{"id":471928,"date":"2023-12-05T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471928"},"modified":"2023-12-05T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T11:57:09","slug":"guardiola-explained-why-klopp-is-his-biggest-rival","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-explained-why-klopp-is-his-biggest-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola explained why Klopp is his biggest rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola has spoken about his great rivalry with Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp.<\/p>\n<p>The two have met a total of 29 times during their coaching careers to date, with the German winning 11 games against the Spaniard&#8217;s 10. Accordingly, Klopp is the coach Guardiola has lost to the most times in his career, and Pep is the manager with the most wins against the German.<\/p>\n<p>Asked who his biggest rival is at coaching level, Guardiola replied: &#8220;Jurgen Klopp. Firstly, we have met a million times already &#8211; in Dortmund and here. Second, because he has beaten me many times and it is always a challenge to face each other again and again. I respect him a lot because of the way his teams play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pep when asked who was his toughest manager he ever faced <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d528ZQiSc7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/d528ZQiSc7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saeed \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf4 (@xoogim0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xoogim0\/status\/1731757927793377292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;So it was in Dortmund, Mainz and now in Liverpool. The style is very attractive. We respect each other. Of course we have arguments and I don&#8217;t like to lose to him, but he is my biggest rival because of how many times we have met so far, how difficult it is always and what a pleasure it is when we beat them.&#8221;, Pep said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola has spoken about his great rivalry with Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp. The two have met a total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":471934,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16723,17183,17412],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17974,18121,677],"acf":{"announce":"\"We have met a million times already - in Dortmund and here\", he said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471936,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471928\/revisions\/471936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471928"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471928"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}