and universities across china who are developing these robots and they're winning competitions. it'sjen copestake, everybody! cheering and applause. this has been a blast! we have made it well past our 20th birthday and through the toughest time i think any of us have ever seen. lara, thank you. you're, like, the best co—host i could've wished for. lara lewington, everybody. lara lewington. thanks, everyone, for coming! cheering and applause. you can get a full show on iplayer. i hope that you have a restful and peaceful time off, if you can. here's to 2021. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. bye! cheering and applause.

hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm gavin ramjaun. plenty on the way this evening. manchester city run riot in the first half at stamford bridge with a stunning win over chelsea. keeping the pressure up — leicester go a point behind the leaders, with victory at newcastle this afternoon. and a good day for leicester rugby, too, the tigers coming back to edge a thriller against bath in the premiership. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm gavin ramjaun. they were missing five first—team players through coronavirus, but manchester city were rampant against chelsea at stamford bridge this evening. pep guardiola's side stormed to a three—goal lead at half time, before a late consolation for the blues. the loss heaps more pressure

on chelsea boss frank lampard — asjoe lynsky reports. the manchester city, just getting a tea m the manchester city, just getting a team out felt like a victory. their last match was postponed and six of their players are still out with the virus. but over the years, they spent billions to have talent in reserve. ilkay gundogan was first to grasp is placed on the team arejust two minutes later, the home—grown hero would sweep chelsea away. for phil foden, every minute on the pitch matters. he wants to start for england at the euros. finishes like this make him hard to ignore. city had overcome their setbacks. they now had total control. and on the breakaway, raheem sterling seems to have the whole of stamford bridge. he couldn't finish the chance himself. instead, it fell to kevin de bruyne. 3—0. now these were chelsea's problems. they spent big in pre—season but now they are eight in the table. at one point, they

even struggled to take a corner. chelsea's consolation came in the last minute of the match. far too late, and that their manager as well, time is running out. ali then needs to be a reality check. ali if you rebuild, there will be pain behind the scenes... you have to fight through that, whether it's me, we have to fight for the club. managing chelsea was frank lampard's dream job. now is under pressure to save it. well, that result puts manchester city right back in the title race — they're just four points off the leaders with a game in hand, and their manager said today's performance reminded him of the seasons where they won the league. here at stamford bridge it so is fantastic winning, but especially the way we play. today, way back like we were, to three seasons ago. so, a commitment for all the players, so we play really good.

hopefully in the premier league, we can be in the past 6078 games. but i'm pretty sure that people will be so i'm pretty sure that people will be so proud of the way we played today. well, city and chelsea are among a very congested top half of the table. leicester are very much up there, too. they're up to third and nowjust a point off the league leaders after holding off a late newcastle fightback. 0ur sports correspondent natalie pirks reports. fit and fresh and ready to go. brendan rodgers was convinced that the seven changes he made to his leicester side would get 2021 off to a flying start. the smart money was onjamie vardy to start the party. the magpies saved by the offside flag. leicester needed to find a way to unlock the stalemate and finally, the second half, came a moment of real quality. sterling work byjamie vardy, laid it on a plate. steve bruce has a poor home record against leicester and his problems were

compounded by a pitch perfect pass to tee up tielemans. newcastle needed a threat. step forward andy carroll. but it had been a decade since he last scored for newcastle. he couldn't, could he? his immediate impact led to a nervy final few minutes, but it was too little too late for newcastle. a 2—1 win saw leicester back to third. so, newcastle missing the chance to pull clear of sides towards the foot of the table. but for leicester, despite now being a point off the top, their manager feels they still have work to do. we wa nt we want to be up there for as long as we can and challenging but we are honest with ourselves in terms of knowing where we are and the improvements we have to make and we are certainly not there yet. however, we have the standards that we are setting, it's a good level. i have always said that potential in the group is high. it'sjust time and consistency, working together in

results like today when you have to see through games like that, it helps a really young squad improve. i couldn't fault spirit and attitude, it has been a difficult week in terms of who we have played in the difficult thing is that what we have to improve on, the final thing, the pass, to look after the ball better. we properly had our best ten minutes in the game just after half—time and give the ball away and all of a sudden, at this level, if you give the ball away cheaply, they are up at the other end of the pitch and scoring. so, i couldn't ask any more of their attitude and application, theyjust weren't quite good enough on the day. so, this is how the top of the table looks going into the new year. and it really is shaping up to be tight in 2021. leicester up to third. manchester city just three points behind them in fifth. another loss for chelsea sees them drop to eighth. tomorrow, the leaders liverpool take on southampton, who are ninth. bournemouth‘s chief executive, neill blake, has condemned the racial abuse suffered by junior stanislas, after yesterday's win at stoke in the championship.

stanislas scored the only goal of the game, and was later targeted on twitter by an individual who sent racist slurs and insults about the player's family. blake said it was "disgusting and completely intolerable", and the club has vowed to do all they can to identify the perpetrator and take the strongest possible action against them. kieran trippier has had a io—week ban for breaching betting rules suspended pending appeal. the england and atletico madrid right back was found to have committed four violations by fifa, which occured injuly 2019, which is when trippierjoined atletico madrid from spurs. he was given an immediate worldwide football ban and fined £70,000, but it's now been put on hold. to rugby union now, and there was just one match in the premiership today after london irish against northampton saints was cancelled. and it was a good one as leicester tigers came back from 11! points down to beat bath at welford road. jim lumsden was watching. the premiership has been hit hard by covid postponements.

leicester's boxing day meeting with newcastle was one. bath were playing for the first time in three weeks after two of their games were called off. it took them just a few minutes to find their feet as leicester allowed beno 0bano to cross the line. but ben spencer didn't need any help. he cruised through to register try number two. first half penalties the last pass to freddie steward and they trailed 17—16 at the break. the tigers needed to carry the momentum into the second half. they did just that. harry wells added his name to the scoresheet. their lead was eroded by penalties but refreshed with a try from cameron henderson. bath hit back with a late score, but it wasn't enough and they left welford road with a losing bonus point. england's cricketers have arrived in sri lanka for their two—test tour. a charter flight landed in the south of the island, where all members of the party

and their belongings were sprayed with disinfectant, before everyone underwent a rapid covid—i9 test. their next stop is a bio—secure bubble, where they'll prepare for the matches. the first test starts on the 14th. england abandoned a tour of sri lanka in march on the second day of a practice match as the pandemic spread. and england's next opponents are currently touring south africa. sri lanka had a tough start on the opening day of their second test injohannesburg as they were bowled out for just 157, anrich nortje taking six wickets for 56 runs. kusal perera top scored for the tourists with 60. south africa finished the day on 148—1, with dean elgar not out on 92. they trail byjust nine runs. england's limited—overs players have been in big bash action, and james vince top scored for sydney sixers as they beat adelaide strikers by seven wickets. set 151 to win, vince

made 45 not out, as the sixers reached their target with 12 balls to spare. they're now top of the bbl standings. and jason roy and liam livingstone both scored in the 20ss for perth scorchers in their win over melbourne renegades. chasing 186 to win, the renegades were bowled out a massive 96 runs short. rising american star ryan garcia recovered from an early knock—down to stop luke campbell in the seventh round of a gripping lightweight fight in dallas. campbell, the olympic champion from london 2012, landed a left hook in round two to floor garcia. but he recovered, and he was the first man to beat campbell by stoppage when the fight was halted in the seventh round. campbell told garcia afterwards that he punched harder than anyone he'd everfaced. so, garcia moves towards a title challenge, but at 33, campbell is running out of time. we're moments away from the final of the pdc world championship, with gary "the flying scotsman" anderson taking on gerwyn "the iceman" price at alexandra palace. it's best of 13 sets

and price is the first welshman to reach the pdc final, thanks to a 6—4 victory over stephen bunting. and he'll become world number one if he beats the two—time champion anderson and lifts the sid waddell trophy later. that's all from sportsday. thanks for watching. you can keep up—to—date with all the latest sports news on the bbc sport website. from me in the team, we will see you again next time. good evening. sunday brought us another wintry feeling, a cold day. the us no showers on sunday compared to what we saw on saturday.

nonetheless, still quite a bit of lying snow out there. this is the picture in worcestershire earlier on. there were also some heavy rain showers for the sale. through the coming week, no great changes in the general theme to the weather, cold with a mix of some rain, sleet and snow and sunshine thrown into the mix. through the evening and tonight, still some showers, particularly for eastern scotland and england, brisk breeze, icy stretches developing in the north—east. further south, stretches developing in the north—east. furthersouth, rain showers of east anglia and the south—east where it stays cloudy overnight. above freezing here but colder the further north—west you are, —60 minus seven degrees for the west of scotland. for monday, high pressure squeezes away most of those showers in the north, but we have this feature here... east anglia and the south—east, down towards the channel islands, the rain could be quite heavy, blown in a brisk north—easterly breeze. the rest of the weekend, brightening up, won a

two wintry flurries here, cloudier is further south across england and wales, here the strongest of the winds as well. a0 mph are higher around the coast of east anglia and through the english channel as well. temperatures only a6 degrees but feeling colder, particularly where you are exposed to the brisk north—easterly wind in the south and east. moving through monday evening, overnight into tuesday, more showers coming into eastern scotland and north—east england as well, so icy stretches likely as well. sleet and snow over the higher ground. down in the south—east on tuesday, this area rain will be quite stubborn to away, wet weather for kent down towards the channel islands, dry weather elsewhere. 0nly the channel islands, dry weather elsewhere. only about three to 6 degrees, a bit of a wind chill on tuesday. moving through into wednesday and this area of high pressure looks like itjust eases a way to the west so we will be in between a couple of weather systems through into wednesday, quite a bit of dry weather with some sunshine, still stubborn showers could linger

for kent and the channel islands. fairly heavy snow in the north west of scotla nd fairly heavy snow in the north west of scotland later in the day and it remains cold at about three of a degrees. goodbye.

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