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Italy face England in the Nations League on Friday night at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on Friday evening. Eurosport.co.uk will be providing minute-by-minute updates of the League A3 match. It is, of course, a re-run of the Euro 2020/21 final, which Italy won on penalties after a 1-1 draw after extra time.
Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi edged out fellow teenager Christopher Yoo in the quarterfinals via tie-breaker to reach the last four round of the Julius Baer Generation Cup online rapid chess tournament on Friday. Erigiasi's compatriot R Praggnanandhaa, however, crashed out, losing 1-3 to Germany's Vincent Keymer. World champion Magnus Carlsen, a winner over Levon Aronian of USA), will face 17-year old Keymer while the other semifinal will feature Vietnam's Liem Quang Le and Erigaisi. The 19-year-old Erigaisi and 15-year-old Yoo were locked 2-2 after the four rapid games. The Indian won the opening game before his opponent bounced back to level. The same pattern was repeated in the next two games.
Godolphin look to add to their 19 Group 1 prizes this weekend with three horses entered in some of Europe’s most prestigious six-furlong juvenile contests.
FRIDAY'S BIG STORIES Nervous Lions Ad England play Italy this evening. And while every England game is a cause for extreme hype and extreme scrutiny, this is probably the most important England game since… well, since the last time they played Italy. And that was an actual final.
Kazakhstan's WorldTour star, Yevgeniy Fedorov, was an unlikely winner of the World Championships under-23 road race in Wollongong. Having tried several times before, the Astana rider finally snuck away with Czechia's Mathias Vacek in a late move after the break of the day had been reeled in. That had held out for most of the previous three-and-a-half hours, with France's Mathis Le Berre the hardiest resistor.
Costa Rica became the 32nd and final country to qualify for the World Cup finals in Qatar after beating New Zealand in an inter-confederation play-off.
A brilliant bit of bike racing in the final kilometres of the men’s junior race saw Emil Herzog deliver Germany’s first road rainbow jersey since 2016. Herzog had been the only rider with the legs to bring back a surging Antonio Morgado, who had gone solo at the start of the final lap. The Portuguese rider forced him to start the sprint first and just about drew level, but Herzog had just enough left to hang on and take the victory by a little less than a bike length.
England manager Gareth Southgate said he is willing to put his reputation on the line to back Harry Maguire but that the defender's place in the squad will become complicated if he continues to sit out games at club level.