Nigeria’s Table Tennis team failed to live up to its billing as they suffered a three-nil loss to India in the semifinals at the ongoing Birmingham 22022 Commonwealth Games on Monday.  

The Nigerian side will now slug it out with England for bronze medal, as India will battle Singapore for the gold medal.

This will be on Tuesday in the men’s singles table tennis event.

In the men’s doubles, Nigeria’s duo of Bode Abiodun and Olajide Omotayo lost to Harmeet Desai and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran by 11-6, 11-7, 11-7 points.

Against all expectations, India’s Sharath Kamal Achanta stunned Africa’s number one table tennis player, Quadri Aruna, by 11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 15-13 points.

Olajide Omotayo also lost to Sathiyan Gnanasekran by 11-9, 4-11, 11-6, 11-8 points.

Nigeria lost by 3-1 to India to settle for the losers’ final against England.

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Former Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas has joined Italian club Como on a two-year deal.

The 35-year-old arrives at the Serie B side on a free transfer after his contract with Monaco expired in June.

Fabregas joined Monaco from Chelsea in January 2019 when his former Arsenal team-mate Thierry Henry was manager.

The chief executive of Como, former England and Chelsea midfielder Dennis Wise, welcomed the 2010 World Cup winner to the second-division club.

Fabregas made 68 appearances in three and a half years with Monaco but his playing time was limited by injuries last season.

He played 212 Premier League matches with Arsenal between 2004 and 2011 before moving to Barcelona, where he had joined the club’s La Masia academy aged 10 in 1997.

Following three years with Barcelona, he returned to the Premier League in 2014 with Chelsea where he played just under 200 games.

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19-year-old Islamiyat Adebukola Yusuf has taken Nigeria’s medal haul to four at the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Yusuf lifted a total of 212kg to finish third to claim the bronze medal for Nigeria.

Canadian Mauda Charron and Australia’s Sarah Maureen Cochrane placed first and second respectively.

Nigeria has so far won four medals two gold and two bronze medals in weightlifting in Birmingham.

Female weightlifter, Adijat Olarinoye won Nigeria her first medal, a gold at the Games.

Olarinoye lifted a total of 203kg to win the gold medal ahead of her Indian counterpart, Bindayareni, who lifted 202kg to win the silver medal in the 55kg category.

Twenty-five years old, Rafiatu Folashade Lawal won Nigeria her second gold medal. Lawal lifted 206kg to strike the gold ahead of England’s Jessica Gordon Brown (197kg) and Talu Darsigny of Canada (196kg).

Umoafia Edidiong on Sunday took bronze with an effort of 290kg (130kg+160kg) also in weightlifting.

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Chelsea are in advanced talks to sign Brighton left-back Marc Cucurella and are willing to pay the £50m asking price for the Manchester City target.

The Spaniard handed in a transfer request on Friday in a bid to push through a move to City but the Premier League champions will not pay Brighton's asking price, with Chelsea now in pole position to sign the 24-year-old.

The Seagulls had previously rejected a £30m bid for the full-back from Pep Guardiola's side, who are looking for a replacement for Oleksandr Zinchenko after he joined Arsenal.

Cucurella enjoyed a hugely successful first Premier League season after joining from Getafe in a deal worth around £15m last summer and was named Brighton's player of the season.

Chelsea have now moved for Cucurella with doubts surrounding the future of left-back Marcos Alonso, with Barcelona reportedly wanting to sign the 31-year-old this summer. Blues captain Cesar Azpilicueta is also wanted by the Spanish giants with the defender having one year left on his deal.

Thomas Tuchel's side have made two signings this summer with the arrivals of Raheem Sterling for £47.5m from City and defender Khalidou koulibaly from Napoli in a £33m deal.

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