This Sunday is the day: Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola They face each other for the last time in the Premier, which is when the coach of Liverpool At the end of the season, it will lose one of its most charismatic coaches in its history. The Premier will also be left without a rivalry, that of Klopp and Guardiola, which undoubtedly marked football in the last decade, in England, before that in Germany and on a general level. In addition, today’s game at Anfield is the classic of English football classics in the modern era, the Liverpool-Manchester City.
On top of that, this Sunday they are playing for the lead, which they have held since Saturday Arsenalwith 64 points after winning the Brentford (2-1). He Liverpoolwho won the Carabao Cup on February 25 against Chelsea (0-1), was 2nd with 63, one more than city, 3rd and achieved a historic triplet last season. History says so Guardiola They have won just once at Anfield: 1-4 in the 2020-21 Premier. In the English championship, between the same coach, 5 wins pep4 of Klopp and 6 ties. And throughout their respective careers, 12 wins for the German and 11 for the Catalan.
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It is known: no coach has beaten Pep Guardiola as many times as Jürgen Klopp, just as no one has beaten the Liverpool coach as many times as the Manchester City coach. They met for the first time on July 27, 2013, at Guardiola’s official debut at Bayern. It was in the German Super Cup and Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund won 4-2.
Maybe in the FA Cup
Perhaps this will not be the last confrontation between Guardiola and Klopp in English football, because this year they can also meet in the FA Cup (in the quarterfinals City will face Newcastle and Liverpool, Manchester United), but it is, at least at this stage, in the Premier League. In terms of the number of Premiers won, the Catalan won by a landslide: 5 achieved by Pep (2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23) and only one by German (2019-20). ). Meanwhile, heading into the 2017-18 Champions League final, Liverpool eliminated Manchester City in the quarterfinals (3-0 and 1-2, two wins for Klopp’s team).
The Premier without a doubt was not decided today at Anfield. But, emotionally, winning or not has immeasurable value. Moreover, the title does not belong to two on this occasion, but to three: also of Mikel Arteta’s Arsenalnow leading (2-1 against Brentford). Leaders for most of the last Premier, the Gunner team, who haven’t been champions of England since 2003-04, were runners-up after City of Manchester.
In a year of deep crisis, Liverpool was not at the end of the fight for the title, but instead finished 5th and therefore out of the Champions League. Now the ‘reds’ are back under their own power and have an extra motivation factor: that Klopp, who has been in charge since 2015, has the best goodbyes, as anyone who returned Liverpool to the top deserves.
Konaté, Klopp doubts
How they arrived regarding casualties Liverpool and City, Ibrahima Konatéwho was injured on Thursday in the first leg of the Europa League round of 16 match Sparta in Prague, it will be in doubt until the last moment. The plague of injuries suffered by Liverpool: Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Diogo Jota, Curtis Jones, Ryan Granvenberch, Stefan Bajcetic, Thiago Alcantara and Ben Doak will not be able to play. Guardiola He can’t count on Jack Grealish, Jeremy Doku and Matheus Nunes, doubtful.
Source: La Verdad
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