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Borussia Dortmund have fired coach Lucien Favre after a 5-1 home loss to newly promoted Stuttgart. the club has confirmed.
Pre-season title contenders Dortmund have lost their last three home games and are five points behind league leaders Bayern Munich on day 11 into the season.
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“We are all grateful to Lucien Favre for his excellent work over the last two and a half years, in which he and his team have won two runner-up championships. As a professional and as a person, Lucien Favre is beyond question,” said the Dortmund president Hans-Joachim Watzke in a statement.
Edin Terzic, Otto Addo and Sebastian Geppert will take over until the end of the season amid a tight schedule in which Dortmund will face road trips to Werder Bremen on Tuesday, Union Berlin on Friday and then 2 Bundesliga club Braunschweig in Germany. Cup on December 22.
Terzic, a youth coach who has also worked as an assistant at West Ham and Besiktas, took over for the training session on Sunday afternoon.
“It is very difficult to take this step,” said sports director Michael Zorc. “But we believe that due to negative developments lately, action is necessary.”
After just one point from their last three games against Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart, Dortmund have dropped to fifth place in the Bundesliga and are facing a fight to return to the Champions League next season.
“It was a disaster. It was bad,” Favre said after the loss. “We weren’t good at winning the ball. We made too many serious mistakes. It’s hard to explain. If you’re not good at winning the ball, and I mean the whole team, then you have a problem. Stuttgart played well,” but we were very , too poor. You can’t get away with it. “
Despite players trying to break through to the European elite like Erling Haaland, Jadon Sancho, Jude Bellingham and American international Gio Reyna, as well as established and seasoned stars like Marco Reus, Mats Hummels and Axel Witsel, Dortmund have struggled this season.
Dortmund have scored just four of their 23 league goals in the first 45 minutes and have conceded the first in their last four games, of which they only won one when Haaland scored four at half at Hertha Berlin on November 22. .
Favre was named by Dortmund in the summer of 2018 after a turbulent season at the club that saw them qualify for the Champions League thanks to goal difference.
In its first year, Dortmund led the Bundesliga for much of the season, but ultimately lost the title following a home loss to local rivals Schalke.
In the 2019-20 season, Favre’s Dortmund again finished runners-up, having challenged until a 1-0 home loss to Bayern in late May following the Bundesliga restart amid the coronavirus pandemic.
His three-year contract was to end at the end of the season.
Information from Reuters was used in this report.
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