Hector Font and former Manchester United man Manucho struck in the final 15 minutes to seal victory for the La Liga outfit in County’s last pre-season outing.
After a cagey opening, Valladolid were the first to threaten, Alvaro Anton forcing Owain Fon Williams into fine save, diving away to his left.
But after 20 minutes County were ahead. Nivaldo was harshly penalised for a trip on Oli Johnson giving Michael Rose the chance to whip a dangerous free-kick into the box which Gianluca Havern headed home from 10 yards.
They should have doubled their lead two minutes later.
Johnny Mullins bundled Borja Fernandez off the ball as he tried to let it run for a goal-kick, before laying the ball back to the on-rushing Greg Tansey who bungled his shot with the goal gaping.
Nine minutes later Valladolid were level, Nivaldo rifling the ball past Williams into the top left-hand corner of the net after reacting first to a loose ball in the County box.
Williams was by far the busier of the two keepers in the second half, and he saved well from Manucho after the Angolan had broken down the left.
But Williams could do nothing as Font, and then Manucho, two minutes from time, handed Ablett his first taste of defeat.
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No disgrace to lose to a top flight Spanish side. Sounds like we gave them a good game!
May have been a good game but what about letting the fans know what is going on!!!! Another day passes without a statement from the club board about coming out of administration. Who are these people? Let the fans know what is happening to our club PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The general word is that we came out of Admin on Monday and GA expected to sign 2 new players before Sat. but one deal fell through
Todd
It may be the general WORD, but why no official statement from the club? It would be in the best interest for both club and fans that an official statement was forthcoming. I am sure that there are still a lot of fans holding back until they know what and who is running the club. Why all the secrecy? The fans have a right to know who is running the club and who the board members are. I am sure that you want to know Todd? Don't listen to rumours!!!!
I would not say that quoting both the Stockport Express and our new manager is exactly listening to rumours. The problem is they both could be proved wrong and we will probably play tomorrow under the old clubs name, and if the takeover is not compleated in a reasonable time thereafter we could be deducted the dreaded 15 points.