Garri

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Process

Marked for Garri

17 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Valladolid let it slip despite Juanmi Latasa

Juanmi Latasa had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Granada were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Both of them Juanmi Latasa's — 8.64

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.64, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Ferland Mendy at his very best

Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Valladolid.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Stanko Jurić

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Honours even between Valladolid and Granada

3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at Valladolid

Garri and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Pablo Ibañez

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Valladolid told Pablo Ibañez something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

Nil Caballero: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 3‑3 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Looking ahead

Valladolid take on the side everybody is chasing

Deportivo La Coruña arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

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The Valladolid Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Valladolid's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Valladolid has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Valladolid cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Match

A bad afternoon for Valladolid against Burgos

0‑1 to Burgos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Valladolid training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guille Bueno is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Julien Ponceau runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Valladolid

Something was said to Unai Marrero and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Nil Caballero answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Garri gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Juanmi Latasa left out for tactical reasons at Valladolid

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief