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Monchengladbach coach Lucien Favre steps down

Xinhua, September 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

Monchengladbach coach Lucien Favre announced his resignation with immediate effect due to the current poor performances on Sunday.

The 57-year-old coach informed Monchengladbach's sport director Max Eberl Sunday of his surprising decision.

"We hope that we can still convince him to continue with us. With his public resignation he has created facts that flabbergasted us. We have worked with Lucien Favre four and a half years and are very sad that we part company by the way things are going," Monchengladbach president Rolf Koenigs told the club's official homepage.

It looks like Favre made a lone decision after suffering the fifth loss in as many games on Saturday against Cologne.

"We are totally convinced that Lucien is the perfect coach for Monchengladbach. Together with him we will survive the current, very difficult sportive situation," Eberl said.

However, Favre has a different view on the actual state of affairs: "After careful consideration and analysis of the current situation I have come to the conclusion that it is the best to resign from my position as the head coach at Borussia Monchengladbach," Favre said in a statement.

Favre took the reins in 2011 to form the "Foals" from a relegation team to a UEFA Champions League participant. Nevertheless, after five defeats "Gladbach" sit on the last place of the Bundesliga standings.

Further explanations by Borussia Monchengladbach will be given on Monday. Endit