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Barcelona are back in red-hot form and they head to Real Betis on Saturday knowing that three more wins will help them seal the La Liga title. Luis Enriques side looked set to coast to the crown until back-to-back defeats to Real Sociedad and Valencia, which sandwiched their Champions League elimination at the hands of Atletico Madrid.But since that triple setback Barca have bounced back in style, scoring 14 goals without reply against Deportivo La Coruna and Sporting Gijon, and know three more wins is sure to prove enough, live on Sky Sports 3 HD from 7.15pm. They go to Betis level on points with second-placed Atletico but top of the table courtesy of their head-to-head record, with Real Madrid still hoping to capitalise on any further setbacks a point behind the top two. Claudio Bravo says defeats were wake-up calls Barcelona goalkeeper Claudio Bravo insists his sides dramatic recent slump in form can act as the wake-up call they need in order to wrap up another title.We had a couple of setbacks. Those accidents were wake-up calls, because we now have no more room left for error, he said. Luiz Suarez scored four as Barcelona go top of La Liga after a 6-0 victory over Sporting Gijon It has helped to keep clean sheets in the last two games. It was a different story in other games and we must have confidence in ourselves.After the way they bounced back in their last two games, Barcelona will be big favourites at Betis, whom they have beaten in each of their last five meetings. Jeremy Mathieu will not be fit to take part Jeremy Mathieu will not be fit to take part despite returning to training following a knee operation while Betis trio Bruno, Juan Manuel Vargas and Didier Digard all face late tests.Betis go into the game in 13th place after a disappointing 2-0 derby defeat to Sevilla last Sunday.Defender Martin Montoya - who spent 15 years at Barcelona before being loaned out to Inter Milan and then Betis in February - insisted he would have no split loyalties ahead of the fixture. The weekly look at all the stories and headlines from the Spanish Press Montoya told his clubs official website: I owe everything to Barcelona, the club that has given me the chance to play at the highest level in the Primera Division. 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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Colin Kaepernick will get one more chance to impress coach Chip Kelly before the San Francisco 49ers announce their starting quarterback even as the debate surrounding Kaepernicks refusal to stand for the national anthem remains heated.Kelly said Tuesday that Kaepernick will play in the teams final exhibition game Thursday night in San Diego after missing the first two preseason games with a tired shoulder. This will be Kaepernicks first game since he spoke publicly over his anthem protest, saying he wont stand during the anthem because of what he described as oppression of minorities in the United States.The 49ers declined to comment on whether there will be increased security in place for the game in San Diego when Kaepernick has said he once again will sit during the national anthem.Blaine Gabbert, who is also in the running for the starting job, wont play because he has gotten 30 more plays in the preseason and Kelly does not need to evaluate him further.Kelly said he will pick a starter for the regular season opener against Los Angeles on Sept. 12 sometime after Thursday nights game. He said Kaepernick remains one of his two best quarterbacks.Despite that, Kelly said general manager Trent Baalke will make the final call on whether Kaepernick remains on the teams roster after the cut to 53 players on Saturday.Its not up to me, Kelly said. Any decisions on this team are made through everybody. I do not have control of the 53-man roster. I dont sit there and say this is the 53 were picking. Its a group effort.Kelly said he wasnt sure how many quarterbacks the team will keep for the regular season. Rookie Jeff Driskel and Christian Ponder are the other two quarterbacks on the roster.Kelly said the swirling drama around Kaepernicks protest hasnt hindered the team as it prepares for the new season despite an increased media attention since Kaepernicks stance became public on Saturday.When you talk to our players, theyre focused on the 2016 season and how good a team the San Francisco 49ers can be, Kelly said. As we said all along, we recognize his right to express his feelings, but that doesnt affect what we do from when we get here at 8:15 in the morning and leave at 8 oclock at night.Perhaps the bigger issue when it comes to Kaepernicks status on the team has been his declining play. After leading the team to the Super Bowl following the 2012 season and getting back to the NFC championship game the following year, Kaepernicks play has regressed.dddddddddddde ended up losing his starting job to Gabbert midway through last season and then underwent three operations in the offseason on his non-throwing shoulder, right thumb and left knee. He couldnt participate in the offseason program and lost weight during his rehabilitation.Kaepernick then missed nearly two weeks of training camp with a tired shoulder and was ineffective in his first appearance of the preseason last Friday night against Green Bay.Kaepernicks protest has drawn reaction from around the world from athletes, politicians and others. Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown, a civil rights activist during his career, told NFL Network that Kaepernick makes all the sense in the world and that he stands behind him 100 percent.But Brown also said he would not choose to protest in this manner.Now if you ask me, `Would I do that? No I wont, because I see it a little differently, he said. Im an American citizen, I pay my taxes, I want my equal rights but this is my country, and consequently I dont want to open up for ISIS or anybody that will take away what weve already gained.Hall of Fame basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, another activist from the 1960s, said it is more concerning that the country still faces many of the same issues that athletes like himself, Brown, boxer Muhammad Ali, and Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos protested nearly a half-century ago.What should horrify Americans is not Kaepernicks choice to remain seated during the national anthem, but that nearly 50 years after Ali was banned from boxing for his stance and Tommie Smith and John Carloss raised fists caused public ostracization and numerous death threats, we still need to call attention to the same racial inequities, Abdul-Jabbar wrote in the Washington Post on Tuesday. Failure to fix this problem is whats really un-American here.Game notes The Niners placed WE Bruce Ellington on IR with a hamstring injury and released LB Jason Fanaika to get down to the 75-man roster limit.---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '