Journalist shares Javi Gracia sack verdict at Leeds United after ‘painful’ few weeks
Leeds United manager Javi Gracia has six games to rescue his “prospects of sticking around” at the club, according to The Yorkshire Post’s Leon Wobschall.
The Whites have lost their last three league matches, conceding 13 goals in the process and scoring just three goals in return.
Such form sees them currently place 16th in the Premier League table, just a point away from the relegation zone.
“The 52-year-old is doing it tough alongside everyone else of a Leeds persuasion at the minute,” Wobschall wrote for The Yorkshire Post.
“A quietly-spoken individual who is plainly at his happiest away from media attention, the Spaniard is clearly feeling the hurt of a painful last few weeks and feels a sense of responsibility.
“He has six games to turn things around and rescue Leeds’s season and his own prospects of sticking around at Elland Road, quite possibly.”
Nervous moments
Gracia only joined the club in February of this year, but his flexible contract at Elland Road is already under threat amid a disastrous run of form.
The 5-1 and 6-1 back-to-back home losses against Crystal Palace and Liverpool respectively have piled the pressure on the Spaniard, with many fans beginning to turn against the boss who had initially shown signs of promise in his early days in the dugout.
The heavy defeats were followed by a 2-1 loss to Fulham on Saturday (22 April), furthering the doubt that many Whites fans have.
Their Premier League future is in real danger, with upcoming matches against Leicester and Bournemouth perhaps sealing their fate given how the other two clubs are also involved in the tense relegation battle.
Gracia will be desperate to put things right against the Foxes on Tuesday (25 April), with another home defeat simply not acceptable at this key period of the season.
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