{"id":458900,"date":"2023-09-12T04:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458900"},"modified":"2023-09-12T04:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:23:02","slug":"lyon-dismiss-laurent-blanc-with-side-bottom-of-ligue-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lyon-dismiss-laurent-blanc-with-side-bottom-of-ligue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyon dismiss Laurent Blanc with side bottom of Ligue 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyon head coach Laurent Blanc has been sacked, with the club bottom of the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Laurent Blanc&#8217;s start to the season as Lyon boss:<\/p>\n<p>\u274c 2-1 vs Strasbourg<br \/>\n\u274c 4-1 vs Montpellier<br \/>\n\ud83e\udd1d 0-0 vs Nice<br \/>\n\u274c 4-1 vs PSG<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude16 Bottom of Ligue 1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udeaa The Frenchman leaves his role as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OL<\/a> manager <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lkNFPfqlGR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lkNFPfqlGR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhoScored\/status\/1701243786452435263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A 4-1 loss at home against Blanc\u2019s ex-club PSG was his final match at the helm of the team, who shared that Laurent left by &#8220;mutual agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lyon have only 1 point from 4 matches this campaign and is the worst goal difference in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The French team promoted technical director Jean-Francois Vulliez to the head coach position until they found a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Blanc (57) became Lyon\u2019s boss in October, and the team finished in 7<sup>th<\/sup> place the past season, meaning they will not play European football during the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It was his 1<sup>st<\/sup> head coach job in his home country since leaving Paris St-Germain after the 2015-16 campaign, as he worked as a manager at Al Rayyan in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Laurent triumphed with 3 Ligue 1 championships during his time in PSG and another at the helm of Bordeaux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyon head coach Laurent Blanc has been sacked, with the club bottom of the league. \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Laurent Blanc&#8217;s start to the season as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":458901,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18949,21260],"news_category":[141,14235],"gn_keywords":[21352,18951,21261],"acf":{"announce":"The French team sacked its manager after the awful start of the season.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458908,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458900\/revisions\/458908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458900"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458900"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}