Valencia has fired trainer Javi Gracia, the Spanish club announced through official channels. The 2-3 defeat of los Che against Barcelona appears to have been the proverbial straw at Jasper Cillessen’s employer. Salvador González Marco, also known as Voro, takes over from Gracia on an interim basis.
Valencia failed to win the last six games, slowly but surely getting closer to the danger zone in LaLiga. Valencia took the lead in their own stadium against Barcelona, but in the end the Catalans turned the game around and won 2-3 after a tight final phase. It has been reason for Valencia to put Gracia on the street, in order to create a shock effect with a view to the last four games.
The lead of number fourteen Valencia on Huesca and Elche, who are eighteen and nineteen below the line, is still six points. Gracia has been at the helm of Valencia since last summer, having previously worked for Watford, Rubin Kazan, Málaga, Osasuna and Almería, among others. Voro has already taken on the task of interim trainer at Valencia three times, last year. Then Albert Celades was fired a few weeks before the end of the competition, after taking over from Marcelino earlier in that season.
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