Pep Guardiola, coach of Manchester City, and Mikel Arteta, coach of Arsenal, achieved record numbers as their competition for the English Premier League title continued.
Guardiola reached his 300th match as coach of Manchester City in the league championship, while Arteta achieved the 100th victory.
300 matches for Guardiola
Guardiola’s record in his first 300 Premier League matches looks impressive.
With 221 wins, Guardiola became the only coach to achieve more than 200 wins in that period, and the Portuguese Jose Mourinho is his closest competitor after achieving 189 wins, one match behind Guardiola’s biggest rival, the German Jurgen Klopp.
The 704 points he achieved are 70 more than Mourinho in the first 300 games with Chelsea and Manchester United, while Klopp fell again.
Sir Alex Ferguson, who won the English Premier League title 13 times with Manchester United, including five times in the first seven seasons, achieved 183 wins and collected 627 points in his first 300 matches, while Arsene Wenger completed the top five in the standings with 617 points, during which he achieved 180. A win.
Arteta cent
Wenger lost another record in the Arsenal books on Sunday, when Arteta reached his 100th win in his 169th match as Arsenal manager.
This number is ten matches less than the number of matches it took Wenger to reach his centenary win, making Arteta the fifth fastest coach in the history of the English Premier League to do so.
Guardiola tops that list after achieving 100 wins in his first 134 matches with Manchester City, while Mourinho needed 142 matches to reach the win percentage, 159 matches for Klopp and 162 for Ferguson.
Arteta became the 25th coach to achieve 100 wins in the English Premier League, and another name in Arsenal’s history came before him, the team’s legendary former coach, George Graham.
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