bayer leverkusen avoid a shock in the german cup, with patrik schick helping them steamroll elversberg problems in paris. hello again, welcome to sportsday. barely a day after reports linking ruben amorim with the manchester united job, his club have made the approach public. sporting revealed on tuesday that united are interested in making amorim their next manager and are willing to pay his release clause of 10 million euros. united have been looking for a new boss after sacking erik ten hag on monday. we knew this day would come sooner or later. we were hoping later. certainly not mid—season. sporting are having a fantastic season. amorim has done an amazing job. but this is probably... well, he's actually said it himself.

meanwhile, two goals from patrik schick put the holders bayer leverkusen on course for a 3—0 victoryg champions started quickly, with schick scoring twice in the opening ten minutes. aleix garcia added a third for xabi alonso's side, who won the dfb pokal for the second time last season. the teams vying for a place at the women's european championship next year have been whittled down after the first play—off round was settled on tuesday. these were some of the more closely contested ties heading into the second legs, but belgium and serbia had big home wins to seal progress. the 14 teams that went through have one more round to navigate before claiming a place in the finals in switzerland. they include northern ireland and wales, who both won their ties after extra time, and scotland's 4—0 victory over hungary sealed a 5—0 aggregate win. we've still got more to come, and we were speaking about that on the bench, and i still feel we've got another level, which is a scary thing, because i think we actually played quite well tonight, moved the ball a lot better than we did, made them r

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