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Daily Digest: Barcelona fight back to win Spanish Supercup

Sport360 staff

08:14 13/08/2018

Good morning everyone, David Cooper here giving you a bitesize look at what’s going on in the world of sport.

TOP STORY 

Lionel Messi became Barcelona’s all-time leader in trophies won on Sunday night, lifting the Spanish Super Cup for his 33rd career honour after a 2-1 victory over Sevilla.

For once, though, Messi was not the hero as one of his team-mates stepped up to produce a spectacular winner, and that tops our three key conclusions from this curtain raiser to the new season.

FOOTBALL

Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde was full of praise for Ousmane Dembele after his wonder-goal saw his side lift the Supercopa de Espana against Sevilla.

Dembele’s stunner into the top corner in the 78th minute gave Barcelona the hard-fought 2-1 victory and left Valverde happy with his team’s performance.

Elsewhere, Pep Guardiola insists Raheem Sterling is a player Manchester City count on and wants him to stay at the Etihad Stadium.

Sterling opened the scoring as the defending Premier League champions started the new campaign with a 2-0 win at Unai Emery’s Arsenal.

Sterling has two years left to run on the five-year deal signed when he moved to City from Liverpool in July 2015.

CRICKET

Stuart Broad and James Anderson took charge as England surged into a 2-0 series lead with an innings-and-159-run victory over India in the rain-ravaged Lord’s Test.

Broad (four for 44) and Anderson (four for 23) each bagged a notable new milestone in their stellar careers as England bowled India out for 130 on the fourth evening.

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