shanghai sipg fought back from 2—0 down at home to urawa red diamonds, to draw 2—2.al—hilal ended 0—0. colm harrison reports. al—ittihad and al—hilal i the only saudi side to win the champions league but there is only room for one of them in this season ‘s semi—final and after disappointing no goal firstly, we are semi—final and after disappointing no goalfirstly, we are no semi—final and after disappointing no goal firstly, we are no closer to knowing who will reach it. squandering numerous chances that fell to al—hilal while al—ittihad could not get past the goalkeeper. the second leg can only be better. earlier, shanghai sipg hosted urawa red diamonds in the first of two japanese quarter—finals. a grateful forward was on hand to put them in front. i have time it was a 2—0. shinzo koroki's six goal of the competition gave the champions some breathing space. shanghai sipg were thrown to lifelines after a clumsy challenge gave hulk the chance to put one forward. hulk then tucked away his second penalty of the game. still all to play for in the second leg. colm harris

two more quarterfinals get underway on tuesday, including shanghai sipg against urawa red diamonds inlso the all—saudia arabian tie between al ittihad v al hilal. they're the only two saudi teams to have won the champions league, and they've both won the trophy twice — although it's 19 years since al—hilal's most recent success. their romanian coach razvan lucescu — who onlyjoined the club injune — is desperate to equal the all—time record of three champions league titles. we know very well that our fights are crazy to win this season. on the same time we are crazy because for the football players, for the coach that work in a team, the most beautiful situation is to raise the trophy. and then, everybody is for this year to fight, to fight, to fight, and to continue the competition. in italy, romelu lukaku scored on his debut for inter as they beat lecce 4—0 in their opening game of the new serie a season. inter took the lead after 21 minutes with a stunning goal from croatian midfielder marcelo brozovic — which helped them into a 2—0 lead at the break. it was on the hour mark when re

penalties for shanghai sipg in their asian champions league quarter final first leg against urawa red diamondsed out until october following knee surgery. hello there and welcome to the programme, where we start with the tennis news that top seed and defending champion naomi 0saka is through to the second round of the us open, the year's final grand slam, but not without her difficulties. after 0saka won the opening set 6—4, russia's anna blinkova claimed the second in a tie break to force a decider. and the 21 year—old from japan then found her game in the final set to advance to a second round meeting against poland's magda linnette. i felt