Football News : Ranieri sacked by slumping Inter Milan

Claudio Ranieri watches on as his Inter team slip to a 2-0 defeat to Juventus in his final game in charge.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Claudio Ranieri sacked as Inter Milan coach


• Inter have won only two of their last 13 games and exited Champions League


• Ranieri took over from Gian Piero Gasperini in September last year


• Andre Villas-Boas being linked with Inter

(CNN) -- Claudio Ranieri was sacked as coach of Inter Milan Monday after a dismal run which has seen them win only one of their last 10 Serie A matches.

The latest setback was a 2-0 defeat Sunday to second-placed Juventus, leaving them 10 points adrift of a Champions League place and fully 22 behind table-topping city rivals Milan.

Club president Massimo Moratti had hinted to reporters that Ranieri would stay until the end of the season, but a statement on the Inter official website later confirmed his departure.

"President Massimo Moratti and Internazionale wish to thank Claudio Ranieri and his staff for the professionalism and commitment they have shown through these past months," it read.

It added that youth team coach Andrea Stramaccioni had been placed in temporary charge.

Former Chelsea coach Ranieri took over from Gian Piero Gasperini after Inter made a dismal start to the Italian domestic season.

Initially they prospered under the charge of the 60-year-old former Chelsea coach but results in 2012 have been poor.

A run of just two wins in their last 13 games and defeat to Marseille in the last 16 of the Champions League sealed his fate.

Defeat to Juventus, admittedly with an improved performance, was their 12th of the Serie A season, one short of an unwanted club record dating back to the 1947-48 season.

Portugal's Andre Villas-Boas, sacked by Chelsea last month, is being linked with taking charge of a team who won the Champions League in 2010 under his compatriot Jose Mourinho.