It s just a little balancing act to make sure that we get a good performance and hopefully a good result. we need to sort of get back to ourselves, priding ourselves on clean sheets and doing everything we can to win games. so that s certainly been a message this week, but to obviously come out here and play against gibraltar, it s going to be be a good game for us. we don t underestimate anybody. and we ve got a strong performance, full of energy. and yeah, lay our stakes down to be in the manager s plans for germany. so, scotland ramping up their euros preparations, and after losing striker lyndon dykes in another injury blow, steve clarke will be hoping his squad come through this one unscathed. jane lewis, bbc news, portugal. england manager gareth southgate will be without six players from his squad for their warm up against bosnia and herzegovina at st james park later. that includesjude bellingham, who won the champions league with real madrid last saturday. he lljoin up with
Wembley later. but let s head back to the rest of the day s sports news in the studio. thanks, 0lly. after the european club football season ends at wembley tonight, focus will stay on the contintent for the international game. and scotland have suffered a significant injury blow ahead of euro 202a with lyndon dykes ruled out of the tournament. the striker was carried off on a stretcher during training yesterday with an apparent knee injury. he played in all of scotland s qualifiers and has scored 9 times in his 36 caps. there are only two centre forwards left in steve clarke s provisional squad ahead of the euros, which scotland will open against hosts germany on friday week. rugby union s premiership final will be between the two teams that finished as the best in the regular season. it ll be top, that s northampton who won last night, and bath, who beat sale sharks 31 23 in their playoff semi final this afternoon having finished second in the table. ben croucher has more. eyes on the prize, well, next week s price anyway. bath and sale wanted to get their hands on it, to get the chance to even play for it, they needed brain, brown
Programme. not major surprises coming in. let s head back to the sports news studio for the rest of the day s news. thanks, 0lly. after the european club football season ends at wembley tonight. focus will stay on the contintent for the international game, and scotland have suffered a significant injury blow ahead of euro 202a with lyndon dykes ruled out of the tournament. the striker was carried off on a stretcher during training yesterday with an apparent knee injury. he played in all of scotland s qualifiers and has scored nine times in his 36 caps. there are only two centre forwards left in steve clarke s provisional squad ahead of the euros, which scotland will open against hosts germany on friday week. rugby union s premiership final will be between the two teams that finished as the best in the regular season. it ll be top. that s northampton who won last night. and bath, who beat sale sharks 31 23 in their playoff semi final this afternoon, having finished second in the table. ben croucher has more.
Hello from the bbc sport centre, i m becky davis. let s start at the women s world cup where new zealand produced a huge upset to beat norway, with hannah wilkinson scoring the winner in front of a record crowd for a football match in new zealand. that was the only goal of the game, with new zealand missing a penalty in the closing minutes. it s a huge result for the co hosts who had failed to win any of their previous 15 world cup games. i still have goose bumps. i still have emotions in me. we waited for this moment for such a long, long time and having this opportunity at home, beating norway, strong opposition, hearing ourfans be behind us, that isjust unforgettable moment. well in the second match of the day, the other hosts, australia were dealt a huge injury blow when their star player sam kerr was ruled out of their opening two matches. it didn t trouble them
Auckland. there was a minute s silence at the beginning of the game. new zealand had actually proven to be the better side in the first half. hannah wilkinson and jackie hand giving norway. they deliver that first goal. they had a chance to win 2 0, but they missed a penalty. they came out the happy team. there were huge cheers for them. they delivered for their fans who were cheering for them all the way on a difficult day. on the opening day, which overshadowed by that shooting. really one for the history books, having never won before. , ., ~ history books, having never won before. , ., ~ ., before. let s talk about new zealand, before. let s talk about new zealand, because before. let s talk about new zealand, because their- before. let s talk about new - zealand, because their campaign is under way as we speak against ireland, but there was a really big injury blow for them not long before