Luis Amaranto Perea had no problem acknowledging the poor form of the ‘rojiblanco’ squad and said that “it was a tough loss with three disastrous results, but we have time to correct lots of things. We have a good enough squad to come out of this.”

The Colombian centre half didn’t want to reveal the conversation that Quique held with his players and gave his opinion that “lots of things are said in situations like that. The manager corrected mistakes that we were making. I didn’t hear him say that we’re drunk off titles, although I will say that we have to react.

“You have to make the difference in matches against opponents such as Levante. They were much better than us,” assured the Colombian.

For his part, Simão also admitted the poor state of the team and explained that “the team dropped the tension level. We played poorly. You can’t compare this to previous losses, as we played well against Espanyol, even though we lost, and we played worse against Aris and lost. Every year we go through a rut and we know the road to getting back near the top.

“We have quality and I think that we’re better than Levante, and that’s why we have to show it on the pitch. We were lacking everything. Words spoken in the dressing room stay there; I’m not going to reveal a conversation that was held inside,” Simão concluded.