Out writers pick the team they would start today:

Tyrone Marshall

Carrick needs to go back to basics to get a result here. That means going with Shaw at left-back if he is anywhere near ready to start, because the alternatives at left-back have really flopped.

I’d make a change in midfield as well. Youri Tielemans has started to struggle and the extra running power of Andrey Santos might be needed in a game where United have to turn up the physical edge.

It’s unclear whether Sesko is definitely unavailable for today’s game even though he wasn’t spotted travelling to London with his teammates, but if we work on the assumption he is out then Bryan Mbeumo is the best option to lead the line. The only issue with that is who fills in on the right with Amad out, but Lacey showed in midweek he is ready to make an impact from the off and should be given a chance.

Tyrone’s XI: Lammens; Dalot, Maguire, Martinez, Shaw; Santos, Mainoo; Lacey, Fernandes, Rashford; Mbeumo

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Angel Capital has finally achieved a breakthrough Group 1 success, capturing the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.

Previously finishing fourth as the favoured $2.90 elect in the 1400m event last year, Angel Capital reversed the result under a superb Ben Melham performance.

The five-year-old gelding surged past the 2025 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes winner Sepals ($11) in the final 100 metres to record a three-quarter-of-a-length victory, with Angel Capital ($5) crossing the line first.

Regal Award ($9.50), who had led from the start, finished a long-neck back in third.

Angel Capital began his racing journey with Clinton McDonald at Cranbourne before being acquired by Yulong and transferred to the stables of Chris Waller.

The Waller team had considered a start in the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) scheduled for next Sunday at Caulfield but shifted their focus to Saturday’s race upon assessing Angel Capital’s favourable handicap.

Darren Beadman, a former champion jockey and representative for the Waller stable, expressed the significant relief felt by the stable in witnessing Angel Capital’s attainment of Group 1 status.

“He’s been unlucky so many times in Group 1’s,” Beadman said. “He’s been deserving of the Group 1 win for so many runs and the way this track panned out today with a good, a strong speed up front, and Ben has the utmost faith in the horse, he rode him to perfection.”

Beadman highlighted Melham’s crucial contribution to Angel Capital’s maiden Group 1 victory.

Melham had been instrumental in Angel Capital’s early career when the horse was under McDonald’s care.

“He’s shown a lot of faith and confidence in the horse,” Beadman added. “There wouldn’t be too many jockeys that would have the key to unlock the gift that he’s got, the horse. Benny’s riding in career best form and looks strong and fit.”

Melham had consistently praised Angel Capital’s ability from their initial rides together.

He had guided the now five-year-old to wins in the McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley and the Caulfield Guineas Prelude as a three-year-old. Post-transfer to Waller’s yard, Melham had limited opportunities on the gelding, though these included Group 1 placings in the C F Orr Stakes and the Newmarket Handicap last season.

“We’ve sort of praised his ability from day dot,” Melham commented. “I just knew today that it’s the first time he’s been in a suitable race where I thought everything would go to plan with the right conditions. Then we got here this morning, and they cut the track in half. Honestly, he needs all the track he can get, so I wasn’t too happy about that, but we found a race with good speed. He got into a good rhythm, and obviously Chris is a master at setting these horses for these races. He looked a picture in the yard when I got on him, he gave a little pig root going out on the track and then he just rolled to the barriers beautifully in the zone. The ability’s never been the question with him. He’s a very good colt, as you’ve seen there today, but he’s just so big and he’s such a brute. He’s not an easy horse to ride, but when things go his way, you’ve seen what he can do.”

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The BMW PGA Championship comes to a conclusion at Wentworth Club on Sunday, with a stacked field chasing bumper prize money at the DP World Tour’s flagship event.

The total tournament purse is $9m (£6.6m), with the winner in line to earn more than £1.1m.

As well as a healthy cheque, the tournament winner will also pick up a chunky 1,335 points to add to their tally in the DP World Tour’s Order of Merit.

Rory McIlroy will be particularly motivated to scoop some points after losing ground to race leader and old foe Patrick Reed at the Irish Open.

Reed pulled out of the BMW PGA Championship with a hand injury, and McIlroy is in the mix on Sunday, beginning two shots back from the leaders in his bid to win a second title after his 2014 triumph at Wentworth.

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An incident of eve-teasing left Suchika Tariyal with a simple thought: ‘I wanted to learn how to fight’. Twenty-four years later, that decision has taken the 36-year-old from judo mats in Haryana to the Asian Games podium, where she assured India of its first medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Games by beating Mongolia’s Altanchimeg Baigalmaa 2-0 to enter the semifinals of the women’s Traditional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) 60kg event here on Sunday. The semifinals at the Nagoya City Inae Sports Centre here on Monday will give Tariyal a chance to turn her assured bronze into a gold. A place in the last four guarantees a medal, with both losing semifinalists receiving bronze. “It’s great to have assured one medal for the country. It’s time for me to give that fight for a gold medal tomorrow,” Tariyal said after her victory. The Women’s Traditional MMA 60kg combines striking, takedowns, grappling and ground fighting, with athletes competing in the under-60kg category. 

The winner is decided by points, submission or stoppage, and reaching the semifinals guarantees a medal, with both losing semifinalists receiving bronze. It is making its Asian Games debut at Aichi-Nagoya 2026.

It’s another landmark moment for Tariyal in a career that has stretched across judo, jiu-jitsu and MMA.

“I had a dream from childhood that I would learn some kind of fighting, so I chose judo. That journey has brought me here. It’s like perfecting the base to go to the next level, and judo has helped me a lot with that,” she said.

Her journey began in Rohtak, Haryana, where she grew up in a modest and conservative family.

After the eve-teasing incident at the age of 12, she took up judo as a means of self-defence.

She first trained at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and later at the Dada Dev Mandir Centre in Palam before honing her skills at SAI Bhopal.

Getting into competitive sport was not easy, with her family initially having reservations about the challenges and travel involved for a girl competing away from home.

Tariyal eventually built an impressive judo career, competing for India in more than 20 international events and becoming an eight-time national champion.

She won gold at the 2019 Commonwealth Judo Championships and the 2019 South Asian Games, besides taking silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Judo Championships.

She represented India at several Asian Judo Championships and competed in the women’s 57kg category at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where she narrowly missed out on a podium finish.

Judo to jiu-jitsu: Tariyal moved into jiu-jitsu and reached the top of that sport too, winning gold in the Adults Ju-Jitsu Contact Female 63kg category at the 2024 JJIF Ju-Jitsu World Championships.

Her MMA journey had actually started much earlier, with a debut victory in 2017, but she then took a seven-year break while continuing to compete successfully in judo and jiu-jitsu.

She returned to professional MMA in 2024, signing a multi-fight contract with BRAVE Combat Federation in the women’s strawweight division. She made her professional comeback at BRAVE CF 92 in Bahrain in December 2024 and won.

The transition to MMA has continued to test her. She won gold at the first and second MMA-SFI National Championships and followed that with bronze medals at the third and fourth Asian Mixed Martial Arts Championships in January and May 2026.

Her Asian Games preparation included a six-week camp in Mumbai under coaches Nikhil and Sushobhan.

“When I was travelling and faced difficulties in Mumbai traffic, my coaches would wait for me to come and finish my training. They kept full attention and kept on perfecting my techniques. My fellow teammates and sir supported me well and ensured that I didn’t sustain any injury in the buildup,” she continued.

Tariyal said her approach against Baigalmaa was built around the same fundamentals she has developed through years of combat sports.

“I just planned my game as per my coach’s instructions. My gameplan will be the same going forward — same takedown, ground and pound, and then on the ground, finish the fight through a submission or lock. That’s the strategy going forward as per my sir’s instruction,” she said.

Against Baigalmaa, ranked 92nd in the Eurasia region, Tariyal executed that plan to win 2-0 and move into the last four.

“It took me a lot of time to reach here. There is a lot of hard work — first judo, then other games and now MMA. It’s a new game, totally new mixed martial arts,” she said.

Alongside her sporting career, Tariyal has also served the country as a CISF head constable before joining the Haryana Department of Sports as a junior coach. 

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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Having been knocked off top spot following their defeat at Southampton earlier this month, Swansea moved back out in front courtesy of successive victories against Burnley and Lincoln.

Matos’ men were well beaten at St Mary’s, but they have won their three other away games to date, which is no mean feat.

There have been two comeback victories, at Stoke City and now Lincoln, with the Sincil Bank success arguably the most satisfying yet for Matos given that his team found a way to grab three points despite being troubled by the Imps’ direct approach.

Swansea’s best performance so far this season came in the home victory over Watford, when they produced some of the best football seen at the Swansea.com Stadium in years.

Lincoln was an entirely different story yet one which finished with the same ending – namely, another three points on the board.

“I think the levels of concentration [at Lincoln] were really high, [dealing with] set-pieces, staying in the game, attacking the balls, staying concentrated for second balls,” Matos said.

“I think it was a performance where we showed character, we showed how we want to compete in this type of game and of course it’s an important win for us.”

Frank Warren does not rule out a Conor Benn retirement after seeing ‘The Destroyer’ get “destroyed” in two rounds by Ryan Garcia.

Indeed, the 29-year-old appeared way out of his depth against the vastly superior Garcia, who displayed glaring advantages in speed and skill when they collided last weekend.

While many had predicted a stoppage victory for the WBC world champion, very few expected him to take care of business in such ruthless fashion.

In the second round, though, Garcia landed a crushing right hand that floored Benn, who managed to climb off the canvas but was ultimately stopped on his feet.

As a result, many have concluded that the Brit simply does not belong at world level, let alone near the upper echelon of a stacked welterweight division.

In fact, his clearest route to another lucrative payday could be via a trilogy clash with Chris Eubank Jr.

Speaking with IFL TV, however, Queensberry promoter Warren suggested that Benn’s best course of action might be to hang up his gloves.

“He got destroyed. [He was] never going to win the [Garcia] fight. It’s the same as Chris Eubank Jr – they’re at a certain level. And that’s it.

“If I was him, I’d retire. He’s not at [world] level. Good luck to him – he’s made a nice few quid in his last few fights.”

After losing their first middleweight encounter by unanimous decision in April 2025, Benn ended up scoring a dominant points victory over Eubank later that year.

Maresca could not have asked for a better start to the season. After losing 3-0 to Arsenal in the Community Shield, Manchester City have not put a foot wrong. They have won six games in a row and have not conceded since the 4-1 win at Crystal Palace, at the end of August. On Thursday night, Maresca was able to give a number of his first-team stars a rest. Despite a five-goal thrashing of Norwich in the Carabao Cup, the City boss is likely to make a large number of changes to that team. Gianluigi Donnarumma will return in goal, replacing Geronimo Rulli.

Ahead of him, only Nico O’Reilly is likely to survive. Josko Gvardiol will feel hard done by, but O’Reilly is the more natural left-back. Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias and Marc Guehi should be confident of starting alongside the academy graduate in the back four.

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