Luis Suarez struck in the final minute of the match as Barcelona came from behind to beat Arsenal 2-1 in the Joan Gamper Trophy at Camp Nou on Sunday.

Suarez came off the bench to turn home a lofted pass from Sergi Roberto in his first appearance of the summer. Ainsley Maitland-Niles' own goal had previously cancelled out Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's brilliant opener in front of 98,812 fans in Barcelona.

Barca aren't as far down the line in their preparations for the new season as Arsenal, who kick off their Premier League campaign next week against Newcastle United, and it told in the first half. Barca had plenty of possession, but aside from tame efforts from Riqui Puig and Jordi Alba they never came close to threatening Bernd Leno in goal.

Arsenal didn't create a lot but looked comfortable, with Unai Emery handing starts to Maitland-Niles, Joe Willock and Reiss Nelson ahead of their game against Newcastle. Alexandre Lacazette missed out with a knock.

Aubameyang was clinical when a chance eventually came his way. With Samuel Umtiti poorly positioned, the forward spun Jordi Alba and hammered past Neto to give the Gunners the lead 10 minutes before the break.

Ernesto Valverde's Barca side still have two weeks until their curtain-raiser against Athletic Bilbao and two more friendlies before then. They play Napoli twice in the United States this coming week.

Lionel Messi will be back for those matches, but he didn't feature against Arsenal. Like Philippe Coutinho and Arturo Vidal, he only returned on Sunday following his participation in the Copa America.

Valverde used the game to give minutes to everyone else, though, and his side improved after he made seven changes at the break. Ousmane Dembele drilled just wide and Leno tipped over from Carles Alena as the home side pressed.

The game turned, though, when Maitland Niles rolled the ball into his own net in the 69th minute after a mix up with Leno. He was under no pressure after Suarez had miscontrolled an Antoine Griezmann pass.

Suarez then hit the side netting before Gabriel Martinelli had a rare chance for Arsenal, firing just wide with Marc-Andre ter Stegen beaten.

With the game heading to penalties, Suarez then stepped up at the end of a week which saw him return to training.

Jurgen Klopp was "completely happy" with Liverpool's performance in the Community Shield defeat to Manchester City on penalties, pointing out the character and fight shown by his side will fuel their pursuit of silverware.

Sunday's showdown at Wembley between the Premier League champions and the continental kings ended 1-1 in normal time with Joel Matip's header cancelling out Raheem Sterling's effort. Gini Wijnaldum was the only player to miss his kick in the resulting shootout, which Pep Guardiola's men won 5-4.

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City were slick and more clinical than Liverpool in the first half, but the Reds dominated the second period with eight shots on target to one. A Kyle Walker scissor-kick denied Mohamed Salah the winner on 93 minutes, with goalkeeper Claudio Bravo -- who Guardiola felt was the man of the match -- thwarting Xherdan Shaqiri shortly after.

"I'm completely happy about the full performance," Klopp said. "If you want to be prepared for Man City, you have to make a preseason game against Man City; no team plays like them. You saw that in a few moments in the first half, when they can do what they do. We struggled a little bit positioning-wise but that's normal. We changed that for the second half, which helped us a lot.

"Football-wise, the second half was just really, really good, the best way you can play against City. They are in the early stages [of preseason] as well. They will be in a different shape in a couple of weeks, for sure. But having this amount of chances we had today is a very good sign for us, absolutely. I liked the game a lot. I don't like the result, but I liked the game a lot, so for us it was very, very important.

"We will try everything. It's not as much important what I could say but what the boys showed today. I thought they looked pretty hungry.

"That doesn't mean it will work out, but we fought today after all the things that were said about the competition, both teams wanted to win it desperately, I saw that. My team is not in doubt about being satisfied or whatever, to stop working or stop running.

"The character of the team is still incredibly good. We had a difficult preseason but the boys did what they had to do and were affected by it.

"We played football games against really good teams and that didn't feel too good. It was very important we all gave ourselves and our supporters a sign of the performance today. Now let's carry on."

Only one point separated Liverpool (97) and title winners City (98) in the league last season and Guardiola expects Klopp's charges to be their greatest challengers again.

"We know who we will face [for honours]," he said. "Liverpool are champions of Europe. They are a top-class team. The difference is only one point ahead, one penalty. It's minimal. It's good to play them to show the guys, this is the team we're gonna face this season and how well prepared we have to be to win the titles."

Matthew Wade's Edgbaston century, a sparkling collection of attacking shots with a sturdy enough defence to survive, was an innings played unashamedly on his own terms. It was also an innings that quite a lot of prominent judges in Australian cricket would not have allowed him the chance to play.

One of the curious things about the rash of changes in Australian cricket following the Newlands scandal was the return of a couple of very recent national selectors to commentary roles. Mark Waugh, via Fox Sports, and Darren Lehmann, via the same network and also Macquarie radio, have been very outspoken in close proximity to their former spots alongside Trevor Hohns and Greg Chappell - Lehmann succeeded as coach by Justin Langer, and Waugh not replaced.

Among the strongest opinions expressed, via these outlets and also social media, was Waugh's that Matthew Wade's time as a Test cricketer for Australia was over. Wade hadn't made anywhere near enough runs for Australia in his most recent stint, the theory went, and he was too vulnerable to the moving ball. He should be considered for limited overs games, on the strength of his BBL displays for Hobart Hurricanes, but not the Test team.

You seriously think Matthew Wade is a test match no.4 or 5 at 31 yrs of age. Has had a very good season and should be in the frame for white ball cricket but not red ball cricket. Has played 22 tests with a batting average of 28.

— Mark Waugh (@juniorwaugh349) February 20, 2019

This view did not change even as Wade was regenerating himself as more of a specialist batsman than a utility gloveman, making technical and tactical changes in Tasmania through the help of the noted batting coach Jeff Vaughan, and also reassessing his personality and mentality through the prism of fatherhood and a growing maturity. Why there was such fixed opposition to Wade, with references made to him being too old at 31 to make a return, has been a source of curiosity.

But what is far less debatable is the fact that when Waugh and Lehmann were on the panel, they were part of a decision to choose Wade that had less to do with how the left-hander was performing at the time, and more to do with the state of panic in which Australian cricket then found itself. In November 2016, when the call was made to drop Peter Nevill and replace him with Wade, Australia had lost five Tests in a row, the selection chairman Rod Marsh had resigned, and the strong suggestion was that under a new captain in Steven Smith, Australia needed to be louder and more aggressive as a team, taking any means necessary to win.

Wade's recall, having not played a Test since 2013, epitomised this attitude shift more than anything, but it rather ignored the fact that in terms of performance, he was in the midst of the worst batting slump of his career. In the preceding Sheffield Shield season, Wade had made 167 runs at 27.83 with a top score of 41 not out, and in the one in which he was recalled, he returned just 113 at 28.25. These two seasons remain the least productive of Wade's first-class tenure since his very first all the way back in 2007-08.

So when Wade was thrust into the spotlight of Australian duty he was battling his own method and enthusiasm for the game, in the process of realising that a technique he had honed for years on the predictable MCG drop-in pitch was in need of augmentation if he was to be the high performing Test batsman that his talent always suggested he might be. Two centuries in his first international stint - against the West Indies in Dominica in 2012 and against Sri Lanka in Sydney in 2013 - both showed how good Wade could be, but they were displays he struggled to replicate in 2016 and 2017. Lehmann has, in recent times, conceded that Wade was not in a great frame of mind when chosen.

"In his last 10 Tests he did not have a great output but we played on some difficult wickets in the subcontinent," Lehmann told News Corp last month. "The big thing is he now believes in himself. He is playing more shots. (Previously) he was probably too fearful of getting out. Now he has released the shackles and said 'I am just going to play'. That is what happens when you get older. I remember Steve Waugh went for three or four years and did not want to get out but at the back-end of his career he played with more freedom."

That's not to say that Wade's performances were completely without merit - 196 runs at 32.66 in four Tests in India were creditable in a series Australia battled right to the finish. But when he offered only slim pickings in Bangladesh later in the year, Wade was discarded and clearly marked, by some at least, as never to play again. It was a decision compounded by the ructions of the Newlands scandal, for there had been few Australians more likely to agitate opponents than Wade had been.

But it was in accepting that he might not get another chance to play for Australia that Wade found the clarity he needed, something he spoke about eloquently on the day the Ashes squad was named in Southampton. All those who have seen Wade batting up close in recent months, scoring century upon century, have invariably reached the conclusion that he had to be included in Australia's best six batsmen for the Ashes, and he arguably sewed up a spot by making a century opposite Travis Head against the England Lions in Canterbury.

And it was in a similarly muscular, sure of himself vein that Wade played alongside Smith and Tim Paine on day four in Birmingham, clouting 17 boundaries and monstering anything that fell even remotely into his cover driving zone. On reflection, Wade was in no doubt that it had helped to be chosen when feeling sure of himself and his game.

"Weight of runs and time in the middle is everything for a batter so I certainly felt that my game was at a stage where I could perform at this level," Wade said. "It's as confident as I've been coming into a Test match for sure.

"That's the way we want it to be in Australia, we want guys piling on a lot of runs at first-class level to get an opportunity to play Test cricket, and when you get that opportunity you try and take it. So I felt confident in my game coming in, I'm at the age now where I know my game better than I did back then and playing as a specialist batter makes a difference as well, it takes a lot of pressure off you, you can chill a little bit more in the field and you're not concentrating for that long stretch of time like you do as a wicketkeeper. I've found that really good for my game.

"I'm confident in my game and if it doesn't work like it did in the first innings I still feel that on my day I'm good enough to score runs and I'm not chasing my tail as much as what I did when I was a younger player. I back my game now. Yeah, you've got to tinker a little bit here and there, but I certainly don't change too much."

While Smith's genius is beyond all dispute, there was far more conjecture to be had about the best players to keep him company and find runs in his slipstream. Perhaps the most telling description of Wade came not from a former selector, but a current one: Langer emphasised that Wade had done the time-honoured thing and simply made a truckload of runs, allied to a fighting countenance.

"I saw it during the summer, and we thought a real reward was being picked in the Australia A side because there was a lot of talk about Wadey and his form, and where he was batting and wicketkeeping," Langer said in Southampton. "And he just keeps doing it. He's got three hundreds on this tour already and I think he's batted six or seven times. He's doing everything that we've asked of Australian cricketers. He's making runs, he's making big runs, he's knocking that hard and he's got that look in his eye. Coming into a tough series like this, you like to see those sort of fighting instincts."

England saw those instincts on day four at Edgbaston, and they did not have much of an answer.

Andre Russell's decision to withdraw from the T20I series against India and play in the Global T20 Canada is "part of his rehabilitation plans" according to Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave.

"We cleared him fit to play in Canada as a batsman," Grave told ESPNcricinfo. "To monitor his fitness every day, a couple of our physios are over in the GT20, so we've got that oversight with Andre and his knee.

"But there's a massive difference between playing in domestic cricket to international cricket. Our fans really want to see Andre Russell at a 100% while playing here against India: batting at 100%, bowling at 100%, fielding dynamically outside the circle at 100%."

Some eyebrows were raised when Russell suited up to take the field for Vancouver Knights on Friday, minutes after West Indies Carlos Brathwaite spoke at a press conference, where he backed Russell for continuing to attempt to take the field for West Indies in spite of his injury history.

Grave likened it to many other athletes competing at a step below the highest level to build-up match fitness. "His injuries are probably not going to be ones that are ever going to be fully solved," Grave said. "Like many other sportsmen, like the Beckhams and the Ibrahimovics that have knee injuries, daily rehab is going to be part of his life for the rest of his playing career. We hope that he just takes our medical advice, strengthens his knee and hopefully when he's back to 100% fitness he'll be back wearing maroon."

Despite the support offered by CWI through medical advice and physio consultations, Grave was also mindful of Russell being a freelance T20 cricketer. "He's not contracted to us so we can't tell him what to do," he said. "He listens and takes on our advice, I know it for sure. I know that he hasn't played in every game, he hasn't bowled yet. So hopefully he's listening to that medical advice and this is part of his rehab.

"He can then hopefully have a break, continue strengthening his knee. He then has the CPL and we can assess him after that. The surgery was successful and hopefully playing a few matches as a batsman in Canada is part of his rehabilitation. As he strengthens that knee, he can get back to full fitness and the player that we want him to be."

Grave also didn't think Russell may have to curb his bowling altogether to prolong his future. "We're positive and thinking for the best," Grave said. "Our thought for the moment is we want Andre to fully recover and get back to full fitness as the dynamic allrounder, but if Andre Russell has to become just a batsman, then the selectors will select him based on his performances and on that criteria.

"But at the moment, I know he wants to continue. He loves bowling. He wants to be an allrounder and hopefully he's doing everything he can to ensure that happens by following his rehab, listening to the medical advice and taking it easy. So it's good to see him not playing every game in Canada, managing his knee and managing his rehab."

PITTSBURGH -- New York Mets star Robinson Cano limped off the field after straining his left hamstring while rounding first base.

Cano grabbed at the back of his leg and pulled up after lining a hit to right in the fourth inning Sunday against Pittsburgh, his third hit of the game and ninth hit in his last 15 at-bats. Melky Cabrera threw to shortstop Kevin Newman, who tagged out Cano.

In his first season with the Mets after being acquired from Seattle, the 36-year-old Cano was limited to one game between May 22 and June 16 because of a strained left quadriceps. He is hitting .252 with 10 homers and 32 RBI.

NEW YORK -- New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Hicks has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a flexor strain in his right elbow, the latest blow to an injury-ravaged team leading the AL East nonetheless.

After getting hurt on a throw Saturday night, Hicks had an MRI on Sunday and New York considered the results pretty good news because the team feared he had a torn ligament that could require season-ending Tommy John surgery.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone says Hicks will be shut down from throwing for a week to 10 days but is expected back this season -- although it was too soon to project a time frame. The ligament is intact, however, and Tommy John surgery has been ruled out.

Hicks becomes the 16th player on the Yankees' current injured list, joining a pair of slugging first basemen who just went down: Edwin Encarnacion broke his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch Saturday, and Luke Voit has a sports hernia.

British number two Dan Evans qualified for the main draw of the Rogers Cup in Montreal with a 6-3 6-3 victory against Spain's Marcel Granollers.

The 29-year-old world number 51 beat the world number 103 in their only previous match in Sydney two years ago.

He wrapped up another win in an hour and 21 minutes to ensure three British players in the main draw.

Kyle Edmund faces Washington finalist Nick Kyrgios while Cameron Norrie will take on Hungary's Marton Fucsovics.

Top seeds Hamammy and Asal win World Junior crown in Kuala Lumpur
By KNG ZHENG GUAN, HOWARD HARDING and ALEX WAN – Squash Mad International Correspondents

The 2019 CIMB Foundation WSF World Junior Squash Championships is in the hands of Egypt and there is none more deserving than Hania El Hammamy who nails her maiden crown while Mostafa Asal goes two up after a superb showing in the boys’ final.

Top seed Hania had suffered the agony of playing the bridesmaid role in 2017 and 2018, both times losing to compatriot Rowan Elaraby in the final.

Now competing in her fifth and final world juniors and in her third straight final, it was clear the world No. 15 was desperate to end her junior career on a high.

Hania however had to be at her best, especially in the early stages to see off a challenge by second seeded compatriot Jana Shiha 11-9, 11-6, 11-8 at the National Squash Centre, Bukit Jalil on Sunday.

The first game was a tight affair as Jana looked like she could derail Hania’s title bid with some early aggression to sneak in a lead.

But despite trailing for most of the first game, Hania found her composure under as she converted the big points to take the first game 11-9.

From there on the Cairo native never looked back and Jana, who was looking a little more weary after a gruelling five-setter semi-final a day earlier, committed too many errors during the course of the play.

In the end, a loose ball and a stroke sealed the win for Hania who looked simply relieved to have gotten the monkey off her back.

“It was heart breaking playing Jana because she’s a very good friend and it’s just so hard to play a close friend when you want to win the title so bad,” said Hania.

“I had to put our friendship aside when I was on court and I’m glad that I managed to get through it to be finally called world junior champion.

“This win is really important for me because I’ve been watching all my favourite players on the PSA Tour and they’ve all won the title at some point.

“I was angry that I didn’t win this before and for the past three years I’ve really hoping to win it. There was a lot of pressure on me too and I was also nervous to start because I didn’t want to lose in my last world juniors,” added Hania.

Said Jana, “My body was a bit sore from yesterday, having played a five-setter semi-final and I probably wasn’t in the best shape.

“But I think I played good overall until the third game where I gave out too many unforced errors.

“But I’m happy for Hania. It’s her last world juniors and I’m glad she made it while I still have one more year and hopefully I can win it next year.

“Of course playing in this final helped me. The mood and the tension is completely different and now with Hania done with juniors, I believe I’ll be more prepared to win it next year.”

In the boys’ final, top seed Mostafa put up a showman’s performance as he put down compatriot Moustafa Elsirty 12-10, 11-3 11-6 for his second straight world junior title.

The first game was a physical affair with both players contesting hard to get into space and Mostafa was even given a conduct stroke for shoving Moustafa into the side wall.

That however, snapped the Cairo native back into the game and despite being 10-7 down, he managed to save all three points before going on to take the game 12-10.

No thanks to the fact that the referee was not able to keep things under control, the physicality continued for the entire match.

However, after the first game, it was a one-sided affair as Mostafa simply exerted his influence while Moustafa looked a spent force.

The world No. 29 would eventually wrap up the win after 41 minutes to be the fourth Egyptian since Ramy Ashour, and the Shorbagy brothers – Mohamed and Marwan, in winning two world junior crowns.

“It’s an amazing feeling to win for the second time although I’m happy to return this trophy after a week,” grinned Mostafa.

“It was a tough game because I was 10-7 down in the first and there was a lot of pressure on me.

“I think it always difficult coming into the junior competition being so high ranked on the PSA Tour. The pace is always different and that was something I had to adapt to this week.

“But I’m thankful that I was mentally tough today especially in the first game because taking that game was so important for me.”

Meanwhile runner-up Moustafa who is still eligible for next year’s world juniors, believes he needs to work on his mental strength in order to take the title next year.

“I am thankful for a second place finish after finishing third last year. It shows progress in my squash and hopefully I’ll come back and win it next year,” said Moustafa.

Meanwhile this marks another successful year for Egypt as they sweep both titles for the third straight year.

The competition now proceeds with the girls’ team competition which starts on Monday. Egypt are favourites for the title as top seeds, with hosts Malaysia in second, while Hong Kong, after enjoying a successful individuals campaign, have been elevated to third seeds ahead of England and USA.

Finals.

[1] Hania El Hammamy (Egy) 3-0 [2] Jana Shiha (Egy) 11-9, 11-6, 11-8 (35m)

[1] Mostafa Asal (Egy) 3-0 [3/4] Moustafa Elsirty (Egy) 12-10, 11-3, 11-6 (41m) 

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INDIANAPOLIS – Lyn St. James, who was injured in a crash during Saturday’s Vintage Race of Champions Charity Pro-Am at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was discharged from an area hospital Sunday morning.

A seven-time Indy 500 starter and prominent sports car racer, St. James sustained minor injuries during the crash. She was kept overnight for observation at the IU Health Methodist Hospital.

“The care was excellent,” said St. James. “I am grateful to everyone involved – from the time of the incident to my release from the hospital.

“I’m really happy to be up on my feet and feeling pretty good,” St. James continued. “I’m really thankful that all of the safety equipment that I wore and what was on the car functioned as it was designed to. I am walking away from a pretty big hit.”

St. James will be returning to Arizona on Monday.

MOGYOROD, Hungary – Lewis Hamilton’s 81st career Formula One victory may go down as one of his best ever.

Hamilton and Mercedes played pit strategy to perfection on Sunday at the Hungaroring, turning what appeared to be a certain runner-up finish into the Briton’s seventh career Hungarian Grand Prix triumph.

After running second to polesitter and race-long dominator Max Verstappen for virtually the entire race, the Mercedes team gambled on a pit stop with 22 to go, putting Hamilton on fresh medium-compound tires in an attempt to give him the speed he needed to get around the Red Bull driver for the win.

Their risk paid off handsomely, as Hamilton chased down Verstappen – who pitted only once, for hard-compound tires at lap 25 – from 20 seconds back in the final 20 laps before making the decisive pass around the outside of turn one with four to go.

From there, Hamilton cruised home to victory, while Verstappen pitted again in an attempt to steal a bonus point for the fastest race lap and ended up 17.796 seconds adrift at the finish line.

Sunday’s master class was Hamilton’s seventh victory in Hungary, tying Michael Schumacher for the most Hungarian Grand Prix wins in F-1 history, as well as his eighth win in 12 tries this year going into the month-long summer break.

However, such a run also left Hamilton exhausted in parc ferme after he climbed from his car to celebrate with his team.

“Man, I’m tired after that one, which is as it should be,” said a breathless Hamilton. “I’m very, very grateful though, for this day and for my team. They’ve never stopped believing in me and continued to push things to the limit with everything we have. They took a risk and a chance on me when we joined up, and they took a risk and a chance again today to get this victory. Winning with them never gets old.

“We had brake problems all weekend … and I was a bit worried,” he added. “I was actually doing a lot of lifting and coasting, so I wouldn’t even touch the brake (pedal), all throughout that race. I was trying to save as much as I could, because I knew it would be difficult (to pass), and it was tough to get by Max.

“I didn’t know if I could catch him, but I kept pushing and we made it happen in the end.”

While he didn’t come away with the win, Verstappen did smash the race-lap record in the final circuits at the Hungaroring, turning in a 1:17.103 to garner an extra bonus point along with his runner-up finish.

“We were just not fast enough when it mattered most,” Verstappen said. “I tried everything I could on that hard compound to stay alive, but unfortunately it was just not enough. It’s still a second-place finish, with a (point for) fastest lap, so it’s a good weekend overall for us. Congrats to Lewis though, because he was pushing me very hard and I like that.

“We didn’t get the win, but we had a good day and we’ll come back even stronger after the break.”

The Ferrari duo of Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc finished third and fourth, respectively, as the last two drivers who finished on the lead lap. McLaren’s Carlos Sainz completed the top five, one lap down.

Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly, Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen, the sister Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas, the second McLaren of Lando Norris and Toro Rosso’s Alexander Albon were the rest of the points-scoring drivers in the top 10.

The finish:

Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz, Pierre Gasly, Kimi Raikkonen, Valtteri Bottas, Lando Norris, Alexander Albon, Sergio Perez, Nico Hulkenberg, Kevin Magnussen, Daniel Ricciardo, Daniil Kvyat, George Russell, Lance Stroll, Antonio Giovinazzi, Robert Kubica, Romian Grosjean.