Since last October 23 at the Martínez Valero where the Valencian dressing room was aware that had hit bottom when losing 2-1 to Elche, the line that Javi Gracia's team has followed has been ascending. The ches rebuilt and achieved two draws against Getafe and Alavés that knew little by merit and won 4-1 to Real Madrid on a night starring Carlos Soler.
However, after the defeat against Atlético de Madrid classification is tough again with the black and white. Neither the upward line of the team, nor the victory against the reigning champion, nor the fact that they competed against Atlético de Madrid for the 90 minutes prevent that today Valencia is the fourteenth classified in LaLiga.
Looking at the table hurts more if you consider that the descent is only two points and that of the six pursuers behind, Osasuna and Levante have played one less game, so that fourteenth place could be even worse.
With the abyss just a couple of points The changing room has long understood that this season it would be time to 'go down to the mud' to take the club as high as possible, however, from within it it has been transmitted repeatedly that he does not like that the possibility of descent is taken as such a plausible circumstance and more taking into account that only eleven days have been played and the team was practically new, at least in terms of its idiosyncrasy. In fact, the clouds over the permanence flew over after the defeat in Elche In view of the complex matches that were ahead but the squad saved the ballot in a remarkable way.
Little more than a month later the challenge facing the Turia team is even greater. Because where Getafe, Madrid, Alavés and Atlético de Madrid were before, during the month of December they will be Eibar, Athletic, Barcelona, Seville and Granada. Words greater than dThey will define where the team is at the end of 2020, because in these moments it is so true that the abyss of descent is on his heels, as that you can afford to look up, with Europe at three points.
For now next Monday there is an appointment in Eibar that has already begun to take on a final aroma in the Valencian bosom. A victory in Ipurúa would ward off any type of ghost and allow a respite for the team in the face of the demanding December to come. The footballers are fully convinced that they can return from there with the ‘+3’, since they consider that if they play as against Getafe, Real Madrid or as the second 45 minutes in Vitoria, victory will come.