VIRGINIA WATER, England – Ross Fisher thought he’d pulled his 4-iron second shot into Wentworth’s par-5 18^th green and with water looming left of the putting surface there were a few tense moments.

“I hit it and I thought I had pulled it. Thankfully the wind was off the left, so I sort of looked away. Obviously dead center,” Fisher smiled.

Fisher’s shot bounced on the green and rolled into the hole for an albatross that lifted the Englishman into a tie for ninth at the BMW PGA Championship and a third-round 66. The rewards didn’t stop there. Fisher also won a BMW i8 Roadster worth about $165,000 thanks to his “pulled” 4-iron from 225 yards at the last.

“The crowd's reaction told the story, the massive roars and cheers, to know it's gone in, and to win the BMW i8, still a bit shocking,” he said.

Fisher was born in Ascot, which is about three miles from Wentworth, and still lives in the area which made his finish on Saturday that much more special with his friends and family in attendance.

“Obviously an [albatross] on 18 is a pretty special way to finish off, and especially with [wife] Jo and [son and daughter] Harry and Eve and the family, friends,” Fisher said. “What an experience, to see me play that and hole a second shot, albatross. There will be a few celebrations tonight, but I'll have to come back and try and do it again tomorrow.”

Real Madrid head coach Zinedine Zidane has said he is not bothered by rumours linking Jose Mourinho with his job.

Sources have told ESPN FC that the Frenchman is under pressure after Madrid suffered a disappointing defeat by Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League opener.

Madrid were up against an under-strength PSG side on Wednesday missing Neymar, Edinson Cavani and Kylian Mbappe but produced a pitiful display, failing to register a shot on target in a Champions League game for the first time in 16 years.

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"I'm not interested in what is said outside the club, the day I pay attention to what's in the press is the day I leave," Zidane told a news conference on Saturday ahead of Real's visit to early La Liga leaders Sevilla on Sunday.

"I feel in a strong position and I never give up. I will keep trying until the last minute and as long as the club will give me the chance to continue. I don't feel questioned at all."

Spanish media have reported that Real president Florentino Perez would be keen to recruit former coach Mourinho should Zidane be relieved of his duties.

"I'm not bothered by the Mourinho speculation," he added. "This is how the situation is, and whenever the team has a bad result the impression is that everything needs to change. It's difficult but it's the reality."

Real have taken eight points from four La Liga games while Sevilla top the standings with 10 after making a flying start under coach Julen Lopegetui, who was named as Zidane's successor at Real last year but was sacked in October.

Lopetegui, however, said he harboured no ill feelings towards Real and was treating Sunday's game like any other.

"Three points are up for grabs tomorrow and that should be motivation enough for us even though we know what it means to face Real Madrid," he said.

"I have a very good memory of every club I've been at and always try to remember the positive things. I try to be responsible and ambitious and tomorrow will be no exception."

Real will be able to count on captain Sergio Ramos against Sevilla after he missed the PSG defeat due to suspension, although Marcelo is a doubt and Luka Modric is still injured.

Manchester United are keen to sit down with Paul Pogba's agent Mino Raiola to discuss a contract extension in the coming weeks, sources have told ESPN FC.

Pogba still has two years left on his deal with an option for a third season, which can be triggered by the club only.

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Nevertheless, United want to tie the 2018 World Cup winner to a new long term contract and want to begin talks soon.

After agreeing new terms with David De Gea and giving an extension to centre-back Victor Lindelof, they are now ready to turn their attention to Pogba, who moved to United for a then world record £89.3 million in 2016.

It could prove tough, though. The former Juventus star expressed publicly that he wanted to leave in the summer. His desire was to move to Real Madrid but the offer never came, despite Zinedine Zidane making him his priority, and he ended up staying.

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United will have to convince the midfielder he would do the right thing by committing his long term future to the club. Raiola has a good relationship with executive vice chairman Ed Woodward, and sources have told ESPN FC that while Pogba would like to move to Madrid, he has not ruled out signing a new contract at United.

The Old Trafford outfit see the 26-year-old, who will miss Sunday's Premier League clash with West Ham with an ankle injury, as a key part of their project both on and off the pitch, notably including his status as the most important asset in the club's marketing strategy.

Manchester City put their Norwich nightmare firmly behind them as they blew away Watford with a blistering performance at the Etihad. The revitalised hosts stormed into a 5-0 lead with just 18 minutes on the clock and never looked back, as Pep Guardiola's side cruised to an 8-0 win and recorded their biggest ever Premier League victory.

Positives

What a difference a week makes. The Premier League champions produced a dazzling performance in the Manchester sunshine with Kevin De Bruyne, Sergio Aguero, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez all unplayable. The hosts also recorded a vital clean sheet that will help to instil some much-needed confidence in their rejigged back four. Make no mistake about it, this was a real statement of intent to City's title rivals.

Negatives

It was an attacking masterclass from City, but there were still glimpses of defensive frailties at the back. Benjamin Mendy looked far from match fit and Guardiola will be hopeful that the left-back will recover quickly with the club's defensive options already stretched.

Manager rating (out of 10)

9 -- Guardiola got his changes spot on. He was left with a selection dilemma as to who would partner Nicolas Otamendi at centre-back but opted for Fernandinho over his youthful defensive options. The Brazilian midfielder put in a commanding performance in the heart of City's defence, while Mahrez threatened to run riot early on having being brought in for Raheem Sterling in attack. Guardiola also recalled De Bruyne following a display lacking in creativity at Norwich, and the classy midfielder produced another breathtaking performance as City romped to victory.

Player ratings (1-10; 10 = best, players introduced after 70 minutes get no rating)

GK Ederson, 5 -- A quiet afternoon for the City goalkeeper. Perhaps a little fortunate not to lose his clean sheet when Roberto Pereyra managed to jink past him, but was rescued by Otamendi.

DF Kyle Walker, 6 -- Barely had anything to do in the first-half. Fizzed a long-range shot just wide after the break and played a sensational cross-field ball before departing for Joao Cancelo in the 54th minute.

DF Fernandinho, 7 -- Put in a solid performance playing out of his natural position. Read the game superbly and never looked out of his depth.

DF Nicolas Otamendi 6 -- Naively went to ground too easily as Watford almost levelled the scores at 1-0. But he more than redeemed himself by sliding in at the back post to make it 5-0. Replaced by Eric Garcia in the 63rd minute.

DF Benjamin Mendy, 5 -- Looked off the pace, but it's been a busy week for the full-back after a lengthy absence. Replaced by Angelino at half-time.

MF Kevin De Bruyne, 10 -- It's De Bruyne's world and we're all just living in it. It took the Belgium midfielder just 63 seconds to unlock Watford's back four in another phenomenal outing. Tricked us into thinking he was human when he sliced an ambitious effort well wide, before hammering City's home City's eighth in style.

MF Rodri, 7 -- A vital cog in a frightening City midfield. Another positive display in what's shaping up to be an impressive debut Premier League season.

MF David Silva, 7 -- Opened the scoring with just a minute on the clock. The Premier League will be a worse place without him next season if he departs.

MF Bernardo Silva, 10 -- Doesn't seem to have an off button. Produced another tireless, industrious display and was excellent value for his hat trick.

MF Riyad Mahrez, 8 -- Caused the Watford defence countless problems from the first whistle. Did brilliantly to nick the ball away from Ben Foster and win his side a penalty, then got the goal he deserved through a deflected free-kick and was unlucky to see a header rattle the crossbar after the break.

FW Sergio Aguero, 9 -- Didn't get the rewards his fantastic performance deserved. Could have easily added another four or five goals to his already record-breaking tally.

Substitutes

DF Angelino, 5 -- Came on for Mendy in the 45th minute. Looked comfortable on the left but didn't really have to break a sweat in the Lancashire sun.

DF Joao Cancelo, 5 -- Came on for Walker in the 54th minute. Enjoyed a quiet afternoon as City ran riot

DF Eric GarcIa 5 -- Came on for Otamendi in the 63rd minute. Barely touched the ball, but enjoyed an afternoon to remember on his Premier League debut.

Toss Bangladesh chose to bowl v Afghanistan

Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan chose to bowl against Afghanistan in the last league game of the tri-series. Both sides made it to the final to be played on September 24, although Afghanistan's 13-match winning streak was broken yesterday when Zimbabwe beat them by seven wickets.

Bangladesh made one change, bringing back Sabbir Rahman in place of newcomer Aminul Islam who hurt his hand in the previous game, needing three stitches. Afghanistan brought in Karim Janat and handed a debut to 19-year-old quick bowler Naveen-ul-Haq, in place of Fazal Niazai and Dawlat Zadran. Naveen has played two ODIs, both against Bangladesh in 2016, and took one wicket in each of them.

Bangladesh: 1 Liton Das, 2 Najmul Hossain, 3 Shakib Al Hasan (capt), 4 Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), 5 Mahmudullah, 6 Sabbir Rahman, 7 Mosaddek Hossain, 8 Afif Hossain, 9 Mohammad Saifuddin, 10 Shafiul Islam, 11 Mustafizur Rahman

Afghanistan: 1 Hazratullah Zazai, 2 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 3 Shafiqullah, 4 Asghar Afghan, 5 Mohammad Nabi, 6 Najibullah Zadran, 7 Gulbadin Naib, 8 Rashid Khan (capt), 9 Karim Janat, 10 Naveen-ul-Haq, 11 Mujeeb Ur Rahman

Western Australia 8 for 386 (Stoinis 101*, Bancroft 78, Philippe 61, Turner 52) beat Victoria 261 (Maddinson 87, Maxwell 51, Agar 3-54) by 125 runs

Marcus Stoinis hammered a 58-ball century as Western Australia - with nine internationals in their side - launched their Marsh One-Day Cup campaign in emphatic style with a 125-run victory over defending champions Victoria.

Stoinis, who had a poor World Cup, reached his hundred with his seventh six off the last ball of the innings to end a brutal late surge which brought 102 runs from the last five overs of the innings to lift Western Australia to a monstrous 8 for 386.

Victoria briefly looked as though they could threaten as Glenn Maxwell hit a 30-ball half-century but in the end fell well short despite Nic Maddinson's forceful 87.

There had been impressive contributions throughout Western Australia's innings which was launched by Josh Philippe's 61 off 43 balls and was supplement by Ashton Turner's 45-ball half-century and Cameron Bancroft's compact 78.

However, it was Stoinis who stole the show as he moved from 52 to 101 in 13 balls. He struck four sixes in five balls in the 48th over from Scott Boland that went for 28 runs and when Ashton Agar stuck two himself off Jon Holland six out of eight deliveries had gone for six.

Stoinis was on 91 when he got the strike back for the penultimate ball of the innings which he upper cut to third man then, after Will Sutherland delivered two wides, he launched the last ball over long-on. In turn, that brought up Sutherland's hundred.

It was a perfectly constructed innings from Western Australia after they had been given the early impetus from the Philippe who could possibly come into the reckoning for Australia honours this season. He reached fifty from 32 balls before pulling Boland into his stumps then after Shaun Marsh was run out coming back for a second - a borderline decision - Bancroft and Turner formed a fourth-wicket stand of 96 in 14 overs.

Turner, returning from shoulder surgery, brought urgency to the partnership before picking out midwicket then Bancroft opened his shoulders with consecutive sixes off Maddinson. When Bancroft fell it was 5 for 254 after 41 overs before Stoinis took over.

Aaron Finch briefly took up where Stoinis left off as he reached to 33 off 15 balls which included taking Jhye Richardson's first over in professional cricket since late March for 17. However, Richardson struck back when Finch miscued a short ball to mid-on in what became an interesting evening for the quick.

In an occasionally heated contest with Maxwell, he saw the batsman dropped and was then taken for three leg-side sixes which led to a few words. After two spells, Richardson had figures of 5-0-64-1.

Maxwell and Maddinson added 94 in 11 overs before Maxwell picked out long-on against Agar. Maddinson missed out on the chance for a hundred when he sliced to backward point.

147 for 9 (Whiteley 36, Carter 3-32) beat Nottinghamshire 146-5 (Hales 52, Duckett 49*, Ali 1-13) by one run

"You want everyone to hurt as much as you do. If you cut us in half we'd be green and gold."

Well there is really nothing like T20 Finals Day for a bit of gothic hyperbole and no one doubts Steven Mullaney's loyalty to Trent Bridge. Nottinghamshire's club captain has felt his team's pain as sharply as anyone this year and so one can easily imagine his utter agony when the Outlaws lost a game they should have coasted to an exultant Worcestershire team, some of whom seemed as surprised by the outcome as their devastated opponents.

Even in the slightly absurd world of T20 no one at Edgbaston could quite credit what they were seeing in this first semi-final and it will take a while for things to sink in at Trent Bridge.

Needing 11 to win with eight wickets in hand, Notts lost three batsmen in the penultimate over - one of them that of Mullaney, who was run out without facing a ball. No problem, you might think, given that the Outlaws then required only six off the final over, bowled by Wayne Parnell. A tie would do.

But having conceded 37 off his previous three overs, Parnell hit his lengths to the extent that Ben Duckett and Samit Patel managed only five before Duckett swished fruitlessly at the last ball and Ben Cox, standing up to the stumps, collected it brilliantly. Parnell raced off to the dug-out while Duckett sank to his knees and stayed there for a long minute. He may have wanted the Birmingham earth to swallow him up

Absolutely none of this had seemed likely, given that Worcestershire's total of 147 had seemed about 20 shy of par and Nottinghamshire's batsmen had gone about proving the justice of that contention.

Put at its simplest, the Rapids innings began with three sixes by Moeen Ali and ended with three more from the bat of Ross Whiteley. The middle overs were dominated by Riki Wessels' relatively restrained 34, his moderation necessitated by a steady haemorrhage of wickets, three of them taken by Matt Carter and two by Mullaney. All of which made Whiteley's late assault all the more necessary; no could match Moeen's aggression until he levied 16 runs off three balls from Mullaney and it had been left to Wessels to anchor the innings - always a curious term in the speedboat world of short-form cricket but valid all the same - in his 38-ball innings

Moeen had made 21 off nine balls, depositing his second delivery from Carter deep into the Chairman's Lounge at the Pavilion End. There were two more sixes, one off Harry Gurney measured at 92 metres, before he was bowled aiming an extravagant sweep at a 60mph off-spinner from Carter. At that pace though, flight and grip had little to do with the dismissal. Whiteley managed 36 off 24 balls before he became one of Gurney's two late victims.

Not many folk thought 147 would be enough and even that plucky caucus was reduced once Chris Nash had taken 18 runs off Parnell's second over of the innings. Nash has been given licence to whack it and he made 24 off 16 balls before he was caught at square leg by Daryl Mitchell off Ed Barnard. But any thoughts this might prompt the steady loss of wickets suffered by Worcestershire were quickly dispelled by Alex Hales and Duckett, who gauged the pace of the pitch - slow but hardly sticky - before getting out the ramps, the reverse sweeps and other strokes from T20's palace of varieties.

The pair had added 49 when Hales was caught by Cox off Moeen for a 42-ball 52, but that wicket fell in the offspinner's last over and the task of preventing the Outlaws scoring 45 runs off six overs fell to the rest of the skipper's seven-man attack. Parnell bowled at over 80mph but his deliveries came off the bat at a similar velocity

Then Dan Christian fell to Pat Brown in the penultimate over of the innings and Moores was caught at long on by Wessles three balls later. Next ball Mullaney was run out and the level of tension in the Nottinghamshire camp was cranked up about a dozen notches.

Parnell was entrusted with the final over of the innings and what happened next will haunt this winter by the Trent. Having won none of their championship games, Notts were hoping this day would rescue their season, Instead of which they face a short journey home before having the chance to watch the final on TV. You may be assured they will not do so.

Worcestershire's head coach Alex Gidman admitted he thought his side were dead and buried in their T20 Blast semi-final against Notts with two overs to go, and paid tribute to his side's precision with the ball and in the field.

Notts were 137 for 2 chasing 148 to win with two overs remaining, and would have gone through with a tie having lost fewer wickets. But Pat Brown and Wayne Parnell both bowled brilliant overs at the death to claw things back, and after Ben Duckett swung-and-missed at the final ball, Ben Cox whipped off the bails to seal a one-run victory.

"I probably did [think we'd lost it]," said Gidman. "The 18th over [which went for 15 runs] was a big one. We had a good chance before then, but the 18th went for a few. That happens. Ross took one of theirs for quite a few at the end as well, so it's probably unrealistic to think it's all going to go swimmingly well.

"You think about just trying to hang in the game for as long as possible, which is something we've talked about doing. It's something that Mo [captain Moeen Ali] talks about with the group all the time, and those last couple of overs got a little bit messy but we managed to pull it back."

Worcestershire became the first side in the competition this season not to concede an extra in an innings, and Gidman paid tribute to his side's miserly qualities.

"It sounds really daft, but we just try and do the basics as well as possible," he said. "Again, Mo talked about that at the beginning of the day - just doing the basics as well as we can - and that was certainly one area that we should be proud of."

Worcestershire were involved in a similarly remarkable come-from-behind win at Chester-le-Street during the competition's group stage, and Gidman said that the semi-final had topped that drama.

"We had one game at Durham a couple of months ago which was equally bizarre," he said. "It was an amazing effort, amazing game of cricket. There's so many ways that T20 entertains us, but that last couple of overs was pretty special from ourselves, and to stay in the game for as long as possible.

"That was right up there. I think that probably did top the Durham game."

Moeen suggested that he had initially misread the pitch, but said that he expected runs to come more easily in the powerplay through the day.

"I came off saying it was a 180 wicket," he told Sky, "so that shows how much I know. Obviously I had a good start, and I think throughout Finals Day if you go at ten an over in the first six, it doesn't really matter, you can drag it back.

"It wasn't easy to score. I thought [Alex] Hales played fantastically well and he was a big wicket for us - it was nice to get him out, actually."

Nottinghamshire coach Peter Moores said there was "nothing you can do" to explain his side's semi-final defeat against Worcestershire, which saw his team score nine runs for the loss of three wickets in the final 12 balls and thus fall one short of a tie that would have been enough for them.

"It's quite difficult to explain," Moores said. "It's as gutting a loss as I can remember. It's a tough one because we got ourselves in a position where we felt we couldn't lose and then we did.

"It looked like an easy finish and professional players often make it look very easy. But in sport you never know until you get over the line. We did a lot of things right and then - give them credit - they produced a couple of very good stops in the last two overs."

"There is nothing you can do to explain it. That's sport and that's why people come and watch it.

Nottinghamshire needed six off the last over, and one off the last ball, but Ben Duckett swung-and-missed at Wayne Parnell's length ball with wicket-keeper Ben Cox stood up to the stumps to send Worcestershire through to a second final in as many years.

"Ben's distraught in there and you just have to take it," said Moores. "When Dan [Christian] hit that six, it felt like that was the game. But you're never over the line until you're over the line.

"I haven't said anything to the players. You can imagine what the dressing room's like. When you lose a game at Finals Day because you looked like you were going to lose, that's tough. When you lose a game that you never expected to lose all the way through it, that's a big thing to take in that moment. But it's a fair scrap and they got one more run than us.

Moores suggested that his side could use the defeat as motivation in future years.

"I can't remember a game like that if I'm honest," he said. "No one comes here and has a great day unless they walk away with the trophy.

"The lads put their heart and soul into the game. Our fans are very good and they've had some tough days to take this year. If we'd won the trophy today, we'd have had the most trophies of any side over the last ten years.

"The tough days make the good ones taste that little bit sweeter."