SURPRISE La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid have little time to bask in the glory of Wednesday's Champions League win against Barcelona with a tricky trip across town to play relegation-threatened Getafe looming on Sunday.
Atletico's stunning 1-0 success at the Calderon sealed a 2-1 aggregate success for Diego Simeone's outperforming side and sent them through to the last four of Europe's elite club competition for the first time in 40 years.
They lead second-placed Barca by a point in La Liga with six games left and are within touching distance of a first domestic league triumph since a team featuring Simeone won a La Liga and King's Cup double in 1996.
Champions Barca, who are chasing a fifth title in six years and host Atletico on the final day of the season, face a similar task at 15th-placed Granada tomorrow, when Real Madrid, three points behind Atletico in third, will be confident of victory at home to 19th-placed Almeria.
Simeone is waiting on the fitness of his top scorer Diego Costa, who missed the Barca game along with injured playmaker Arda Turan after failing to shake off a thigh strain.
Wounded Barca, meanwhile, need to pick themselves up after failing to qualify for the Champions League semi-finals for what would have been a record-extending seventh consecutive season.
Their fate in La Liga is in their own hands, and six wins would secure the title for Gerardo Martino's side in the Argentine coach's first season in charge.
Atletico turn focus on La Liga
SURPRISE La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid have little time to bask in the glory of Wednesday's Champions League win against Barcelona with a tricky trip across town to play relegation-threatened Getafe looming on Sunday.
Atletico's stunning 1-0 success at the Calderon sealed a 2-1 aggregate success for Diego Simeone's outperforming side and sent them through to the last four of Europe's elite club competition for the first time in 40 years.
They lead second-placed Barca by a point in La Liga with six games left and are within touching distance of a first domestic league triumph since a team featuring Simeone won a La Liga and King's Cup double in 1996.
Champions Barca, who are chasing a fifth title in six years and host Atletico on the final day of the season, face a similar task at 15th-placed Granada tomorrow, when Real Madrid, three points behind Atletico in third, will be confident of victory at home to 19th-placed Almeria.
Simeone is waiting on the fitness of his top scorer Diego Costa, who missed the Barca game along with injured playmaker Arda Turan after failing to shake off a thigh strain.
Wounded Barca, meanwhile, need to pick themselves up after failing to qualify for the Champions League semi-finals for what would have been a record-extending seventh consecutive season.
Their fate in La Liga is in their own hands, and six wins would secure the title for Gerardo Martino's side in the Argentine coach's first season in charge.