🗞 Getting Took

July 08, 2021

G'day sports fans,

"There was a lot of free things given. There's nothing free given this time. Everything is getting took" - Conor McGregor (on facing Dustin Poirier at UFC 264, this weekend).

In today's edition of Sport Journal:

🎾 Barty on track to realise dream

🏉 Mis-fired arrow

⚽️ International finals

🇦🇺 AFL

Loewe hopes in chaotic siren scenes - Lions v Saints, 1998 - Classic Last Two Mins

🏉 Ben Brown was reinstated to arrest Melbourne's scoring concerns, but instead it was Christian Petracca and Tom McDonald who combined to punish Port Adelaide on Thursday night. 

After a three-week stretch averaging just 62 points, the Demons bettered last week's season-low total of 55 to half-time in a blistering opening at Adelaide Oval. 

Petracca's second term set the game alight before McDonald (three goals) put the wasteful Power to the sword, 12.14 (86) to 8.7 (55). 

🙋🏻‍♂️ It's taken the Western Bulldogs 16 games, but the club has finally made the call to unleash boom No.1 2020 draft pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan in the AFL.

Fascinatingly, the 18-year-old key forward will get his first shot on the AFL stage against the legend he's repeatedly been compared to, Sydney superstar Lance Franklin.

🤨 Jordan Lewis admits the Hawks' plan to replace Alastair Clarkson with former star Sam Mitchell came as a "shock" to him.

🏉 NRL

Injuries have forced the Blues into significant changes, with an all-new halves pairing and now minus both starting props from game one, while the Maroons also continue to re-jig their line-up in attempt to reverse the dominance NSW have enjoyed so far this year.

🏟 A superb injection off the bench from Joe Tapine and Tom Starling helped Canberra overcome a shaky start and then a second-half Manly fightback to claim a 30-16 win at 4 Pines Park on Thursday night.

✍🏼 Manly have overlooked Kieran Foran's badly beaten body to hand the veteran five-eighth a new two-year contract, linking the journeyman with the Sea Eagles until the end of 2023.

🏨 The Queensland Maroons will be without back-rower Jai Arrow for the third State of Origin match, after he breached COVID-19 protocols by bringing "an unregistered guest" into the team's hotel on the Gold Coast. It is understood that "guest" was a woman invited to the hotel by Arrow.

Thomas Flegler 'more than likely' to replace dumped Jai Arrow

✍🏼 The Brisbane Broncos have re-signed halfback Tyson Gamble, extending his contract for another two years.

🎾 Tennis

World number one Ashleigh Barty will play Czech eighth seed Karolina Pliskova in Saturday's Wimbledon final.

Barty admitted she played perhaps the best match of her career, beating former champion Angelique Kerber 6-3 7-6 (7-3) before Pliskova came from a set down to defeat Aryna Sabalenka 5-7 6-4 6-4.

It will be a first final at the All England Club for both Barty, 25, and 29-year-old Pliskova.

"I get the chance on Saturday to live out a total dream," said Barty, who has not lost a set since the opening round.

Barty has long spoken of her dream of winning Wimbledon and is now one more victory away from achieving it - on the 50th anniversary of her idol Evonne Goolagong's first SW19 triumph.

👴🏼 Will we see Roger Federer in SW19 again?

Roger Federer says he really does not know if he will play at Wimbledon again after losing to Poland's Hubert Hurkacz in the quarter-finals.

"I will talk with my team and go from there, see what I need to do to get in better shape and be more competitive."

Asked if this would be the last time he played on Centre Court, the 20-time Grand Slam champion replied: "I don't know, I really don't know. I have to regroup. 

🌍 World Sport

⚽️ England have joined Italy in the UEFA EURO 2020 final, which will be played at Wembley Stadium in the early hours of Monday morning.

  • Italy have never lost to England at a major finals, with 2-1 FIFA World Cup victories in 1990 (third-place play-off) and 2014 (group stage) on top of those EURO triumphs.

⚽️ Brazil and Argentina face -off in the Copa America final (10am Sunday). Argentina are bidding to win a tournament for the first tie since 1993. While Neymar's Brazil are looking to win back-to-back titles.

😷 The Olympic Games in Japan will be held without spectators at venues in and around the capital after a spike in coronavirus infections. 

A state of emergency in Tokyo will run throughout the Games, to combat coronavirus.

💰 Chelsea are prepared to offer up to AU$225m for Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Braut Haaland and the Stamford Bridge side have already held talks with the 20-year-old Norway international's camp. (90 Min)

🚴🏼‍♀️ Triple world champion Peter Sagan withdrew from the Tour de France on Thursday because of a knee injury. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) leads the tour by 5mins 18 secs.

👶🏻 Marika Koroibete's wife told him to play for the Wallabies while she got on with the business of delivering the couple a child.

🏉 Beauden Barrett will start and Aaron Smith will captain the All Blacks for the first time when New Zealand meets Fiji, on Saturday.

⚾️ Shohei Ohtani has hit his 32nd home run of MLB season, the most ever by a Japanese player.

🐴 Racing

Riodini is on the road to another Group 1 Epsom Handicap when he resumes racing at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

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