Right, that's all we've got for you today.

Our top stories have been:

• Swansea City are in talks with Kyle Naughton after having a bid accepted for the Tottenham full-back.

• West Brom and England Under-21 striker Saido Berahino is not for sale, club chairman Jeremy Peace has reiterated.

• Fifa presidential hopeful David Ginola wants the men's and women's football World Cups to be staged together.

Our live text commentary on the Liverpool-Chelsea League Cup semi-final continues here.

Sportsday will be back in the morning with all the latest football transfer news, plus reaction to Liverpool-Chelsea and build-up to the other semi-final between Tottenham and Sheffield United.

See you then.

Andy Murray is in second-round action at the Australian Open at approximately 02:00 GMT on Wednesday but tennis fans can pass some of the time until then with a cracking read on his coach.

BBC Sport's Mike Henson profiles Amelie Mauresmo by analysing how the first Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne has played a pivotal role in her career.

Focusing on her run to the 1999 women's singles final as a 19-year-old and eventual triumph in the event seven years later, it shows how Mauresmo is well versed in controversy, animosity and pressure at the Aussie Open.

Read it here.

As well as the League Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Chelsea, there are a couple of Championship fixtures this evening.

Middlesbrough host Cardiff while top-of-the-table Bournemouth travel to Leeds.

A win tonight would see the Cherries open up a four-point gap on the chasing pack.

While the men from the south coast have lost only one league game since September, Leeds have not won any of their last eight matches in all competitions, losing five.

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Australian Robert Allenby has pulled out of this week's Humana Challenge in California after he reported being kidnapped, assaulted and robbed.

The four-time PGA Tour winner is recovering following the ordeal, which happened in Hawaii on Friday after he missed the cut at the Sony Open.

Allenby, 43, said is a statement he has withdrawn from this week's event on the advice of his doctor.

"This will enable me to ensure I am fully recovered," he said.

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Danny Cipriani and Nick Easter are set to be included in the England training squad ahead of the Six Nations opener against Wales.

It's understood Cipriani will be one of four fly-halves named by head coach Stuart Lancaster in the 34-man group, along with George Ford, Owen Farrell and Stephen Myler.

Barring injury, Ford and Farrell will be the two stand-offs involved in Cardiff on 6 February, but both Myler and Cipriani have a chance to impress in next week's camp.

Meanwhile, it's believed the England management will also include the 36-year-old number eight Easter, who won the last of his 47 caps in the 2011 World Cup.

Liverpool make one change from the side which beat Aston Villa on Saturday. Captain Steven Gerrard starts and Fabio Borini drops out.

Liverpool XI: Mignolet, Can, Skrtel, Sakho, Lucas, Henderson, Gerrard, Moreno, Markovic, Coutinho, Sterling.

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Keeping to our promises, here's the Chelsea starting XI:

Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Filipe Luis; Matic, Mikel; Willian, Fabregas, Hazard; Diego Costa.

There are just two changes from Saturday's demolition of Swansea as Oscar is replaced by John Mikel Obi and Thibaut Courtois is back in goal, replacing Petr Cech.

Kick-off is at 19:45 GMT.

The first leg of the League Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool at Anfield is just over an hour away.

You can follow all the build-up ahead of radio commentary, updates, the best photos and social here.

If you want to stick with Sportsday, we'll bring you the team news shortly.

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New Red Bull driver Daniil Kvyat, 20, has headed to the top of Finland, external to train for the upcoming Formula 1 season: "Nice training camp with guys here in Lapland! Only -25 degrees outside :)"

It's balmy in Britain at the moment compared to that...

Former captain Kelly Brown and John Barclay are among Scotland's best players and should be in the squad for the Six Nations, according to former skipper Andy Nicol.

Brown and Barclay have won 107 caps between them but have been left out from Vern Cotter's 32-man pool for the tournament.

"We seem to be promoting players who've come in from New Zealand at the expense of John Barclay and Kelly Brown," said Nicol.

Edinburgh flanker Hugh Blake, who qualifies to play for the national team through his grandparents, has been called into the squad for the first time, in preference to both Brown and Barclay.

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Group D rivals Ivory Coast and Guinea have drawn 1-1 in the first of today's Africa Cup of Nations fixtures.

A superb Mohamed Yattara left-foot volley gave Guinea a first-half lead and Ivory Coast looked to be in real trouble when former Arsenal striker Gervinho was sent off for slapping an opponent.

However, substitute Seydou Doumbia's equaliser 18 minutes from time ensured the points would be shared.

Mali and Cameroon are the only teams still to play their first match in the tournament and they kick-off at 19:00 GMT. Follow our live text commentary here.

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Jolyon Palmer has been handed his Formula 1 break after being appointed Lotus's reserve driver for the forthcoming season.

Palmer, 24 and son of former F1 driver Jonathan - who made 83 starts between 1983 and 1989 for Williams, RAM, Zakspeed and Tyrrell - won last year's GP2 crown with a record haul of 276 points.

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Russia's anti-doping agency has banned five athletes who compete in the walk, including three Olympic champions.

London 2012 men's winner Sergei Kirdyapkin, women's 2008 Olympic gold medallist Olga Kaniskina and 2011 world champion Sergei Bakulin have been banned for three years and two months.

Olympic 2008 winner Valeriy Borchin has been banned for eight years and Vladimir Kanaykin for life.

Their cases have been backdated from late 2012. The bans do not affect any Olympic medals, although five world championship gold medals from 2009 and 2011 could be re-awarded.

More from Jermain Defoe, who hasn't given up on an England recall, despite not featuring for the national team since November 2013.

Defoe, who has won 55 caps, said: "I would like to represent my country again.

"To play for your country, it's based on merit, so if I am scoring goals, I would like to think that I would get an opportunity to do that again."

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New Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe says he welcomes the pressure of being brought in to score the goals to keep the club in the Premier League.

Defoe, 32, returned to England last week after an 11-month spell at Major League Soccer side Toronto.

Sunderland are in 16th position, just one point above the relegation zone, and have the second-worst scoring record in the league, with only 19 goals in 22 games.

"It's a good pressure. It's another challenge and I am really looking forward to it." said the former Tottenham player.

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Two-time world champion and new McLaren driver Fernando Alonso, 33, tweets a picture of himself, external as a young boy behind the wheel of a racing car. Obviously a precocious talent.

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The Guardian , externalsays that Swansea are determined to hold on to Bafetimbi Gomis despite serious interest from a number of clubs, including Crystal Palace, and comments from the 29-year-old France striker suggesting he is unsettled at the Liberty Stadium.

Championship side Charlton Athletic have signed Tottenham Hotspur defender Milos Veljkovic on loan until the end of the season.

The 19-year-old spent time on loan at Middlesbrough earlier in the campaign.

Veljkovic, who can play at centre-back or in central midfield, has made two senior appearances for Spurs since joining from FC Basel in 2011.

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Spanish winger Suso has criticised his former club Liverpool for not offering him a satisfactory contract.

The 21-year-old, who left Anfield for AC Milan this month, told Marca:, external "My contract was set to expire in June and Liverpool's offers did not satisfy me, neither economically nor in a sporting sense.

"I arrived very much as a boy and I have learned a lot. I have grown, but I have not noticed a lot of trust in me."

Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove has welcomed the move to take a fresh look at a new 'English Premier League' Twenty20 competition.

A recent meeting brought together the chairmen of the 18 counties to discuss the overall state of the domestic game.

Among the items discussed was a T20 event similar to the Indian Premier League (IPL) or Australia's Big Bash.

"We seem to have missed the boat in terms of the escalation of T20 around the globe," he told BBC Radio Solent.