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Atletico Madrid host Athletic at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano on Saturday night in LaLiga Round 32, with kickoff set for 9:00 p.m. local time. This is a bigger match than it first looks. Atletico enter fourth on 57 points and still need to steady the league campaign to protect their Champions League position, while Athletic sit ninth on 41 points and are still close enough to keep the European race alive. The mood around the home side is complicated. Atletico have lost four straight league matches and are coming off the 3-2 defeat at Elche, but they are also back at home where the season-long profile remains strong and where Diego Simeone is trying to sharpen the group before the

Girona heads to Mestalla on Saturday, April 25, for a La Liga Matchday 32 match with kickoff set for 12:30 PM ET. This is one of those late-season survival games that can swing the mood of an entire run-in. Valencia C.F comes in after a 1-1 draw with Mallorca and has managed only one win in its last five league matches, while Girona arrives off a 3-2 loss to Real Betis and has gone six straight league road matches without a win. The gap between them is tight enough that this feels more like a pressure match than a mid-table one. There is a little more urgency on the Valencia side because Mestalla has done most of the lifting for

Barcelona head to the Coliseum on Saturday for a La Liga Matchday 32 test that suddenly feels huge. Kickoff is set for 4:15 p.m. local time, and the stakes are obvious. Barça entered the day on 82 points at the top of the table, while Getafe sat sixth on 44 and firmly in the European conversation. After Real Madrid dropped points on Friday, Barcelona had a chance to stretch the gap to 11 with only five matches left. Getafe, meanwhile, were playing for something real too, because sixth place is not a spot they can take for granted. This is not an easy title-race road stop, though. Getafe have turned the Coliseum into a difficult, ugly place to play, and

Philadelphia ace Zack Wheeler will make his first start since last August when the Phillies bid to snap a 10-game losing streak on Saturday night against the host Atlanta Braves. The Braves have won nine of their last 10 games and beat the Phillies 5-3 on Friday to open the three-game set between the teams with the best and worst record, respectively, in the majors. The losing streak is the longest for Philadelphia since it dropped 11 in a row in 1999. Wheeler will oppose Atlanta’s Bryce Elder (3-1, 1.50 ERA) in a battle of right-handers. “Having Zack Wheeler on your 26-man roster makes you a better roster no matter what,” Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson said. “Because when he’s healthy