More humiliation → humiliation → shock replacement in the shortest two games ever, 62 days → What happened at Leverkusen
Sep 02, 2025
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Coach Ten Hach, who aimed to make a comeback, suffered a greater disgrace. Leverkusen fired Coach Ten Hag in a surprise move on Monday (Korea time). The Dutchman quit the game 62 days after he took the helm of Leverkusen.
Leverkusen officially announced Ten Hag as its new head coach when Xavi Alonso left for Real Madrid on May 26. The term began on July 1, and the contract was two years. Coach Ten Hag has decided to lead Leverkusen until June 2027.
He led and packed only two Bundesliga matches. It is the shortest dismissal of the game in Bundesliga history. It is a humiliation that broke the previous record of five games.
Leverkusen lost 1-2 to Hoffenheim in the opening match of the Bundesliga in the 2025-2026 season at home on the 23rd of last month. In an away match against Werder Bremen on the 30th, the team had a 3-3 draw. In the Bundesliga, he only had one draw and one loss and one point.
He won one game, but it is shameful to put it on the record. The only victory was a 4-0 defeat of SG Sonenhof Grosfach, the fourth division, in the first round of the German Football Association (DFB) Pokal on the 16th of last month.
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Granit Xhaka was 'no transfer'. Coach Ten Haach, who prepared for the new season in Brazil, said at the time "The club lost three important players, and we won't lose any more. Xhaka is the leader of the team. He signed a five-year contract, and he still has three more years to go. Too important a player to sell him." But Xhaka moved to Sunderland in less than a week.
It wasn't the end. Amin Adley, Bournemouth, goalkeeper Lucas Hradecki switched horses to AS Monaco. Leverkusen instead invested 102 million euros (about 166.4 billion won), the most expensive recruit in history, and transfused three people: Malik Tillman, Jarrell Kwanza, and Elise Ben Seger. However, there was not enough time for them to make a soft landing.
In the end, he hit the wrong beat on the ground. The match against Bremen was a direct hit. Leverkusen was also outnumbered in the 18th minute of the second half when Bremen defender Niklas Stark was sent off with two warnings. He seemed to be on the verge of winning by winning a penalty kick.
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Bremen backfired. Despite the numerical strength, he succeeded in the draw by scoring a comeback goal in the 31st minute of the second half and an equalizer in the 49th minute of the extra time. Leverkusen captain Robert Andrich was furious.
He said "Everyone played for himself, everyone roamed the field at his disposal. There are too many players on our team who are only preoccupied with other things or themselves. I don't know if I've ever seen anything like that in Leverkusen. The catastrophic final appearance symbolizes the situation we are in now"It was a direct hit.
Coach Ten Hach also said he could not accept the team's collapse. But he also did not imagine a replacement 48 hours later.
Leverkusen's leadership has decided that there is no future under Ten Hag's leadership. General manager Simone Rolfes "It wasn't an easy decision. No one wanted to take this step. However, over the past few weeks, we have decided that it is impossible to create a new and successful team with this kind of configuration", he explained. Fernando Kayo also said, `I thought it was painful to part ways early in the season, but it was necessary," he stressed.
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Coach Ten Hag led Manchester United to third place in the English Premier League (EPL) in his first season, winning the League Cup and finishing second in the FA Cup, making a soft landing. However, it plunged in the 2023-2024 season.
Manchester United has never fallen below 7th in the EPL, but only ranked 8th. His 14th loss is also the most. Manchester United's humiliation was also the biggest number of runs and negative goal difference. Ahead of the FA Cup final, which is the last stage of the season, coach Ten Hag's future was effectively concluded with 'hardness'. There was a dramatic twist.
Manchester United beat Manchester City 2-1 to lift the trophy, and manager Ten Hag was revived. As a result, Coach Ten Hag presented the trophy for the second consecutive season.
However, the 2024-2025 season, the third year, is the worst from the start. Coach Ten Haq has won only three games in nine matches since the opening of the EPL, posting his worst record of 14th place (11 points). In the Europa League, he was also replaced in October last year when he fell to 21st place out of 36 teams in the league phase.
Fate in Leverkusen was harsher.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
