{"id":602631,"date":"2021-10-03T06:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T10:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=602631"},"modified":"2021-10-03T06:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T10:09:40","slug":"xisco-munoz-watford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/10\/03\/xisco-munoz-watford\/","title":{"rendered":"Xisco Munoz Leaves as Watford Head Coach After Defeat to Leeds United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watford have confirmed that Xisco Munoz has left the club after 10 months in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Despite promotion to the Premier League, the Hornets&#8217; have decided to part company with the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<h2>Xisco Munoz Sacked as Watford Manager<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2139 Watford FC confirms Xisco Mu\u00f1oz has left his post as the club&#39;s Head Coach.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Watford Football Club (@WatfordFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatfordFC\/status\/1444598096697217024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Impatient Watford<\/h3>\n<p>The Pozzo family&#8217;s renowned impatience with manager&#8217;s has seemingly struck again. Although Watford currently sit in 12th place, they have decided to change manager.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watfordfc.com\/news\/club-statement-xisco-munoz\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website said:<\/a> &#8220;Watford FC confirms Xisco Mu\u00f1oz has left his post as the club&#8217;s Head Coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Board feels recent performances strongly indicate a negative trend at a time when team cohesion should be visibly improving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hornets will always be grateful to Xisco for the part he played in securing last season&#8217;s promotion and wish him well for his future career in football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Critics may argue that performances have been poor, but Munoz has taken seven points from the club&#8217;s opening seven Premier League games of the season. Stability is something that the club have been calling for, but a change in manager has again occurred at Vicarage Road.<\/p>\n<p>Munoz did find success in the Championship last season. After joining the club in December following the sacking of Vladimir Ivic, the Spaniard led the club to a second place finish, earning a return to the Premier League at the first attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, the Hornets were superb in the second tier last season. The most they conceded in a single game in the league under Munoz was two goals, and they kept 14 clean sheets during the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>However, they have struggled at the back since returning to the Premier League. They have failed to keep a clean sheet so far this season, and the next manager will be hoping to alter that quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"prLNu57xQoBSk_3b62uKmQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1343243763\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'prLNu57xQoBSk_3b62uKmQ',sig:'Lr6HnpU33TCvzOmkhv1VvZk27iX5MEHfRn41xuBoA2g=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1343243763',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watford have confirmed that Xisco Munoz has left the club after 10 months in charge. Despite promotion to the Premier League, the Hornets&#8217; have decided to part company with the Spaniard. Xisco Munoz Sacked as Watford Manager \u2139 Watford FC confirms Xisco Mu\u00f1oz has left his post as the club&#39;s Head Coach. &mdash; Watford Football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":602632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3,25],"tags":[7222],"class_list":["post-602631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","category-watford","tag-xisco-munoz"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}