The defeat against Tottenham (0-4) has worsened Manchester City’s biggest crisis in the ‘Guardiola era’. It is also Pep’s worst streak of results since he took the bench in 2007. The numbers don’t lie: they are devastating.
FIVE. Let’s start at the beginning. There are five points that currently separate Liverpool (leader) and City. There could be eight if the Reds beat Southampton today. As if that were not enough, ‘Pool’ and City face off in the Premier on Sunday. A match that could mark an (almost) definitive gap in the fight for the title.
FIVE. There are also five consecutive defeats that Guardiola has accumulated in all competitions. They lost 2-1 with Tottenham (League Cup), 2-1 with Bournemouth (League), 4-1 with Sporting (Champions), 2-1 with Brighton (League) and 0-4 with Tottenham (League). Never in his coaching career had he lost five games in a row.
742 DAYS. This is how long City had gone without losing at the Etihad. The last team that beat the ‘sky blues’ at home was Brentford (1-2) on November 12, 2022. They break a historic, record streak of 52 games (35 in the Premier) without losing at home.
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1956. City becomes the first English champion to lose five games in a row in all competitions since Chelsea in 1956. 68 years ago. That season the ‘blues’ finished… sixteenth!!!
0-4. The defeat against Tottenham is also Guardiola’s heaviest on the bench. As City coach, he already lost 4-0 with Everton in the Premier League in 2017 and with ‘his’ Barcelona in the Champions League in 2016. At Bayern, also in the Champions League, he was eliminated after a 0-4 defeat by Real Madrid in 2014.
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2003. Tottenham’s 0-4 defeat is City’s biggest defeat since moving to the Etihad. To find such a setback, you have to go back to Arsenal’s 1-5 draw in 2003. At that time, the ‘sky blues’ were still playing at Maine Road.
55.5%. It is Manchester City’s winning percentage without Rodri. A tiny percentage compared to the 71.4% of wins that the ‘sky blues’ have with the Spaniard on the field. Curiously, since Rodri won the Ballon d’Or (October 29), the ‘cityzens’ have not won a game.
Nuno Luz, MARCA journalist, was present at the Etihad to pay tribute to Rodri after winning the Ballon d’Or
NINE. These are the defeats that Guardiola has accumulated against the ‘Spurs’ among all competitions. It is against the team that has lost the most times in his career. They have lost one less time, 8, against Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.
2006. Since then, City had not lost five games in a row in all competitions. The coach was Stuart Pearce. To find the last time they had three consecutive defeats in the Premier, we have to go back to 2016, with Pellegrini on the bench.