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Madrid, Spain (SportsNetwork.com) - Atletico Madrid will aim to get back to winning ways in La Liga action on Sunday when the club welcomes lowly Granada to the Vicente Calderon. Diego Simeones men slipped further away from defending their league title last weekend after suffering a 3-1 defeat to Barcelona to drop four points back of Real Madrid, which still has a game in hand. Atletico rebounded in Copa del Rey action on Thursday by earning a second-leg draw with Real Madrid to oust the European champions from the competition on aggregate, but now the Rojiblancos will aim to translate that form into league play. Simeone will be buoyed by what looks to be a rejuvenated Fernando Torres. El Nino appears to have resuscitated his career with a move back to the Calderon as his brace on Thursday helped to eliminate Real from cup play. If he features on Sunday, Torres will have a tremendous opportunity to build up a head of steam as he will face a struggling Granada side that enters the weekend at the foot of the La Liga table. Granada has not won a league game since earning a 1-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao on Sept. 20. Since then, the club has collected just six points out of a possible 42. And perhaps the most alarming signal for Granada is how it has fared against teams sitting inside the top four this season. The club suffered a 6-0 loss to Barcelona at Camp Nou on Sept. 27, received a 4-0 thrashing at home to Real Madrid on Nov. 1 and endured a 5-1 loss at Sevilla on Nov. 30. That record bodes well for Atletico, a club hoping to secure its seventh home win in its last eight league outings. Real Madrid will be attempting to maintain its position at the La Liga summit on Sunday when it travels to the Coliseum Alfonso Perez to take on a Getafe side that is winless in its last eight La Liga matches. Barcelona, meanwhile, staved off some more speculation of a club crisis with last weeks defeat of Atletico. Dropped points at the Riazor against Deportivo on Sunday, however, would reignite some questions surrounding the Catalan side. Also on Sunday, fourth-place Sevilla will host seventh-place Malaga in a match with major European qualification implications and lowly Elche will go for a second straight victory when it welcomes Levante to the Martinez Valero. Real Sociedads impressive unbeaten streak under David Moyes - which included a 1-0 defeat of Barcelona - was extended to four games with a draw against Granada last time out. La Real will attempt to get back to winning ways on Saturday when it welcomes Rayo Vallecano to La Anoeta. Valencias draw at Celta Vigo last weekend saw the club drop to fifth place in the table, so the Los Che will hope to rebound with a victory over Almeria at the Mestalla on Saturday. Villarreal will return to action on Saturday with a home clash against Athletic Bilbao, and Espanyol will take on Celta Vigo at the Estadi Cornella- El Prat to round out the days slate. Fridays lone contest saw Eibar claim a 1-1 draw at Cordoba as Mikel Arruabarrena scored in the 73rd minute to cancel out the opening goal from Cordobas Florin Andone in the opening minute. Jeff Hornacek Jersey . -- Billy Andrade hasnt played much competitive golf over the past four years. Donovan Mitchell Jersey .Former NBA forward Morris Peterson has been added to TSNs Toronto Raptors broadcast team. http://www.jazzauthentic.com/kids-rudy-gobert-jazz-jersey/ . -- Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf has been suspended two games for his hit from behind on Kevan Miller of the Bruins. Jae Crowder Jersey . The 31-year-old Spain midfielder hasnt played since Madrid lost in the Copa del Rey final to Atletico Madrid in May due to back and foot injuries. John Stockton Jersey . Bjoerndalen, who had failed to win any major race for two years before Sochi, writes in a Facebook entry that he is "full of energy and inspiration" after winning the 10-kilometre sprint and mixed relay at last months Olympics.EDMONTON - Taylor Hall looks like he is ready to get the regular season going.Hall, who has finished in the top 10 in NHL scoring the past two seasons, scored a pair of goals as the Edmonton Oilers came away with a 3-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night in pre-season play.I feel good. I dont want to be that guy who says Im in the best shape of my life and I never felt better, but I feel good, Hall said. For me, my stick handling, my shot, my skating is always there at the start of the year. Its just my thinking of the game and the way I process it that takes a while to get up to speed. So thats probably been my focus throughout training camp.Mark Fayne also scored for the Oilers, who improved to 3-2 in exhibition play.I thought we played a pretty solid game, said Oilers centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who had a pair of assists for four points in three exhibition games. Winnipeg always plays hard, they played us hard in Winnipeg too. Its good that we seem to be able to get a lead and hold on to that. Thats something when it comes to regular season we have to be better at for sure. It starts in exhibition and I thought a few games in exhibition have been good in that sense.Mathieu Perreault replied for the Jets, who fell to 1-3.You want to win no matter what, because we are competitive as professionals, but at the same time you have to learn from these games and do better in the next one, said Jets defenceman Mark Stuart, who made his pre-season debut. We did do some good things and threw some good shots on net, it was just not quite the emotional effort that you want.Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice said that one positive was the play of Perreault, who signed a three-year deal as a free agent this summer after splitting last season between Washington and Anaheim.Mathieu Perreault is a really good player for us, said Maurice. He is going to fit really well and bring a lot five-on-five and five-on-four. I really like what he has. He can handle and move the puck and create some open space.Its good to have (Stuart) back and have some strength on that blue-line as well.Edmonton got on the board first, scoring on their first shot of the game three minutes into the first period. Junior-aged training camp invite Vladimir Tkachev continued his strong play as he seeks a contract, making a cross-ice pass to Fayne that he blasted high to the glove side past Winnipeg goalie Michael Hutchinson. It was Tkachevs third assist in three games for the Oilers.Edmonton looked to have taken a two-goal lead on the power play with six minutes left in the opening period, but Tyler Pitlicks goal wass called back due to incidental contact with the Jets goalie.dddddddddddd.Winnipeg had a glorious chance to tie the game with two minutes left in the first with several whacks during a scramble in front of the Oilers net, but couldnt manage to get one past Edmonton starter Viktor Fasth.Edmonton went up 2-0 two minutes into the second on a power-play goal as Nugent-Hopkins threaded a long saucer pass through a maze in front to hit Hall on the fly. He scored his first of the pre-season on a shot that Hutchinson got a piece of, but couldnt stop.It was great pass, its a new look on the power play for us, Hall said. It was really created by Pitlick getting open and attracting guys to him. It worked out tonight, I would have liked to get a few more chances on the power play to work on it but that will come as the pre-season wears on.The Jets finally found the back of the net themselves six-and-a-half minutes into the second as Perreault used an Oilers defender as a screen and sent a wrist shot into the net that Fasth could only wave at.Hall used a similar screen technique three minutes later as he stopped on a dime and then sent a shot through traffic and Hutchinsons legs and into the net for his second of the game. Daniel Taylor came in to replace Hutchinson in Winnipegs net after the goal.The Jets outshot the Oilers 26-15 through 40 minutes.There was no scoring in a rather uneventful third period that saw each team register only two shots apiece.The Jets return home to continue pre-season play against the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday. Edmonton next plays host to the Arizona Coyotes.Notes: It was the second pre-season meeting between the two teams, as Edmonton came from behind to record a 3-2 win last Wednesday in Winnipega€| The two teams played each other three times last season, with the Jets winning two of the three gamesa€| The Oilers made five roster moves on Monday, sending Curtis Hamilton, Kale Kessy, Iiro Pakarinen, Jason Williams and Martin Gernat to the Oklahoma City Baronsa€|. Edmonton captain Andrew Ference left Sundays game against Chicago with an arm injury after being hit by a shot, but is reportedly all right to returna€| The most serious injury for a Jets perspective remains off-season acquisition TJ Galiardi, who is still recovering from an eye injury that required surgerya€| Edmonton fans got their first look at a couple of players who are expected to improve their defence in off-season acquisitions Nikita Nikitin and Faynea€| Jets forward Patrice Cormier left the game early in the third after appearing to have a broken stick strike him near the eye. 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