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AFP Sports Agenda for Saturday, May 1 (all times GMT): + Man City face Palace with title within touching distance + Qualifying for Portuguese Grand Prix + All-French European Cup rugby semi-final clash + Marquez faces tough task in Jerez MotoGP qualifying + 147th running of Kentucky Derby FOOTBALL -- English Premier League: Manchester City have a chance of winning the title if they beat Crystal Palace (kickoff 1130) and Manchester United lose to Liverpool on Sunday. Picture. Video (FBL-ENG-PR-CRYSTALPALACE-MANCITY). Also: Brighton v Leeds (1400), Chelsea v Fulham (1630) Everton v Aston Villa (1900) Picture (FBL-ENG-PR) -- Spanish Liga: Elbar v Alaves (1200), Elche v Atletico Madrid (1415), Huesca v Real Sociedad (1630), Real Madrid v Osasuna (1900) Picture (FBL-ESP-LIGA) -- French Ligue 1: Paris Saint-Germain v Lens (1400), Lille v Nice (1800) Picture. Video (FBL-FRA-LIGUE1) -- German Cup semi-final: Borussia Dortmund v Holstein Kiel (1830). Picture (FBL-GER-CUP) -- Scottish Premiership (1400): Dundee Utd v Ross County, Hibernian v St Johnstone, Livingston v Aberdeen, Motherwell v Kilmarnock, St Mirren v Hamilton. (FBL-SCO-PR) -- English Championship: Sheff Wed v Nottm Forest (1130); Birmingham v Cardiff, Brentford v Watford, Huddersfield v Coventry, Luton v Middlesbrough, Millwall v Bristol City, Norwich v Reading, Preston v Barnsley, Rotherham v Blackburn, Stoke v QPR, Swansea v Derby, Wycombe v Bournemouth (all 1400) (FBL-ENG) FORMULA ONE -- Qualifying for Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix at Portimao (1400). Picture (AUTO-PRIX-POR) TENNIS -- Top seed Ashleigh Barty and Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek both in action at Madrid WTA tournament. Picture (TENNIS-WTA-ESP) -- Ilya Ivashka faces Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff in semi-finals of Munich ATP tournament (TENNIS-ATP-GER) -- Semi-finals at Estoril (TENNIS-ATP-POR) MOTOR CYCLING -- Qualifying for Sunday's Spanish MotoGP at Jerez where six-time world champion Marc Marquez struggled in practice at the site of last year's crash which ended his season. (1210) Picture (MOTO-PRIX-ESP) CRICKET -- Sri Lanka resume their first innings on 469-6 against Bangladesh on the third day of the second Test in Pallakele (0430). Picture (CRICKET-SRI-BAN) -- Third day of first Test in Harare where Pakistan have built an imposing first innings lead of 198 runs over Zimbabwe (0730) (CRICKET-ZIM-PAK) -- Indian Premier League: Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings in Delhi (1400) (CRICKET-IND-IPL) RUGBY UNION -- European Champions Cup semi-final: Toulouse v Bordeaux Begles (1400) Picture (RUGBYU-EUR-CHAMPIONS) -- European Challenge Cup semi-final: Bath v Montpellier (1900) (RUGBYU-EUR-CHALLENGE) -- Super Rugby: Brumbies v Western Force (0705) (RUGBYU-SUPER) -- French Top 14: Racing 92 v Stade Francais (1200), Clermont v Brive (1630), Toulon v Agen (1630) (RUGBYU-FRA-TOP14) CYCLING -- Tour de Romandie fourth stage is a 161.3km mountain run from Sion to Thyon in the Swiss Alps. Spanish rider Marc Soler leads the race. Picture (CYCLING-SUI-ROMANDIE) GOLF -- Third round of USPGA event at Palm Harbor, Florida (GOLF-USPGA) -- Third round of European Tour's Tenerife Open (GOLF-EPGA-ESP) -- Third round of LPGA at Women's World Championship, Singapore (GOLF-USLPGA-SIN) BASKETBALL -- Ten games in the NBA (BASKET-NBA) SNOOKER -- World championship in Sheffield continues (SNOOKER-WORLD) ATHLETICS -- World Athletics Relays at Chorzow, Poland (ATHLETICS-POL) MOTOR RACING -- Indy Cars at Fort Worth, Texas (AUTO-USA-INDY) RACING -- Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Louisville with Essential Quality the favourite in the race's 147th edition (RACING-USA-DERBY) afp
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