Vincent Kompany faces weeks on the sidelines after suffering another hamstring injury as his Anderlecht team lost again to continue their winless start to his managerial debut.

Kompany limped off with 15 minutes left in Friday's 1-0 loss at champions Racing Genk which left Anderlecht with two points from six matches in their worst start to a season in 21 years.

"It is too early to say how long he will be out but it looks like he'll have to miss at least one or two matches," Simon Davies, who is running the team from the dugout while the player-coach concentrates on captaining the side, told reporters.

Kompany has long battled with hamstring injuries which regularly sidelined him during more than a decade playing at Manchester City.

After the match, Kompany used social media to insist he would stick to his youthful selection.

"We don't believe the hype, we don't believe the drama. We believe in the process. We continuously produce good football, with a very young but talented squad. However, no results, so no excuses. Now there's nothing else to do but work even harder," he said on Twitter.

Anderlecht next meet Standard Liege on Sept. 1 while Kompany has a farewell match planned at Manchester City on Sept. 11.

MANCHESTER, England -- Paul Pogba cannot be expected to carry Manchester United's midfield this season, according to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Pogba has played a key role in United's positive start to the season -- despite missing a penalty in the 1-1 draw with Wolves -- but Solskjaer has warned that he cannot be Roy Keane, Juan Veron, Paul Scholes and Eric Cantona rolled into one.

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"He expects a lot from himself as well," Solskjaer said. "It doesn't frustrate me. We expect a lot from him but we know that we can't get Roy Keane, Veron, Scholes, Giggs and Cantona in one player. It's hard. He's a top, top player.

"We do expect a lot from our players and we have high hopes this season. "Hopefully we can be consistent and challenge when we come to April and May and Paul plays a big part in that."

Solskjaer has picked Pogba alongside 22-year-old Scott McTominay for the opening two games against Chelsea and Wolves.

The Norwegian's options are limited after failing to replace Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera over the summer but the 46-year-old insists the squad is deep enough to provide Pogba with the help he needs as United look to get back into the top four.

"We've still got Nemanja [Matic] and Fred," Solskjaer said. "Andreas [Pereira] has played more advanced. Some games we'll see Paul higher up the pitch as well.

"I've been very pleased with his performances. There are others who have to step up. We've started well.

"Maybe we should have six points, we probably deserve that, but it's something to build on. We're not going to look too far ahead."

United have rebuffed attempts from Real Madrid to sign Pogba this summer after valuing the midfielder at more than £180 million.

There is, however, still a chance Alexis Sanchez could depart before the European transfer deadline.

Talks are ongoing with Inter Milan and Solskjaer has suggested the Chilean needs a change of scenery after suffering a crisis of confidence since arriving from Arsenal in January 2018.

"I have spoken to him and we have had a good conversation," Solskjaer said.

"Let's see what happens. He is a quality player; I have said it so many times. There are times when you go through spells with injuries.

"He has had so many injuries like niggles and there is no 100 percent fact why this or why that and sometimes it just clicks and you go into a vein of form you score, your confidence grows and it will hit anyone's confidence when you don't really perform."

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Groups of supporters of the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders staged a silent protest for the first 33 minutes of Friday's match involving the two teams.

The groups were protesting Major League Soccer's ban on political signage, and in particular the Iron Front symbol, which was used by an anti-Nazi paramilitary organization before World War II.

The supporters groups contend that the Iron Front symbol is intended to promote inclusion, anti-fascism and anti-racism. MLS has stated the symbol is connected to the antifa movement in the U.S. and thus constitutes a link to a political organization.

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As part of the protest, the Timbers Army group did not display any pregame tifo as it normally does and, along with Seattle groups the Emerald City Supporters and Gorilla FC, refused to engage in organized chants, songs, choreography, flag-waving and the playing of drums or trumpets, remaining silent until the end of the 33rd minute. That time was chosen to commemorate 1933, the year the Iron Front was disbanded in Nazi Germany.

As the protest ended, the Timbers Army sang "Bella Ciao," an Italian anti-fascist anthem from World War II.

In a statement released before the game, the three groups called for MLS to rescind its ban on flying the Iron Front flag, as well as to remove the word "political" from its fan code of conduct, calling the use of the word "inherently arbitrary." The groups also asked MLS to work with international experts on human rights to craft language in the fan code of conduct that "reflects and supports radical inclusion and anti-discrimination."

In recognition of the fans' complaints, both teams posed ahead of kickoff for a group photo with small banners that read "anti-fascist" and "anti-racist." The teams' Twitter accounts also posted messages reading, "Bigger than a rivalry. We stand together against fascism and racism."

Bigger than a rivalry. We stand together against fascism and racism. pic.twitter.com/pzZnRIANY9

— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) August 24, 2019

The supporters groups' protest was largely observed by the rest of the crowd, with faint chants of "Let's go Timbers" occasionally heard. But when the clock struck 33 minutes, both sets of supporters began cheering and chanting at full volume, with numerous Iron Front flags visible in the Timbers Army section.

Surrey 171 for 7 (Jacks 63, Qayyum 3-22) beat Kent 170 for 3 (Bell-Drummond 64, Crawley 59) by 1 run

Kent Spitfires suffered their second batting calamity of the week as they tossed away a winning position to lose their Vitality Blast South Group qualifier to Surrey by one run at shell-shocked Canterbury.

Just three days after being skittled for 40 in a County Championship defeat to Essex, Kent grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory to suffer their fourth reverse and their first on home soil in this year's T20 tournament.

Chasing 172 at a tough asking rate of 8.6 an over for their seventh win of the campaign, Kent openers Zak Crawley and Daniel Bell-Drummond smashed 19 off Jordan Clark's third over.

Clark's misery was compounded when he dropped Bell-Drummond off a skier at cover in the next over from Jade Dernbach as Kent's openers posted 50 in five overs.

Crawley raced to his maiden T20 fifty with two fours and three sixes as the Spitfires pair posted their century stand in 9.5 overs as Kent swept 26 runs ahead of Surrey's midpoint score.

Bell-Drummond reached his 19th career T20 half-century from 32 balls and with seven fours but their stand was finally broken for 115 when Mohammad Tahir had Crawley stumped for 59.

With 18 required from 12 balls, Bell-Drummond went for 64 when his sliced drive against Dernbach flew to backward point to heap pressure on Alex Blake and Heino Kuhn.

Blake upper-cut his third ball to deep point leaving Sam Billings and Kuhn to score 12 off the last over from Sam Curran, but it was Curran who held his nerve by conceding nine off the bat to give Surrey a surprise fourth Vitality Blast win.

After a forceful start, Surrey stumbled mid-innings when Kent took pace off the ball, then plundered quick runs at the death through a barrage of Will Jacks sixes on their way to posting 171 for 7.

Aaron Finch, who hit 83 here last July at a strike rate of 218.42 - only for the match to be abandoned to rain - clattered 18 off the second over of the night from Kent T20 debutant Matt Milnes but, with 25 to his name, miscued a Fred Klaassen slower ball back to the bowler.

Surrey reached 49 for 1 by the end of the Powerplay, after which Spitfires brought on first-team debutant Marcus O'Riordan, a 21-year-old off-spinner whose excellent opening over cost only five runs.

Kent turned to spin at both ends with the introduction of left-arm spinner Imran Qayyum who had Curran caught at cow corner with his second ball.

Surrey lost further impetus when Bell-Drummond yorked Mark Stoneman, Qayyum squeezed one between the bat and pad to bowl Ben Foakes and then had Ollie Pope stumped by Ollie Robinson as Surrey raised their 100 in the 15th over.

Qayyum finished his four overs with 3 for 22, after which Hardus Viljoen returned to pluck out middle stump via a bottom edge as Clark aimed to cut.

Jacks clattered eight sixes late in the piece on his way to 63 off 27 balls before biffing Klaassen's last ball of the innings into the hands of long off, even so, Surrey's total appeared a little below par.

Tea New Zealand 103 for 3 (Latham 55*, Nicholls 5*) trail Sri Lanka 244 (De Silva 109, Southee 4-63, Boult 3-75) by 141 runs

After Dhananjaya de Silva made a chancy but classy century to carry Sri Lanka to 244, Lahiru Kumara and the spinners made early inroads into New Zealand's batting line-up as the second Test gathered pace. This, after wet weather had allowed just 66 overs across the first two days.

Both Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor nicked off cheaply, but opener Tom Latham ground his way to an unbeaten half-century, leading New Zealand's resistance at Colombo's P Sara Oval. The visitors were 141 runs behind Sri Lanka at tea on day three.

Dilruwan Perera marked his return to Test cricket with a biting offbreak that bounced sharply to get rid of Jeet Raval for a nine-ball duck to set the ball rolling for Sri Lanka in the field. Williamson, who had been dismissed for single-digit scores in both innings in Galle, looked more assured here until he guided fast bowler Kumara straight into the lap of second slip for 20 off 28 balls.

Latham and Taylor then briefly repaired the early damage with contrasting methods. While Latham defended resolutely and refrained from reaching out for the ball outside off, Taylor engaged in signature slog-sweeps and regular trips down the track. During one such advance down the track, he failed to meet the pitch a turning ball from left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya and tickled an outside edge to slip for 23.

Latham, though, pressed on to bring up his fifty with a flat, hard sweep to the square-leg boundary, moments before tea. Keeping him decent company was Henry Nicholls.

It was de Silva who had owned the third morning. From an overnight score of 32 off 62 balls, he cranked up the tempo and peeled off 77 off 86 balls, reaching his fifth Test hundred in the process.

De Silva had stepped out to bat when Sri Lanka were 93 for 4 and could have been dismissed on 9 had Trent Boult, who has grabbed several blinders over the years, not dropped an absolute sitter off his own bowling. There were streaky inside edges that eluded the leg stump and top edges that cleared the outfielders, but de Silva counterbalanced that with some exquisite strokes.

He collared left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel and struck three successive fours off him, the pick of them an inside-out shot over extra-cover. It provided a throwback to his first runs in Test cricket: a similarly regal inside-out loft off Steve O'Keefe in Pallekele in 2016.

Ajaz, however, found success at the other end when he pinned the other overnight batsman Dilruwan Perera with an arm ball that skidded off the pitch. Tim Southee then went around the wicket and softened Suranga Lakmal with a short-ball barrage, which resulted in the batsman taking his eyes off and fending one behind to BJ Watling. In his next over, Southee removed Embuldeniya to come within one scalp of joining Boult in reaching 250 Test wickets in the same game.

Dhananjaya, though, cut and drove with great authority in addition to taking calculated risks with the tail. He had moved into the 90s with a top-edged six off Boult and then nearly dragged Southee back onto his stumps when he was 99. Two balls later, with No. 11 Kumara for company, he got to the landmark with a carved four over backward point. De Silva celebrated by blowing kisses in the direction of the crowd even as captain Dimuth Karunaratne was seen pumping his fist in the dressing room. There would be more joy for Sri Lanka in the afternoon.

Responding to India's 297, each of West Indies' top-eight batsmen got into double figures, but only four of them crossed 20 and Roston Chase's 48 was the highest score. That left the home side at a precarious 189 for 8 at the end of the second day of the North Sound Test, and "we gave away our wickets a little too easy" was Chase's explanation of the stuttering batting display.

John Campbell was aggressive in a first-wicket stand of 36 with Kraigg Brathwaite, but once he fell, and his partner became the first of Ishant Sharma's five victims on the day, there weren't many partnerships of note, the 44-run alliance between Shai Hope and Shimron Hetmyer for the sixth wicket the best of them.

Earlier this year, West Indies beat England 2-1 in a three-Test series at home. The middle-order batsmen played excellent hands then, but there were contributions from the top too, which Chase said the team needed desperately against India too.

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"I thought that in that series, what we did well [was] we had some good opening partnerships. We saw off the new ball, that made it easier for the middle order, and we were able to just come out and play freely before the bowlers, being that fresh, full of energy, chirping in the field, stuff like that …" he said. "I just think that that's where we need to knuckle down with our top-order batting.

"We usually contribute very well in the middle order but I think our top order needs to pull a little more weight and bring some scores to the table."

On Friday, every once in a way, the West Indies batsmen looked like they were settling down and bedding in for a defining partnership, but it never quite came. Worse for the team, as Chase said, none of the batsmen were done in by spectacular bowling.

"Most of our guys got starts but we give away our wickets a little too easy today, didn't really knuckle down and get that big score we were looking for," Chase said. "I find it (the pitch) has quickened up, because on the first day, it had a little bit of moisture, so the ball was slowing a bit. It's coming on to the bat quite nicely. Our batsmen could have used that to our advantage, but we gave our wickets away today.

"Just a lapse in concentration, I guess, because none of us got any really special delivery, any unplayable delivery, it was just poor on our part to give our wickets away to such ordinary deliveries."

Chase's own dismissal was an example of the "lapse in concentration", as he reached out to flick Ishant to KL Rahul at midwicket. Before that, he did look like he would pull off one more of the sort of innings in home conditions that he has made a name for.

"My thought process was just to stay hungry at the crease, to get my team as close as possible to the lead. But I gave it away. I thought it was looking good, it was going through my process, sticking to my game plan, but a lapse in concentration cost me my wicket," Chase said. "For me, the ball didn't do much, it was straight. I just thought I did not let it come to me as much as I should have.

"I just went a little bit too much in front of my body. That's what caused the ball to go in the air. I could have played with softer hands and let the ball come to me a bit more and just tuck it behind square for one."

"None of us got any really special delivery, any unplayable delivery, it was just poor on our part to give our wickets away to such ordinary deliveries"

When India batted, Kemar Roach and Co had reduced them to 25 for 3 - the wickets of Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli among them - but the visiting side fought back to reach nearly 300, the 60-run stand for the eighth wicket between Ravindra Jadeja and Ishant hurting the West Indians the most.

"I thought that after our initial quick burst on top with the early wickets, the Indian batsmen really applied themselves well. Parternships are always big in Test cricket, and I thought that our bowlers really stuck to the task at hand," Chase said. "This morning, we got the early wickets we were looking for but I thought that we tried a bit too hard, we didn't stick to coming down the channel, we tried a bit too hard with the short-ball plan and stuff like that. And it cost us.

"Our energy went down a bit after the partnership built. I guess Jadeja and Ishant fed off that. We played into their hands and we tried too much things. But after we got that wicket, we wrapped it up pretty quickly, so that was still good for us. I thought we could have used that momentum going into the innings, but, as I said, we didn't really use the conditions to our favour."