Real Madrid will play Manchester City in the Champions League round of 16 while holders Liverpool face Atletico Madrid.

Chelsea will meet Bayern Munich in a repeat of the 2012 final where Blues boss Frank Lampard lifted the trophy as captain while Borussia Dortmund will face Paris Saint-Germain with manager Thomas Tuchel returning to his former club.

Lyon face Juventus, while Tottenham were drawn against RB Leipzig.

Elsewhere, debutants Atalanta will meet Valencia and Napoli will play Barcelona.

For the first time in Champions League history, all 16 teams in the knockout stages are from the top five ranked leagues in Europe of England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France.

The first legs will be played on Feb. 18 and 19 and Feb. 25 and 26, with the return legs on March 10 and 11 and March 17 and 18. The final is on May 30 in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

Full Draw

Borussia Dortmund vs. Paris Saint-Germain

Real Madrid vs. Manchester City

Atalanta vs. Valencia

Atletico Madrid vs. Liverpool

Chelsea vs. Bayern Munich

Lyon vs. Juventus

Tottenham vs. RB Leipzig

Napoli vs. Barcelona

Marnus Labuschagne and Mitchell Starc have achieved their career-best ICC Test rankings, breaking into the top five of the batting and bowling charts respectively.

For Labuschagne, the rise has been meteoric. He is just 12 Tests old, and had an unremarkable run in the first five of those, between October 2018 and February 2019. But after walking out as Steven Smith's concussion substitute at Lord's during the Ashes Test in August this year, he has been spectacular, tallying 893 runs in 11 innings and averaging 81.18 - he has centuries (185, 162 and 143) in each of his last three Tests too.

His performance - 143 and 50 - in Australia's first Test against New Zealand in Perth helped Labuschagne displace David Warner in fifth place.

Starc, meanwhile, had match figures of 9 for 96 in Perth, where Australia won by 296 runs.

Elsewhere, Babar Azam has entered the top ten of the Test batting rankings for the first time, moving four spots up to No. 9 after his century in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi. That made him the only one currently apart from Virat Kohli to be in the top ten among batsmen across formats - he is No. 1 in T20Is and No. 3 in ODIs.

The bowlers' table, which has quicks occupying all the top ten spots, saw Tim Southee climb three places to No. 10 after a nine-wicket haul in Perth, while Neil Wagner and Josh Hazlewood moved up a spot apiece to No. 3 and No. 7 respectively.

Among other batsmen to make major strides, Ross Taylor moved up five places to the 11th position after scoring 80 and 22 in Perth, while Dhananjaya de Silva moved eight places up to 35th after making an unbeaten 102 in Rawalpindi.

Kohli and Smith held on to their No. 1 and No. 2 positions respectively in the batting rankings, which is dominated by India and Australia taking up six spots, while Pat Cummins remained top of the bowlers' list.

Fast bowler Kasun Rajitha has been ruled out of the second Test against Pakistan due to a hamstring strain. Rajitha had bowled only six overs on day five in Rawalpindi, owing to the injury he had picked up during his new-ball spell. He took the wicket of Shan Masood, but was off the field for much of Pakistan's first innings.

Rajitha is the second Sri Lanka quick to be ruled out of the series. Before the tour began, spearhead Suranga Lakmal became unavailable after contracting dengue. Rajitha's exit means Lahiru Kumara and Vishwa Fernando are the only frontline quicks in the squad to have played Tests. Lakmal's replacement, 22-year-old Asitha Fernando, has only played one ODI.

The selectors are yet to name a replacement for Rajitha, and it may turn out that they will just make do with the squad already in Pakistan. If Asitha does not play in a three-man pace attack, Sri Lanka also have the option of fielding left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya, or left-arm wristspin bowler Lakshan Sandakan.

The second Test in Karachi begins on Thursday.

British marathon champion clocks 68:45 in Japan for her second fastest ever time

Highlights from the past week of athletics action, including a half-marathon win in Japan for Britain’s Charlotte Purdue and record-breaking victories for Kenya’s Leonard Barsoton and Ethiopia’s Guteni Shone at the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K.

Sanyo Ladies Road Race, Okayama, Japan, December 15

Charlotte Purdue won the half-marathon in 68:45 for the British marathon champion’s second fastest ever time over 13.1 miles and her quickest on a record-eligible course (behind her 68:08 recorded at this year’s Great North Run).

It is over a minute quicker than she ran at the Kagawa Marugame International Half Marathon in February.

Purdue beat, among others, Japanese Olympic marathon trials winner Honami Maeda (69:08).

Sara Miyake was third in 69:23, while Canada’s Rachel Cliff set a national record of 70:06 in sixth.

Zatopek:10, Australia, December 14

World 5000m finalist Stewart McSweyn broke the Oceanian 10,000m record with his Olympic qualifying time of 27:23.80 to win the event, which incorporated the Australian championships, improving Ben St Lawrence’s record mark of 27:24.95 from 2011.

Patrick Tiernan was second in 27:31.20 and Jack Bruce third in 28:15.94.

World steeplechase finalist Genevieve Gregson won the women’s race in 32:47.83 ahead of Canada’s Andrea Seccafien in 32:48.30 and Emily Brichacek in 32:57.58.

Tata Steel Kolkata 25K, India, December 15

Kenya’s Leonard Barsoton and Ethiopia’s Guteni Shone both set event records to win.

Barsoton (pictured above), the 2017 World Cross silver medallist, clocked 73:05 to take 43 seconds off the event record set by Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele in 2017 while Shone ran 82:09 to win by more than a minute and took almost four minutes off the event record of 86:01 set by her compatriot Degitu Azimeraw two years ago.

Zurich Maratón Málaga, Spain, December 15

Kenya’s Martin Cheruiyot started the race as a pacemaker but went on to win in a course record of 2:10:08 ahead of Eliud Kibet (2:10:41) and Moses Mbugua (2:10:52).

Ethiopia’s Selamawit Getnet Tsegaw also ran a course record time of 2:27:56 to win the women’s race by nearly five minutes ahead of Gelane Senbere (2:32:28).

Britain’s Rebecca Hilland finished fourth in 2:40:21.

Shenzhen International Marathon, China, December 15

Ethiopia’s 2013 world bronze medallist Tadese Tola won the men’s race in 2:10:13. His countryman Tefera Debela was second in 2:10:59 and Kenya’s Julius Tuwei was third in 2:10:59.

It was an Ethiopian double as Belaynesh Yami won the women’s race (2:27:42) ahead of her compatriots Medhin Gebreselassie (2:30:12) and Tsehay Desalegn (2:32:47).

Hofu Marathon, Japan, December 15

Kenya’s Matthew Kiprotich won the men’s race in 2:10:47 ahead of Taki Yoshimura (2:11:13), while Hisae Yoshimatsu won her eighth women’s title at the event in 2:39:22.

Pisa Marathon, Italy, December 15

Recent Verona Marathon winner Nikolina Sustic of Croatia also won over 26.2 miles in Pisa, clocking 2:40:22 ahead of Finland’s Annemari Kiekara in 2:41:20.

Morocco’s Jilali Jamali won the men’s race in 2:22:49.

Cross de Venta de Banos, Spain, December 15

Uganda’s Albert Chemutai claimed victory over the 10.575km course by almost a minute ahead of Ethiopia’s Getnet Wale, 32:13 to 33:01.

The women’s 7.575km was won by Ethiopia’s Zenebu Fikadu in 26:44 ahead of Kenya’s Deborah Samum in 26:56.

Stockport 10, Manchester, December 15

Jonny Mellor broke the course record for the hilly 10-mile race, clocking 49:23.

Veleska Wills claimed the women’s title in 61:22.

North Eastern Counties Cross Country Championships, Alnwick, December 14

Olympic marathoner Sonia Samuels won the women’s race ahead of Philippa Stone, while Carl Avery took the men’s title ahead of Callum Johnson.

Greater Manchester Cross Country Championships, Boggart Hole Clough, December 14

Gavin Hill and Danielle Fegan claimed a double for Sale Harriers, with Fegan retaining the women’s title.

Newly crowned Uruguay champions Nacional have condemned the killing of one of their fans during Sunday's title celebrations.

Local media reported that a 24-year-old supporter was shot dead near the club's headquarters in Montevideo.

Fans took to the streets in the Uruguay capital to celebrate Nacional's championship-clinching 1-0 win over Penarol on Sunday.

According to El Pais, a video on social media showed around 500 fans singing on the street before six to eight shots were heard. One of the fans fell as others ran for safety. The victim died before arriving in hospital while another fan shot in the arm needed medical attention.

"Nacional condemns a new act of violence, another unjustified killing in Uruguayan football," a club statement said. "The club calls on all of our fans to maintain calmness and responsibility while dealing with grief. It's no longer a day to celebrate, all of Nacional embraces a family [of the victim]."

In 2016, one Penarol fan died after being shot by Nacional supporters and two others were hurt as they celebrated the club's 125th anniversary. Penarol also condemned the latest act of violence.

A club statement read: "Penarol passionately rejects the episode in which a Nacional fan was killed and another injury this evening. May the one or those responsible be identified and brought to justice."

Arsenal's interim head coach Freddie Ljungberg said the club needed to hurry up and appoint a new permanent manager after a crushing 3-0 home loss to Manchester City on Sunday, regardless of who that hire might be.

The London side managed just one shot on target in the first half and none at all in the second, as they suffered a third consecutive home defeat in all competitions.

As well as calling for a swift resolution to the managerial situation, Ljungberg flagged up how he is operating with a skeleton staff behind the scenes, with Per Mertesacker acting as his assistant as well running the club's academy.

"It's a great honour to do this, but Per is doing two jobs," Ljungberg told reporters after the match.

"I've said it [the managerial situation] needs to be cleared up, and it would be good to make a decision regardless of what it is."

Arsenal have been without a permanent first-team boss since they sacked Unai Emery at the end of November.

The club sit ninth in the league on 22 points, seven points adrift of the top four and showing little sign of improvement since Ljungberg took over.

They have managed only one win in five matches under the Swede, who blamed Sunday's drubbing partly on the skills gap between his side and that of the visitors.

"We all have to look in the mirror. They are better than us, that's just a fact," he said.

He also suggested Arsenal needed to be tougher on the pitch, noting the number of yellow cards City racked up in shutting down his side's attempted counter-attacks.

"I think they took [four] yellow cards on just kicking us down when we had a chance to counter. That's obviously tactical and they worked on that," he said.

"That's something we need to learn, to be a bit more cynical when opponents have a chance to counter on us."

While he said the team ought to be able to take on the top teams in the league, he accepted that at the moment Arsenal are lacking the confidence and composure to achieve anywhere near that level of performance.

"We need to be realistic. There is a gulf in quality between us and City," he said. "This is hard -- Liverpool and City are in a league of their own."

Sydney Sixers

Captain: Moises Henriques

Coach: Greg Shipperd

Overseas players: Tom Curran (England), James Vince (England)

Full squad: Moises Henriques, Sean Abbott, Justin Avendano, Jackson Bird, Tom Curran, Ben Dwarshuis, Jack Edwards, Mickey Edwards, Dan Fallins, Josh Hazlewood, Daniel Hughes, Nathan Lyon, Steve O'Keefe, Josh Philippe, Lloyd Pope, Jordan Silk, Steven Smith, James Vince.

Last season: Semi-finals

A solid league season helped them qualify in third place for the semi-finals, a run of four victories in a row in the latter part of the tournament building a good head of the steam. But that was halted in the final regular season game when they collapsed for 74 against the Stars. That blew the chance of a home semi-final, meaning they headed back to Melbourne to face the Renegades, where Dan Christian ripped the match from them.

What's changed for the season?

It has been a reasonably quiet off-season for the Sixers, although there was the headline of them securing Steven Smith for a handful of matches at the back-end of the tournament, which could include the finals if the Sixers make it, while Josh Hazlewood has also returned after a gap of five years. They may need to look for overseas replacements at that stage, however, with Tom Curran and James Vince likely to be involved in England's limited-overs matches in South Africa.

Australia impact

Alongside Smith not appearing until after the one-day tour of India, Nathan Lyon and Hazlewood won't be available until the Test series against New Zealand ends, and Hazlewood could be delayed further if recalled to the ODI side. But apart from that only a potential call-up to the one-day side for Sean Abbott would disrupt their plans.

Player to watch

Josh Philippe passed 300 runs last season but that still felt a little underwhelming for the talent he possesses. At 22, he still has plenty of time on his side, but a strong campaign this year could propel him into the planning for next year's T20 World Cup. After a promising start to the Marsh Cup for Western Australia, he was left out of the final, so the BBL will be crucial for keeping the season on track.

Key stat (Gaurav Sundararaman)

Daniel Hughes has been the most consistent batsmen for the Sixers in the last three seasons. He has scored more than 200 runs in each of the last three seasons averaging in excess of 30. His strike rate over the last three seasons (121), however, is the lowest for a top-order batsman to have played a minimum of 400 balls.

Sydney Thunder

Captain: Callum Ferguson

Coach: Shane Bond

Overseas players: Alex Hales (England), Chris Morris (South Africa)

Full squad: Callum Ferguson, Jono Cook, Oliver Davies, Matthew Gilkes, Chris Green, Alex Hales (overseas), Usman Khawaja, Jay Lenton, Nathan McAndrew, Chris Morris (overseas), Arjun Nair, Alex Ross, Daniel Sams, Gurinder Sandhu, Jason Sangha, Tanveer Sangha, Chris Tremain

Last season: 6th

They were in contention throughout the competition before falling just short of the knockouts. There was an element of controversy to that as they were well on top in the match against the Brisbane Heat at the Gabba when the lights went out. A brilliant century from Callum Ferguson secured a big chase against the Perth Scorchers but they were thrashed by the Sydney Sixers to all but end their hopes.

What's changed for the season?

There have been two strong overseas signings in Hales and Morris, while Chris Tremain, after his move from the Melbourne Renegades, bolsters the pace attack, which had been a weakness. Alex Ross has also come in from the Brisbane Heat.

Australia impact

Usman Khawaja, who has committed his future to the Thunder, may be available for the whole campaign after losing his Test place, although he could still feature in the ODI squad to tour India in mid-January. Pat Cummins, who played once last season, will not feature this season.

Player to watch

Matthew Gilkes is a rising star, having given glimpses of his talent for New South Wales this season to follow his 51 off 38 balls on T20 debut for the Thunder last summer when the club went through a succession of wicketkeepers. With Jos Buttler not returning, there is a chance for someone to grab hold of the wicketkeeping spot, and Gilkes will compete with Jay Lenton although he could also play as a batsman.

Key stat (Gaurav Sundararaman)

Since the start of 2017, there have been 157 bowlers who have bowled more than 200 balls in the powerplay. Chris Green has the best economy rate (6.04) for a spinner and the second best among all bowlers, only behind India's Bhuvneshwar Kumar (5.89). With the T20 World Cup in Australia next year, Green's performance will hold the key towards Thunder's hopes as well as his chances to make the Australia squad.

New Zealand have been left to pick up the pieces from a heavy defeat in Perth as they aim to plot a way back into the series ahead of Boxing Day. The visitors, however, were able to take one significant success from a torrid four days in the western Australian heat after bringing a plan together to quell Steven Smith.

That Australia earned victory without a major contribution from Smith may have been encouraging for them, but New Zealand had the satisfaction of twice claiming him with smart use of the short ball as he fell for 43 and 16, meaning he has yet to score a Test fifty this season. That could easily come back to bite New Zealand in the next few weeks but, for now, it's a success many other teams have failed to pull off.

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They showed their hand at the World Cup earlier this year when Smith was spectacularly caught at leg gully by Martin Guptill. (The plan also worked in Christchurch back in 2016.) In Perth, he picked out leg gully again in the first innings before pulling to deep square-leg in the second, both times off Neil Wagner.

"Any time you get Steve Smith out for less than his average is probably a good thing but it's only one match and I know he was in the nets every day," New Zealand coach Gary Stead said. "He'll try and work out ways to combat what we do and we have to have other plans if that doesn't work for us.

"Having plans is one thing but you have to execute them over a long period and one thing I'm proud of is our guys stuck at plans we thought were right; with Steve, it worked in particular. If you look at the World Cup as well, we tried that tactic, so I suspect we'll be discussing [that plan] and other ones if he is able to handle, but certainly something I think we'll keep pursuing."

"I can't promise you that I can pluck out guys that can bowl 150kph from New Zealand and bring them over here because I'm not sure we necessarily have them that are fit and available" Gary Stead

Wagner's success against Smith was part of a mammoth effort in which he sent down 60 overs, the most by a pace bowler in a single Test for more than four years, in temperatures over 40-degree C, as he carried a huge burden after Lockie Ferguson suffered a calf strain on the opening day, which has ruled him out of the tour.

Ferguson faces up to six weeks on the sidelines, which makes him doubtful for the start of India's visit to New Zealand, starting with the T20Is towards the end of January. A replacement will be confirmed on Tuesday as the squad heads to Melbourne to regroup. Candidates for a call-up include the uncapped pair of Scott Kuggeleijn and Kyle Jamieson, who both played for New Zealand A against England last month, and the experienced Hamish Bennett.

However, they are likely to have Trent Boult available after a conservative approach was taken with him to avoid the risk of his side strain recurring. New Zealand have two days of match practice against a Victoria XI ahead of the second Test.

"We weren't prepared to take a chance given the length of the season and what's still to come," Stead said. "We weighted up the short-term pain if he was re-injured and the long-term gain of what's coming up."

The injury to Ferguson means New Zealand have lost one potential point of difference in their attack with someone who can bowl above 145kph and there aren't any like-for-like replacements available.

"I can't promise you that I can pluck out guys that can bowl 150kph from New Zealand and bring them over here because I'm not sure we necessarily have them that are fit and available," Stead said. "We'll consider everything we've got but there's still some positives for us that we can go to Melbourne with and work out how to put Australia under pressure.

"I thought Tim Southee and Neil Wagner were outstanding in the job they did. We know we aren't the fastest attack in the world but I think the pressure they still managed to apply was significant for us. We didn't get the result we wanted but their performances were lion-hearted."

Despite being bundled for 166 and 171 - with Ross Taylor the only batsman to pass fifty - Stead was confident there would not be any lingering damage to confidence. The pitch for Boxing Day is an unknown factor at the moment following the abandonment of the Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and Western Australia, with a chance that will lead to a cautious approach by the ground staff.

"There's no excuses; we didn't adapt as well as we hoped to," Stead said. "I'm not sure Melbourne and Sydney will have the same extremities of pitch conditions; it will be more like what we are used to. We don't make knee-jerk reactions. Australia played very well, we know they are very hard to beat in these conditions but we also have an experienced squad who won't panic. We know we can be better."

Allrounder Marcus Stoinis is committed to opening the batting for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League again this season, despite the fact that the middle order appears his best avenue back into the Australian T20 side.

Stoinis was left out of Australia's T20 squad in the two series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan in October and November. The selectors opted not to pick a seam-bowling allrounder in the squad, using Ashton Agar at No.7 as a spin-bowling allrounder.

The return of David Warner also changed the dynamic in the top order. Stoinis had opened the batting in Australia's previous two T20 internationals in India in February after an outstanding BBL last season, when he opened for the Stars and made 533 runs at 53.30 with a strike rate of 130.63, including four half-centuries.

The combination of Warner and Aaron Finch looks a lock for Australia at the 2020 T20 World Cup.

But Stoinis is set to open again for the Stars alongside Nic Maddinson after the pair faced the new ball in the Stars' first practice match against the Melbourne Renegades at the Junction Oval in Melbourne on Monday.

He said doing what's best for the Stars is his first priority.

"I can't see myself changing too much from there just because you want to do right by your franchise," Stoinis said. "We want to win games and I want to do what's best for the team and then you just go from there I guess."

Stoinis said the reasons why he was omitted from the T20 squad had been communicated to him clearly by chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns. He hasn't had a discussion with either Hohns or coach Justin Langer about his place in the pecking order for the T20 World Cup next year but is confident he can play any role required.

"No, I haven't spoken to them about it," Stoinis said. "I'm sure I'll get a call from JL [Langer] or someone to speak about that side of things maybe. But for me, look, I've batted (Nos.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, I've bowled in the powerplay, I've bowled at the death, I've bowled in the middle, I've fielded in the slips, I've fielded on the boundary, I've fielded at cover. Something I pride myself on is being adaptable. I've played a lot of cricket in multiple positions so I should be okay."

It is not beyond the realms of possibility that Stoinis could get a call about the Test side given the injury to Josh Hazlewood in Perth against New Zealand. Australia played an allrounder in the last Ashes Test at The Oval and Langer floated the idea of playing five bowlers on Boxing Day if the surface was flat.

Stoinis was called up to the Test squad during his stunning run of form in the BBL last year but was eventually named 12th man for the Canberra Test against Sri Lanka.

His Sheffield Shield form has been very consistent this season but is missing some big scores. He's made four half-centuries in nine innings completed innings (the 10th was abandoned at the MCG due to a dangerous pitch) with a highest score of 79 when he was run out against South Australia. He also has 12 wickets at 27.25 having taken wickets in all five games that he bowled in.

"Test cricket is still my goal," Stoinis said. "That's where I want to play. I've played a lot of Shield cricket this year, the most I've played for 3-4 seasons and it's good to remember how to block the ball and spend some time in the middle."

For now, he's fully focussed on the Stars. The disappointment of last year's final is a distant memory with a new coach and some new signings. Stoinis said the transition of former Stars captain David Hussey into the head coaching job has been seamless.

"I think the key thing for Huss is he hasn't brought too much new stuff," Stoinis said. "He was around the group for so long as a player, he was captain, he knows Glenn [Maxwell] so well, he knows what makes the boys tick. He hasn't tried to rattle the cage or anything like that, he's just tried to create a stable environment, super relaxed, take any pressure off the players and let us perform."

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The Stars lost their opening practice match after an assault from Renegades pair Sam Harper and Shaun Marsh on a flat pitch at the Junction. But Dale Steyn's arrival on Tuesday night from South Africa, along with the addition of Nathan Coulter-Nile brings a fresh new dynamic to the attack that already features two high-class legspinners in Adam Zampa and Sandeep Lamichhane.

"It's a big change for us I reckon," Stoinis said. "We've got some real ball speed, [Daniel] Worrall is fresh as well so he bowls nice and quick. And that will complement our spinners as well. I think with the big square boundaries at the MCG and our good spinners and good quicks, we're going to be hard to beat."