Thursday Morning: Liverpool Beat Inter Milan 2-0 In First Leg Of Champions League Last 16

Firmino & Salah with the goals in Italy

SOCCER

Liverpool will bring a 2-0 lead back to Anfield for the second leg of their Champions League last 16 tie with Inter Milan.

Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah scored late goals at the San Siro.

It was Salah's eighth goal in a row away from home in the Champions League and Liverpool have now won 7 successive games in all competitions.

Reds manager Jurgen Klopp says there's still work to do, to reach the quarter finals:

Jürgen Klopp was pleased with the resilience his Liverpool side displayed in tonight's 2-0 win.

— Liverpool FC (@LFC) February 16, 2022

Red Bull Salzburg and Bayern Munich drew 1-1 in the other Champions League tie last night.

Kingsley Coman scored a late equaliser for Bayern.

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Rangers are Europa League last 32 action against Borussia Dortmund in Germany tonight.

The first leg of their tie has a 5.45pm start, and at the same time, Barcelona play Napoli.

Celtic face Norwegians Bodo Glimt in the Europa Conference League.

Kick off at Parkhead is at 8pm.

GAELIC GAMES

NUI Galway won the Sigerson Cup for the first time in 19 years last night, defeating UL by 12 points to 1-6 in Carlow.

Roscommon's Cathal Heneghan came on at the interval but was awarded Man of the Match.

Star of the show@C_Heneghan13 was Man of the Match in the @HigherEdGAA Sigerson Cup final as @GAANUIG came out of top 0-12 to 1-6 against UL at IT Carlow grounds. Cathal scored 0-3. Congrats to Cathal and his brother Darragh, who was also on the panel. pic.twitter.com/LyWLxWFUVJ

— Michael Glaveys GAA (@glaveys) February 16, 2022

The second Fitzgibbon Cup semi final takes place this evening, IT Carlow play UL - throw-in at 7.30pm.

GOLF

Rory McIlroy and Seamus Power are in the field for the PGA Tour's Genesis Invitational, which starts later in California.

Power tees off with CT Pan and Kevin Tway at Riviera just after 3pm Irish time.

While McIlroy gets his round underway in the company of Hideki Matsuyama and Viktor Hovland just before 8pm.

At his pre tournament press conference, McIlroy questioned the merits of a proposed Saudi backed breakaway league:

HORSE RACING

There's a seven race card over jumps today at Clonmel, with the first off at 1.20pm.