Grace continues in depression – AS.com

Javi Gracia does not have the head in Valencia. His illusion disappeared with the closing of the market. He had to go and die with that idea that led him to put his position at the disposal of the club. Gracia has not risen from the blow and Valencia is a true reflection of the sadness of their coach. The ché team wanders through the championship depressing, sad. He only has a bunch of good players left who sound good individually, but as a whole they are far from being a team. Sanity is also not understood in this Valencia, capable of crawling in the first half and resuscitating and pulling self-love to sell its skin dearly. But the whole Che is not enough at this time to play a while. In Elche he did it, but it did not avoid the blush of the first act, nor the third consecutive defeat.

Valencia paid for its initial apathy against a rival who gives off passion, such as this recently promoted Elche. The franjiverde set is the antithesis of its neighbor. Almirón has managed to get his team to create and do more. The Argentine has only played three keys, but all well. He has been armored to the teeth and has only conceded one goal in the last four games. That in First is gold. Almirón built a spider web in Martínez Valero to unhinge Valencia. The coach put up five defenders and four midfielders. If someone beat Pere Milla (the only forward), he was dead. Valencia did not even try. He only saw white and green T-shirts everywhere. Gracia's team did not shoot between the three sticks until the 51st minute, a sign of their impotence.

Valencia focused so much on nothing happening in the first minutes that they forgot to play. Gracia's team was paying dearly for their initial birds, but this time their slump lasted too long. Specifically 45 minutes. Elche ran over him in the first act. The green-franj box dominated every aspect of the game. Also mental ones and those related to attitude.

Two converted lanes, such as Josan and Fidel, put the icing on the cake for an outstanding first part of Elche and a disastrous Valencia. Josan, one of the survivors of Segunda B, outwitted the two left-backs that Gracia put in and took a left-footed shot full of talent and precision. Josan showed that Lato and Gayà, from the extreme, do not connect on the left. Another recovery by Josan in three quarters left Fidel in the front of the area to deliver the second slap to Valencia. Jaume made the statue while Gracia was swallowed by the bench.

Valencia only had to pull self-love and did it in the second half. In just a few minutes, the Ché team changed its image from the first part. It wasn't difficult after the grotesque. Gayà was able to close the gap with a header, but ran into Edgar Badia's foot. Gracia's team stung a stone. Without brilliance, he put Elche in his area and stole the ball. Almirón smiled on the bench because he also likes the pose of a boxer.

Valencia continued with their face lift with two shots from Soler and Paulista who met Edgar, always attentive. Correia tried too. It was Kang-in who invented a measured pass between the lines to leave Lato alone. The side cut distances. Vallejo had the tie shortly after, but Verdú took it out on the line. Valencia did not give for more. Throwing a part in the trash pays dearly.

Javi Gracia: “I don't doubt the attitude of the team”

The Valencia coach, Javi Gracia, He attributed the defeat against Elche (2-1) to the bad first half that his team played and assured that when a game gets so against it then it is very difficult to come back, so they must improve a lot in the first halves.

“We have scored twice in two arrivals”, said Gracia, who regretted that Valencia had returned to receive goals before minute 20.

“The game has been uphill for us as a result of a bad first half,” insisted the Valencia coach, who regretted that despite the improvement in “intensity and attitude” of his team in the second it was not enough to tie.

“We have improved and the chances have come, some clear to score another goal”, commented the coach, who admitted that the team is emotionally touched by so much setback.

“We started to lose in the first half. Last week it was different, because we conceded the second goal when we were better,” he recalled in reference to the defeat at Villarreal.

“We have to improve and I am the first to convince the team that we have to improve”, said Gracia, who revealed that at halftime he told his players that a team was beating them “that wanted to win.”

“I do not doubt his attitude because later, when we see the lost game, we free ourselves and give a better level. We do not have to reach that situation of despair,” he concluded.-EFE

Almiron: “We were not expecting this great start, the boys have known each other for a very short time “

Match analysis: “The first half was very good with two good goals from the lanes. We handled the rhythm of the game well. The second half the rival came up and generated some doubts, we were entering confusion and added to fatigue and that some boys have been playing less, because we suffered. Both halves were good because in the second we knew how to suffer. We are a humble team that works as a team and working as in the second half marks us as a team and reinforces us. “

Team spine: “They are the pillar of the team, those who have risen and know the team. Gonzalo is at a great level, Badía gives the team points, Fidel has grown a lot … The rest are adapting little by little”

Great start: “We did not expect it and more as it happened because we built the team recently and with little time, they have known each other for a very short time. Having 10 points in such a start is encouraging, understanding that each game is a final and that is why I would have liked to finish with another image “.