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MADRID - Real Madrid will aim to focus on its Spanish league campaign after losing its Copa del Rey defence to a dominant Atletico Madrid when it hosts another local team — Getafe.Coach Carlo Ancelotti will seek to bolster Madrids league lead on Sunday against Quique Sanchez Flores 14th-placed team that has won just four matches in 18 rounds.Atletico, meanwhile, faces bottom of the league Granada that has managed to win two matches all season.Barcelona travels to lowly Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday.Here are some things to know about this weekends matches as La Liga reaches its midpoint:___PEPE DOWNSergio Ramos acknowledged Madrids defence needed to improve after making errors that led to Atleticos Copa victory, but emphasized his teams desire to win the league.Now we want to recover and focus on the remaining competitions, Ramos said. We are going to do everything possible to win the Champions League and La Liga,However, Madrid will be without Pepe against Getafe after the key defender bruised his ribs during the second half of the Copa match.Madrid leads the standings on 42 points after 17 rounds, with a game in hand because of its December participation in the Club World Cup. The postponed 16th-round fixture against Sevilla will be held Feb. 4 at the Bernabeu.___TRIUMPHANT TORRESFernando Torres overshadowed Cristiano Ronaldos third Ballon dOr celebrations at the Bernabeu by scoring both of Atleticos goals in its second-leg 2-2 Copa draw Thursday (4-2 on aggregate).Both goals came from inspired passes by 23-year-old France forward Antoine Griezmann, who Torres says will get even better.We have to let Griezmann grow, you have to enjoy things with him and make him feel like an important player, because he is, Torres said. We all know he has a great future and as a teammate, we need to enjoy with him, to help him so he can make all of us grow. I will help him every way I can.Atletico hosts Granada on Sunday.___RESTED ATTACKBarcelona coach Luis Enrique saved his attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez for the league match at the Riazon stadium, having secured a 5-0 first leg win in the Copa that the Catalan powerhouse won 9-0 on aggregate Thursday.Enrique will hope his squad plays like it did last weekend during its 3-1 defeat of Atletico in order to maximize its chances of closing the gap to Madrid. Messi has scored 16 of his 25 goals this season in the league.In preparation for the tough clash, Deportivo this week reinforced its midfield with Costa Rica playmaker Celso Borges who helped the central American country reach the quarterfinals at World Cup in Brazil last summer.Coach Victor Fernandezs team is one point above the relegation zone.___UPS AND DOWNSVillarreal hosts Athletic Bilbao on Saturday, with the teams seemingly heading in opposite directions.Villarreal has risen to sixth place in the league and reached the knockout stages of the Europa League.It also advanced to the final eight of the Copa del Rey after knocking out Real Sociedad on Wednesday when it extended its unbeaten run in all competitions to 14 games.Bilbao, however, is struggling under coach Ernesto Valverde and its fans jeered the team after its 2-0 loss to Celta Vigo on Wednesday, even though it advanced in the Copa on away goals.That came after a 2-1 home loss to lowly Elche in its last league match, extending a winless streak in the league to five rounds.I see it as normal and necessary, its good that our fans demand more of us, Valverde said of the jeers. We have to change our mindset and take a step forward.___OUT OF CREDITGranada hasnt won in the league in 14 straight games, a drought that stretches back to Sept. 20.Its fortunes arent likely to change when it visits the Vicente Calderon Stadium on Sunday.Granada, which was ousted from the Copa del Rey following a 4-0 rout at Sevilla on Wednesday, has scored a league-low 11 goals in 18 rounds.Coach Joaquin Caparros has managed to keep his job largely thanks to his reputation as being one of the best at getting the most out of a limited squad.But his credit is running low with his team in last place.We have to recover our spirits, said Caparros. We cant drop our heads. We still have the entire second half of the season to go and we need to be convinced that we are going to pull this out and transmit that to our fans.___Associated Press writer Joseph Wilson contributed to this preview. 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Kohlschreiber had lost all of his three previous matches against Istomin but the German broke serve for a decisive 3-2 lead in the third set and held on to reach his first final of the year.RIO DE JANEIRO - Although the Miami Heat had been downplaying the game against LeBron James all along, coach Erik Spoelstra and Chris Bosh said Saturday that they were glad it was finally out of the way.Spoelstra said there was certainly a level of strangeness in the preseason game in Rio de Janeiro, while Bosh said that he hopes now everybody can move on.The Cleveland Cavaliers won 122-119 in overtime, with James scoring seven points and picking up eight assists in 20 minutes at the HSBC Arena.It was the first time James played against the Heat since returning to Ohio after leading his former teammates to two NBA titles in four years.For me it was a special moment to be back there competing against my old teammates, James said. I didnt get that awkward feeling, but a lot of memories came back about the things that we accomplished.James barely talked to his teammates before and during the game, though, doing his usual game routine.If you have to do something like this, I think it really benefits both teams to get the awkwardness out of the way in the preseason, Spoelstra said. There was certainly a level of strangeness to it.He said he didnt think it really affected the way the teams approached their preparations, though.I think both teams also used this week just to concentrate on themselves, Spoelstra said.dddddddddddd We have quite a bit of work to do to get our defence and our continuity offensively together. This was just another step, so in terms of game plan I dont think either team spent a lot of time on that.James and Bosh quickly shook hands, but didnt even seem to make eye contact before the game.Bosh said it was just normal routine stuff to guard James, but he also thought it was good that the meeting is already in the past.I like the fact that we could get everything out of the way, that we could just come out here for the preseason and kind of just let everybody see us, Bosh said. We can move on.He said it was tough as usual to play against the former teammate, but as far as him in another uniform and being on different teams, we are pretty much over that.We are here to improve our team, to get better, and he is doing the same thing, Bosh said. 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