#match-report

#match-report

Tottenham cruised into the fourth round of the EFL Cup as Thomas Frank's side beat Doncaster Rovers 3-0 on a night that also saw holders Newcastle United progress in style and wins for Arsenal and Manchester City. Spurs can look forward to a fourth-round tie with Newcastle at St James' Park, after the draw pitted them against Eddie Howe's side in a mouthwatering tie.

"I thought in the first half we were outstanding. We started the season poorly, but we built on the second half against Coventry and first half against Leicester,"

It was a difficult match. We weren't fully present in the first half and conceded twice, but we knew we had to show our character in the second half,

Christian Garcia's first-half own goal and Declan Rice's header after the break ensured England extended their perfect 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign to four wins and moved five points clear at the top of Group K with victory over Andorra. Centre-back Garcia headed Arsenal forward Madueke's right-wing cross past Iker Alvarez in the 25th minute after the Three Lions, who are 170 places above Andorra in the rankings, had struggled to test the goalkeeper during the early stages at Villa Park.

Estevao netted an incredible first competitive goal for Brazil to set them on their way to a 3-0 win over Chile in their penultimate World Cup qualifier. Brazil moved up to second in the qualifying table, while Chile's woes went on as they failed to pose a threat to Carlo Ancelotti's team in his first match at the Maracana. Casemiro had a glancing header disallowed for offside in the fourth minute,

My final comment just now in the dressing room was that we played Montreal twice when they were bottom of the table, head coach Pascal Jansen told the media after the match. Today, DC is bottom table, finished for the playoffs already, so we're just playing to finish the league. We only got one point out of those three games. In all three games, there is something that's alike we had a lot of possession, but we got punished for small errors.

Half of Samoa's squad had to fundraise to be able to attend this Rugby World Cup, with no contracts in place, and some have taken unpaid leave from their jobs to represent their country. England, on the other hand, have been a professional outfit for more than five years and have now swept aside their opponents in 59 of their last 60 matches, that one loss coming in the last World Cup final.

Kylian Mbappe scored his second goal in as many games to hand Real Madrid a half-time lead at Real Oviedo this evening. The Frenchman received Arda Guler's pass, and turned sharply before firing a low drive beyond the dive of home goalkeeper Aaron Escandell. The goal was not without controversy though with Madrid midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni crashing into home midfielder Leander Dendoncker with a crunching tackle to win the ball. The Oviedo fans demanded a free-kick but it was not forthcoming.

The shadow of the defending champions, New Zealand, looms over Pool C and on that basis Ireland could not afford to lose. They kicked off their World Cup campaign with a fluent victory, in which every element of their game functioned well on the immaculate Franklin's Gardens pitch. Japan won the previous match between these two, a 29-10 victory in 2022, and had they upset the odds it would hardly have represented their own Miracle of Brighton from the men's World Cup in 2015.