José Luis Mendilíbar is no longer the coach of Sevilla, the club reported this Sunday in a statement, in which it points out that in this campaign it has accumulated a balance of two wins, five draws and four losses.
“Sevilla FC has decided this Sunday, after a meeting of its Management Committee, to dismiss José Luis Mendilibar as coach of the club after the results accumulated at this start of the season,” says the letter, which also “wants to thank the services provided by the Basque coach, whose role will be marked in the history of the entity by winning the seventh Europa League.”
The club remembers that the Basque coach has led Sevilla in 28 official matches, of which last season, when he came in the last third after the dismissal of Argentine Jorge Sampaoli, he accumulated eight wins, six draws and three losses in LaLiga. and the Europa League.
This season they have recorded a balance of two victories, four defeats and five draws, the last of these this Saturday at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium against Rayo Vallecano (2-2), which also came in the last play of the match thanks to a great header from the Moroccan Youssef En-Nesyri.
“Sevilla FC wishes the best of luck to José Luis Mendilíbar in the future,” concludes the Sevilla statement about a coach who on Sunday morning carried out his last job at the club, directing a regular recovery session after a game, but it was also a reflection due to the doubts generated by the team.
Mendilíbar, recognized in the preview of the match against Rayo that the victory would be important to face this second break for the national team matches with good feelings, but the tie has left the opposite and also the anger of the followers who filled the stadium, so the Basque coach already highlighted after the game that, if things don’t go well, the main culprit was him for being the coach.
In the programming provided by the club for this week, Monday was going to be a day of rest for the team and on Tuesday they would return to work in the sports city, which would be repeated on Wednesday and Thursday, while the week would close with Friday, Saturday and Sunday again off.
Sevilla now has a period without matches, although the next appointment will be very demanding, as it is the visit of Real Madrid to Sánchez-Pizjuán, on Saturday, October 21 (6:30 p.m.) on the tenth day of LaLiga, a match that the team will He will now face another coach, whose name the club has not yet announced.
