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RB Leipzig sack head coach Rose & appoint Low

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RB Leipzig have sacked head coach Marco Rose after their 1-0 Bundesliga defeat by Borussia Monchengladbach and appointed Zsolt Low as interim boss.

Rose, 48, departs after two and a half years with Leipzig who are sixth in the Bundesliga table.

Low, who worked as Thomas Tuchel’s assistant manager at Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain, replaces Rose until the end of the season.

Leipzig have won three of their past 11 Bundesliga games but are only three points below the Champions League qualification places with seven matches remaining.

They also play in the semi-finals of the German Cup on Wednesday against Stuttgart.

Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp currently works for the Red Bull group as their head of global soccer.

Speaking in January, Klopp said “I will not be the coach of a Red Bull team”, should an opportunity arise.

Marcel Schafer, Leipzig’s managing director for sport, said: “We have believed in our co-operation with Marco and his team for a very long time and, up to now, tried everything to turn things around together.

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Forest draw Bournemouth or Man City, Palace v Villa

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Nottingham Forest will take on either Bournemouth or Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley Stadium.

Aston Villa, who dispatched the only remaining Championship side Preston 3-0, have been drawn against Crystal Palace – who beat Fulham convincingly in the quarter-finals.

Forest reached their first FA Cup semi-final since 1991 by overcoming Brighton in a penalty shootout.

Aside from 2023 winners Manchester City, Nottingham Forest are the most recent FA Cup victors (1959) left, while Palace and Bournemouth are bidding to win their maiden FA Cup.

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Nottingham Forest v Bournemouth or Manchester City

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Starc’s first T20 five-for gives Capitals easy IPL win

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Indian Premier League 2025

Sunrisers Hyderabad 163 (18.4 overs): Aniket 74 (41), Starc 5-35

Delhi Capitals 166-3 (16 overs): Du Plessis 50 (28), Zeeshan 3-42

Delhi Capitals won by seven wickets

Mitchell Starc took his first five-wicket haul in T20 cricket as Delhi Capitals cruised to a seven-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League.

The 35-year-old Australia left-arm quick claimed 5-35 as Sunrisers were bowled out for 163 after their skipper Pat Cummins had won the toss and batted first.

Aniket Verma hit 74 off 41 balls and was one of only three Sunrisers batters to make it into three figures as Starc and Kuldeep Yadav, who finished with 3-22, did the damage.

Faf du Plessis hammered 50 off 27 balls as he and Jake Fraser-McGurk put on 81 for the first wicket to give the Capitals a solid foundation in the chase.

Sunrisers spinner Zeeshan Ansari dismissed both players on his IPL debut to put the brakes on with 3-42.

However, Abishek Porel and Tristan Stubbs finished unbeaten on 34 and 21 respectively as they got Delhi over the line with 30 balls to spare.

The Capitals have started this year’s IPL with victories in both of their opening two matches.

Starc’s figures eclipsed his previous best in the format nearly a decade ago – 4-15 for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Kings XI Punjab in the IPL in May 2015.

He bagged the wickets of Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan early in the SRH innings after both picked out fielders attempting big shots.

However, it was the dismissal of Australia team-mate Travis Head for 22 which gave him the greatest satisfaction and brought a wry smile.

Sunrisers opener Head gloved a delivery from Starc to Delhi wicketkeeper KL Rahul, which ensured Starc has got the wicket of the left-hander six times in all formats.

Head has faced Starc eight times since 2015, and managed just 18 runs off 34 balls.

Starc then returned in the penultimate over of the Sunrisers innings for his final over as he eyed the chance of a maiden T20 five-for in his 209th match in the format.

He was indebted to two superb diving catches from Capitals skipper Axar Patel and Du Plessis – to dismiss Harshal Patel and Wiaan Mulder to complete the feat.

“There’s not many egos in bowlers in T20 cricket – you’re hanging on for dear life sometimes – so it was nice to contribute today”, Starc said after he was given the player of the match award.

Five stats from Starc’s five-for

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Rotherham sack manager Evans after Crawley defeat

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Rotherham United have sacked manager Steve Evans following their run of seven defeats in 11 League One games.

The 62-year-old Scot, who was in his second spell as Millers boss, had come under fire from fans after Saturday’s 4-0 hammering at home by relegation-threatened Crawley Town, which pushed Rotherham down to 16th place in the table.

The club confirmed in a statement on Sunday they had parted company with Evans, along with his backroom staff Paul Raynor, Gary Mills and Ian Pledger.

Saturday’s defeat by Crawley, a club Evans guided into the Football League earlier in his managerial career, was the Millers ‘ heaviest of the season and prompted some supporters at New York Stadium to call for his dismissal.

Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield after the game, Evans admitted: “There’s no hiding place when you have a performance like that. The performance was limp, way off the minimum standards we expect.

” Everything that my teams have been famous for was not deployed. I think this is as low as it’s been in 31 years as a manager.

“Maybe my credit’s run out. I’ve had fantastic times at this club and, if the decision is made to remove me, I’ll be back in the future as a fan”.

During his initial three-and-a-half-year stint as Rotherham boss from 2012 to 2015, the Glaswegian oversaw successive promotions and kept the club in the Championship.

After leaving in September 2015, he took over at Leeds United a month later but departed Elland Road at the end of that season after eight months at the helm.

He subsequently took charge at Mansfield Town, Peterborough United and Gillingham, as well as leading Stevenage to promotion from League Two in 2023.

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Rotherham sack manager Evans after Crawley defeat

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Rotherham United have sacked manager Steve Evans following their run of seven defeats in 11 League One games.

The 62-year-old Scot, who was in his second spell as Millers boss, had come under fire from fans after Saturday’s 4-0 hammering at home by relegation-threatened Crawley Town, which pushed Rotherham down to 16th place in the table.

The club confirmed in a statement on Sunday they had parted company with Evans, along with his backroom staff Paul Raynor, Gary Mills and Ian Pledger.

Saturday’s defeat by Crawley, a club Evans guided into the Football League earlier in his managerial career, was the Millers ‘ heaviest of the season and prompted some supporters at New York Stadium to call for his dismissal.

Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield after the game, Evans admitted: “There’s no hiding place when you have a performance like that. The performance was limp, way off the minimum standards we expect.

” Everything that my teams have been famous for was not deployed. I think this is as low as it’s been in 31 years as a manager.

“Maybe my credit’s run out. I’ve had fantastic times at this club and, if the decision is made to remove me, I’ll be back in the future as a fan”.

During his initial three-and-a-half-year stint as Rotherham boss from 2012 to 2015, the Glaswegian oversaw successive promotions and kept the club in the Championship.

After leaving in September 2015, he took over at Leeds United a month later but departed Elland Road at the end of that season after eight months at the helm.

He subsequently took charge at Mansfield Town, Peterborough United and Gillingham, as well as leading Stevenage to promotion from League Two in 2023.

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