St. Louis City SC has fired manager Olof Mellberg after a disappointing start to the season where he led the team to just two wins in 15 matches. David Critchley, previously managing CITY2, will serve as interim coach. The club emphasized that the decision was based on performance metrics and the necessity of reinstating the team's effective style of play. St. Louis currently sits in 14th place in the Western Conference and has struggled offensively, scoring merely 11 goals, prompting the coaching change.
The decision to part ways with Olof goes beyond just results. We've analyzed the team's performance across a number of factors, including the need to execute against a style of play that led to the team's initial success.
As a club, we have certain standards we need to meet and believe a coaching change was necessary to improve our overall performance and return to a winning culture.
We understood it would take time for Olof to become acclimated to Major League Soccer and certainly acknowledge injuries made his job difficult, but we simply could not continue down this path.
Critchley has been with the club since 2021, initially working in St. Louis' academy and coaching the organization's U.
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