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Leigh Halfpenny has warned that Wales will need "to be on the money for 80 minutes" this weekend against Australia.

Wales have not beaten the southern hemisphere's top three sides - Australia, New Zealand or South Africa - since November 2008, a run of 20 successive defeats.

"We are striving to be the best in the world, and to be that you have got to beat the best. Saturday is an opportunity to do that," said Halfpenny, who has lost eight times in Wales colours against Australia, but beaten them twice with the British and Irish Lions.

"We have been there or thereabouts pretty much every game against them. It's about that concentration for the full 80 minutes."

Manuel Pellegrini is confident Manchester City can qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League.

City are bottom of Group E after a 2-1 home defeat by CSKA Moscow.

"In my 25 years as a manager, the only pressure I have is managing this team. I never feel external pressure," said the City boss. "Mathematics can give us qualification. We have six points left to play. We can qualify."

Sean Long has left Salford Red Devils seven months after re-joining the club, according to owner Marwan Koukash.

The 38-year-old returned to Salford in March to work in a consultancy role after leaving London Broncos.

"The club has reluctantly agreed to Sean Long's request to leave the club with immediate effect," Koukash revealed on his Twitter account., external

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Manuel Pellegrini quashes reports that midfielder Yaya Toure will be sold. The Ivory Coast international has been linked with a move away from the Etihad but the Manchester City boss says: "There are a lot of reports Yaya will be sold. Nowhere in this club are we talking about that. Yaya is very important."

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini on Frank Lampard's return: "He is just coming back from injury. I hope he will return the same way he was before his injury."

Lampard has four goals in seven games this season.

The FA Cup returns to the BBC tonight when Warrington Town take on Exeter in round one on BBC Two. With this in mind, send us your best FA Cup memory to #myfacupmoment.

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Steven McNamara:, external Has to be Wigan's win over Man City for me. Callum McManaman ripped City apart all game and Mancini got sacked. Brilliant

Tom Heath:, external I went all the way to Tranmere. Southampton were 3-0 up at half time and then Rideout got a hat trick and we lost 4-3.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini confirms captain Vincent Kompany will miss Saturday's trip to QPR because of a calf problem.

"It is not serious but I don't know if he will be ready for his international squad," said Pellegrini of the defender, whose Belgium team face Wales in a Euro 2016 qualifier next Sunday.

David Silva and Aleksandar Kolarov are also injured, but midfielder Frank Lampard is available this weekend.

Manuel Pellegrini is in his seat for the standard weekly news conference. It has been a tough few days for the Chilean and he was the subject of many back pages this morning with speculation mounting over his future.

BBC Radio 5 live

Time for the Sports Panel on 5 live with Eleanor Oldroyd.

They are looking back at the main sporting talking points of the week including should sportsmen and women avoid using social media? Are the current All Blacks the greatest sporting team of all time and is Britain ready to have it's own top-flight American football team?

Guests include Paralympic legend Dame Sarah Storey, three-time Ashes winning England batsman Jonathan Trott and London Olympic gold medal winning rower Helen Glover.

Here's some more on the Marussia team which has officially gone out of business, with the loss of more than 200 jobs.

The Banbury-based marque was placed in administration on October 27 and despite stringent efforts over the last few days to find a buyer and keep the team afloat, they have ultimately come to nothing.

Geoff Rowley, joint administrator at FRP Advisory, said: "It goes without saying that it's deeply regrettable that a business with such a great following in Britain and worldwide has had to cease trading and close its doors."

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Marussia F1 team based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, has formally ceased trading, according to administrators FRP.

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It's a tough life for the world's highest paid female athlete. Maria Sharapova is in the Philippines, enjoying an end-of-season break. The Russian posted on her Instagram, external account: Vacation in one picture. I'll see you soon #Philippines #nofilter

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BBC Sport reporter Simon Stone has been at Louis van Gaal's news conference: "Louis van Gaal's mood could not be said to have matched the grey Manchester weather at Carrington.

"However, there was a more sombre tone to his words and the first detection of irritation that his often repeated assertion that "a process" is taking place at Manchester United is now under close scrutiny given his team's relatively poor performance so far this season.

"By Van Gaal's own admission, 13 points from 10 games - United's worst start since 1986-87 (when Ron Atkinson was sacked) is not good enough. His admission that he feels 'lousy' for the club's fans and board says it all."

More from Louis van Gaal on Manchester United's run of poor form: "I think when we make it happen that we'll win a lot of matches in a row. People have great belief in what we're doing and in the way we are playing."

United sit 10th on 13 points, four off the Champions League spots and 13 behind leaders Chelsea.

Somerset have signed Pakistan left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman as their overseas player for 2015.

The 34-year-old, who replaces South Africa's Alviro Peterson at Taunton, has taken 99 wickets in 22 Tests, but achieved career-best figures of 9-65 against Worcestershire during his previous spell with the county in 2012.

At the end of his previous spell with the county, Rehman was banned by the England and Wales Cricket Board after testing positive for cannabis.

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Louis van Gaal also confirms Manchester United will be without Radamel Falcao, Jonny Evans and Phil Jones for the visit of Crystal Palace.

Chris Smalling is suspended but United have some good news as Marcos Rojo - injured against Manchester City - does not need surgery on a dislocated shoulder and could be back inside six weeks.

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Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he feels "lousy" at the clubs current runs of form and warns the rebuilding process could take "three years".

United have just 13 points from 10 games, their worst start since 1986.

The Dutch boss, who spent about £150m this summer, adds: "It is not good enough. But we are in a process. It could take more than one year. It could be three years."

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Here's one for all the fathers out there.

The life Novak Djokovic knew, the one of habitual focus, has changed these past couple of weeks, since the seven-time Grand Slam champion's wife, Jelena, gave birth to the couple's first child.

Today on the BBC Sport website, we ask: can the world number one, still in his prime at 27, combine fatherhood with continued on-court success?

World number 28 Ivo Karlovic, a father of a three-year-old daughter, says: "Before, like everybody else who doesn't have a kid, he would have been a little bit selfish, but once you have a kid, that completely changes. From now on it'll be about the kid. It's no longer all about him."

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BBC Radio Manchester tweet:, external The Salford Devils owner and Chairman Dr. Marwan Koukash announces the club have allowed coach Sean Long to leave.

Cricket Australia cancelled pyrotechnics at Friday's Twenty20 international against South Africa after an incident in the opening match involving captain Aaron Finch.

Finch was retrieving a ball on the boundary when a flamethrower went off in front of his face.

Friday's second meeting saw Australia claim victory by seven wickets to level the Twenty20 series.