The Manchester City manager is on the verge of breaking an unfavourable record, which just adds to his incredible career.
Manchester City‘s narrow defeat to Arsenal before the international break may have been more significant for the Gunners than for the Treble champions.
The hosts have now beaten City twice this season, with their equaliser in the Community Shield also coming via a massive deflection. These are the razor-thin margins that decide a championship race, but there is still a long way to go.
For City, Halloween has arrived early, as the Blues have suffered consecutive Premier League defeats for the first time since 2018. The loss to Wolves would have been more painful than the loss to Arsenal. City are presently two points off the top spot and may be back at the top of the table by this time next week.
You are welcome to poke the bear. Rodri is back in Pep Guardiola‘s starting lineup after missing all three games he was suspended for, including the League Cup loss to Newcastle.
City are not used to such adversity, and the international break may have come at a moment when they were eager to right their wrongs. Pep Guardiola has rarely, if ever, been through a period like this in his career.
He was defeated in his second and third games as manager of Barcelona in the start of his tenure. The Spanish giants were stunned in the first leg of their Champions League qualifying match against now-second-tier Polish club Wisla Krakow before falling to Spanish underdogs Numancia.
The Catalan now has an attic full of medals and is unaccustomed to losing. In his four years as Barcelona coach, his team only lost back-to-back La Liga games twice, both in 2009, and never thereafter.
In his whole career, he has only lost three consecutive league games once. During his time with Bayern Munich, he lost to Bayer Leverkusen, Augsburg, and Freiburg before falling to Freiburg.
His only other straight Bundesliga defeats were against Augsburg and Borussia Dortmund in 2014. Guardiola could suffer another triple league defeat when Brighton visits the Etihad on Saturday.
However, that record alone demonstrates Guardiola’s incredibly successful career, having won 11 domestic crowns. He has the chance to make history if City win their fourth straight title in May. Perhaps that is the only streak that bothers him.
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