IAN HERBERT: You need substance, excellence and esprit de corps on the field of play to underpin the marketing hype in any sport and there was precious little of any of that from the winners.

Bayer Leverkusen prevailed with a 3-0 victory, with Stanisic amongst the scorers. The 23-year-old is on a season-long loan from Bayern, who he joined as a youth player in 2017.

NIK SIMON AT TWICKENHAM: George admitted his team must do better against Scotland but claimed it will not take a 'quantum leap' in performance to launch a surprise title bid.

The midfielder on a ‘misunderstanding’ with Pep Guardiola and Gareth Southgate’s influence to stay in the Premier League“Ooofff,” Kalvin Phillips says, smiling as he usually does but feeling the question in his gut. Like a low blow. What was the toughest moment for him at Manchester City? “There’s a few …” Phillips wants to look forward. To …

Marcus Rashford? Dominic Solanke? Ollie Watkins? Who is Ivan Toney competing with for a Euro 2024 spot?

Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson says this is the "toughest" period of his managerial career because supporters have turned against him and the team.

RICHARD GIBSON: Kohli, a player with 80 international hundreds, was left out of India's squad for Thursday's third Test in Rajkot plus those in Ranchi and Dharamsala that follow.

Meanwhile Jude Bellingham scored his 19th and 20th goals of the season as Real thrashed Girona 4-0

Paris St-Germain come from behind to beat Lille and move 11 points clear at the top of Ligue 1.

Goalkeeper saves two penalties in dramatic shootout

Captain believes squad can rise to the challenge‘We know we have got a huge amount of growth left’England’s captain, Jamie George, says his unbeaten side can be genuine Six Nations title contenders despite the stiffer challenges still awaiting them. Having squeezed past Wales and Italy by two and three points respectively, England now have to go to …

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: To Littler, his day-to-day goings on are 'a lot of the stuff that a 17-year-old boy would do'. But the rest is the stuff of a phenomenon.