Tuesday’s 0-7 defeat to Manchester City in the Champions League was Domenico Tedescos last assignment as the coach of Schalke 04.
the Ruhr-the club announces on its website that it has chosen to layoff the young coach, who last season led Schalke to a second place finish in the Bundesliga.
– however, We cannot disregard that the trend in this season overall has been negative, says Schalkes sporting director, Jochen Schneider.
Afklapsningen against Manchester City was Schalkes fifth defeat in a row, and in the whole, Tedesco had a hard time to get his troops up in the same rotations as in the last season.
In the Bundesliga is the club down as number 14 and only four points from the 16.-space after the last round of the game leads to playoffkampe against a team from the second row to avoid relegation.
the 33-year-old Tedesco came to Schalke in november 2017. Previously he had a short, but successful stay in the ore mountains Aue.
In the time of trouble have the helm turned to a very well-known træneransigt in the form of the veteran Huub Stevens.
Stevens has twice previously been coach at the club, among other things, in 2001, when Schalke with Ebbe Sand as the top scorer came close to winning the German championship.
The 65-year-old dutchman takes over the team on a temporary basis, together with the long-standing Schalke player Michael Büskens. The duo is provisionally in the lead for the team in Saturday’s meeting with RB Leipzig.
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