Javi Gracia: “We have started to lose in the first half”

The coach of Valencia, Javi
Grace, blamed the defeat before 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,” he said Grace, who regretted that Valencia received goals again before the 20th minute.

“The game has been uphill for us as a result of a bad first half,” insisted the coach of the Valencia, 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 been coming, some clear to score another goal,” said the coach, who admitted that the team is emotionally touched by so much setback.

“We have 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 in Villarreal.

Last week was different

“We have to improve and I am the first to convince the team that we have to improve,” he said. Grace, 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 game lost, we free ourselves and we give a better level. We do not have to reach that desperate situation ”, he concluded.