Ahead of his first-ever managerial meeting with Pep Guardiola, in a game that also happened to be his first match as a manager, Mauricio Pochettino says that he stunned his Espanyol players. It was January 2009 and his "desperate" team were 18th in the table and five points from safety, having just changed manager. They now faced a Spanish cup derby against a rampant Barcelona, who were 12 points clear at the top of the table and already suggesting that something historic like a treble was going to happen. If all that wasn't daunting enough, the new manager had a very different idea about how they should approach the game after just one day with the squad.
Pochettino, Guardiola similarities set up epic Tottenham vs. Man City clash
