SAfm, Thursday morning

From their trip to Germany with all three points, beating RB Leipzig 3-2, Arsenal maintaining their winning momentum with a 2-1 victory, and that was away to Slavia, Prague, Real Madrid. Also a 3-2 victory over AEK Athens. Mauricia Dortmund edge Real Betis 2-1. And I think the scoreline of the night came from France, where the Italian side, Como, demolished Lens 9-1. On to spring.

Buck stories. We've got the scrum half Morné van den Berg says fierce competition for places is being helping to bring out the best in South Africa's players. Head of Saturday's nations championship clash with Italy. The Lions number nine welcomes the challenge with fellow scrum halves Grant Williams and Korbis Reinach, with coach Rassie Erasmus enjoying depth in that position.

Like position, and then yeah, like I think just the systems in between the club and then like the system, yeah. I think we really allowed to like to dig in like how we want to play, get alignment. So it's I won't say it's easy but it's very doable and it makes sense. And finally, tennis, the world number one, Alexander Zverev suffering a shock defeat at the Paris Masters, losing in straight sets to Italy's Lorenzo Massetti.

Novak Djokovic's hopes of reaching the ATP finals over following a three-set defeat to Australia's Rinky Hijikata. Meanwhile, Maria Sachery is through to the Hong Kong Open quarterfinals, while the world's top eight women are preparing for Sunday's WTA Finals in Indian Wells, California. And that's your national briefing, Sport. We'll serve up another round of sport. Top of the hour. I'm Zaikan. The market brief on SAFM.