Fach pays price for poor showings
 |  Time has finally run out for the Moenchengladbach coach Fach |
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MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany -- Borussia Moenchengladbach have sacked coach Holger Fach because of the team's recent poor performances, the German Bundesliga club said Wednesday.
Fach's sacking comes hot on the heels of a 3-0 drubbing by league minnows Bochum, a result which left the former five-time German champions in 15th place on equal points with SV Hamburg, who are in the relegation zone.
The 43-year-old had only been in charge of Moenchengladbach for 13 months but the board have lost patience.
"Nine points from ten Bundesliga matches and getting knocked out of the Cup is not good enough," explained Gladbach president Rolf Konigs.
Coaching duties in the meantime will fall to Moenchengladbach's amateur team coach Horst Koeppel, who will lead the seniors out for an acid test of his man motivation skills at home against Bayern Munich this weekend.
Fach is the third managerial casualty of the current season following Hamburg's sacking of Klaus Toppmoller ten days ago and Jupp Heynckes' forced departure from Schalke 04 in mid-September.
Ironically former Gladbach star Heynckes is now being touted for the vacant job.
