Sunday 18 September 2016

Werder Bremen sack coach

Berlin (AFP) – Werder Bremen sacked coach Viktor Skripnik on Sunday after the club’s third Bundesliga defeat in a row marked their worst ever start to a season.

Werder were thrashed 4-1 by Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday and are bottom of the table with zero points and 12 goals conceded after just three league games.

“We took this decision because after the match at Moenchengladbach, we no longer held the conviction that a positive turnaround was possible in the current configuration,” club sports director Frank Baumann said.

Under-23 coach Alexander Nouri will stand-in as first team coach until a successor is found for Skripnik, 46, a former Ukranian international who helped Werder to a league and cup double as a player in 2004.

Saturday’s defeat was the fourth in a row for the club, including the latest league defeat to Moenchengladbach, Werder’s elimination from the German Cup by a third division side as well as league defeats to Bayern Munich (0-6) and Augsburg (1-2).

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