The unimaginable stats from Man Metropolis’s worst house defeat in over twenty years
The unimaginable stats from Man Metropolis’s worst house defeat in over twenty years

The Man Metropolis disaster runs ever deeper as Spurs inflicted a crushing 4-0 defeat on the Premier League champions at their very own floor. 

The membership have been by way of sticky patches previously and are available again from them to win the title. However this feels completely different, and the statistics again that up.

This was a historic defeat for Man Metropolis – and Pep Guardiola – in some ways, and leaves their hopes of claiming a fifth league in a row in peril.

Let’s take a look on the startling numbers and stats popping out that sport, beginning with the supervisor.

The unimaginable stats from Man Metropolis’s 4-0 defeat to Spurs

  • Pep Guardiola has now misplaced 9 video games as a supervisor in opposition to Tottenham – greater than in opposition to some other workforce. Of all groups…
  • That is the joint-biggest defeat for Guardiola as a supervisor, having additionally misplaced 4-0 to Everton in 2017. Barcelona and Actual Madrid inflicted the identical rating strains on him as Bayern Munich boss within the Champions League, in 2016 and 2014 respectively.

It’s a scenario that Guardiola has by no means needed to cope with, however for the membership it’s a historic defeat for all of the mistaken causes.

  • Manchester Metropolis are the primary reigning top-flight champions to lose 5 video games in a row in all competitions since Chelsea in March 1956. Chelsea completed sixteenth that season. Dangerous omen?
  • Man Metropolis have misplaced 5 consecutive video games in all competitions for the primary time since April 2006 beneath Stuart Pearce.
  • They’ve misplaced three straight Premier League matches for the primary time since March 2016 beneath Manuel Pellegrini.
  • That is Man Metropolis’s greatest defeat on the Etihad ever. They final misplaced a aggressive house sport by 4 or extra objectives in February 2003 when Arsenal received 5-1 at Maine Highway.
  • Man Metropolis have suffered their first defeat on the Etihad Stadium since November 2022 in opposition to Brentford within the Premier League, ending their longest ever unbeaten run at house in all competitions (52 video games). Their first 4 defeats on this run had been all away – at Tottenham (within the Carabao Cup), Bournemouth, Sporting and Brighton.
  • With simply 20 minutes performed in opposition to Spurs, that is the earliest Man Metropolis have been 2-0 down in a Premier League house sport since December 2010 (nineteenth minute v Everton).
  • Man Metropolis had 23 photographs, their most in a Premier League sport they failed to attain in since a 2-0 loss to Manchester United in March 2021.

Earlier than we wrap this up, we must always share some constructive stats from the Tottenham Hotspur facet of issues.

  • James Maddison is the primary Spurs participant to attain a Premier League objective on his birthday since Christian Eriksen in 2016, which additionally got here away in opposition to Manchester Metropolis.
  • Tottenham’s solely Premier League wins this season have come at house or in Manchester. They beat United 3-0 at Previous Trafford in September.
  • Tottenham Hotspur, who misplaced 2-1 to Ipswich earlier than the worldwide break, are the second workforce in Premier League historical past to lose at house to a promoted facet in a single match, then beat the reigning champions away within the subsequent. The opposite was Liverpool in December 2000 – in opposition to, additionally, Ipswich and Manchester United.

Now that’s a stat.

All statistics used on this article are from Opta. 

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