Everything you need to know ahead of the Pool B fixture

Everything you need to know ahead of the Pool C fixture

Virgil van Dijk is suspended for the Reds; hosts Wolves are looking for just a second win of the Premier League season

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Jamie Vardy grabbed his first Championship goal of the season as Leicester climbed to the top of the table with a 4-1 thrashing of Southampton.Vardy needed just 21 seconds to open the scoring before Kasey McAteer, Wilfred Ndidi and Stephy Mavididi made it a dominant display for the visitors despite Sam Edozie’s goal. Continue reading...

United manager says club needed ‘good standards’‘It has never been when someone makes one mistake …’Erik ten Hag has admitted to not knowing if he will ever select Jadon Sancho to play for Manchester United again.Sancho is training away from the first-team squad after refusing to apologise for claiming the manager did not tell the truth regarding …

Club have not let sale of Declan Rice disrupt momentum but manager will not get carried away during rare purple patchThe gag doing the rounds is that an early title decider takes place at the London Stadium on Saturday afternoon. All eyes are on the clash of the heavyweights: West Ham v Manchester City, David Moyes and Pep Guardiola going head to head, the …

Sport of Camanachd, or shinty, is spreading beyond Scottish Highlands, with women’s game the biggest growth areaWhen the teams step out at Bught Park, Inverness on Saturday for the Camanachd Cup Final, it will mark the end of a remarkable season for the Highland sport, which has seen women and girls enjoying a “breakthrough” year.Camanachd, or shinty …

South Africa’s selection puzzler; Samoa want more time with tier one; Tshiunza’s steep learning curve; and fuelling with baguettesAfter their opening win against Scotland, South Africa get a second crack at Pool B on Sunday evening against Romania in Bordeaux. While much has been made of the world champions’ squad depth, the loss of the hooker Malcolm …

A significant shock is brewing at this tournament and the Brave Blossoms have a rich history of providing World Cup upsets The most memorable Rugby World Cups are created by performances that no one saw coming. Uruguay’s splendid effort against France was another classic example, reminding everyone that nothing is ever wholly guaranteed. Few anticipate a …

Fourth ODI: South Africa, 5-416, beat Australia, 252, by 164 runsAustralia opener’s World Cup in jeopardy due to fractured handAustralia’s preparations for the World Cup have been thrown into disarray after Travis Head fractured a hand in a horror 164-run loss to South Africa at Centurion. Head’s night – and probably his World Cup dream – ended …

Kaden Groves involved in late crash on day for sprintersKuss relieved to avoid spill as race becomes ‘stressful’Alberto Dainese of Team DSM-Firmenich narrowly avoided a massive crash in the final kilometre to sprint to victory in stage 19 of the Vuelta a España, while Sepp Kuss of Jumbo-Visma finished safely in the peloton to retain the overall lead.As …

With seven players of Fijian heritage, Australia head into their next World Cup pool match with unique perspectiveThe high-flying Fijians against the free-wheeling Wallabies: it’s a volatile combination. It may be the most important game of Eddie Jones’s second tenure as Wallabies coach, but for seven Wallabies, this contest with Fiji has far greater …

Lewis Ludlam comes in at No 8 with Earl at openside flankerKyle Sinckler starts at prop after recovering from chest injuryGiven his attention to detail, it will not be lost on Steve Borthwick that the last time Billy Vunipola was named on England’s bench was in the autumn of 2022, against Japan, in the last victory of Eddie Jones’s tenure.Japan were …

One of the sport’s most loved and influential figures has died peacefully and ‘surrounded by loving family’The AFL great Ron Barassi has died, his family confirmed in a statement on Saturday.“After a full and extraordinary life, Ronald Dale Barassi, aged 87, left us today due to complications from a fall,” the family said. Continue reading...

The Jets’ championship window is narrow. They need to make an aggressive move after Aaron Rodgers’s season ended with an achilles injuryHow do you put the pieces back together on a season that disintegrated in four plays?The New York Jets are still coming to terms with Aaron Rodgers’s achilles tear and its short- and long-term impact. The solution for …

King Charles and Queen Camilla are expected to be at Doncaster to cheer on their Royal Ascot-winning coltA recent edition of Private Eye included a column by “Flunkey”, the magazine’s royal-watcher, which suggested that “a sense of drift” has already descended on the reign of King Charles III. Evidence of this, the writer pointed out, included the …

Erik ten Hag’s team should have been challenging at the top but bad luck and bad management have engulfed the clubAfter Erik ten Hag’s first season yielded Champions League qualification and the Carabao Cup, plus an FA Cup final, this was the year Manchester United would be title challengers. That was the focus in the Old Trafford boardroom and at …

Pool A: New Zealand 71-3 NamibiaEthan de Groot red card is only sour note for rampant All BlacksDeath, taxes and Namibia being battered by the All Blacks. They have played them in three World Cups in a row and gone down 71-9, 58-14, and now 71-3. A handful of their players, including the captain, Johan Deysel, have played in all three losses. It must have …

After impressing in their opening victory over Argentina, Steve Borthwick’s men should now look to add silk to their steelIt is typical of England as a sporting nation that we can write off a team for a couple of months, they then dig out a defiant victory against Argentina and suddenly we expect them to stick 40 points on Japan. That is the nature of the …