The incredible stats from Man City’s worst home defeat in over two decades

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·23 November 2024

The incredible stats from Man City’s worst home defeat in over two decades

The Man City crisis runs ever deeper as Spurs inflicted a crushing 4-0 defeat on the Premier League champions at their own ground.

The club have been through sticky patches in the past and come back from them to win the title. But this feels different, and the statistics back that up.

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

Let’s have a look at the startling numbers and stats as their 52-game unbeaten run at home came to an end, starting with the manager.

The incredible stats from Man City’s 4-0 defeat to Spurs

Pep Guardiola has now lost nine games as a manager against Tottenham – more than against any other team. Of all teams…
This is the joint-biggest defeat for Guardiola as a manager, having also lost 4-0 to Everton in 2017. Barcelona and Real Madrid inflicted the same score lines on him as Bayern Munich boss in the Champions League, in 2016 and 2014 respectively.

It’s a situation that Guardiola has never had to deal with, but for the club it’s a historic defeat for all the wrong reasons.

Manchester City are the first reigning top-flight champions to lose five games in a row in all competitions since Chelsea in March 1956. Chelsea finished 16th that season. Bad omen?
Man City have lost five consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since April 2006 under Stuart Pearce.
They have lost three straight Premier League matches for the first time since March 2016 under Manuel Pellegrini.
This is Man City’s biggest defeat at the Etihad ever. They last lost a competitive home game by four or more goals in February 2003 when Arsenal won 5-1 at Maine Road.

Spurs have won more matches against Pep Guardiola's Man City than any other side 👀
– Sabtu, 23 November 2024

Man City have suffered their first defeat at the Etihad Stadium since November 2022 against Brentford in the Premier League, ending their longest ever unbeaten run at home in all competitions (52 games). Their first four defeats in this run were all away – at Tottenham (in the Carabao Cup), Bournemouth, Sporting and Brighton.
With just 20 minutes played against Spurs, this is the earliest Man City have been 2-0 down in a Premier League home game since December 2010 (19th minute v Everton).
Man City had 23 shots, their most in a Premier League game they failed to score in since a 2-0 loss to Manchester United in March 2021.

Before we wrap this up, we should share some positive stats from the Tottenham Hotspur side of things.

James Maddison is the first Spurs player to score a Premier League goal on his birthday since Christian Eriksen in 2016, which also came away against Manchester City.
Tottenham’s only Premier League wins this season have come at home or in Manchester. They beat United 3-0 at Old Trafford in September.
Tottenham Hotspur, who lost 2-1 to Ipswich before the international break, are the second team in Premier League history to lose at home to a promoted side in one match, then beat the reigning champions away in the next. The other was Liverpool in December 2000 – against, also, Ipswich and Manchester United.

Now that’s a stat.

All statistics used in this article are from Opta.

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