City set club record for unbeaten run in top-flight | OneFootball

City’s 2-1 victory over Wolves on Sunday saw Pep Guardiola’s side reach 31 Premier League matches unbeaten, setting a new Club record.

Our last defeat in the top tier of English football came at Aston Villa last December, with Guardiola’s men going 23 consecutive games without losing to claim last term’s title before six wins and two draws to begin this season.

It sees Guardiola go beyond the Club record of 30 matches his team set between April 2017 and January 2018 and in doing so becomes the fourth longest unbeaten run in Premier League history.

The run is the joint-sixth best ever recorded in English top-flight history, with Arsenal’s 49 matches without loss in 2003 and 2004 the longest ever.

We have gone 34 Premier League games at the Etihad Stadium since our last loss against Brentford back in November 2022.

That is the sixth longest home unbeaten run in the Premier League era, while four more matches without defeat will take us into third in that metric.

Chelsea currently possess that record, going 86 matches unbeaten at Stamford Bridge between 2004 and 2008.

As for away matches, we have played 15 times since that loss at Aston Villa, while the record run stretches to 29 matches by Manchester United between 2020 and 2021.

In total, we have won 25 of the 31 matches and scored an incredible 79 goals.

Ederson has played the most for the champions during that time, being on the pitch for 2248 minutes although Bernardo Silva has made the most appearances with 29.

To no-one’s surprise, double Golden Boot winner Erling Haaland is our leading scorer in that period with 23 strikes.

The unbeaten run is just the latest incredible achievement for Guardiola, who is the second most successful manager in the Premier League’s history with six titles.

He has taken charge of 311 games in the division, winning 230 of them and claiming 733 points.

When he hit 300 games in April, Guardiola was by far the highest achieving manager over that amount of matches.

He had amassed 70 points more than any other Premier League manager ever had in their first 300 matches, winning 221 games compared to 189 for Jose Mourinho, 188 for Jurgen Klopp, 183 for Alex Ferguson and 180 for Arsene Wenger.

Since his first season in senior management at Barcelona, Guardiola has won 12 league titles. That is twice as many as any other manager has achieved across Europe’s top five leagues in that time span.

Our four 90+ point hauls under Guardiola is more than any other side in the Premier League has managed in the league’s entire history, with Liverpool and Chelsea both hitting that mark three times.

Guardiola’s team have now started this new campaign excellently, winning six and drawing two as we chase an 11th title in our history.