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AFP Sports Agenda for Saturday, February 6 (all times GMT): + Man Utd can close gap in Premier League + Six Nations kicks off + Real Madrid seek to rebound in La Liga + England eye big score against India in 1st Test + Australian Open warm-up tournaments FOOTBALL -- English Premier League (1500 unless stated): Aston Villa v Arsenal (1230), Burnley v Brighton, Leeds v Crystal Palace, Newcastle v Southampton, Fulham v West Ham (1730), Manchester United v Everton (2000). Picture (FBL-ENG-PR) -- German Bundesliga (1430 unless stated): Bayer Leverkusen v Stuttgart, Freiburg v Borussia Dortmund, Schalke v RB Leipzig, Mainz v Union Berlin, Augsburg v Wolfsburg, Borussia Moenchengladbach v Cologne (1730). Kit Holden covering. Picture (FBL-GER-BUNDESLIGA) -- Italian Serie A: Atalanta v Torino, Sassuolo v Spezia (1400), Juventus v Roma (1700), Genoa v Napoli (1945). Picture (FBL-ITA-SERIEA) -- Spanish La Liga: Levante v Granada (1300), Huesca v Real Madrid (1515), Elche v Villarreal (1730), Sevilla v Getafe (2000). Coverage by Tom Allnutt. Picture (FBL-ESP-LIGA) -- French Ligue 1: Lorient v Reims (1600), Lyon v Strasbourg (1800), Lens v Rennes (2000). Picture (FBL-FRA-LIGUE1) -- English Championship (1500 unless stated): Coventry v Watford (1230), Barnsley v Derby, Bournemouth v Birmingham, Bristol City v Cardiff, Luton v Huddersfield, Middlesbrough v Brentford, Millwall v Sheff Wednesday, Preston v Rotherham, QPR v Blackburn, Stoke v Reading, Wycombe v Nottingham Forest (FBL-ENG) -- Scottish Premiership (1500): Celtic v Motherwell, Hibernian v Aberdeen, Livingston v St Johnstone, Ross County v Dundee Utd, St Mirren v Kilmarnock (FBL-SCO-PR) -- African Nations Championship 3rd-place play-off: Cameroon v Guinea (1900) (FBL-CHAN) RUGBY UNION -- Six Nations: England v Scotland at Twickenham (1645). Julian Guyer covering. Picture (RUGBYU-6NATIONS-ENG-SCO); Italy v France in Rome (1415). Emmeline Moore covering. Picture (RUGBYU-6NATIONS-ITA-FRANCE) -- English Premiership (1500 unless stated): Bath v Harlequins (1415), Leicester v Worcester, London Irish v Gloucester, Wasps v Northampton. (RUGBYU-ENG-PR) -- French Top 14: Montpellier v Stade Francais (2000). Picture (RUGBYU-FRA-TOP14) CRICKET -- England captain Joe Root seeks to build on his century on the second day of first Test against India at Chennai with his team on 263-3 (0400). (CRICKET-IND-ENG) -- Bangladesh lead West Indies by 218 runs with seven second-innings wickets left on day four of the first Test at Chittagong (0400). Picture (CRICKET-WIS-BAN) -- South Africa resume on the third day of the second Test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi on 106-4 in their first innings, 166 runs behind (0500). Picture (CRICKET-PAK-RSA) -- Big Bash League final in Sydney (0840) (CRICKET-AUS-BBL) TENNIS -- ATP Cup semi-finals in Melbourne feature Spain v Italy and Germany against Russia. Picture (TENNIS-AUS-ATPCUP) -- Australian Open men's warm-ups: ATP Great Ocean Road Open and Murray River Open in Melbourne (TENNIS-AUS-ATP) -- Women's Australian Open warm-ups: World number one Ashleigh Barty still in contention at Yarra Valley Classic in Melbourne. Naomi Osaka is in the semi-finals of the Gippsland Trophy. Also, WTA at the Grampians Trophy. Picture (TENNIS-AUS-WTA) GOLF -- New Zealander Ryan Fox has the clubhouse lead at the weather-hit Saudi International, with world number one Dustin Johnson and big-hitting Bryson DeChambeau still to complete their second rounds (GOLF-EPGA-KSA) -- Third round of the PGA Tour's Phoenix Open, with the world's best-attended event in golf played in front of limited crowds due to the Covid-19 pandemic at Scottsdale, Arizona (GOLF-USPGA) ALPINE SKIING -- Men's World Cup super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (1030). Picture (SKI-WORLD-MEN-GER) BASKETBALL -- NBA: 11 games, including the Brooklyn Nets at Philadelphia 76ers (0001 Sunday) and the Detroit Pistons at the Los Angeles Lakers (0300 Sunday). Picture (BASKET-NBA) AMERICAN FOOTBALL -- Build-up to Sunday's Super Bowl LV, which will see Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers host defending champions, Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs at the Raymond James Stadium in Florida (AMFOOT-NFL-SUPERBOWL) CYCLING -- Fourth stage of the Etoile de Besseges with a field including former Tour de France winners Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal (CYCLING-FRA) ATHLETICS -- Pole vault stars Armand Duplantis and Renaud Lavillenie come face to face for the first time in this season, looking to lay down key markers just six months out from the Tokyo Olympics. (ATHLETICS-OLY-FRA-SWE-POLEVAULT) afp
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