Is Ole Guardiola's trickiest opponent?

In fact, the Norwegian has proven to be one of the trickiest opponents the Catalan coach has had to face across his whole career.

Solskjaer has won four of his eight meetings with Guardiola in all competitions, which is the best win rate of any manager to face the former Barcelona boss at least five times.

Ole is also the only manager to have beaten Guardiola more times (four) than he has lost to him (three) – again, that's of those who've faced Pep in at least five matches.

Both teams head into Saturday's derby in the middle of somewhat rocky patches of form, with a win, a draw and a defeat in each of their last three games across all competitions.

That sends the statisticians delving into…