Thursday Morning: Leona Maguire & Stephanie Meadow In LPGA Action In Korea

Aston Villa travel top Craven Cottage to play Fulham this evening.

SOCCER

Tottenham manager Antonio Conte admits his side deserved to lose at Old Trafford last night.

They suffered a 2-nil defeat to Manchester United in the Premier League - with Fred and Bruno Fernandes netting the goals for the winners.

Elsewhere, Liverpool beat West Ham by a goal to nil thanks to a Darwin Nunez effort.

Chelsea were held to a goalless draw away to Brentford, while Newcastle beat Everton 1-nil.

Southampton were also one-nil winners at Bournemouth, with Gavin Bazunu earning his first clean sheet of the season.

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Steven Gerrard insists he's the right man to turn Aston Villa's form around.

They travel to Fulham later having won just two of their 10 Premier League games this season.

Kick off at Craven Cottage is at half seven.

From 8.15, Leicester can move off the bottom of the table with just a point from their meeting with Leeds.

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Arsenal laid down a marker last night in the Women’s Champions League, winning 5-1 away to defending champions Lyon in Group C.

Chelsea begin their Group A campaign tonight away to Paris Saint-Germain.

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Arsenal’s men’s side are also in European action this evening.

They welcome PSV Eindhoven to the Emirates in their re-arranged Europa League Group A game.

Kick-off there is at 6pm

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The Republic of Ireland under-17s begin their European Championship qualifying campaign this evening.

Colin O’Brien’s side play Armenia in the Norwegian city of Sarpsborg, where there’s a 5pm start.


GOLF

Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow are both in action at the LPGA Tour's BMW Ladies Championship in Korea.

Maguire has finished on level par, while Meadow is two-over through 17.

Thailand's Atthaya Thitikul is the leader on nine-under-par.

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Rory McIlroy can return to world number one this week, if he retains his title at the C-J Cup.

The County Down golfer tees off at 3.20 Irish time, in a group that also contains Rickie Fowler and Tom Kim.

Around 40-minutes beforehand, Shane Lowry goes out alongside Matt Fitzpatrick and Jason Day.

Seamus Power goes out just after 5pm with Sebastian Munoz and K-H Lee.

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Niall Kearney, Cormac Sharvin and Jonathan Caldwell are all in action at the Mallorca Open, which gets underway this morning.


SNOOKER

Mark Allen is in action at the Northern Ireland Open this evening.

The Antrim native goes up against Xiao Guodong in the last 16.

Their clash is due to get underway at 7pm in Belfast.


RACING

There’s a seven-race card at Thurles this afternoon, where the first goes to post at 2pm.