Sunday sport: Adeleke finishes fourth in Diamond League, Chelsea hammer Wolves

Soccer

Liverpool are 1-0 up against Brentford in boss Arne Slot's first Premier League game at Anfield.

Chelsea thrashed Wolves 6-2 at Molineux to clinch the first Premier League win of the season in style.

Noni Madueke got a hat-trick for the visitors. Newcastle can feel fortunate to have come away from Bournemouth with a 1-1 draw in the Premier League.

They needed a late equaliser and saw a stoppage-time goal ruled out by VAR for their hosts.

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Here at home, Shamrock Rovers and Galway United can go third in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division this evening.

A victory for either side will see them close the gap to the top to 8 points.

Kick off at Tallaght Stadium is at 7pm.

The game between Dundalk and St Pats which was due to take place today, will now be played on Thursday 5th September.

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Celtic sealed a comfortable 3-0 win at St Mirren to continue their perfect start to the Scottish Premiership season.

Captain Callum McGregor opened the scoring, before goals from Reo Hatate and Alistair Johnston.

Midfielder Matt O'Riley wasn't in the squad amid speculation that he will join Brighton.

Golf

Leona Maguire has fallen down the leaderboard on the final day of the Women's Open.

The Cavan native is 1 over through nine holes so far to move back to 1 over all round at St Andrews.

Korea's Jiyai Shin is still the woman to catch on 7 under par.

Rory McIlroy is in with a shout of a top five finish ahead of the final round of the BMW Championship.

The Northern Irishman lies in a tie for ninth on 5 under par and will get his Sunday off just after 5.30pm.

Shane Lowry is a shot further back and tees off just after 5pm.

American Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley leads the way by a shot on 12 under par.

Athletics

Rhasidat Adeleke finished fourth in the 400 metres at a Diamond League meeting today.

The Tallaght sprinter powered into the lead early on in Silesia, before struggling before the finish.

Sarah Healy was fifth in the 1500 metres while Nick Griggs finished 12th in the men's 3 thousand metres.

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen smashed the world record to win the race

F1

World champion Max Verstappen is looking for his first Grand Prix win since June this afternoon.

The Red Bull driver goes in his home race from 2nd place on the grid at the Dutch Grand Prix.

Lando Norris starts from pole position with his McClaren teammate Oscar Piastri in third.

Lights out in Zandvoort is at 2pm.