UP beat Bengal Warriors
Bengaluru: Yoddha produced a defensive master class to outfox Bengal Warriors 32-29 in a Pro Kabaddi League match at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Sunday. Nitesh Kumar, with a High 5, was the star in UP’s defence as they tackled Season 7’s best raiding unit out of the match. Bengal Warriors, the team in form, raced to a quick start with their raiding trio of Maninder Singh, K Prapanjan and Mohammad Nabibakhsh looking in form. The Bengal side went into the match as the best raiding unit in Season 7 (19.8 average raid points) and quickly moved to take a lead. Monu Goyat’s absence in the team meant the raiding duties fell in the hands of an out-of-form Rishank Devadiga and the raider once again struggled to impress on the mat. But Nitesh Kumar’s two Super Tackles kept the UP side in the game. (PTI)
Leclerc wins Belgian Grand Prix
Brussels: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday to record the maiden victory of his career. This win is also Ferrari’s first win in the 2019 campaign. It is Ferrari’s first victory since Kimi Raikkonen’s win in the last year’s United States Grand Prix. The 21-year-old also became the third-youngest winner in F1 history. After the win, Leclerc dedicated the win to late Anthoine Hubert who passed away after a crash in Saturday’s F2 feature race. Leclerc lost track position to team mate Sebastian Vettel during the pit stops but later on he managed to lead reasonably comfortably and he was able to hold off Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton to clinch the victory. Hamilton finished at the second place and extended his championship lead, and his team mate Valtteri Bottas completing the podium as he finished on the third place. German driver Sebastian Vettel recorded the fastest lap but he managed to finish at the fourth spot. Red Bull’s Alexander Albon finished the race at the fifth spot to complete the top five spots. (ANI)
Southgate defends Lingard
Leeds: England football coach Gareth Southgate on Sunday defended midfielder Jesse Lingard’s inclusion in the England squad for Euro 2020 qualifiers.Lingard has been going through a lean patch as he last scored a goal for his club Manchester United in December 2018.The England coach even defended United’s coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, saying the club has a pretty young team.”I think you would have to say I have seen him have better spells for United. I think Ole has a young, energetic team, and I think Jesse is pressing and the energy he brings to that has been an important part of what they have tried to do in the first few games,” Goal.com quoted Southgate as saying.”The inclusion of Jesse for us is partly because his form for us has always been good. I know there was stats on his goals. He was only involved in four games for us last season because of injury – two starts and two off the bench,” he added.Southgate said that performances for the club is a parameter for selecting the national team. (ANI)