<p>Serie A side <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/ac-milan">AC Milan</a> sacked coach Paulo Fonseca on Monday after only six months in the job after an inconsistent run of form left the club eighth in Italy's top football league.</p><p>Milan, who drew 1-1 at home against struggling AS Roma on Sunday, have won only two of their last seven league games.</p><p>The 19-time Italian champions sit eight points off the top four with a game in hand, and 14 points behind leaders Atalanta.</p><p>"AC Milan announces that Paulo Fonseca has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the men's first team," Milan said in a statement.</p><p>Local media reports said former Porto boss Sergio Conceicao was set to take over.</p>.Man City's poor run has made Guardiola realise how good they were.<p>Fonseca was appointed in June to replace Italian Stefano Pioli, who had helped Milan to a single league title in 2022 during his five-year tenure, finishing second and 19 points off champions Inter Milan in his last season.</p><p>Expectations were therefore going to be high from the start for former Roma coach Fonseca, who arrived after two seasons at French Ligue 1 side Lille.</p><p>But Milan got off to a slow start under the 51-year-old Portuguese, drawing 2-2 against Torino and Lazio either side of a 2-1 loss at promoted Parma.</p><p>Fonseca led Milan to their first win of the season mid-September, a 4-0 home victory over Venezia, before beating rivals Inter 2-1.</p><p>After a similarly poor start to their Champions League campaign, where they suffered back-to-back defeats by Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen, they embarked on a four-game winning streak, beating champions Real Madrid along the way.</p><p>However, Milan have won only seven of their 17 league matches this season.</p><p>Fonseca previously won the Portuguese Super Cup with Porto in 2013, the Portuguese Cup with Braga in 2015-16, as well as three consecutive Ukrainian Premier League titles with Shakhtar Donetsk between 2017 and 2019.</p>
<p>Serie A side <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/ac-milan">AC Milan</a> sacked coach Paulo Fonseca on Monday after only six months in the job after an inconsistent run of form left the club eighth in Italy's top football league.</p><p>Milan, who drew 1-1 at home against struggling AS Roma on Sunday, have won only two of their last seven league games.</p><p>The 19-time Italian champions sit eight points off the top four with a game in hand, and 14 points behind leaders Atalanta.</p><p>"AC Milan announces that Paulo Fonseca has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the men's first team," Milan said in a statement.</p><p>Local media reports said former Porto boss Sergio Conceicao was set to take over.</p>.Man City's poor run has made Guardiola realise how good they were.<p>Fonseca was appointed in June to replace Italian Stefano Pioli, who had helped Milan to a single league title in 2022 during his five-year tenure, finishing second and 19 points off champions Inter Milan in his last season.</p><p>Expectations were therefore going to be high from the start for former Roma coach Fonseca, who arrived after two seasons at French Ligue 1 side Lille.</p><p>But Milan got off to a slow start under the 51-year-old Portuguese, drawing 2-2 against Torino and Lazio either side of a 2-1 loss at promoted Parma.</p><p>Fonseca led Milan to their first win of the season mid-September, a 4-0 home victory over Venezia, before beating rivals Inter 2-1.</p><p>After a similarly poor start to their Champions League campaign, where they suffered back-to-back defeats by Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen, they embarked on a four-game winning streak, beating champions Real Madrid along the way.</p><p>However, Milan have won only seven of their 17 league matches this season.</p><p>Fonseca previously won the Portuguese Super Cup with Porto in 2013, the Portuguese Cup with Braga in 2015-16, as well as three consecutive Ukrainian Premier League titles with Shakhtar Donetsk between 2017 and 2019.</p>