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    Erik ten Hag believes Marcus Rashford and Manchester United "will find each other" in the striker's ongoing contract discussions.

     

    Rashford has scored 29 goals in all competitions for his boyhood club this season, his best in a United shirt.

     

    Speaking before the visit to Bournemouth on Saturday, Ten Hag was asked for an update on the negotiations regarding the England international's future.

     

    "I know [it is taking time]," he said.

     

    "But I don't talk about the process. This is not important at the moment for me or Rashy.

     

    "For him, it is to get more goals this season and he is playing a wonderful season and the team is playing a wonderful season.

     

    "We have to get into the Champions League and focus on that. Marcus wants to stay and we want him to stay, so I think we will find each other."

    Theleme thwarted a strong challenge from Ireland to land the French Champion Hurdle at Auteuil for trainer Arnaud Chaille-Chaille and rider Gaetan Masure.

     

    The Racing TV Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil has proved a happy hunting ground for challengers from Ireland and Britain in the past but Theleme led home a one-two for the home team on this occasion as he denied last year's winner Hermes Baie in second.

     

    Klassical Dream, one of four runners in the race for trainer Willie Mullins, who was looking for his sixth win in the race, fared best of the challengers in third, with the Shark Hanlon-trained Hewick in fourth

    Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti says the club have told him he will be staying in his role.

     

    The Italian, who has been linked with taking over as Brazil's manager, also said he wanted to see out his current deal with the Spanish club.

     

    "Everyone knows really well what my situation is: I have a contract until the end of the 2024 season and I want to stay," said Ancelotti.

     

    When asked if Real had assured him that he was staying, Ancelotti added: "Yes."

     

    Ancelotti managed the Bernabeu club for two years between 2013 and 2015, with his departure coming a year after he had won the Champions League, and he returned for a second stint in charge after leaving Everton in June 2021.

     

    He led Real to a 14th European Cup and the Spanish league title last season but they have failed to reach those heights in the current campaign

    Liam Dawson finishes with 6-61 as last man Alex Russell edges Mason Crane to Joe Weatherley at slip to end the innings.

     

    Saif Zaib is stranded on a season's best 57 not out from 86 balls.

     

    Hampshire beat Northants by an innings and 270 runs at Wantage Road last month. It might be some while before these two sides next face off in the County Championship.

    Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been charged with a second doping offence over "irregularities in her athlete biological passport".

     

    The Romanian, 31, has been suspended since October after testing positive for a banned substance at the US Open.

     

    Her additional charge is separate to the one she is already suspended for.

     

    Halep said on Instagram she feels "helpless facing such harassment" and denies the charges, suggesting she has been "a victim of a contamination".

     

    The athlete biological passport programme collects and compares biological data to spot discrepancies over time that suggest possible doping.

     

    Former world number one Halep's suspension last year was imposed after she tested positive for roxadustat, an anti-anaemia drug which stimulates the production of red blood cells in the body.

     

    She criticised the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), which is responsible for testing within the sport, for its handling of her case, arguing that there had been unnecessary delays in the process.

    La Rochelle head coach Ronan O'Gara insists his side will relish the "lion's den" of a sold-out Aviva Stadium in Saturday's Heineken Champions Cup final against Leinster.

     

    La Rochelle are the holders after beating Leinster 24-21 in last year's dramatic final in Marseille.

     

    O'Gara believes his squad are ready for a hostile atmosphere in Dublin.

     

    "There is a certain enjoyment factor when you go into the lion's den," said the Munster and Ireland legend.

     

    "We will either grow or shrink."

     

    La Rochelle needed a last-gasp try to beat four-time winners Leinster last year and O'Gara is hoping they can deliver another stellar performance as they look to become the first team to retain the title since Saracens in 2017.

     

    "We have high standards and we have ambition to do something special in these players' lives," added O'Gara.

    Jimmy Butler scored 27 points for the Miami Heat as they beat the Boston Celtics 111-105 to take a 2-0 lead in their Eastern Conference finals series.

     

    The Heat trailed by 11 points early in the fourth quarter before a 20-9 run helped them turn the game around.

     

    Butler scored nine points in a final quarter in which, with his side 96-89 behind, he clashed with Boston's Grant Williams.

     

    "He hit a big shot and started talking to me. I like that," Butler said.