Geir Jordet — a professor at Norwegian School of Sport Sciences — has explained how the alternative man-management techniques of Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel played a huge factor in the FA Cup final. Liverpool beat Chelsea from twelve-yards with little to separate the two sides, though Konstantinos Tsimikas slotted the decisive penalty past Edouard Mendy.
The Blues have now lost four successive domestic finals at Wembley, and two of which have been via penalty shootouts against the Reds since the turn of the new year. Despite Tuchel's excellent work since replacing Frank Lampard at the helm of Stamford Bridge, the German has struggled to overcome his fellow countryman from twelve-yards.
A penalty shootout is mental game of chess between either manager. Once Craig Pawson blew the whistle to signal full-time after extra-time, the psychological warfare began.
