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Every word Javi Gracia said on Leeds United's defeat, Ayling, dressing room words, his challenge

Javi, obviously a very difficult moment for you, what happened, how do you explain that collapse in a second half?

I cannot explain because I think we played a very good first half. It’s true that conceding the goal before the half time it changed a little bit the game. But in that half time, we tried to improve the things that in the first half we didn't do well, like try to defend better set-pieces, corner kicks, free-kick, to be more solid in that action. To keep doing the things we did really well in first half, because in the first half, we were solid defending we were in good distances to defend, being compact, creating chances, many shots, many shots on target. The feeling was good. I think it was our moment, it was the moment when we could kill the game.

After the second half was tough, very tough for us because we were conceding goals. We were not so aggressive. We were soft in many actions. After that is difficult to defend players like Palace has because in with distances they are very good. Then it was hard for us.

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