialis a little bit of brightness during today. and with some clear spells continuing it is going be cold out there through tonight. high pressure sitting to the south of the

british isles. we've also had some showers across northern ireland, particularly across northern and western scotland. there is will tend to fade through the night, some will continue. we will certainly see more clout rolling into northern ireland and western scotland. here, that will tend to lift the temperatures by morning. quite busy here as well. elsewhere, particularly across eastern areas, quite a chilly night. cabbage is down to around freezing. it isa cabbage is down to around freezing. it is a cross to those eastern areas that will of the sunshine through tomorrow. that will thicken through the day. the odd spot of rain. but thick cloud will bring some slightly more persistent rain to northern ireland and especially western parts of scotland, where it will also be quite windy. we could see gusts of 60 mph across the west isles. there is temperatures highest in the west, but after that chilly start in eastern parts it is going to be a bit of a struggle staying in single digits. as we head into tuesday, we

see the system wriggling around across the north—west of uk. that is where we will see outbreaks of rain. it is going to be quite a particularly wet day in northern ireland. some of that rain continued to feed in across scotland at times. much of england and wales, some sunshine stop some dances of cloud and drizzle for western parts. tuesdayis and drizzle for western parts. tuesday is the mildest day of the week for most. however, as we move out of tuesday into wednesday things start to change. it will start to put eastwards, weakening as it goes. some patchy rain. so on wednesday, the remnants of that weather front bringing cloud and patchy rain to the south and south—east of the uk. some showers across the north west of scotland. elsewhere, since of sunshine. you can see temperatures backin sunshine. you can see temperatures back in single digits by most of us by the state. it was the end of the

week, it is looking rather chilly by day and quite cold by night with some frost and fog at times. but it will be largely dry.

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