Postecoglou sacked by Nottingham Forest after 40 days as loss to Chelsea left him winless after eight games.
After 40 days in charge, Ange Postecoglou was fired by Nottingham Forest eighteen minutes after the team’s 3-0 loss to Chelsea on Saturday.
The club posted on social media: “Nottingham Forest Football Club can confirm that after a series of disappointing results and performances, Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties as head coach with immediate effect. The club will make no further comment at this time.”
The final whistle was greeted by a thunderous chorus of jeers, and Postecoglou stood lonesomely close to the centre circle, cheering the few Forest supporters who had remained.
Pedro Neto of Chelsea scored and assisted inside three minutes of the second half at the City Ground. Despite being reduced to ten men late in the game due to Malo Gusto’s dismissal, Chelsea maintained a clean sheet and the victory moved Enzo Maresca’s team to fourth place.
“I feel very sorry. It’s always a shame,” Maresca told TNT Sports. “Unfortunately, it’s a business where you need to win games. For all of us, it’s the same consequences.”
Nottingham Forest’s captain, Ryan Yates, told BBC Sport: “We’re all extremely disappointed with how recent results are going. It’s down to us individually to look at ourselves in the mirror and do everything we can to turn it around.
“That’s the nature of football. Results have not been good enough. As players we have to take massive responsibility, collectively as a group we have to do more. We have to get on the training pitch look for the 1%, the fine margins. We owe it to the fans to put in a good performance on Thursday.”
Yates said Postecoglou had come into Forest’s dressing room to speak about the game: “He was extremely disappointed like us all. I did some running, came back in and the news was out. When you’re having such bad results it’s never a massive surprise. It’s disappointing for us as players. We can do more, we can do better. We need to dust ourselves down really quickly. Whatever steps the club take we need to be fully behind it.”