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Oct 4 (OPTA) – Results and fixtures for the Bundesliga on Saturday (start times are CET) Bayer Leverkusen (1) 2 Union Berlin (0) 0 Borussia Dortmund (1) 1 RB Leipzig (1) 1 Werder Bremen (1) 1 St. Pauli (0) 0 Augsburg (1) 3 Wolfsburg (0) 1 Eintracht Frankfurt (0) 0 Bayern München (2) 3 Sunday, October 5 fixtures (CET/GMT) Stuttgart v Heidenheim (1330) Hamburger SV v Mainz 05 (1530) Borussia M'gladbach v Freiburg (1730)

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After missing the wild-card round, Detroit infielder Colt Keith is back on the roster for the Tigers' American League Divisional Series against Seattle. Keith, who was activated from the 10-day injured list on Monday after missing time with right rib cage inflammation, was left off the Tigers' 26-man roster for their wild-card series at Cleveland which they won in three games. The 24-year-old lefty has a .256 average with 13 homers, 22 doubles and 65 runs in 137 games this season. In seven playoff games last season, Keith was 2-for-18 (.111) with a double, six walks and eight strikeouts. Keith started 32 games at third base this season. Zach McKinstry (.259, 12 homers this season) has largely replaced him there while Keith missed the end of the regular season. Detroit also added right-handed reliever Brenan Hanifee (3-3, 3.00 ERA) to its ALDS roster, removing reliever Paul Sewald (1-1, 4.58) and outfielder Justyn- Henry Malloy (.221-1-17) from its wild-card roster. Sewald pitched in just four games for the Tigers in the regular season after being acquired from the Guardians at the trade deadline . –Field Level Media

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Oct 4 (OPTA) – Top Scorers in the Serie A on Saturday 1 C. Pulišić (AC Milan) 4 2 M. Cancellieri (SS Lazio) 3 K. De Bruyne (Napoli) L. Martínez (Inter Milan) R. Orsolini (Bologna) N. Paz (Como) M. Thuram (Inter Milan) 8 F. Baschirotto (US Cremonese) 2 A. Belotti (Cagliari Calcio) F. Bonazzoli (US Cremonese) A. Bonny (Inter Milan) H. Çalhanoğlu (Inter Milan) V. Castellanos (SS Lazio) K. Davis (Udinese) C. De Ketelaere (Atalanta) F. Dimarco (Inter Milan) N. Krstović (Atalanta) R. Mandragora (Fiorentina) M. Pellegrino (Parma Calcio 1913) A. Pinamonti (US Sassuolo Calcio) G. Simeone (Torino) M. Soulé (Roma) K. Sulemana (Atalanta) D. Vlahović (Juventus) M. Zaccagni (SS Lazio)

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By Martyn Herman LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard's injury curse struck again as the midfielder was forced off with a knee injury during the first half of his side's 2-0 Premier League win against West Ham United on Saturday. Odegaard clashed knees with a West Ham player in a tackle and although the Norwegian tried to continue he was eventually replaced by Martin Zubimendi after 30 minutes. "It's uncomfortable, I just spoke to him and he's not positive about it and was wearing a brace," manager Mikel Arteta told reporters. "We'll have to wait and see the extent of the injury. We'll find solutions but obviously he's our captain and brings a different dimension with the things he can do." Odegaard's injury was especially disappointing after his scintillating display against Olympiakos in the Champions League in midweek when he had returned to the starting line-up and inspired his side to a 2-0 win. In his last three Premier League starts, Odegaard has failed to reach halftime, having injured his shoulder against Leeds United in August and suffering a recurrence of that injury against Nottingham Forest last month. There was a further worry for Arteta on his 300th game in charge with Declan Rice, scorer of the opening goal, also having to go off in the second half with a back niggle. "No, he's not alright, because he asked me to come off," Arteta said. "That's a shame. He had pain in his back. Let's see what the doctor says now and what is best for him." While the injuries did rather take the gloss off Arsenal's win, the fact that they were able to shrug off those setbacks with ease to move top of the table showed the depth of quality Arteta now has at his disposal. Gabriel Martinelli, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Ethan Nwaneri and Mikel Merino also came off the bench in the second half. "The players who came on contributed to maintaining the standards. Let's look forward to the international break," Arteta said. (Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Pritha Sarkar)

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* Verstappen and Hamilton say vest should be optional * Singapore race declared a heat hazard SINGAPORE, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Champions Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton urged Formula One's governing body not to make cooling vests mandatory at hot races after a steamy qualifying session in Singapore on Saturday. The race weekend has been declared a heat hazard because of the high temperatures, meaning drivers can either wear a vest which circulates cold liquid through tubes to maintain body temperature, or add extra ballast to their cars. The vests are set to become mandatory in hot conditions from next season. Red Bull's four-times champion Verstappen, already steamed up about being slowed by McLaren's Lando Norris ahead of him in qualifying, said the vests should remain optional. VERSTAPPEN SAYS VEST MUST BE A DRIVER'S CHOICE "I haven't used the vest. I'm also not intending to use it because I feel like this needs to be a driver choice," he explained after qualifying second. "From the FIA side, they will always throw it on safety — but then we can talk about a lot of stuff that can be improved on safety, including pit entries in certain places. I think that has a bit more priority than a vest in the car because I don’t like it. "I don’t like the tubes that are on you, on your body, with the belts that go next to you. Then they can say it’s a bad design. I disagree. It just needs to be an option for the drivers to choose." Verstappen pointed out that Formula One cars were very different to sportscars and the narrow cockpits had limited space for extra equipment. "Where are you going to put the dry ice? The cars are not designed really to have this extra kind of space, and within 15, 20 laps, it’s anyway gone. And then you have hot water … or tea," he said. Ferrari driver Hamilton, who won six of his seven titles with Mercedes, told reporters the vests should not be "forced" on anyone. "They keep saying it's a safety issue, but there's no driver that's ever died from overheating in the race, apart from obviously in flames back in the day," said the 40-year-old Briton. "It's just getting silly. That should be our choice to have it." REGULATION INTRODUCED AFTER 2023 QATAR GRAND PRIX The heat hazard regulation was introduced after drivers suffered exhaustion in the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix. Some are also fans of the vests. Mercedes' George Russell, a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, said after securing pole that he had used it already in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. "Of course, here it is much hotter. The dry ice will melt faster," he said, adding that the team had also managed to reduce cockpit temperatures by moving electrical boxes and hydraulic lines. McLaren's championship leader Oscar Piastri, third on the grid, said he had used the vest in practice but was yet to be convinced and it was important to have a choice. "I think the problem with the suit is it's great when it works, but if it fails, it's even worse than not having it," said the Australian. Williams' Carlos Sainz, another GPDA director, said he would be happy for it remain optional even though he was convinced the vest worked and had advantages. "I agree with the guys that don't want to use it. If they don't want to because they feel really uncomfortable then don't use it," said the Spaniard. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Ken Ferris)

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Oct 4 (OPTA) – Summaries for the Serie A on Saturday (start times are CET) Lazio (2) 3 Scorers: M. Cancellieri 24, M. Cancellieri 40, D. Cataldi 90+13pen Yellow card: Romagnoli 47, Cataldi 87, Castellanos 96 Subs used: Belahyane 67 (Bašić), Isaksen 67 (Pedro), Noslin 81 (Dia), Lazzari 90 (Nuno Tavares) Torino (1) 3 Scorers: G. Simeone 16, C. Adams 73, Saúl Coco 90+3 Yellow card: Asllani 32, Casadei 60, Maripán 102 Subs used: Nkounkou 63 (Lazaro), Adams 70 (Vlašić), Masina 70 (Tamèze), Dembélé 78 (Pedersen), Gineitis 79 (Simeone) Referee: Marco Piccinini ……………………………………………………….. Parma (0) 0 Yellow card: Ndiaye 82 Subs used: Løvik 26 (Valeri), Almqvist 46 (Britschgi), Benedyczak 67 (Sørensen), Estévez 84 (Adrián Bernabé), Đurić 84 (Løvik) Lecce (1) 1 Scorers: R. Sottil 38 Yellow card: Banda 92, Kialonda Gaspar 97 Subs used: Banda 68 (Sottil), Camarda 76 (Ņtulić), Ndaba 88 (Berisha), Kaba 88 (Coulibaly) Attendance: 19580 Referee: Daniele Doveri ……………………………………………………….. Internazionale (2) 4 Scorers: L. Martínez 6, A. Bonny 38, F. Dimarco 55, N. Barella 57 Yellow card: Sučić 84 Subs used: Luis Henrique 53 (Dumfries), Esposito 61 (Bonny), Carlos Augusto 61 (Bastoni), Diouf 75 (Mkhitaryan), Sučić 75 (Martínez) Cremonese (0) 1 Scorers: F. Bonazzoli 87 Yellow card: Pezzella 86 Subs used: Vandeputte 46 (Johnsen), Bonazzoli 57 (Sanabria), Faye 58 (Ceccherini), Vardy 58 (Vázquez), Barbieri 74 (Floriani Mussolini) Referee: Ermanno Feliciani ……………………………………………………….. Atalanta (18:45) Como ……………………………………………………….. Sunday, October 5 fixtures (CET/GMT) Udinese v Cagliari (1030) Bologna v Pisa (1300) Fiorentina v Roma (1300) Napoli v Genoa (1600) Juventus v Milan (1845)

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Oct 4 (Stats Perform) – Results from the NBA games on Saturday (home team in CAPS) New York 112 PHILADELPHIA 104

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Oct 4 (OPTA) – Summaries for the J-League on Saturday (start times are JST) Shimizu S-Pulse (1) 1 Scorers: T. Takahashi 34 Yellow card: Hasukawa 60 Subs used: Matsuzaki 67 (Kozuka), Uno 67 (Yumiba), Kitagawa 73 (Takahashi), Takagi 84 (Yoshida), Yajima 84 (Inui) Tokyo (0) 1 Scorers: K. Sato 76 Subs used: Tawaratsumida 61 (Marcos Guilherme), Nozawa 61 (Endo), Yamashita 87 (Sato), Oka 87 (Morishige) Attendance: 17099 Referee: Jumpei Iida ……………………………………………………….. Nagoya Grampus (2) 2 Scorers: Y. Nogami 37, Y. Kimura 45 Subs used: Tokumoto 54 (Nakayama), Nagai 79 (Nogami), Yamagishi 79 (Kimura), Kato 91 (Morishima), Kikuchi 91 (Mateus) Cerezo Osaka (0) 1 Scorers: Vitor Bueno 85 Subs used: Nakajima 46 (Shibayama), Sakata 46 (Thiago Andrade), Takahashi 68 (Ohata), Shindo 68 (Hatanaka), Vitor Bueno 76 (Kagawa) Attendance: 33496 Referee: Hayato Shimizu ……………………………………………………….. Albirex Niigata (0) 1 Scorers: E. Shirai 67 Yellow card: Hayakawa 47, Hashimoto 93 Subs used: Boudah 60 (Ono), Hashimoto 61 (Horigome), Ohara 74 (Shimamura), Taniguchi 84 (Okumura), Geria 84 (Hayakawa), Uemura 97 (Arai) Fagiano Okayama (1) 1 Scorers: K. Ichimi 24 Yellow card: Miyamoto 83 Subs used: Lucão 56 (Kimura), Matsumoto 75 (Motoyama), Suzuki 75 (Tagami), Iwabuchi 75 (Ichimi), Takeuchi 88 (Miyamoto), Fujii 92 (Esaka) Attendance: 19567 Referee: Koki Nagamine ……………………………………………………….. Sanfrecce Hiroshima (0) 2 Scorers: Kim Ju-Sung 88, T. Arslan 90+5pen Yellow card: Kim Ju-Sung 89, Arslan 95, 66 Subs used: Germain 9 (Kinoshita), Arai 61 (Nakano), Suga 62 (Higashi), Arslan 62 (Shiotani), Kato 76 (Nakajima) Machida Zelvia (0) 1 Scorers: Y. Soma 50 Yellow card: Nishimura 29 Subs used: Na Sang-Ho 65 (Nishimura), Duke 65 (Fujio), Sento 81 (Soma), Hayashi 81 (Masuyama), Kuwayama 89 (Shimoda) Attendance: 25877 Referee: Hiroki Kasahara ……………………………………………………….. Avispa Fukuoka (0) 1 Scorers: M. Yuzawa 51 Subs used: Konno 76 (Nago), Iwasaki 76 (Sato), Oda 99 (Hashimoto) Yokohama (0) 0 Yellow card: João Paulo 60 Subs used: Sakuragawa 62 (Lukian), Kubota 62 (Adaílton), Shimbo 75 (Ito), Ito 81 (João Paulo), Endo 81 (Yamane) Attendance: 9076 Referee: Yuzo Sutani ……………………………………………………….. Urawa Reds (0) 1 Scorers: I. Kiese Thelin 47 Yellow card: Yasui 20 Subs used: Shibato 65 (Yasui), Sekine 77 (Gustafson), Komori 77 (Kiese Thelin), Matsuo 77 (Kaneko), Hayakawa 91 (Matheus Sávio) Vissel Kobe (0) 0 Missed penalty: T. Miyashiro 41 Subs used: Ide 46 (Osako), Komatsu 66 (Erik), Yuruki 66 (Miyashiro), Iino 74 (Kuwasaki), Jean Patrick 90 (Nagato) Attendance: 38062 Referee: Akihiko Ikeuchi ……………………………………………………….. Kashiwa Reysol (1) 1 Scorers: Y. Koizumi 41 Yellow card: Nakama 48 Subs used: Toshima 74 (Nakama), Harakawa 77 (Nakagawa), Yamanouchi 86 (Diego), Hosoya 87 (Kakita), Mitsumaru 87 (Koyamatsu) Yokohama F. Marinos (0) 0 Subs used: Miyaichi 64 (Yuri Araújo), Amano 64 (Croux), Inoue 64 (Uenaka), Deng 64 (Tsunoda), Watanabe 87 (Kida) Attendance: 13884 Referee: Koji Takasaki ……………………………………………………….. Kyoto Sanga (1) 1 Scorers: H. Sugai 38 Yellow card: Hirato 58, Yamada 59, Nagasawa 76 Subs used: Takeda 11 (Fukuoka), Yamada 46 (Okugawa), Nagasawa 65 (Matsuda), Léo Gomes 65 (Nakano), Barreto 85 (Hirato) Kawasaki Frontale (1) 1 Scorers: T. Ito 8 Yellow card: Tachibanada 77, Romanić 84, Romanić 88 (2nd) Subs used: Ienaga 74 (Marcinho), Romanić 75 (Erison), Miyagi 85 (Ito) Attendance: 19265 Referee: Atsushi Kamimura ……………………………………………………….. Sunday, October 5 fixtures (JST/GMT) Kashima Antlers v Gamba Osaka (0600)

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By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, Oct 4 (Reuters) – A frustrated Charles Leclerc said he struggled to find pace with an "unpredictable" car in Saturday's qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix, following a disappointing showing for the two Ferraris. The Monegasque will begin Sunday's race from the fourth row after he finished seventh in the final round of qualifying with a best time of one minute 29.784 seconds. "I kind of tried to find consistency in that car throughout the whole weekend, and there was no way out," said Leclerc. "The car is still very snappy and unpredictable and I know that it's not my strength whenever there's understeer in the car and this weekend it has been the case from FP2 to qualifying. "We don't really find any ways out without making the car even more unpredictable, which is not what you want on a city track so it's been a very, very tough weekend." Ferrari, who are vying for second place in the constructors' championship with rivals Mercedes and Red Bull in a race set to go down to the wire, face an uphill battle for a podium finish on Sunday. With seven races to go, the Italian outfit sit third in the table, trailing Mercedes by four points and with a 14-point lead over Red Bull. Mercedes' George Russell emerged in pole position at Saturday's qualifying and his teammate, Kimi Antonelli, was fourth. Red Bull's Max Verstappen placed second. Overtaking is difficult in Singapore. The race has been won from pole position 10 times out of the past 15. While Leclerc has started on pole twice, he has never emerged victorious in the Marina Bay circuit known for its punishing tyre degradation and high downforce. Leclerc's teammate, Lewis Hamilton, will line up in row three after finishing sixth. Hamilton, a four-times winner of the Singapore Grand Prix with Mercedes, has yet to secure a podium finish for the Scuderia this season. "Naturally, you've seen Red Bull had an upgrade … I think Mercedes have found something, and we haven't," said the seven-times world champion. "So you know, we're just fighting with what we have. "Everyone's trying so hard, but it's definitely disappointing to finish where we (have) today, when there was potential to … be higher." (Reporting by Rae Wee; Editing by Ken Ferris)

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(Adds quotes) By Peter Hall MANCHESTER, England, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Manchester United cruised to a rare comfortable home Premier League victory as goals from Mason Mount and Benjamin Sesko secured a 2-0 win over Sunderland on Saturday. With the pressure growing on manager Ruben Amorim after a disappointing start to the season, Mount calmed the nerves around the ground with a fine early finish to break the deadlock. United continued to dominate, with a spectacular save from Sunderland goalkeeper Robin Roefs preventing Bruno Fernandes from adding a sumptuous second before Sesko netted his first Old Trafford goal after 31 minutes. Sunderland were awarded a penalty late in the first half, a decision that was overturned following a VAR intervention, but they never really threatened after the break as United eased to a third home league victory of the season. The result put United in provisional eighth place with 10 points from seven games, two places below Sunderland on 11. "A victory and a clean sheet was important," Amorim said. "We didn’t play well during all the game but we had our moments. "We didn’t play well in the second half but we focus, we fight hard for second balls, these small things are going to help us win games." Wins, especially comfortable ones, have been in short supply for Portuguese Amorim since he took charge in November. United supporters have slowly started to turn on the new manager as a result, with nothing short of victory over promoted Sunderland, despite the visitors' impressive start to the season, enough to appease the disgruntled masses. Mount's superb control and finish was just what the beleaguered boss needed. The fine strike was the earliest United have scored in the Premier League since Marcus Rashford's goal at Ipswich Town in Amorim's first game in charge. It was only a matter of time until the hosts scored again, such was their dominance. From a long throw, Sesko was alert to the flick-on before steering home his second in as many games. United thought they had shot themselves in the foot as Sesko was penalised for a high boot in his own penalty area, only for VAR to deem it not to be a foul. The hosts took their foot off the gas in the second half, but still should have added to their tally, with veteran Brazilian Casemiro blazing their best chance over the bar. Sunderland did manufacture a late gilt-edged chance but Senne Lammens, making his debut in the United goal, stood tall to block, completing an assured performance from the keeper and his new teammates. ""We didn't start well, it's a bit disappointing because we had good ambition here," Sunderland manager Regis le Bris said. "The first 30 minutes were not at the level expected for the Premier League." (Reporting by Peter Hall, editing by Ed Osmond and Ken Ferris)

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