Following a poor start to the Bundesliga and a 4-1 Champions League loss at home to Shakhtar Donetsk, RB Leipzig fired coach Domenico Tedesco on Wednesday.
Despite having a depleted roster with the loss of the majority of its foreign players as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Shakhtar managed to score on four of its five shots on goal while playing in Leipzig.
When Tedesco took over in December of last year, they were in 11th place, and he helped them go up to fourth place and into the Champions League. They won their first significant trophy under his direction—the German Cup.
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But in five league games in the Bundesliga, the team has only secured one victory, which included a 4-0 setback to Eintracht Frankfurt last week.
With five points from five games in the Bundesliga and recent losses to Eintracht and Shakhtar, we believe that a management change is the best course of action to quickly turn things around, according to club CEO Oliver Mintzlaff.
The league’s top two teams, Leipzig and Freiburg, face off against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday before traveling to Real Madrid the following Wednesday.
Recall that’ The Chelsea Football Club fired Thomas Tuchel as head coach on Wednesday.
This occurs just 24 hours after the Blues’ devastating 1-0 loss in the Champions League opener on Tuesday.
The club confirmed this in a statement posted on their website.
The Premier League team announced that Chelsea’s coaching staff would be in charge of the team throughout practice and during match preparation.