RESULTS & FIXTURES

FROM BACK PAGE Barcelona man demanding £300,000-a-week wages.

Antonio Valencia set Mourinho (above) on his way to an emphatic win with a ferocious strike before goals from Anthony Martial and Romelu Lukaku sealed the points.

The result gave new Stoke boss Paul Lambert, watching from the stands, an idea of the size of the task he faces because Potters hardly put up a fight.

United midfielder Paul Pogba, voted man of the match, denied that Liverpool’s victory over leaders City, had galvanised his team. “No,” he said, “we just have to worry about ourselves and our own games.”

PREMIER LEAGUE MAN UTD (2) 3 STOKE (0) 0 Valencia 9 74,726 Martial 38 Lukaku 72

SECOND TEST, Centurion South Africa 335 (Markram 94, Amla 82) & 90-2 (De Villiers 50no) v India 307 (Kohli 153) TRIANGULAR TOURNAMENT, Mirpur: Zimbabwe 170 v Bangladesh 171-2 (Tamim Iqbal 84no) Bangladesh won by 8 wkts

AUSTRALIAN OPEN, Melbourne (selected results) Men’s Singles 1st Rnd: K Edmund (Gbr) bt ( 11) K Anderson (Rsa) 6-7 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4, ( 1) R Nadal (Spa) bt V Estrella Burgos (Dom) 6-1 6-1 6-1, ( 6) M Cilic (Cro) bt V Pospisil (Can) 6-2 6-2 4-6 7-6, ( 3) G Dimitrov (Bul) bt D Novak (Aut) 6-3 6-2 6-1 Women’s Singles 1st Rnd: B Bencic (Swi) bt ( 5) V Williams (USA) 6-3 7-5, ( 4) E Svitolina (Ukr) bt I Jorovic (Ser) 6-3 6-2, ( 2) C Wozniacki (Den) bt M Buzarnescu (Rom) 6-2 6-3, T Babos (Hun) bt ( 10) C Vandeweghe (Usa) 7-6 6-2

DAFABET MASTERS, Alexandra Palace, London, 1st Rnd R Day (Wal) bt J Ding (Chn) 6-4