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Gladbach are playing in the Champions League group stage for the first time, having finished third in the Bundesliga last season, but they made a dismal start to the current campaign.

That incensed Mourinho and his banning order has made headlines since but what should concern him more was the way his team played. Very close. Win, lose, or draw this is the biggest showdown in the Premier League so far this season between last year’s Champions and Runners-Up.

It was not only the fact that the 2014 Premier League champions failed to win a trophy last time around; it was also the manner of their league title defence that concerned the club’s hierarchy.