Saturday
Football
8am-12pm (all times BST) Matchday live Highs and lows aplenty on a Saturday when the season hits its tight spot. Four Premier League games to shape the title and relegation tussles, but surely the most compelling action arrives at lunchtime in the Championship with a clutch of collisions that will shape the promotion and playoff picture. Expect fireworks at Ipswich v QPR, Millwall v Oxford and Wrexham v Middlesbrough – and we will be reporting from all three games. David Tindall hosts our rolling football blog, offering breaking news and updates from around the grounds, plus readers’ thoughts and queries. Why not join the conversation? Email matchday.live@theguardian.com.
Cricket
11am County Championship live Tanya Aldred keeps the updates flowing from around seven county grounds with day two of her blog, with Surrey, Leicestershire, Glamorgan, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire searching for their first wins. With all four Division One matches ending in a draw last week – and none coming close to a positive result – perhaps the eight-point reward for a drawn game needs revisiting. Twenty points for a win instead of 16? Email Tanya with your observations and comments. View image in fullscreen Derbyshire host Gloucestershire at the County Ground, searching for their first win of the season. Photograph: News Images/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
Horse racing
11.30am 2000 Guineas day live Greg Wood saddles up for an exciting day of racing at Newmarket as the 2000 Guineas (3.35pm) offers punters plenty of options. Bow Echo and Gstaad head the 15 runners. Charlie Appleby has won three of the last four renewals of the race and this year relies on Distant Storm, third in the Dewhurst, and the unbeaten King’s Trail. Oxagon was an impressive winner of the Craven for John and Thady Gosden and will have the assistance of Oisin Murphy while Avicenna, another who runs in the blue of Godolphin trained by Roger Varian, will aim to give Ray Dawson a first Classic. Karl Burke’s Alparslan was a surprise winner of the Greenham and takes his chance, while Needle Match can be expected to improve on his fourth there given that was just his second run. Thesecretadversary, Into The Sky, Padraig Dawn, Power Blue, Venetian Prince, Billecart and Lord Britain complete the list. View image in fullscreen Racegoers watch on at the Guineas festival at the Newmarket racecourse. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
Football
12pm Clockwatch John Brewin keeps track of all the ebb and flow of the Championship promotion race with an early start for clockwatch. He then switches focus to two of the three mid-afternoon kick-offs, with plenty riding on both featured matches. Nottingham Forest and Leeds have put some daylight between themselves and the bottom three, leaving West Ham and their London rivals Tottenham either side of the safety line. The Hammers are two points ahead of 18th-placed Spurs, three adrift of Forest and four shy of Leeds before Daniel Farke’s side’s Friday meeting with the relegated Burnley. West Ham’s last four matches of the campaign start with Saturday’s trip to Brentford and culminate in a final-day visit from Leeds, which could yet prove decisive. Newcastle, meanwhile, have struggled this season and sit 14th in the standings after four straight defeats, leading to questions over Eddie Howe’s future at the club. Their Saudi Arabian owners say they remain as committed as ever to the club’s success, even as their Public Investment Fund prepares to sever ties with the LIV Golf series. They host Brighton, in sixth place on 50 points and closing in on a European slot.
Women’s Champions League
2pm OL Lyonnes v Arsenal live A strong second-half display saw Arsenal come from behind to beat Lyon 2-1 and take a slender lead from the first leg of their Women’s Champions League semi-final. The French club – beaten by the Gunners at the same stage of last season’s competition – took the lead in the 18th minute through a fine breakaway goal from Jule Brand. Arsenal, though, regrouped for the second half and equalised through an own goal from Ingrid Engen after a mistake by the Lyon goalkeeper, Christiane Endler – who was then caught out again when Olivia Smith slotted in with seven minutes left. It was an impressive turnaround as Renée Slegers’s defending champions achieved a first home win over Lyon. Now they travel to the Parc Olympique Lyonnais with the Oslo final in their sights. Taha Hashim hosts the blog with Tom Garry reporting from Lyon.
Formula One
5pm and 9pm Miami Grand Prix live Formula One returns at the Miami Grand Prix after an unexpected five-week break when a pair of races in the Middle East were called off because of the war in Iran. The time off gave the FIA, the sport’s governing body, time to make changes to the regulations that drivers heavily criticised after the first three races of the year because of how the electrical battery power has changed the cars and competition. Will it help? Max Verstappen, who has been so vocal about his dislike of the current cars that he is openly considering leaving F1, called the changes “a tickle”. Philip Cornwall has lap-by-lap coverage of the sprint race and qualifying, with Giles Richards reporting from the Miami International Autodrome.
Premier League