Music was not booming through the walls of Leeds United’s Elland Road media suite at 4pm on Sunday. Journalists gathered for post-match press conferences underneath the John Charles Stand can often hear the Whites’ eclectic music taste after positive results.
It was predictably quiet on Sunday after one of the worst second-half collapses the stadium has seen in years. Javi Gracia would go on to explain what the post-match message had been in his dressing room debrief to the players.
In what was presumably a very sombre room after the match, the head coach said lessons would have to be learned and the pain of the experience should not be forgotten.
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“What I said before: we have to learn something from today and all of us are feeling we are disappointed, but we cannot do anything else today and try to think [on] the next [and] try to learn something from today,” said Gracia.
Gracia has overseen wins against relegation battlers Southampton, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Nottingham Forest, but told his players that can beat anyone if they’re at their best. One slip away from that level and disasters like Sunday can happen.
“We have to learn when we are playing together [and] we are doing our 100 per cent we are able to beat anyone,” he said. “If we don't do it, you know what can happen.”
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