Why Klopp is Pochettino’s ‘black animal’

nothing less than a Chelsea vs Liverpool this Sunday on the first day of the Premier 2023-24. A great classic to start with, the reunion between the two coaches, Mauricio Pochettino and Jurgen Klopp, who know what it’s like to face each other in the Champions League finals. Between the two teams that in 2021-22 met in the finals of the FA Cup and the English League Cup and in both cases the ‘reds’ won on penalties.

He Chelsea will begin this Sunday in the official level of competition against Liverpool The ‘it’s Pochettino’ and there is no doubt that for the new coach it is ‘blue’ Klopp it is one of his great ‘black beasts’. In the 11 times the two technicians have faced each other, they have prevailed only once Pochettino. They tied four times and won 6 of them Klopp. For comparison, in Pep said Guardiola Pochettino They have met 22 times, with 4 wins for the Argentine, 5 draws and 13 wins for Pep said.

The only success of Pochettino against Klopp took place in the Premier 2017-18, on October 22, 2017, 4-1. And one of the German victories against the new coach of Chelsea It was in the 2018-19 Champions League final by 0-2.

He is new Liverpool generally, including meetings prior to the arrival of Klopp on the Anfield bench, in 16 matches Pochettino he got 3 wins and 4 draws, while he experienced 9 losses. while, Klopp against Chelsea, in 21 confrontations, 9 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses. Let’s say that, numbers in hand, Klopp they are better at it Pochettino and Chelsea that the coach is ‘blue’ the Liverpool and his German technician.

They are just that, the numbers that will be few when the ball starts rolling this Sunday at Stamford Bridge. The truth is that Klopp’s Liverpool and the Pochettino’s Chelsea conducted another confrontation: of two players in the current market, MOises Caicedo (Brighton) and Romeo Lavia (Southampton)and they both opted for Chelsea.