Julen Lopetegui and Sevilla split half an hour after the lost match against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League (1-4), the club reports via the official channels. Due to disappointing results, the coach had been under pressure for some time and the hopeless defeat against the Germans was the last straw for the club management. According to marca Jorge Sampaoli, who also held sway in the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in the 2016/17 season, is ready to become the new trainer of the Andalusians.
Sevilla has had a particularly disappointing season so far. The Spaniards only managed to score five points from seven games in LaLiga, putting the club in seventeenth place. Only on a visit to Espanyol, the club barely managed to win (2-3). A point was taken against Real Valladolid and Villarreal, while the matches against Osasuna, Almeria, Barcelona and Atlético Madrid were lost. Also in Europe, the record holder of the Europa League does not perform as desired.
?? Julen Lopetegui has been relieved of his duties.
— Sevilla FC (@SevilleFC_ENG) October 5, 2022
In group G of the Champions League, Manchester City lost, after which FC Copenhagen played a goalless draw. Sevilla should have beaten Dortmund to keep a real chance of wintering in the billion-dollar ball, but went down against the Germans without a chance. For the club of Karim Rekik and Kasper Dolberg, among others, the battle with Copenhagen for third place in the group remains. Lopetegui is unlikely to be without a club for long. According to Sky Sports the 56-year-old trainer is in the interest of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Lopetegui became internationally known when he became European champion with Spain Under 19 and Under 21. In 2014 he left for FC Porto, where he worked for a year and a half. The national coach of Spain followed, but when it became clear that he was holding talks with Real Madrid before the start of the 2018 World Cup, he was fired before the start of that tournament. In the Santiago Bernabéu, Lopetegui was then in the lead for only four months. In July 2019 he started working for Sevilla, with which he won the Europa League in 2020.