The 18th round of the English Premier League is witnessing three encounters that can be described as "coach fights" par excellence, most notably the derby tomorrow between Tottenham and his guest Chelsea, who will face his former Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, the article from his post four years ago completely and completely.
The match is of a special nature, as Frank Lampard, "Mourning" of Mourinho and Chelsea captain on the pitch during his reign, is now leading the helm of the "Blues" from the bench as his peer.
The Portuguese seeks to reach one of the first four places before the end of the year from the gate of his former team.
The 56-year-old has played seven games (five in the Premier League and two in the Champions League) since he received the technical management of the team a month ago, won five of them, and lost in two. The Special One has since raised the team from 14th to fifth, three points behind its neighbor, Chelsea.
On the other hand, Lampard will not miss himself renewing his superiority over his "teacher", after he defeated him in the English League Cup 8-7 on penalties, after a 2-2 draw in 2018, when Lampard was coach of the County and Mourinho coaches for Manchester United.
In a match no less important today as well, Leicester City will be the defending champion of Manchester City in the past two seasons, and both teams are thinking only of winning, in order not to increase the gap with leaders Liverpool, and the dialogue will be exciting between coaches Brian Rodgers (Leicester) and Guardiola (City) .
The "cities" are 14 points behind the "reds", while the 2016 champion is 10 points away.
And it will be an opportunity for the two teams to take advantage of the absence of Liverpool from the stage, being busy with the Club World Cup, where he (Reds) today faces the Brazilian Flamingo in the final. City have lost four times in 17 league games so far, a sum total of their lives throughout the last season.
Unlike City, Lester has a special season. His Irish coach, Rodgers, seems to have known the secret of the right combination, and how to invest his players in the best possible way.
Lester is counting on veteran league top scorer Jaime Vardi, who has 16 goals in 17 games.
Today, attention is focused on Everton and his guest Arsenal, who are playing their last game, led by Scottish temporary coaches Duncan Ferguson and Swedish Freddy Youngberg Tualia.
The two teams had sacked the original coaches, Portuguese Marco Silva (Everton) and Spain's Unai Emery (Arsenal), due to the poor results they suffered. And yesterday, it was officially agreed on the Spanish Arteta coach for Arsenal, and the Italian Carlo Ancelotti for Everton, but the coaches will not be in the match due to lack of time.
Rumors had strongly circulated yesterday about an "initial agreement" for Ancelotti to take over as Everton coach before this was confirmed, and the same is true of the Spaniard Arteta who agreed to train Arsenal. Everton are 16th with 18 points, compared to 22 points for Arsenal 10.
In the rest of the matches, Man United play against its host Watford, Bournemouth with Burnley, Aston Villa with Southampton, Brighton with Sheffield United, Newcastle with Crystal Palace, and Norwich with Wolverhampton.
Coaches matches
- A private dialogue between Tottenham coach Mourinho and his "student" coach
Chelsea Lampard.
- Special conflict between Brian Rodgers, coach of Leicester and Man City coach
Guardiola.
- The last game of the temporary coaches in Arsenal (Leonberg)
And Everton (Duncan Ferguson).