• Visitors nine points behind Liverpool after 1-1 draw
• Coach calls on team to ‘show how much you want it’

A disappointed Mikel Arteta told his players to “show their teeth” and said he was praying they remain injury-free during the international break after a 1-1 draw with Chelsea that meant Arsenal lost further ground in the title race.

Arsenal, who have fallen nine points behind Liverpool at the top of the table, missed an opportunity to get their campaign back on track during a tense encounter at Stamford Bridge. Arteta’s side, in fourth place after squandering eight points from winning positions this season, could not hold on after going ahead through Gabriel Martinelli, Pedro Neto ­levelling for Chelsea and lifting them to third.

• Updates from the 8pm GMT start in Bridgetown
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Buttler calls correctly, again. “We are going to bowl first again because we put in a good performance and want to repeat it.”

News on Reece Topley? “He’s doing ok, he’s going to miss today with Jofra Archer coming in but it doesn’t look like anything serious.”

• Fritz keeps his cool to beat angry Medvedev
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How it works: There are two groups of four in the round robin style tournament, with the semi-finals and final taking place next Saturday and Sunday.

Sinner ’s group includes Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, American Taylor Fritz and Australian debutant Alex de Minaur.

• WSL roundup: Hayashi rescues struggling Everton
• West Ham claim first win of the season against Leicester

When Crystal Palace midfielder My Cato found herself with the ball to the left, inside a minute at the VBS Community Stadium, the Everton defence followed, three of the back four shifting across and then looking back over their shoulders in horror as an unmarked Indiah-Paige Riley collected the pass from Cato in the middle before slotting home.

If there was a moment to symbolise Everton’s woes this season, this was it, their defensive structure collapsing in an instant against Palace before the game had really begun. It was the fifth time in seven WSL games that the injury-hit Toffees had conceded inside 15 minutes, four of those coming inside eight minutes. Against a Chelsea or a Manchester United, that can be forgiven to some extent, but that the other three early concessions have come against fellow relegation battlers Leicester, West Ham and now Palace, cannot.

There were people on the pitch, Chelsea substitutes to be precise, the joy of everyone connected to the club overflowing. Pedro Neto had produced the equaliser with a vicious low drive from distance and if it did not turn out to be the statement victory that Enzo Maresca and his players wanted – the first against a so-called Big Six rival – they could see the merit in a battling draw.

For Arsenal, this was a better performance than some of those of late and yet it was not the result that Mikel Arteta had called for, the one to silence the noise that has built around his club. It was another example of them losing the lead in a big game – following the draws against Manchester City and Liverpool – and it meant they have not won in four Premier League games, a sequence that has yielded just two points. They are now nine behind the leaders, Liverpool. Is it too much to recover?

• Scotland 15-32 South Africa
• Springboks hold off stubborn hosts at Murrayfield

Not much arguing with this. Scotland threw everything at this match, setting their beloved stadium on a roar time and again, but four tries to none tells its own story. And a familiar one at that. South Africa, without ever really seeming to play much more than within themselves, were just too strong.

The image of a lusty puncher failing to land a single blow came to mind, as the Springboks held a swinging Scotland at arm’s length, rarely too troubled, for all their opponents’ fire and enthusiasm. Time and again either side of half-time, Scotland broke out, but they could not quite score a try, let alone four of them. Eben Etzebeth, the only Springbok forward to play the whole match, was the icon, huge, commanding and, at times, laughing in his opponents’ faces.

A snap election triggered by Olaf Scholz will be crucial in shaping Europe’s response to last week’s events in the US

Spying a possible silver lining to events in the US, some commentators have speculated that the re-election of Donald Trump may at least concentrate minds among mainstream European leaders. Faced with a rapidly emerging new world order, and with homegrown far-right movements making the political weather, their response has at times appeared sluggish and unconvincing. Perhaps the shock of Trump 2.0 will finally convey the fierce urgency of now.

The sudden collapse of Germany’s fractious SPD‑led coalition government, as the US election verdict became clear, certainly points to a quickening of the political tempo. Olaf Scholz is a famously cautious, meticulous politician, with a reputation for equivocating. Not last week. In summarily sacking his finance minister, Christian Lindner, and triggering the exit of the Free Democratic party (FDP) from the government, Chancellor Scholz launched a sequence of events that will lead to snap elections in the spring, or even earlier.

Verse’s connection to nature can inspire awareness and hope amid the climate crisis, offering clarity beyond data

Poetry has a big debt to nature, its muse and source of metaphor for centuries. As the UN climate conference begins, it is time to pay it back. Poetry must give nature a voice to express its dire predicament. “I will rise,” declares the furious river in the Scottish makar Kathleen Jamie’s poem What the Clyde Said, After Cop26 – just as the River Xanthus in Homer’s Iliad rose in revenge against Achilles for filling it with so many bodies.

Ms Jamie’s poem appears in a new anthology, Earth Prayers , edited by the former poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. “We are in the age of anthropogenic climate breakdown, possibly the Age of Grief,” Ms Duffy writes in the foreword. The 100 poems, ranging from classics such as Matthew Arnold’s 1867 Dover Beach to #ExtinctionRebellion by Pascale Petit , remind us not just of the beauty of the natural world, but its fragility.

Financial lifeline could alleviate fears end-of-life services are at risk of closure from tax hike and higher wage bills

The government is likely to offer a financial lifeline to the hospice sector amid fears end-of-life care providers are at risk of closure due to the double blow of the employers’ national insurance rise and higher wage bills, the Guardian understands.

Officials have been looking at the options for providing more funding to hospices and other end-of-life care through the NHS partly to offset the impact of the national insurance rise , which the sector believes could cost it £30m a year.