The Bavarian side’s manager, whose position is also under threat, hopes there are no more sackings after the Man Utd boss was let go <\/p>\n
Under-pressure Bayern Munich boss Niko Kovac expressed his sympathy following Jose Mourinho’s sacking as Manchester United manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 19-point deficit in the Premier League and a limp display at leaders Liverpool proved to be the final straw for United, who axed Mourinho after two and a half years on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kovac has also found his position under threat this season with German champions Bayern nine points off the pace in the Bundesliga.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n The Bundesliga side still sit inside the top four and have drawn Liverpool in the last 16 of the Champions League, with Kovac seemingly safe for the moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n But the 47-year-old said he feels for Mourinho and hopes not to see any more managers sacked in the near future. \u00a0<\/p>\n “I just want to say that I feel sorry about every manager sacking,” Kovac told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I can feel him, and my biggest wish is that no manager will be sacked anymore.”<\/p>\n Bayern are languishing in third position following three defeats from 15 league matches under Kovac, who is in his first season at Allianz Arena.<\/p>\n However, Kovac’s Bayern got a bit of help on Tuesday with Fortuna Dusseldorf, who earlier earned a draw with the Bavarian giants, picking up a 2-1 win over league leaders Borussia Dortmund. \u00a0<\/p>\n It was the first loss of the season for Dortmund, giving Kovac\u2019s side a chance to close the gap at the top of the table to just six points with a win over\u00a0RB Leipzig on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The club will then have just one more match ahead of the winter break, a Saturday showdown with Werder Bremen.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bavarian side’s manager, whose position is also under threat, hopes there are no more sackings after the Man Utd boss was let go Under-pressure Bayern Munich boss Niko Kovac expressed his sympathy following Jose Mourinho’s sacking as Manchester United manager.\u00a0 A 19-point deficit in the Premier League and a limp display at leaders Liverpool…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n