Sabri Lamouchi Dismissed After Tunisia’s 5–1 Loss to Sweden — Wc Games
Sabri Lamouchi is out after Tunisia’s 5–1 loss to Sweden at the wc games. The defeat came in the 2026 World Cup, and team officials moved quickly after the final whistle.
Sweden scored five times, with Yasin Ayari netting two and Alexander Isak, Viktor Gyökeres and Mattias Svanberg also on target. Tunisia had gone into the match seven places behind Sweden in FIFA’s world rankings, but the margin still made the result hard to absorb.
Lamouchi’s January appointment
Lamouchi only took charge of Tunisia in January and won one of his five games in charge. That record left little margin once the Sweden match turned into a rout, and the post-match response reflected how fast the situation moved.
Local reports in Tunisia said a handful of physical altercations broke out in the camp after the final whistle. Officials then held an emergency meeting, and the decision taken after that meeting was to dismiss Lamouchi.
Sweden’s 5–1 surge
Ayari’s two-goal night set the tone for Sweden, while Isak, Gyökeres and Svanberg added the rest. Graham Potter’s side turned the match into a one-sided finish, and Tunisia never recovered once the scoring opened up.
Lamouchi said after the defeat, “The World Cup is a major competition that does not forgive any team making serious mistakes.” That line matched the scale of the result, which left Tunisia dealing with the match itself and the fallout in camp at the same time.
Tunisia’s World Cup precedent
Tunisia has taken drastic action during a World Cup before. In 1998, Henryk Kasperczak was dismissed immediately after the team was mathematically eliminated, and Cha Bum-kun also lost his job after one game following a 5–0 defeat to the Netherlands.
That history gives Lamouchi’s departure a familiar edge for Tunisia, but the immediate reality is simpler: after one heavy loss, the man hired in January is gone, and the camp is left with another tournament reset in the middle of the competition.
