Identifying a problem and finding lasting solution to it has made the likes of Pep Guardiola and Jurgan Klopp of the transiting 21st century elite coaches with amazing philosophy of the game. While Jurgan Klopp suffered too many near success syndrome and became know as a best loser coming up with his style of football. Getting to Anfield after their series of turbulence, Klopp discovered the lapses is his squad and went every length to fix it. Buying Van Djik at outrageous price finally settled Liverpool high goal scoring and conceding result and today, they are now the best team in Europe currently on 18 matches on beaten run. Only Manchester United in their last game had prevented them from taking all three points.
Same is application Guardiola as Manchester City lured him to the English Premier League. He knew EPL was the toughest league where record is a thing on paper. He had to adapt fast to safe guard his reputation as well justify the huge investment City made. So, he analysed his squad and identified the central defence to be City biggest challenge and probably the technicality of his keeper. Pep wasted no time in solving that issue even if it meant breaking the UEFA financial fair play rules. John Stone was outrageous transfer in the middle of the storm for City. He went on to lift the league consecutively with a narrow escape last season.
The new season is quit different for both managers as they compete for dominance with same philosophy of the game. Klopp like last season started on good note and Pep struggled but overtook the table by January. The same coaches are at it again this season but with Pep Guardiola in a bigger mess. His back central defenders: John Stone and Aymeric Laporte are all out injured and City are trailing Liverpool by 8 points. If nothing is done by Pep to arrest this condition, he might not to be lucky to catch Liverpool like last season.
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