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| - AFP Sports Agenda for Saturday, September 12 (all times GMT): Twitter: @AFP_Sport Instagram: @afpsport + Osaka faces unseeded Azarenka in US Open women's final + Champions Liverpool in action English Premier League season kicks off + Big guns absent as La Liga opens + Roglic still leads as Tour de France heads for Lyon + Qualifying at F1 Tuscan GP FOOTBALL -- Premier League (1400 unless stated). Fulham v Arsenal (1130). Coverage by Steve Griffiths. Picture. (FBL-ENG-PR-FULHAM-ARSENAL); Liverpool v Leeds (1630). Coverage by Kieran Canning. Picture. (FBL-ENG-PR-LIVERPOOL-LEEDS); Crystal Palace v Southampton, West Ham v Newcastle. Picture (FBL-ENG-PR) -- English Championship (1400 unless stated): Birmingham v Brentford (1130). Barnsley v Luton, Bournemouth v Blackburn, Bristol City v Coventry, Cardiff v Sheff Wed, Derby v Reading, Huddersfield v Norwich, Millwall v Stoke, Preston v Swansea, QPR v Nottm Forest. (FBL-ENG) -- Scottish Premiership (1400 unless stated): Aberdeen v Kilmarnock, Livingston v Hamilton, Motherwell v St Johnstone, Rangers v Dundee Utd, Ross County v Celtic, St Mirren v Hibernian. (FBL-SCO-PR) -- Spanish Liga: Eibar v Celta Vigo (1400), Granada v Athletic Bilbao (1630), Cadiz v Osasuna (1900) Coverage by Thomas Allnutt (FBL-ESP-LIGA) -- Spanish friendly: Lionel Messi could make his Barcelona return in a pre-season game against Gimnastica Tarragona (FBL-ESP-LIGA-BARCELONA) -- French Ligue 1: Montpellier v Nice (1500), Saint-Etienne v Strasbourg. Picture (1900) (FBL-FRA-LIGUE1) -- German Cup first round (1330 unless stated), 13 ties including: Nuremberg v RB Leipzig , Oberneuland v Borussia Moenchengladbach, Union Fuerstenwalde v Wolfsburg, 1860 Munich v Eintracht Frankfurt, Karlsruher v Union Berlin (1630), Carl Zeiss Jena v Werder Bremen (1845) (FBL-GER-CUP) TENNIS -- US Open: Naomi Osaka takes on Victoria Azarenka in women's singles final (2000) Coverage by Peter Hutchison. Picture (TENNIS-USA-OPEN) -- European clay season continues with women's event in Istanbul (TENNIS-WTA-TUR) and men's tournament in Kitzbuhel (TENNIS-ATP-AUT) FORMULA ONE -- Qualifying for Sunday's Tuscan Grand Prix at Mugello (1300). Picture (AUTO-PRIX-ITA-TUSCAN) MOTOGP -- Qualifying for Sunday's San Marino Grand Prix (1130-1250). Picture. (MOTO-PRIX-SMR) CYCLING -- Primoz Roglic holds the yellow jersey ahead of stage 14 of the Tour de France,a hilly 189.5km run to Lyon where the mayor has called the race 'macho and polluting'. Coverage by Damian McCall. Picture. Video. Graphic (CYCLING-TOUR-FRA) -- Simon Yates leads going into a flat stage six of the Tirreno-Adriatico (CYCLING-ITA-TIRRENO) RUGBY UNION -- Super Rugby AU, Play-Off semi-final: Reds v Melbourne Rebels in Brisbane (0815) (RUGBYU-SUPER-AU) -- Top 14: Toulouse v La Rochelle (1315), Bordeaux-Begles v Brive, Bayonne v Clermont (both 1615). Picture (RUGBYU-FRA-TOP14) -- Pro 14: Play-Off Final: Leinster v Ulster, Dublin (1835) (RUGBYU-PRO14) GOLF -- Third round of the ANA Inspiration, one of the five majors of women's golf, at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California (GOLF-USA-WOMEN) -- Also US PGA Tour Safeway Open in Napa, California (GOLF-USPGA); European Tour at Portugal Masters (GOLF-EPGA-POR) RACING -- St Leger behind closed doors at Doncaster. (RACING-ENG-DONCASTER) BASKETBALL -- NBA play-offs in Orlando, Florida: Top-seeded L.A. Lakers can clinch their Western Conference final in Game 5 against Houston (0000 Sunday) Picture (BASKET-NBA) ICE HOCKEY -- Game four of the NHL Western Conference final between Las Vegas and Dallas (Dallas lead 2-1) (0000 Saturday) (IHOCKEY-NHL) afp
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