Tevenet's Brutal Assessment: Valladolid 'Miles Off' Required Standard After Granada Hammering
Real Valladolid manager Luis García Tevenet delivers damning verdict on his team's performance following their 5-1 thrashing by Granada in Segunda División.
Valladolid gaffer Luis García Tevenet didn’t mince his words after watching his side get absolutely battered by Granada, leaving them potentially dropping into the relegation zone pending other results.
”Nowhere Near Good Enough”
The Pucela boss was in no mood to sugar-coat things following their 5-1 hammering, admitting the team is falling well short of expectations. Tevenet was brutally honest about the current state of affairs at the club.
“We’re very far from what this division demands and what this badge requires,” he confessed in his post-match press conference, looking like a man who’d just lost his wallet and phone on a night out in Soho.
The defeat has left Valladolid teetering on the brink of the drop zone to Primera RFEF, with their Segunda División status now seriously under threat. What a nightmare for a club that was playing in La Liga not too long ago.
Job on the Line?
When questioned about his future at the club, Tevenet seemed to acknowledge the writing might be on the wall:
“After the match, the president came down and he’s feeling and suffering like all of us. I’m a football man, I can understand anything might happen.”
Reading between the lines there, the gaffer clearly knows he’s on thin ice. The president popping down for a chat after shipping five goals is rarely a good sign, is it?
What Went Wrong
Tevenet pointed to several factors behind the disastrous performance:
- Early collapse after conceding the opener
- Vulnerability at set-pieces for the second goal
- Going down to ten men made possession impossible to regain
- Mental fragility once the score reached 4-0
Despite pulling one back to make it 4-1, there was never any real hope of a comeback against a superior Granada side.
Collective Responsibility
While Tevenet was quick to shoulder the blame himself, he seemed genuinely baffled by the team’s negative spiral despite what he sees as commitment in training.
“We all fail, the manager first. It’s clear there’s work being done daily. Day-to-day the lads show me they have the desire and emphasis in their work to change things, but sometimes one doesn’t know why [it’s not working].”
With Valladolid now in serious danger of a second relegation in quick succession, the board might feel a change in the dugout is needed to avoid disaster. Whoever’s in charge has got their work cut out to turn this ship around - it’s proper squeaky bum time in Pucela.