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Too slick, too quick and, ultimately, just too good at football; Spain reaffirmed their standing as the best team in the world as they outclassed Germany and retained the Women’s Nations League title in spite of the absence of their injured superstar Aitana Bonmatí, The Guardian reported. 

The world champions were playing their first game since their Ballon d’Or-winning midfielder was ruled out for five months after undergoing surgery on a broken leg, but anybody who worried that her absence may disrupt Spain’s stylish football was immediately proved wrong, as they demonstrated the extensive depth of talent across their classy team and eventually played some ruthless football to dispatch their rivals at the Estadio Metropolitano.

All of the goals came in a 13-minute second-half burst of the second leg, but Spain could have been comfortably in control before half-time on home soil, in what was a fearless attacking performance that thrilled the Madrid crowd of 55,843 – a record for a Spanish women’s national team home fixture – with well-taken goals once Germany’s resistance was finally broken, according to The Guardian. 

Barcelona produced an impressive comeback to beat Atletico Madrid 3-1 and move four points clear at the top of La Liga, Reuters reported. 

Alex Baena fired Atletico ahead on Tuesday, but Raphinha equalised for the champions before Dani Olmo and Ferran Torres slotted home to end the visitors’ run of 13 straight league games without defeat.

Barca might have been more comfortable had Robert Lewandowski not ballooned a first-half penalty over the bar, according to Reuters. 

Manchester City's Erling Haaland became the fastest player to reach 100 Premier League goals to ignite their charge on Tuesday and then Pep Guardiola's men held off a furious comeback effort from Fulham in a wild 5-4 win, Reuters reported. 

Phil Foden bagged a double, Tijjani Reijnders also struck and Sander Berge scored an own goal to keep City firmly in the title hunt in second place with 28 points. Leaders Arsenal, who have 30 points, host Brentford on Wednesday.

Fulham are 15th on 17 points.

City looked to be heading for a rout at Craven Cottage with a gaping 5-1 lead but Fulham roared back with three second-half goals - a brace from Samuel Chukwueze and one from Alex Iwobi - for a thrilling finish, according to Reuters . 

Defending champion Janakpur Bolts registered their first victory in the second edition of the ongoing Nepal Premier League (NPL)  at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur on Tuesday. Janakpur defeated Chitwan Rhinos by six wickets. 

Janakpur, which had lost four matches in a row, added two points today. 

Chitwan, on the other hand, have won only two out of five matches. 

Janakpur achieved the victory target of 177 runs in 17.3 overs at the loss of four wickets.

Maz Sadaqat scored 63 runs while Anil Shah contributed 61 runs.

On the bowling side, Kamal Singh Airee, Sahil Tanveer, and Amar Singh Rautela from Chitwan took one wicket each.

Earlier, Chitwan won the toss and chose to bat first, scoring 176 runs for the loss of four wickets in the allotted 20 overs. 

The opening pair Dawid Malan and Arjun Saud scored half-centuries. 

Malan contributed 80 and Arjun 52 runs. 

There was also a century partnership of 112 runs between these two batsmen.

Anil Shah, Rupesh Singh, Maaz Sadaqat and Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton from Janakpur each took a wicket each.