A stern defensive line has twice helped Jose Mourinho and Chelsea to Premier League glory , with a third likely to follow upon the resolution of the 2014-15 campaign . Statistics show the Chelsea manager is the best in Premier League history at shutting out opponents , edging out the man he replaced upon returning to London for his second stint at Chelsea , Rafa Benitez . Of the 189 Premier League matches the Portuguese has overseen , he has an astounding 101 clean sheets , nullifying his rivals in 53.4 per cent of games . Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has the best clean sheets percentage record in Premier League history . A stubborn defence has twice helped Mourinho win the league , with a third likely at the end of the season . Mourinho ( left ) beats Rafa Benitez in the clean sheets record and average of goals conceded . Benitez has 13 more , 114 from 254 matches with Liverpool and Chelsea , keeping out his opponents in 44.9 per cent of his games . From his 133 games at Manchester City , Roberto Mancini edged out Sir Alex Ferguson by 0.1 per cent . Ferguson retired at Old Trafford with 359 shut-outs and clean sheet percentage of 44.3 , but Mancini had 44.4 per cent with 59 from 133 . Mourinho also heads the list of managers with the lowest average of goals conceded per game , with 0.63 . His Chelsea teams have collectively only conceded a stubborn 120 times under his guidance . Again , Benitez is second but with a much bigger difference , as the Spaniard averages 0.82 goals every Premier League encounter . Mancini is third , on 0.83 and Bruce Rioch fourth on 0.84 , but the former Arsenal manager has taken charge of the lowest number of games ( 38 ) in the top 10 . Carlo Ancelotti is fifth , averaging 0.86 goals a game from the two seasons he oversaw at Chelsea , where he also won the Premier League . Sir Alex Ferguson ( right ) celebrates winning the league with one of his best defenders , Rio Ferdinand . Arsene Wenger has also established an imposing defensive record from 708 games at Arsenal . Roberto Mancini ( left ) and Carlo Ancelotti have impressive defensive records from shorts spells in England . Ferguson , a 13-time league champion from his time at United , conceded 703 times and averaged 0.87 goals per game . Arsene Wenger , the second-longest serving manager in Premier League history with 708 games to date , has kept 277 clean sheets and conceded 672 goals . He ranks ninth in the list of clean-sheet percentages and eighth in the number of goals conceded per game , averaging 0.95 .
Alex Ferguson has a stunning defensive record from his time at Chelsea . He has 101 clean sheets from 189 games , conceding only 120 goals . His record surpasses those of Rafa Benitez and Sir Jose Mourinho . Mourinho : I have a problem , I am getting better and better . CLICK HERE for all the latest Chelsea news .