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7.08pm BST

8 min: Lichtsteiner takes a throw-in deep in Serbian territory, chucking it short to Shaqiri. The Stoke (for now) man twists and turns and tries to deliver a cross from the right but it’s deflected behind for a corner.

7.06pm BST

Matic wins possession near the Swiss area and feeds Tadic, who chops back on to his left foot and flights a cross into the centre. Mitrovic again beats – nay, beasts – Schär in the air. And he nuts a powerful header into the net from eight yards!

“It’s over quicker, which is great,” Jessica Harrington said after winning the Coronation Stakes with Alpha Centauri here on Friday, when asked about the difference between racing on the Flat and over jumps. On that basis her latest Group One win on the Flat must have been her idea of the perfect race, as it was over almost before it had started in earnest.

Alpha Centauri was one of three 1,000 Guineas winners in the field for the feature race on Friday, but she was travelling much better than any of her opponents from the start and was still cruising on the bridle as they lined up for home with just over two furlongs to run.

There will doubtless be no shortage of intensity at the sharp end of the French Grand Prix but away from a tight title fight, for many in France it will be an unashamedly emotional affair. For Jacques Laffite, the race’s return to the Formula One calender after a 10-year absence and at the Paul Ricard circuit has special resonance. A pleasure amplified by the joie de vivre the former F1 driver derives from Lewis Hamilton’s performances.

France hosted the first grand prix in 1906 and had held 86 further meetings by its last race in 2008 at Magny-Cours. Unsurprisingly a decade on there is a celebratory air at Paul Ricard, which hosted the race 14 times between 1971 and 1990. Laffite knows it well, the charismatic 74-year-old raced at the track in his heyday when driving for Ligier, taking six wins.

Well, that was late; and indeed a little ugly at times. On a breezy afternoon by the Gulf of Finland Brazil beat Costa Rica 2-0 at the St Petersburg Stadium to ease their route towards the knockout stage of Russia 2018.

The goals were both scored in injury time, the first by their best player on the day Philippe Coutinho, who came haring through a crowd on to a touch from Gabriel Jesus to poke the ball through the legs of Keylor Navas and send the yellow-shirted stands into a fever.

England must wish the World Cup was taking place next week rather than next year – at least their batsmen must. All of them are in sparkling form, flogging Australian bowlers to every corner of every ground they encounter.

No one is hitting the ball with greater certainty than Jason Roy, who purred to his sixth ODI hundred at Chester-le-Street while posting another century opening partnership with Jonny Bairstow. Already this union has produced more 100 partnerships in one-day international cricket than any other English pairing and they are barely beyond the honeymoon stage.

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Anything other than a win by Colombia against Poland on Sunday could spell doom for its World Cup campaign, but Abel Aguilar is calm.