Ronaldo-owned Valladolid relegated from LaLiga

Real Valladolid, the squad owned by erstwhile Brazil striker Ronaldo, were relegated from LaLiga aft a 5-1 nonaccomplishment astatine Real Betis connected Thursday.

It is the 3rd relegation successful 7 years for Valladolid nether Ronaldo, who is reportedly negotiating the merchantability of the club. The Brazil large has been loudly criticized by Valladolid's fans, who accidental helium has been absent and doesn't springiness capable attraction to the club.

Last-place Valladolid person mislaid 13 of their past 14 matches and their extremity differential is astatine antagonistic 57.

The dense nonaccomplishment capped a tumultuous play for Valladolid, which saw 2 managerial sackings -- Diego Cocca and Paulo Pezzolano -- earlier erstwhile Valladolid subordinate Álvaro Rubio took implicit successful February.

"We can't marque up excuses," Rubio said. "We didn't play up to the level of the archetypal division. We person to instrumentality work and judge that we didn't bash things well. We person to effort to get backmost up and decorativeness the play with dignity."

Valladolid were besides relegated aft the 2020-21 play and aft the 2022-23 season. They instantly returned to the archetypal part some times.

Isco was among the scorers for Betis, who moved to 5th spot with their 2nd consecutive victory.

Two relegation spots stay to beryllium decided. Second-to-last-place Leganés salvaged a 1-1 gully against Girona connected Thursday acknowledgment to a stoppage-time extremity by Munir El Haddadi.

Leganés, who played a antheral down from the 19th minute, are 2 points down 18th-placed Las Palmas and 4 points adrift of Alavés, the archetypal squad extracurricular the demotion zone.

Sevilla stayed successful 15th spot aft losing 1-0 astatine eighth-place Osasuna, who played with an other antheral from the 32nd minute. Osasuna person won 3 successful a enactment aft going winless successful 9 consecutive games. Sevilla haven't won successful six matches.

Information from The Associated Press and Reuters was utilized successful this report.