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Manager Head-to-Head

PG
Pep Guardiola
🇪🇸 Manchester City
WINNER
VS
JM
José Mourinho
🇵🇹 Benfica
4
stat wins
vs
1
stat wins

Profile

🇪🇸
Pep Guardiola
Spanish
VS
🇵🇹
José Mourinho
Portuguese
55 yrs
Age
63 yrs
Manchester City
Club
Benfica
Santpedor, Spain
Hometown
Setúbal, Portugal
P. Guardiola — Style

Guardiola's teams play a high-pressing positional game known as 'Juego de Posición'. He demands precise ball circulation, high pressing to win back possession quickly, and frequently uses inverted wingers, a false nine a…

J. Mourinho — Style

Mourinho is a master of defensive organisation and psychological warfare. His teams are compact, hard to beat and devastatingly efficient on the counter-attack. He reads games tactically like few others, adapts his syste…

Stats Battle

P. Guardiola
J. Mourinho
38
Trophies
26
£20.0m/yr
Salary/yr
£10.0m/yr
$150m
Net Worth
$120m
4
Clubs Mgd
12
36 yrs
Exp (yrs)
34 yrs

Personal

Married
Status
Married
Cristina Serra
Partner
Matilde Faria
3
Children
2
Catholic
Religion
Catholic
Santpedor, Spain
Hometown
Setúbal, Portugal
Verdict

Guardiola leads on trophies and salary and net worth and years of experience. Mourinho leads on clubs managed.

Full Profiles

PG
Pep Guardiola
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JM
José Mourinho
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