World Sports News - Thursday 8 September by Chili Radio

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Football - EPL side Chelsea are set to hold talks with Brighton boss Graham Potter about replacing the sacked Thomas Tuchel who won three trophies in 20 months at Stamford Bridge, but was relieved of his duties by the Blues yesterday. Ex-Swansea and Ostersunds FK coach Potter, 47, has been given permission by the Seagulls to talk with Chelsea.

Champions League action from last night included Liverpool getting thrashed 4-1 in Italy against Napoli.

Robert Lewandowski scoring a magnificent hat-trick in Barcelona's crushing 5-1 Champions League win over Viktoria Plzen and Bayern Munich got their Champions League campaign off to a good start as they beat Inter Milan 2-0 in Italy.

Richarlison scored both of Tottenham Hotspur's goals in their 2-0 over Marseille.There were also wins for Ajax, Sporting, Atletico Madrid and Club Bruges.

Tennis - American Frances Tiafoe reached a maiden Grand Slam semi-final by dispatching number nine seed  Andrey Rublev in straight sets in front of a home crowd at the US Open. 7-6  7-6  6-4 was the score.

In the Women's Aryna Sabalenka reached the US Open semi-finals for the second consecutive year with a straight-set win over Czech 22nd seed Karolina Pliskova in New York. 6-1 7-6.

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