The two men meet in the Premier League for the final time today.
Gavin Cooney JURGEN KLOPP AND Pep Guardiola have been the Premier League’s greatest managerial rivalry since Wenger and Ferguson, and today they joust in the Premier League for the final time, with Klopp hoping to launch one last great counter-offensive before Guardiola wins the war.
The battle lines have blurred over the years, and ideas have migrated either side of the divide. Klopp has inverted Trent Alexander-Arnold and built a more technical midfield, for instance, while Guardiola has learned to prioritise physical strength and stature.He is the last man standing at the top of the English game whose principles were developed in opposition to Guardiola, rather than alongside him.
The result put Liverpool second, six points from Antonio Conte’s relentless Chelsea side. Jurgen Klopp spoke proudly of his side’s defensive performance, given they had contrived to turn a 3-1 lead away to Bournemouth into a 4-3 defeat a couple of weeks earlier. Both sides were a work in progress, but if Liverpool looked a step ahead, City stole a march with an absurdly successful transfer window the following summer, with all of Ederson, Bernardo Silva, Aymeric Laporte, Benjamin Mendy, Danilo, and Kyle Walker arriving to play transformative roles.2017/18 – Liverpool 4-3 Manchester City
Advertisement This was Liverpool’s quintessential riposte to City: the sheer mad, suffocating power of their front three. Late goals by Bernardo and Gundogan gave Liverpool a nervy finish, but ultimately a deserved win. The Amazon Prime documentary of City’s 100-point season showed Guardiola openly fretting about Liverpool’s firepower and the Anfield atmosphere. His fears were well-founded.2018/19 – Liverpool 0-0 Manchester City
City won the league by a single point, with Liverpool finishing second with a daft total of 97 points. They came painfully close to it all being very different: 1.1 cm, to be exact, which was the distance the ball was from crossing the line at the Etihad. Go 11mm further, and Liverpool would have won the league unbeaten. Maybe they can balance that anguish with the fact Mahrez had let them off the hook earlier in the season.
The result meant Guardiola still had no Anfield win, and this is chiefly remembered for his Lear-on-the-heath style rant at Mike Dean, thrusting his fingers in the air and roaring “TWICE!” Liverpool did haul themselves level when Salah converted the penalty he won after Ruben Dias’ mistake. But then Guardiola moved Foden to the right wing, and there followed Alisson Blunderland: kicking the ball directly to City players for goals two and three, and then allowing Foden’s shot fly over him at the near-post.
Guardiola ended his maiden Anfield win by expressing hope City would win again in front of a crowd. He’s still waiting.2021/22 – Liverpool 2-2 Man City Salah set up Sadio Mane in familiar style, to which Foden responded with another Anfield goal. Then came arguably Salah’s greatest-ever Liverpool goal, slaloming and twisting by a succession of City players before slamming the ball beyond Ederson from a tight angle.
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