Thomas Tuchel’s penalty process compared to Jurgen Klopp

Penalties are a lottery they say, but Liverpool have beaten Chelsea twice on spot kicks this season, and after last night’s defeat there was some interesting analysis on Twitter of the way that both managers prepared their teams in the moments before the shootout.

Two wins isn’t enough to draw too many conclusions, but it’s very interesting to see the different behaviour broken down.

There seem to be multiple moments where Thomas Tuchel lost out to Jurgen Klopp in the battle to inspire his players and give them as much confidence as possible before their big moments.

It’s certainly true that there is an exceptional togetherness that breeds confidence in the Red camp.

On the other hand, as someone points out in the comments, if Chelsea had a better penalty goalkeeper who had saved a couple, nobody would be talking about any of this.

You can see the Tweets from the thread embedded here:

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