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Star managers’ head-to-head stats
- Updated: August 11, 2016
This season the Premier League is packed with big-name managers with big reputations – but how do their head-to-head records compare?
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has compared the 2016/17 campaign to a “world championship of managers” and with Jose Mourinho at Manchester United, Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and Antonio Conte with Chelsea joining Wenger, Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp, Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino and Claudio Ranieri of reigning champions Leicester, there are mouth-watering contests ahead.
Here, we take a look at how those managers have got on when they’ve come face-to-face in the past…
Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho will get his first taste of the Manchester derby at the start of September – and the fixture will see the Portuguese clash with his old rival Pep Guardiola for the first time in the Premier League. The pair have had a running feud for a number of years, but Guardiola has the better record, winning seven and losing just three of their 16 meetings. Mourinho, though, would point out one of his wins helped his Inter Milan side into a Champions League final, another was in a Copa del Rey final, and the third all-but wrapped up a La Liga title triumph.
There aren’t many managers who have such a superior record over Mourinho, although Jurgen Klopp also has three wins from his five meetings with the Manchester United boss. Mourinho has won eight out of 10 matches with Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino and eight out of 15 clashes with Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger. There’s nothing to split his record against Claudio Ranieri and Antonio Conte, though.
Arsene Wenger
Clashes between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho are always intriguing affairs – unfortunately for the Arsenal man, he’s come out on the wrong end of the results on more …
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