Neymar scores stunning goal as Brazil beat feisty Austria 3-0

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Brazil’s Neymar celebrates scoring his team’s second goal against Austria in a friendly match played in Vienna, on Sunday, 10 June, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

VIENNA: Brazil scored three superbly-taken goals to beat feisty Austria 3-0 in sweltering conditions on Sunday to put the finishing touches to their impressive World Cup preparations.

Gabriel Jesus put Brazil ahead in the 36th minute with a delightful dinked finish past Heinz Lindner before Neymar, starting a game for the first time since his injury in February, added a stunning second goal in the 63rd minute

Neymar left Aleksander Dragovic on the floor with a dragback and then scored with a shot between Lindner’s legs.

Six minutes later, substitute Roberto Firmino set Philippe Coutinho clear down the left and he curled his shot wide of Lindner for the third.

Five-times champions Brazil open their World Cup campaign against Switzerland on June 17.

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Scotland seal shock six-run victory over England: ODI – as it happened

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  • Scotland smash record 371 for 5 (MacLeod 140*)
  • Mark Wood the final England wicket to fall

The top team in the world have lost to the team ranked 13th. And we’ve seen 737 runs in a day. Jonny Bairstow played a scintillating knock, but, to be ultra-critical, it was a baby hundred when a daddy was required. And Alex Hales compounded the problem by stage-managing two dismissals, his own and Joe Root’s. Moeen Ali and Liam Plunkett very nearly turned it round, but the force was with Kyle Coetzer, the captain with a ridiculous number of bowling changes. He set the tone this morning with the bat, and somehow he got his team over the line in the field, helped by some canny bowling from Evans and Watt. It’s been a privilege to cover this. Thanks for your company.

The last word goes to Jamie Argent. “Does this mean we win the World Cup?” It’s not far off.

Edinburgh is rocking. There’s a crowd invasion, some bagpipes are playing, the players are exchanging hugs, and although England will be red-faced, they don’t seem to begrudge the Scots their triumph, which is right and proper. This is a famous, famous victory, and it makes a nonsense of Scotland’s absence from next year’s World Cup. Callum Macleod, Mark Watt and co. have written themselves into Scottish sporting history.

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Canadian Grand Prix: F1 – live!

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Martin Brundle has just done a marvellous gridwalk; he just bumped into “Bono” (Peter Bennington), Hamilton’s race engineer, as well as NBA’s Serge Ibaka, and Winnie Harlow, who he interrupted while she was talking to the Arsenal defender Héctor Bellerín. Anyway, here comes a spine-tingling national anthem of sorts.

Before the get-go, a reminder of the drivers’ standings:

1 L Hamilton 110pts
2 S Vettel 96
3 D Ricciardo 72
4 V Bottas 68
5 K Räikkönen 60
6 M Verstappen 35

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Rafael Nadal wins 11th French Open title with three-set victory over Thiem

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• Spaniard beats Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
• Nadal has won 11 of past 14 tournaments at Roland Garros

Rafael Nadal’s place in the pantheon of tennis was secured some time ago, but the Spaniard’s 11th coronation at Roland Garros after beating Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 in two hours and 42 minutes on a warm, humid Sunday afternoon, lifted him further from his mortal rivals.

Related: Rafael Nadal v Dominic Thiem: French Open 2018 men’s final – live!

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World Cup action must not divert from focus on further Fifa corruption | Sean Ingle

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A new book, Red Card, tells how US prosecutors exposed racketeering among American football officials – and revives fears that Fifa is being permitted to move on too quickly

There is a lightbulb moment in Red Card, a gripping new book on how the US authorities exposed massive corruption in Fifa, when prosecutors finally understand exactly what they are dealing with. It comes in January 2012 as Chuck Blazer, the general secretary of Concacaf who has recently been flipped, outlines Fifa’s complicated structures and how he, and others, have creamed millions from sports marketing rights.

At that point the US prosecutor Ewan Norris – who has previously convicted members of the Gambino family, including an assassin with a predilection for dissolving his victims in vats of acid – calls colleagues out of the room before making a triangle with his fingers.

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American racing is the big winner after Justify’s Triple Crown heroics | Greg Wood

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Bob Baffert’s unbeaten Kentucky Derby winner will ensure bumper crowds at his final appearances and huge demand from breeders when he retires to stud

The second Triple Crown winner of the last four decades was greeted as rapturously as the first when Justify crossed the line at Belmont Park on Saturday night, and for the second time in four seasons, American racing will spend the next few months enjoying the glow that only a Triple Crown winner can bring.

This is despite the strong likelihood that the remainder of Justify’s career on the track will now amount to less than five minutes of actual racing time.

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Predators GM Poile pens classy letter to former coach Trotz on Stanley Cup win with Capitals

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“The hockey gods got it right” David Poile says about Barry Trotz finally hoisting the Stanley Cup.

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NASCAR at Michigan: Live updates, highlights of the FireKeepers Casino 400

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Live updates of the FireKeepers Casino 400 at the Michigan International Speedway.

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Buccaneers’ T.J. Ward has drug charges dropped

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Ward had faced a felony count of possession of marijuana and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

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World Cup 2018: Tunisia vs. England schedule, how to watch live

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Everything you need to know about the World Cup match between Tunisia vs. England.

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