Luis García during a moment of the match in Andorra / LOF
Luis García remains unfazed. He refuses to talk about finals or decisive matches, and his stance was clear once again. He took the blame for a defeat that exposed the harsh reality of a club that had aimed for direct promotion by winning all four remaining games. According to the coach, UD Las Palmas still has “many chapters yet to write,” despite the fact that only three finals remain in the season. “It’s a tough defeat that I naturally accept. The players gave everything, and this is solely and exclusively my responsibility. Above all, I want to apologize to our fans,” he said in the post-match press conference.
García insists that UD Las Palmas intended to win against Andorra and that, despite conceding five goals, they will not deviate from their path. Upcoming matches include Almería, Zaragoza at the Estadio de Gran Canaria, and Deportivo de La Coruña. The finals they needed to win have already slipped away, just like all the duels in Andorra that caused their dramatic collapse and dreadful loss. “When you take risks in one-on-one situations and lose the duel, the opponent attacks with numerical superiority, and that was the problem,” the Oviedo-born coach explained.
**Moving Forward**
With his head held high, coach Luis García attributes UD’s terrible afternoon to a lack of execution—ideas that sometimes work and sometimes don’t. “A coach must keep trying to help the players who left everything on the pitch, because they deserve great credit for competing the way they have. With very few points left, fighting for everything, close to everything. We will keep going, have no doubt,” he emphasized.
“Swallowing poison after a tough defeat,” he described a “poor second half” that condemned them for the rest of the match, along with the need for self-criticism to correct the errors made in Andorra. For García’s UD, there are three chapters left to write if they fail to qualify for the playoffs—or a couple more if, on the ropes, they manage to pull it off.
