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Mind games: Guardiola, Klopp & the psychology of a title race

How and why do football managers try to get inside the heads of their opponents?

With Manchester City and Liverpool firmly established as the Premier League's dominant teams, we鈥檒l be analysing the mental battle between their managers Pep Guardiola and J眉rgen Klopp.

We鈥檒l look back at how serial winners Sir Alex Ferguson and Jos茅 Mourinho used mind games to get inside the heads of opponents.

And sports psychologist Michael Caulfield, who has worked with Gareth Southgate, Dean Smith and Steve Bruce, explains why 鈥渆very sentence counts鈥� when top coaches address the media at the business end of the season.

Panel: Sarah Mulkerrins, Nesta McGregor, Phil McNulty, Mark Ogden

Producer: Sam Sheringham

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