Manchester United Women handed Manchester City their first defeat of the season on Sunday, seeing off their rivals 2-0 in the Continental Cup as Keira Walsh was sent off for the defeated side.

City emerged victorious when the two teams clashed last month, but Nick Cushing's players could not replicate that result this weekend despite enjoying a lot of early possession at Leigh Sports Village.

United went ahead after seven minutes as captain Katie Zelem sent a free kick past City goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck, and the Reds entered the break with their lead still intact.

Casey Stoney's players carried their momentum into the second half and within ten minutes they had doubled their lead, with Jess Sigsworth sliding to get on the end of Kirsty Hanson's cross and find the net.

Shortly after the hour mark City's Walsh made a rash attempt at a tackle on Hanson, and the midfielder received a straight red card for her challenge.

From there on out United kept the ball well and rarely looked in danger of letting the result slip.

The win was United's third in a row, but first in the Continental Cup this season.

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George Linde is a rookie who was dropped into a Test match in India like emergency rations, and in his first ever outing, he's had to be South Africa's lead spinner and deal with batsmen of the quality of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara. Not to mention a six-obsessed Umesh Yadav. How is that for a tough initiation?

Still come the end-of-day press conference, Linde - who replaced the injured Keshav Maharaj in Ranchi - was pinching himself to figure out if the whites he was wearing were all real.

"Yeah, it's been lessons. I didn't expect to play Test cricket, well in this series," Linde said. "I obviously didn't expect to come back to play the Test series. So when I got the call-up, I was quite nervous but luckily I had a few days to just settle and then today a few lessons to learn, especially there at the end. But if you'd told me I'll take four wickets on my debut, I'll take it any time of the year."

The 27-year old left-armer finished with 4 for 139 from 31 overs, figures that took a beating as India searched for quick runs towards the end of the second day's play in Ranchi. But Linde was happy to take it because not too long ago, he was back home in South Africa. He had been with the squad during the T20Is as well and had been part of the A team that had visited India in August to get a measure of the conditions but Maharaj has been the team's lead spinner in red-ball cricket and Linde has had to wait a long time to get his chance.

He didn't start well though. "Before the Test, we did say don't get it on the legs, which I did a few times yesterday," Linde said. "It's not easy to bowl here. Have to bowl a bit straighter line, especially to their batsmen. In South Africa you can bowl a bit wider because there's more bounce but here..."

Linde understood he was in trouble and went to the South African backroom staff to sort it out. "Last night I was in [South Africa video analyst] Prasanna's room and we just went over a few clips just to see what I can do better, where I can improve. Also me and Faf [du Plessis] chatted at the end of the day about me getting just a bit closer to the wicket [at the point of delivery] and just trying to bowl middle and off [line]. You don't really want to get on the legs because they're very good on their legs. So today I tried to be on off stump, challenging their inside and outside edge."

Taking the advice he received on board, Linde proved to be South Africa's best bowler, responsible for four of the seven Indian wickets that fell on the second day in Ranchi. He used turn and bounce to have Ajinkya Rahane caught behind and conversely the straighter ball to trap Wriddhiman Saha. He even created a chance to get rid of Rohit Sharma in his very first over of Test cricket, but the fielder at short leg, Zubayr Hamza, dropped a very difficult catch.

"You know those catches, they stick or they don't Unfortunately it wasn't our day. It was Rohit's. He played well so, well done to him."

South Africa gave away 497 runs after being on the field for more than 100 overs again and that weariness affected their opening batsman. Both Dean Elgar and Quinton de Kock were bounced out after which rapidly fading light put an early end to play with the score 9 for 2.

"Bad start," Linde said, "Not the way we wanted it to go but tomorrow is another day. We need to be positive, the guys are smiling in the changing room. So we are ready for tomorrow."

Dhruv Shorey's career has been full of paradoxes. When he plays first-class cricket, his attractive strokeplay makes you think he will be better suited for 50-over cricket. When he bats in one-dayers, you wonder he's probably going a tad slower. A List-A strike rate of 73 backs that observation.

Shorey is supposed to be a mainstay of Delhi's batting. He has a more than decent first-class record but averages in the low 30s in List A cricket with just one hundred from 42 games.

At 27, Shorey's career is yet to fully take off. Still he finds himself leading Delhi in the 2019-20 Vijay Hazare Trophy, and on Sunday, in the middle with his side at 17 for 2 against a rampant Gujarat in the second quarterfinal. What does Shorey do? He dodges almost all the paradoxes to produce a near masterclass.

Chintan Gaja had just dismissed Delhi openers Shikhar Dhawan and Anuj Rawat, while Roosh Kalaria had kept things quiet from the other end. But Shorey not only stabilised the innings - along with Nitish Rana - but also accelerated towards the end to finish with a 109-ball 91.

But just like his career, this innings too proved to be a paradox. He played a captain's knock but failed to take his side to a winning total. In the end, Delhi were all out for 223 in 49 overs, and Gujarat chased the VJD-adjusted target of 225 in 37.5 overs with six wickets in hand.

Earlier, Dhawan's lean run with the bat continued. After failing to open his account in the first six balls, he skipped down the track to Gaja only to chip it towards short extra cover. But the fielder there spilled the straightforward chance, the sort of thing you hope for as an out-of-form batsman. But Dhawan failed to take any advantage of that. He sashayed down once again on the next ball, only to splice it towards mid-off this time. Piyush Chawla made no mistake. Four overs later, Rawat tried to do a similar thing and was taken at cover.

With the side in trouble, Shorey and Rana decided to bid their time on a two-paced wicket. The team fifty came in the 14th over, and it took Delhi another 14 overs to reach the hundred-run mark.

But Shorey batted with a calm demeanour, hitting mostly along the ground and reached his fifty in 67 balls. At the other end, Rana smashed two fours in one Arzan Nagwaswalla over but mostly found it difficult to get the ball off the square. Despite Rana's struggles, the two had added 90 for the third wicket in 129 balls.

It was once again Gaja who provided his side with a wicket. In an attempt to provide momentum to the innings, Rana ended up flicking one straight to short fine leg and was dismissed for 33 off 61.

Shorey had moved to 77 off 98 without much fuss before he decided to take on Axar Patel. Using his feet, he lofted the left-arm spinner over wide long-off. Three balls later, when Axar pitched on short, Shorey got down on one knee to sweep-pull it for another six over fine leg. Suddenly, he was on 90 off 102 balls.

With Himmat Singh for company, Shorey took Delhi to 150 in the 37th over, with the last 50 runs coming at almost run a ball. The platform was set, the hundred was there for the taking but then the paradox struck again. Or maybe it was just the nervous nineties. After all, last season he was dismissed thrice in the 90s in first-class cricket.

Shorey had looked to play in the 'V' until then. But in the 38th over, while trying to steer Nagwaswalla towards third man, he ended up edging one to Parthiv Patel. Another unfulfilled promise as Shorey admitted after the match.

"I should have stayed there till the end," Shorey said. "Initially the wicket was doing a bit but after I got settled, it appeared a very good wicket to bat on. But the way I got out, or Nitish got out, it was a little disappointing. Maybe on this wicket, we could have gone on till the 45th over to pace our innings as anything around 270-280 or 300 would have been a good total."

A brief shower in the 40th over further disrupted Delhi's momentum and when the teams returned - with the match reduced to 49 overs per side - the lower-order batsmen couldn't do much against Chawla's guile.

Parthiv and Priyank Panchal then got Gujarat off to a quick start, with the former happily feasting on the buffet of short balls served by the Delhi seamers. Delhi's fielding didn't help their cause either. Panchal was on 28 when Rana dropped a sitter at mid-on, while wicketkeeper Rawat failed to grab an inside edge off Parthiv with the batsman on 57.

The two added 150 in just 23.1 overs to make light work of the chase. Though Delhi struck back, by then there were not enough runs left to make a match out of it. Only if Shorey had stayed in there for a little longer, but that's how his career has been so far.

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Former light heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk was released from Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia on Sunday morning after spending two nights there.

Gvozdyk lost the lineal 175-pound title and his sanctioning organization belt by 10th-round stoppage to Artur Beterbiev in an action-packed unification fight on Friday night at the Liacouras Center in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card.

"All is clear," Teddy Atlas, Gvozdyk's trainer, who accompanied him to the hospital, told ESPN on Sunday. "No (brain) bleed or anything. Thank God, just a minor concussion from the hits to the back of the head they said, but we needed to be sure."

Although Gvozdyk was ahead 87-84 and 86-85 on two scorecards, with Beterbiev up 87-83 on the third scorecard, going into the 10th round, Gvozdyk had taken a lot of heavy shots, especially right hands, from the powerful Beterbiev.

In the 10th round, Beterbiev (15-0, 15 KOs) dropped an exhausted Gvozdyk (17-1, 14 KOs) three times before referee Gary Rosato waved off the fight at 2 minutes, 49 seconds.

About an hour after the fight, Gvozdyk, with Atlas at his side, walked under his own power to a waiting ambulance in the arena tunnel for the short ride to the hospital to be checked out as a precaution and wound up staying for two nights.

Gvozdyk went to the hospital because he had pain behind his head. He underwent tests to rule out a brain bleed, but that requited multiple tests over a 24-hour period, Atlas said.

Atlas planned to bring Gvozdyk to his home in New York on Sunday before Gvozdyk would fly home on Monday.

The fight marked the first time in light heavyweight division history that two undefeated fighters met to unify world titles. The Montreal-based Russian Beterbiev, who was the slight favorite, had defeated the Oxnard, California-based Ukrainian Gvozdyk by second-round stoppage in 2009 amateur tournament and both went on to become elite professionals.

Beterbiev, 34, retained his title for the third time since winning a belt in November 2017. Gvozdyk, 32, won his title in December 2018 and made one successful defense before being stopped in the unification bout.

To help you set your lineups and avoid starting a player who won't take the field, we will post fantasy-relevant updates and analysis here as NFL teams release their inactives lists, typically about 90 minutes before kickoff. Any rankings cited in this column come from our ESPN Fantasy staff ranks.

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1 p.m. ET games

Offense

David Johnson, RB, ARI: Ankle -- Questionable
Impact: Game-time call. Chase Edmonds would start if he can't go.

Christian Kirk, WR, ARI: Ankle -- Questionable
Impact: Also a game-time call. Damiere Byrd is the safer play.

A.J. Green, WR, CIN: Ankle -- OUT
Impact: Seemingly still not close to return. Tyler Boyd and Auden Tate remain fantasy-viable.

Geronimo Allison, WR, GB: Concussion -- Questionable
Impact: Upgraded on Saturday, but still risky.

Davante Adams, WR, GB: Toe -- OUT
Impact: Jake Kumerow/Allen Lazard become flex longshots.

Marquez Valdes-Scantling, WR, GB: Ankle -- Questionable
Impact: At best, a game-time call, which behooves you to have a Plan B.

Marqise Lee, WR, JAX: Ankle -- OUT
Impact: Chris Conley should handle No. 3 WR duties.

Dede Westbrook, WR, JAX: Shoulder -- Questionable
Impact: Game-time call. If he sits, Keelan Cole might get a few looks.

Geoff Swaim, TE, JAX: Concussion -- OUT
Impact: Josh Oliver primed to make his NFL debut.

Malcolm Brown, RB, LAR: Ankle -- Doubtful
Impact: Todd Gurley II will be back in the huddle in the nick of time.

Jakeem Grant, WR, MIA: Hamstring -- Questionable
Impact: Albert Wilson, who is also dinged up, is the best of the sad Miami WR bunch.

Sterling Shepard, WR, NYG: Concussion -- OUT
Impact: Limited practices, but won't clear protocol. Go with Golden Tate/Darius Slayton instead.

Tyrell Williams, WR, OAK: Foot -- OUT
Impact: Trevor Davis, Hunter Renfrow are among potential replacements ...

Dwayne Harris, WR, OAK: Ankle -- Questionable
Impact: ... as would be Zay Jones and Keelan Doss.

Deebo Samuel, WR, SF: Groin -- OUT
Impact: Not traveling with team. Dante Pettis/Marquise Goodwin get minor value bumps.

Raheem Mostert, RB, SF: Knee -- Questionable
Impact: With Tevin Coleman back from injury, Mostert's fantasy value is all but zero.

Chris Thompson, RB, WAS: Toe -- OUT
Impact: Wendell Smallwood should be quite active in the passing game.

Vernon Davis, TE, WAS: Concussion -- OUT
Impact: Jeremy Sprinkle hasn't done much with his window of opportunity thus far.

Defense

Zach Allen, DE, ARI: Neck -- OUT

Desmond Trufant, CB, ATL: Toe -- OUT

Matt Milano, LB, BUF: Hamstring -- Questionable

Taron Johnson, CB, BUF: Hamstring -- Questionable

Carlos Dunlap, DE, CIN: Knee -- Doubtful

Darius Slay, CB, DET: Hamstring -- Questionable

Quandre Diggs, S, DET: Hamstring -- Questionable

Kenny Clark, DT, GB: Calf -- Questionable

Darnell Savage, S, GB: Ankle -- OUT

Johnathan Joseph, CB, HOU: Hamstring -- Questionable

Tashaun Gipson Sr., S, HOU: Hip -- Questionable

Bradley Roby, CB, HOU: Hamstring -- Questionable

Justin Houston, DE, IND: Calf -- Questionable

Malik Hooker, S, IND: Knee -- Doubtful

Kenny Moore II, CB, IND: Knee -- OUT

Pierre Desir, CB, IND: Abdomen -- Questionable

Reshad Jones, S, MIA: Chest -- OUT

Xavien Howard, CB, MIA: Knee -- Questionable

Ben Gedeon, LB, MIN: Concussion -- OUT

Arden Key, DE, OAK: Kneecap -- OUT

D.J. Jones, DT, SF: Hamstring -- OUT

Ahkello Witherspoon, CB, SF: Foot -- OUT

Josh Norman, CB, WAS: Thigh -- Questionable

4 p.m. ET games

Offense

Marquise Brown, WR, BAL: Ankle -- Questionable
Impact: Missed practice all week. Willie Snead IV/Miles Boykin both benefit if he's out.

Mitchell Trubisky, QB, CHI: Shoulder -- Questionable
Impact: Practiced in full pads all week, so it would be a surprise if he didn't start this one.

Michael Badgley, K, LAC: Groin -- Questionable
Impact: If he is able to suit up, one would have to be fearful of rust.

Drew Brees, QB, NO: Thumb -- OUT
Impact: Next week is a real possibility. Teddy Bridgewater is to be avoided, given all the other offensive injuries.

Alvin Kamara, RB, NO: Ankle -- OUT
Impact: It will be Latavius Murray, early and often and all of the time.

Tre'Quan Smith, WR, NO: Ankle -- OUT
Impact: Deonte Harris/Lil'Jordan Humphrey become deep-league dart throws.

Jared Cook, TE, NO: Ankle -- OUT
Impact: Dan Arnold promoted from practice squad.

Will Dissly, TE, SEA: Achilles -- OUT
Impact: Out for the year. Luke Willson will try to pick up the slack.

Delanie Walker, TE, TEN: Ankle -- Questionable
Impact: Jonnu Smith is as good as dice roll as any, should Walker sit.

Defense

Patrick Onwuasor, LB, BAL: Ankle -- Questionable

Bilal Nichols, DE, CHI: Knee -- Questionable

Melvin Ingram III, DE, LAC: Hamstring -- Doubtful

Brandon Mebane, DT, LAC: Knee -- OUT

Justin Jones, DT, LAC: Shoulder -- OUT

Ziggy Ansah, DE, SEA: Ankle -- Questionable

Bradley McDougald, S, SEA: Back -- Questionable

Jayon Brown, LB, TEN: Groin -- Doubtful

Cameron Wake, LB, TEN: Hamstring -- Questionable

Official Sunday inactives should begin coming in at approximately 11:30 a.m. ET for the early games and at 2:30 p.m. ET for the late games.

The Houston Astros have been installed as the favorites over the Washington Nationals in the World Series.

Caesars Sportsbook on Sunday opened the Astros as -235 favorites to beat the Nationals in the best-of-seven series. The Nationals are listed as +195 underdogs.

Game 1 is Tuesday in Houston.

At -235, the Astros are the largest favorites entering the World Series since the 2007 Boston Red Sox were -240 to beat the Colorado Rockies, according to Sportsoddshistory.com.

The Astros and Nationals both were considered World Series contenders entering the season but took different routes to the Fall Classic.

Before the season, the Astros opened at Caesars Sportsbook as co-favorites with the Red Sox, at 6-1, to win the World Series. Houston won an MLB-high 107 games. The Astros reached their second World Series in the past three years with a dramatic win over the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series. Houston's Jose Altuve hit a two-run, walk-off home run to finish off the Yankees in Game 6 of the ALCS on Saturday. Houston beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 World Series.

The Nationals are making the franchise's first appearance in the World Series and had to overcome a disappointing start to the season to get there. Washington was 19-31 on May 23, with its World Series odds drifting to 50-1 at some sportsbooks. The Nationals caught fire in the second half of the season to earn a wild-card berth in the National League. They outlasted the Milwaukee Brewers in a wild-card game, then upset the Dodgers in a National League Divisional Series. They swept the St. Louis Cardinals to win the NL pennant and advance to the World Series, where they're one of the largest underdogs in recent years.

The Astros winning in a sweep is +750 at DraftKings Sportsbook. The Nationals winning in a sweep is 25-1.

McColgan smashes Scottish 10-mile record to retain title in sunny Portsmouth and Southsea

Eilish McColgan smashed her mum’s 10-mile Scottish record while Marc Scott saw off some strong domestic competition to win the Simplyhealth Great South Run on Sunday.

In bright and breezy conditions, McColgan led the women’s race from start to finish and crossed the finish line on Clarence Esplanade in a time of 51:38, improving on the Scottish record of 52:00 set by her mum and coach, 1991 world 10,000m champion Liz, in 1997.

That time also moves McColgan to second on the British all-time list, behind only Paula Radcliffe who ran 51:11 in Portsmouth in 2008, and secured her victory by three and a half minutes.

Capping a successful year, the 28-year-old’s performance comes just two weeks after she improved her own Scottish 5000m record with a time of 14:46.17 to place 10th at the IAAF World Championships in Doha.

“I feel like I can’t stop smiling!” said McColgan, who emulated the achievement of her mum in Portsmouth by claiming a second win, with Liz having won in 1995 and 1997. “My mum said I was in shape to run 51:30, so I wasn’t too far off of her expectation for the day. I’m over the moon with that.

“I run better off of a strong pace, I probably went a little bit too hard!” added the 2018 European 5000m silver medallist. “But it was just the excitement of knowing it’s my last race of the season and I suppose I was a little bit disappointed from my race in Doha, I wanted to come out here today and do myself justice and run a fast time from the start.

“I couldn’t ask for a better day to be honest.”

Behind her, the battle for second place was won by Verity Ockenden, who clocked 55:15 ahead of Jenny Nesbitt, who placed third in 55:18.

Holly Archer was fourth in 55:32 on her 10-mile debut and Olympic marathoner and ultra runner Aly Dixon fifth in 56:27.

Like McColgan, Scott was also fresh from racing at the world championships but also had a win at the Cardiff Cross Challenge plus a quickest leg run at the English National Road Relays in his legs.

In his furthest ever race, he ran 46:57 after pushing ahead in the final four miles to win ahead of Doha 5000m team-mate and British 10,000m champion Ben Connor, who clocked 47:16, and European under-23 10,000m bronze medallist Emile Cairess, who broke the British under-23 10-mile record of 47:50 with his time of 47:32 for third.

“I came to get the win and that’s what I did today so I’m pleased with that,” said Scott. “The conditions were good, perfect for road running, and there was a good domestic field assembled which was great to see.

“Ben was making moves and I just followed each one,” he added on his race tactics. “After six miles, it was already pretty quick so I thought that was a good time to press on. I made a move and it ended up paying off. It was a solo last four miles but it was worth it.”

Cardiff’s Jake Smith was fourth in 47:41 and Southampton’s Mahamed Mahamed fifth in 48:08, while Andy Vernon was eighth as he works towards the New York City Marathon.

After three consecutive wins, Chris Thompson had to settle for 12th and later said: “At my age, and this goes for training as well, you have to accept that you have really good days and you have unrecognisably bad ‘what the hell was that’ days, there’s no real in between, and unfortunately today was one of them.

“That was a legit field, won in legit times. There were some very good performances. I would have had to have been on my A-plus game to have got right up there but it would have been nice to have been closer to the mix and attempted a defence that did justice to the past three years. But you have to sometimes take your medicine in this sport and that that tasted a bit bitter, that one.”

The previous day’s 5km events had been won by Paul Navesey in 14:56 and Sonja Vernikov in 17:36.

France coach Jacques Brunel offered no defence for Sebastien Vahaamahina after his red card helped Wales to a 20-19 World Cup quarter-final win.

Vahaamahina was dismissed in the 49th minute for elbowing Aaron Wainwright in the head. France led 19-10 at the time and were 10 metres from the Wales line.

"I don't contest it," said Brunel of the red card.

"When you see the image it is clear. It was a reflex and we cannot deny he had contact with his face."

With the man advantage, Wales clawed their way back and finally took the lead in the 75th minute via a Ross Moriarty try and Dan Biggar conversion.

Brunel questioned whether the ball had gone forward in the build-up to that decisive score when replacement scrum-half Tomos Williams ripped the ball free of French hands.

"There are other decisions I don't agree with," added Brunel, when asked about referee Jaco Peyper's performance.

"I think the scrum at the end on which we pushed a little, we lost the ball - I would like to see it again.

"The last try, there is a player who pulled on the ball and it went forward and so that's the decision I would like to see again because I am a little disappointed.

"Of course the red card changed the match. In a quarter-final playing for half the match with 14 men it is difficult but I want to stress the quality of our team which showed courage."

Brunel is set to be replaced as coach by Fabian Galthie after the tournament and he believes his successor has a strong foundation to build towards the 2023 tournament that France will host.

France won the 2018 Under-20 World Championship with a team that included fly-half Romain Ntamack.

"For the future generations we are one of the youngest teams in the competition, and all the potential. They will keep on learning and it will make them mature. There is a brighter future for this team," he added.

Analysis

Former Wales international Tom Shanklin on Radio 5 Live

Vahaamahina's red card was inexcusable. It was aggression, he knew exactly what he was doing and there are no excuses. He lost that game for his team. It's just stupid. If you're a French supporter, a French player... it is one of the worst things I've seen."