Borussia Dortmund sack manager Favre after Stuttgart defeat


FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Bundesliga - Borussia Dortmund v VfB Stuttgart - Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany - December 12, 2020 Borussia Dortmund coach Lucien Favre is interviewed before the match Pool via REUTERS/Ina Fassbender DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or quasi-video./File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund have sacked manager Lucien Favre following Saturday's 5-1 loss at home to promoted VfB Stuttgart, the German Bundesliga club said on Sunday.

The Swiss, who had taken over in 2018 after arriving from France's Nice, was seen as the ideal candidate to break Bayern Munich's stranglehold on the Bundesliga title.

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