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SD Sports Blitz: Wins for Madrid & City, as Littler defeated by unlikely opponent

All you need in a <3 minute read this Wednesday!

Welcome back to SportsDraft this Wednesday!!

Here’s all you need to know about sports and what happened yesterday.

Todays SD Must-Knows

⚽ - Man City defeated Copenhagen 3-1 thanks to goals from Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden, on his 50th UCL appearance. Jack Grealish limped off in the 21’ due to an injury.

🏀 - Shaq had his famous No. 32 jersey retired last night by the Orlando Magic, the first player to have his number retired by the franchise. Shaq now has his jersey retired by 3 teams (Magic, Lakers and Heat) and is the 4th player in history to have a jersey retired by 3 separate teams.

🏐- Road blocks continue to be in place for the redevelopment of Casement Park in West Belfast, as Stormonts new Communities Manager Gordon Lyon’s explains funding remains a ‘big difficulty’.

⛳ - ICYMI, Tiger Woods released a new clothing line with Taylormade named ‘Sun Day Red’ following his high profile switch from Nike. Tiger plays at the Genesis Invitational in LA this week.

🚣 - Rowing Ireland tops the High Performance funding for the Paris Olympics, as investment now reaches €89m for the games. Rowing Ireland has 16 athletes on top-tier funding, resulting in €863,000, compared to Boxing and Athletics which has 4 and 3 athletes respectively.

⚽ - Brahim Diaz scored a goal of the season contender at the start of the second half to give Real Madrid a 1-0 win away to RB Leipzig. The return leg takes place on the 6th of March.

🎯 - Cork based bus driver Radek Szaganski knocked Luke Littler out of the Players Championship 2 after 6-5 win in Wigan last night, following Littlers first PDC title win the day before. Gary Anderson went on to win the Players Championship 2 title last night.

Results Round-Up

⚽ UCL

  • FC Copenhagen 1 - Man City 3

  • RB Leipzig 0 - Real Madrid 1

⚽ Championship

  • Birmingham 1 - Blackburn 0

  • Leicester 2 - Sheffield Wednesday 0

  • Norwich City 4 - Watford 2

  • Rotherham 1 - Hull City 2

  • Swansea City 0 - Leeds 4

  • Bristol City 3 - Southampton 1

  • West Brom 2 - Cardiff 0

🏀 NBA

  • OKC 127 - Magic 113

  • Celtic 118 - Nets 110

  • Heat 123 - Bucks 97

  • Timberwolves 121 - Trail Blazers 109

  • Kings 125 - Suns 130

  • Pistons 111 - Lakers 125

Where to Watch 📺

Wednesday

  • 18:00 - Bologna v Fiorentina - TNT Sports 3

  • 20:00 - Lazio v Bayern Munich - TNT Sports 1

  • 20:00 - PSG v Real Sociedad - TNT Sports 2

  • 20:00 - Millwall v Ipswich Town - Sky Sports Football

  • 00:00 - 76ers v Heat - TNT Sports 1

Thursday

  • 15:00 - Genesis Open - Sky Sports Golf

  • 17:45 - Feyenoord v Roma - TNT Sports 1

  • 17:45 - Shakhtar v Marseille - TNT Sports 2

  • 19:00 - Cazoo Premier League - Sky Sports Action

  • 20:00 - Hull FC v Hull KR - Sky Sports Arena

  • 20:00 - AC Milan v Rennes - TNT Sports 1

  • 20:00 - Benicia v Toulouse - TNT Sports 2


That’s all for today. Thanks for reading!

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