Real Madrid confirm the sacking of Julen
Lopetegui as manager after four and a half months in charge at the Bernabeu.
Julen succeeded
Zinedine Zidane in June but the crushing 5-1 El
Clasico defeat by Barcelona on Sunday was their fifth loss in
six games.
The 52-year-old will be "provisionally replaced" by ex-player
Santiago Solari, coach of B team Castilla.
Club statement said "there is a great disproportion between the
quality of the staff of Real Madrid" and "the results obtained to
date".
Eight of the current Real squad are on the 30-man shortlist for the 2018
Ballon d'Or.
Solari has a favourable run of fixtures for the start of his tenure,
beginning with a Spanish Cup match against Segunda Division B Group 4 side
Melilla on Wednesday.
Real then play Valladolid - sixth in La Liga - on Saturday, Group G's
bottom side Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League on 7 November, and the
mid-table Celta Vigo the following Sunday.
It is the second time Lopetegui has been sacked this year having
been dismissed by Spain two
days before the World Cup.
That sacking came after it emerged the Spanish football federation was
unaware he was in talks to take the Real job after the tournament.
Real have 14 out of a possible 30 points in the league this season and
have taken only one from their past five matches - their worst run since they
went pointless in the final five games of 2008-09 under Juande Ramos.
They are now six points above the Spanish top flight's relegation
places, and seven behind leaders Barcelona.
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