8 managers who had an instant impact at their clubs this season

Andre Schubert – Borussia Monchengladbach

Schubert’s side is the only team that Bayern Munich failed to defeat this season

Borussia Monchengladbach’s former manager, Lucien Favre, took the club from relegation battlers to a Champions League club in his first full season. He is credited for raising the game of German internationals Marco Reus, Marc Andre ter Stegen and Christoph Kramer among many others. So when Favre resigned after losing the first five league games of the season, the incoming manager. Andre Schubert, had big shoes to fill in.

At the start of Schubert’s tenure, Gladbach were at the bottom of the league table and a midtable finish would have been deemed as a good season then, but Schubert’s side exceeded everyone’s expectations.

Monchengladbach went on to claim 26 points from Schubert’s first 10 games in charge without losing a single game and this run includes an emphatic 3-1 win over Bayern Munich. At this point, they played 15 games and went from rock bottom to third in the league table.

Gladbach’s second half of the season saw them lose some games, but despite this, they were able to land a Champions League place at the end of the season thanks to some crucial wins over Hertha BSC and Bayer Leverkusen.