Liverpool Legend Sacked After Club Suffers Away Defeat

Liverpool legend, Sami Hyypia has been sacked by Bayer Leverkusen after his club suffered a 2-1 defeat to strugglers Hamburg in the German Bundesliga.

Friday's defeat left Leverkusen with just one win in their last 11 games and facing a battle to qualify for next season’s Champions League.

The 40-year-old former Liverpool captain, who took on his first senior coaching role last August, has been replaced by Sascha Lewandowski, head coach of Leverkusen’s junior side.

 * Hyypia sacked by Leverkusen 

Leverkusen are now in fourth place, the last Champions League spot, but they can be overtaken by Wolfsburg who face second-placed Borussia Dortmund later today.

“After careful consideration and in light of the ongoing crisis, we have concluded that only a change in the team management can bring about the much-needed shift,” said Bayer’s managing director Michael Schade.

“I thank Sami Hyypia expressly for his dedicated work over the past years. As a player and coach, he has been outstanding for us and a large part of the success in recent years has been down to him.

“But now we have arrived at a point where we unfortunately see no other way to turn things around.”

Hypia, a former Finland international, retired as a player in 2011 after two seasons at Leverkusen and having spent a decade at Liverpool.

But having steered Leverkusen to the last 16 of the Champions League, Bayer were crushed by Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16 in February and have endured a horror run of results.

Source: Legit.ng