Leeds United sack second coach this season, Allardyce must save club

Sam Allardyce is the new coach of Leeds United. The Englishman replaces Javi Gracia, who has only been in charge of the group since February this year.

At the beginning of the season, Jesse March was still the trainer of the club, where Dutchmen Pascal Struijk and Crysensio Summerville are under contract.

Leeds has been in relegation trouble all season. Currently, the club is in seventeenth place in the Premier League, with as many points as number sixteen Leicester and number eighteen Nottingham Forest. Eighteenth place means direct relegation to the Championship.

In April, Leeds lost five of its seven games under Gracia. In total, the team conceded 23 goals in a month, a record in the Premier League. The 4-1 defeat on visit to Bournemouth proved fatal for the Spanish coach.

For Allardyce, it is his ninth job in the Premier League. The former England national coach’s previous job ended two years ago. Then he had to save West Bromwich Albion from relegation, which he failed to do. It marked his first relegation from the Premier League in his career.