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The wait for Brendan Rodgers to beat his mentor, José Mourinho, is over. That was after his Leicester City beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0.
Rodgers and Mourinho face off when Leicester City visit Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday night (12/20/2020), the WIB continued in the Premier League. Both teams compete for second place in this tie.
Jamie Vardy’s penalty and Toby Alderweireld’s own goal sealed Leicester’s victory. ‘The Fox’ also took second place, while Tottenham fell two places to fourth behind Everton.
There is a special achievement for Rodgers thanks to the Leicester victory. This was his first win in all competitions against Mourinho.
Previously he always failed in seven games, even when it came to Liverpool. Of the seven meetings, Rodgers drew two against Mourinho’s team and lost five times.
Rodgers and Mourinho are close friends, and they both worked together at Chelsea. Mourinho entrusted Rodgers to become Chelsea’s academy head coach in 2004, then rose to the rank of reserve team coach two years later.
[Gambas:Opta]However, their relationship was also marked by a fierce rivalry. Mourinho is arguably the Rodgers tackle who nearly led Liverpool to winning the title in 2013/2014.
Mourinho’s 2-0 loss to Chelsea gave Rodgers’ Liverpool an advantage over Manchester City. Liverpool in the end had to settle for being runners-up behind Man City.
“I’m not impressed, because I know how good it is,” Mourinho said when asked about Rodgers’ work before Tottenham vs Leicester last night.
“When I met him as a youth coach at the academy, and I joined us in the first team and we shared many moments together, I understood that he was a young man with a good future,” said Mourinho. Daily mail.
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