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Lucien Favre stands on the sidelines throughout a Bundesliga fixture.© AFP
Bundesliga membership Borussia Dortmund stated Sunday they’ve fired head coach Lucien Favre, a day after the workforce suffered their heaviest residence defeat in over a decade. Swiss coach Favre is to get replaced by his assistant-coach Edin Terzic after Dortmund crashed 5-1 to VfB Stuttgart leaving them fifth within the league 5 factors behind leaders Bayern Munich. “It is very difficult for us to take this step, but we believe that the current negative development has put our season goals in danger, and we have to take action,” stated Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc.
Favre himself had branded “a disaster” Saturday’s exhibiting, which was the squad’s heaviest residence defeat since being humbled 5-1 at residence to Bayern Munich in 2009.
Dortmund have taken only a level of their two league video games since star striker Erling Braut Haaland was dominated out till January with a hip harm.
Since taking the reins at Dortmund in 2018, Favre has twice led the membership to second place within the Bundesliga, however has usually been criticised for not managing to launch a severe title problem.
“We are all grateful to Lucien Favre for his fantastic work in the last two and a half years,” stated membership CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke.
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The membership confirmed that Favre’s assistant Edin Terzic would take the reins “until the end of the season”, starting with Dortmund’s journey to Werder Bremen on Tuesday.
Terzic, 38, beforehand labored in Dortmund’s youth system and was a part of Croatian coach Slaven Bilic’s employees at each Besiktas and West Ham United.
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