MEN’S FOOTBALL: Brighton have a mountain to climb in the Europa League tomorrow evening when they will attempt to overturn last week’s 4-0 first leg defeat at Roma to reach the quarter-finals. The boot is on the other foot for Liverpool who lead Sparta Prague 5-1, while West Ham are 1-0 down to Freiburg and Rangers are on the verge of an upset against Benfica at Ibrox with the score standing at 2-2.

MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: Super League action returns tomorrow night with reigning champions Wigan taking the league’s only 100 per cent record to Salford, who claimed a surprise 24-20 win at St Helens last weekend. The Saints are at Leeds Friday night. In Australia the second round of the NRL kicks off with last year’s runners-up Brisbane Broncos taking on the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Both teams lost their opening fixtures.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Holly Winterburn top-scored with 17 points as London Lions became the first British team ever to reach a EuroCup final after beating Venice 71-59 at the Copper Box Arena on Tuesday night for a 140-127 aggregate win. Winterburn also completed five assists, four rebounds and a steal in her match-winning performance. The Lions will meet either Besiktas or Girona in April’s two-legged final.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: Palestino from Santiago Chile needed penalties to see off Paraguay’s Nacional Asuncion and make it into the Group Stages of this year’s Copa Libertadores, South America’s equivalent to the Champions League. Botafogo hold a 2-1 advantage over Bragantino in tomorrow’s all-Brazilian qualifier, Bolivia’s Always Ready are 1-0 up against Montevideo’s Nacional and Sportivo Trinidense from Paraguay are level at 1-1 with Chile’s Colo Colo.