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Morning Sports Update

Aug 20, 2020 10:09 By radiokerrysport
Morning Sports Update
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SOCCER

Bayern Munich will face Paris Saint-Germain in Sunday's Champions League final.

Bayern's tenth win in a row in the competition came at the expense of Lyon in last night's semi-final.

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Robert Lewandowski scored his 55th goal of the season in a 3-nil victory in Lisbon.

Serge Gnabry's first half brace set Bayern up for the win.

Vinny Perth accepted the blame for Dundalk's Champions League exit last night.

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Regardless, it was a litany of defensive errors that led to a 3-nil defeat to Slovenian champions Celje

Dundalk will drop into the Europa League second qualifying round.


GAELIC GAMES

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A move towards a split inter-county and club season moved closer last night.

It's believed there was real support for the proposal at last night's meeting of the Fixtures Task Force.

The GPA have lobbied for a 23 week inter county season.

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Further task force meetings are in the works, but any real change is unlikely to happen before 2022.

GOLF

Rory McIlroy has ruled out a return to Antrim for next month's Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.

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The tournament takes place at Galgorm Castle the week after the US Open.

But McIlroy is unwilling to leave his U-S base during the pandemic.

He goes into this week's Northern Trust 8th in the FedEx Cup rankings, but still with a chance of victory.

McIlroy plays alongside Brendon Todd and Daniel Berger in Boston today and he's hoping for an uptick in form.

Shane Lowry is partnered by England's Tom Lewis.

Graeme McDowell plays alongside Lucas Glover and Adam Schenk.

On the European Tour, Gavin Moynihan, Cormac Sharvin, Jonathan Caldwell and Paul Dunne are in the field for the Wales Open, which starts today.

RACING

The Aidan O'Brien trained Love is the odds-on favourite for today's Darley Yorkshire Oaks.

It's the feature on day two of the Ebor Festival at York and is off at 3.15.

Here at home, a seven-race card at Leopardstown gets underway at five-to-1.

While a seven race programme at Killarney begins at 4.15.

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