Thursday Morning: Man City Now 12 Points Clear At Top Of P.L. Table

Beating Brentford 2-0 last night

SOCCER

Manchester City are 12 points clear at the top of the Premier League table this morning following their 2-0 win over Brentford.

Riyad Mahrez and Kevin de Bruyne got the goals at the Etihad Stadium.

Extending our @premierleague lead! 🤩#ManCity pic.twitter.com/KYR5bePI3Z

— Manchester City (@ManCity) February 10, 2022

Tottenham let a 2-1 lead slip as they lost 3-2 at home to Southampton.

It ended 1-1 between Norwich and Crystal Palace.

Aston Villa and Leeds United played out a 3-3 draw in Birmingham.

Brazilian Philippe Coutinho scored one and set up the other two goals for Villa, much to the delight of his manager Steven Gerrard:



Tonight, Liverpool play Leicester City at Anfield.

Arsenal go to Wolves.

Both matches kick off at 7.45pm.


In the Scottish Premiership last night, Celtic defeated Aberdeen 3-2, as Rangers got the better of Hibernian 2-0.

GAELIC GAMES

Sean Finnegan has named his Kildare team for Sunday's opening round Lidl National Football League Div 3B game away to Wexford. 

1. Dervla McGinn (Maynooth) 

2. Claire Nugent (Sallins) 

3. Laoise Lenehan (Kill) 

4. Fiona Troute (Athy) 

5. Hazel McLoughlin (Eadestown) 

6.Lara Gilbert (Kildangan Nurney) 

7. Mia Doherty (Leixlip) 

8. Aoife Rattigan (Cappagh) 

9. Grace Clifford cpt (Eadestown) 

10. Roisin Forde (Maynooth) 

11. Lara Curran (Milltown) 

12. Claire Sullivan (Carbury) 

13. Neasa Dooley (Athy) 

14.Orlaith Sullivan (Carbury) 

15. Sarah Munnelly (Confey) 

That game has a 2pm throw-in at Shelmaliers GAA, in Wexford.

RUGBY

Ireland coach Andy Farrell is not expected to make any changes when he names his team later for Saturday's Six Nations match against France in Paris.

That's despite a return to fitness by Lions duo Robbie Henshaw and Iain Henderson.

WINTER OLYMPICS

Ireland's Jack Gower finished 12th overall in the Alpine Combined skiing at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

⭐️ 12th in the Olympics ⭐️

ALPINE COMBINED ⛷#TeamIreland’s Jack Gower finished 12th overall in the Alpine Combined today at the Winter Olympics 🇮🇪

A clean run to come 12th in the Slalom combined with his 12th place in the Downhill resulted in an overall time of 2:37.74 ☘️ pic.twitter.com/yY1edvPU8j

— Team Ireland (@TeamIreland) February 10, 2022

GOLF

Seamus Power and Graeme McDowell are in the field for the Phoenix Open on the US PGA Tour later.

Jonathan Caldwell is level par after an opening 72 at the Ras Al Khaimah Classic, 7 shots behind leader Ricardo Gouveia.

HORSE RACING

There is a meeting over jumps today at Thurles, with the first off at 1.45pm.