Montpellier president announces manager’s sacking on live TV after Marseille thrashing

French shot fans were near stunned aft Montpellier president Laurent Nicollin announced that helium had made the determination to sack manager Michel Der Zakarian connected unrecorded tv astatine the weekend.

Montpellier person endured a miserable commencement to the play successful Ligue 1 and their situation deepened arsenic they were thumped 5-0 astatine location to Marseille to guarantee they remained rooted to the ft of the table.

The nighttime got disconnected to the worst imaginable commencement for Montpellier arsenic Marseille guardant Elye Wahi broke the deadlock conscionable 44 seconds into the contention astatine the Stade de la Mosson.

Goals from Amine Harit and Tottenham loanee Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg gave Marseille a three-goal pb astatine the halfway signifier earlier erstwhile Manchester United attacker Mason Greenwood and Luis Enrique joined the amusive successful the 2nd half.

The effect means rock-bottom Montpellier person picked up conscionable 4 points this play with Angers sitting supra La Paillade connected extremity quality aft 8 games.

Speaking to DAZN France successful the contiguous aftermath of the loss, Montpellier’s president took the antithetic measurement of announcing Der Zakarian’s dismissal portion unrecorded connected air.

‘We can’t alteration 25 players so, unfortunately, I’ve taken the inaugural to halt Michel tonight,’ Nicollin told DAZN’s Benoit Cheyrou and Smail Bouabdellah, who some appeared taken aback by the news.

Nicollin blamed Montpellier’s players for Der Zakarian losing his occupation and demanded an improved show astatine location to Toulouse adjacent weekend.

‘We talked successful the locker country aft the game. I told him it was implicit tonight,’ helium added.

‘I said to the players that, acknowledgment to their large job, they had fired the manager and that they request to instrumentality their responsibilities adjacent week against Toulouse.’

Der Zakarian returned to Montpellier for his 2nd reign arsenic manager successful February 2023 aft a four-year spell from 2017 to 2021.

Montpellier indispensable present statesman the hunt for a replacement to capable the void near by the Armenian, who besides represented the nine for a decennary during his playing days.

Top-of-the-table Paris Saint-Germain person enjoyed a beardown commencement successful their defence of the Ligue 1 rubric and beryllium supra second-placed Monaco connected extremity quality aft six wins from eight.

Luis Enrique’s men responded to their disappointing 1-1 gully astatine Nice with a 4-2 triumph implicit Strasbourg connected Saturday.

Senny Mayulu, Marco Asensio, Bradley Barcola and Lee Kang-In all got connected the scoresheet for PSG astatine the Parc des Princes.

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