last round his sides first since he last round commanding a dryjanuary. man united are league leaders and have marcus rashford come a man of vision who spotted a mason greenwood who slotted the equaliser. greenwood is just 19, the same age as rhys williams, still learning, sometimes the hard way. after william smith some he would've known rashford wasn't going to. jurgen klopp would hope this game would reignite his team, sometimes the switch only flicks when you force it. most sparked, liverpool lived in old flame. it would be extinguished by magic. a year ago this week united sign bruno fernandes cicely to do things like this without a robbery but on close geography sustained by competitive history is settled by individual quality. after the game manchester united manager ole gunnar solskjaer was full of praise for the scorer of the winning goal, bruno fernandes great call. good free kick. the

thing is when you leave him out like i had to do this time, i think he stayed about 45 minutes after the training yesterday shooting free kicks. i was quite confident he will hit the target. he is never happy with me when i tell them to go inside when he is playing the day after, so we got some time to practice. in the day's early match — tammy abraham's hat—trick gave chelsea a 3—1win over luton.... at a snowy stamford bridge. the victory eases some of the pressure on frank lampard and his side — who've lost 5 of their last 8 premier league games.... including defeat to leicester on tuesday. craig templeton reports. the fa cup is a competition that provide many things. frank lampard might have been wishing it would provide distraction. but in truth, prior to the game, the main distraction was the difficult conditions. but the sky cleared up and with the pitch cleaned up, it wasn't long before chelsea were clean through. werner unselfishly to

abraham, simple, right? well, not exactly, as replay showed there were 2 balls on the pitch the build—up. luton far from happy. and their mood was not improved when it james scoop to the ice for abraham's second goal. two goals in the opening 16. luton managed to find a way back tojordan clark, although not for the first time. he could've done better. you would've thought luton would've been itching to restart after that goal, but they were nearly five minutes late for the second half. when play did finally continue, it was capa who got his timing is right. a massive opportunity missed. it would be proved to be costly as chelsea put together the move of the match resulting in abraham's hat—trick. an absolutely sensational goal! great teamwork from chelsea! werner�*s penalty should have made

it four. a strike indicative of a man low on goals and low on confidence. a blip for the blues and for him, a positive ending to a difficult week. craig templeton, bbc news. brentford surprised leicester by taking an early lead — when mads sorensen put them ahead after six minutes. but the premier league side overwhelmed their championship opponents with three second half goals, james maddison completing a 3—1win. they'll face brighton next. burnley were in a happy place after a 3—0 win over top—flight opponents fulham. jay rodriguez headed homejack cork�*s cross. he got his second from the penalty spot — before kevin long got the third, in the final ten minutes. they'll face either bournemouth or crawley town in the next round. manchester united have gone to the top of the women's superleague thanks to a 2—0 win over birmingham city. leah galton put united ahead in the opening minute of the second half. ella toone sealed the win with ten minutes left. united are now three points clear of second—placed chelsea, whose match was postponed because of the weather. in the day's other game manchester city thrashed brighton 7—1.

it's the second league game in a row they've scored that many. caroline weir and steph haughton both struck twice. city are up to third because arsenal's game was also called off because of the weather. livingston have secured a place in the scottish league cup final after beating st mirren one nil. scott robinson's early header ultimately made it 11 games unbeaten under boss david martindale. the club reached just their second majorfinal and will play stjohnston. away from the on—field action — arsenal midfielder mesut ozil has completed his move to turkish side fenerbahce.... the 32—year—old former germany international spent eight years at the emirates and won three fa cups but hasn't played for the first team in nearly a year. ozil has signed a three and a half year contract. another outstanding batting performance from england captain joe root kept his side in the second test with sri lanka in galle earlier. his side now on 339 for nine... just 42 behind the hosts going into day four. here's our sports

correspondent, joe wilson. he's one face of england cricket's winter so far. here is how the captain managed to make another 100 against sri lanka. there were lots of shots like that. you see his perfect timing when you slow it down. root had support from jos buttler. the ball was travelling for a while. sri lanka could have used an extra fielder. decent turn pace. not built to catch. sri lanka grabbed this chance to get rid of butler. replays revealed the ball bouncing from bat to boot. it didn't hit the ground, so he was out for 55. england were six down. curran fell five wickets. here is another face of the series. england depended on their captain, butjoe root was feeling the wear and tear after hours in the middle.

four for don best. as england gradually neared sri lanka's score. joe root knew the way. with this shot, another celebration. his score to 150. batting from sunrise to sunset, almost. he kept improvising, kept scoring. bess fell like many others. the final minutes of the day. root forward and scrambling back. replays showed the bail coming off before his bat reached the crease. 186 and gutted. joe wilson, bbc news. so close there for root — just missing out on another double century. it was an education, and lesson in skill for others to follow — according tojos buttler, who reached his half century in galle. quite amazing innings. to back up his double hundred in the first test, both physically and mentally, showing the application to go

into it again, it's been a master class really in batting against spin and it's been a great education for all of us i think watching from the sidelines and we have thoroughly enjoyed watching him to get out in that fashion at the end of the day. —— and thoroughly gutted watching him get out in that fashion. quick round up of some of the day's other sports stories and... afghanistan took a 2—0 series lead over ireland with a crushing seven—wicket win in abu dhabi. rahmat shah made a 103—ball century as the afghans chased down ireland's total of 259 with nearly five overs to spare. 0spreys beat connacht by 26 points to 20 in the pro—14. they ran in four tries, with two for rhys webb. the result giving them a sixth win in seven matches — with 0spreys third in conference a. having already won the three match series, england are playing a final game against a superleague all stars team . the fourth quarter is coming to an end in loughborough. england lead 50—36

england's tyrrell hatton produced a stunning final round, to win the abu dhabi championship. it was extremely tight at the top of the leadboard at the start of the day. but hatton surged ahead with a six—under—par 66. 0vernight leader rory mcilroy finished five shots back. hatton said it was a big boost to win so early in the season, especially with ryder cup points at stake. surreal to be honest. i think even there knocking it on the 18th even doesn't seem like i won the tournament. but obviously it is amazing. i've always loved starting my season here in abu dhabi. now to add my name on that trophy with so many great champions before me, it is a huge honour. danielle kang leads the way, at the lpga's tournament of champions on florida — she's three shots ahead jessica korda, as they go into the last remaining holes of the day. kang is hoping for her sixth tour win.

former two—weight world champion — conor mcgregor — was left stunned on his return to the ufc as dustin poirier claimed victory in their rematch. mcgregor came out of retirement for a third time to face poirier. and looked good in the first round but the american came on strong in the second, sealing a technical knockout win after a flurry of punches. the irishman said afterwards that it was a "tough one to swallow" — but conceded his opponent put on a "phenomenal performance". and... elvyn evans failed to end britain's 53 year wait for a monte carlo rally winner. he'd already surrendered the lead yesterday, to his toyota team mate and world champion sebastien 0hzhey. and the frenchman ran away with it today, winning three of the four stages. to claim a record eighth victory in the event. evans finished runner up. 32 seconds behind. maybe i didn't push quite enough to really challenge him for the victory. he was very good this weekend.

obviously it's his home ground was still you have to drive the thing so a lot of credit them. for the team it is a fantastic start. we can be happy with the points but of course set here now you always more. hopefully next time that we can do better. that's all from sportsday. you can get all the latest on the bbc sports website. see you soon. hello there. it's still snowing. the snow will clear into tonight and a widespread frost and ice to start monday. some of the higher snow totals have been in the midlands and snow�*s moved in for southern england and ireland but it stalled here into the midlands and parts of east anglia. this is where it has

been for the longest. it will clear way southwards. and once the met office warning for the snow in the midlands expires this evening it will turn very icy in the last of the snow clearing the far southeast into the early hours, the winter shower in northern scotland will pep up as the night goes on so an ice risk here as well. the snow is deepest as monday begins. plus two in stornaway, —7 could be yours for the snow is deepest as monday begins. with all of the ice around, treacherous conditions, road pavements, if you have to be out in the morning, for many of us it will be a brighter and drier day. showers around scotland around the coast, the snow england into the hills, wanted to forward northern ireland, away from these, much of the uk during monday it will be dry and broken cloud and sunny spells and a little less cold. still some winter showers for scotland, northern ireland and northern england going into monday night. the ice risk continues here and where any of that snow has melted during the day and refreezing over night into tuesday morning. on tuesday, something different, something from the atlantic.

a weather front heading our way bringing cloud and rain. very slowly pushing further north and east as tuesday goes on, reaching some cold air and seeing a bit of snow to end the day into the pennines. before this system fades away overnight. and it will still be quite cold at this stage. but a change is afoot for wednesday. we will see more vigorous weather systems again with more rain and that is a concern to areas that have seen flooding not as much rain as last week but areas affected by flooding, super—sensitive to further rain so we do need to keep an eye on that as the week goes on but with these weather systems with a time for many of us and will turn milder and he could be that cold air hands across much of scotland and may be parts of northeast england. milder and waited for a time before it turns colder again into next weekend. goodbye.

this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the number of covid—19 cases in the united states passes 25 million — with the number of deaths soaring to nearly 418,000. more than 70 cases of the south african variant of covid are identified in the uk, amid concerns the vaccine may be less effective against it. ministers say numbers are being closely monitored. we have an enhanced contact tracing, to do everything we possibly can to stop them from spreading. israel announces it will ban incoming flights from monday evening until the end ofjanuary — in order to try and contain the spread of coronavirus. some enjoy the wintry conditions, as snow and ice sweep across the uk,

but severe weather warnings are in place for many areas.