Manchester City's recent form, with only one win in 11 matches, has sparked discussion about where this slump ranks among the worst streaks experienced by top Premier League teams. The article delves into the concept of the 'Big Six' era, starting from the 2009/10 season, and examines Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur's integration into the group. It also compares their points totals to other teams outside the top six, highlighting the significant gap.
Manchester City currently find themselves on a run of one win in 11 matches. It’s a scarcely believable collapse from an all-conquering team who, despite not being at their very, very best before that run, had nevertheless managed to win quite a lot of games and also lose absolutely none of them before going completely to sh*t.
Even as comfortably the titchiest and least successful of the six, Spurs’ tallies for wins, points and goals scored sit closer to table-topping City than they do to the best-of-the-rest Toffees. Premier League form did at least pick up sufficiently for Liverpool to climb to seventh in the final reckoning, with some thumping great wins – most notably a 6-0 at Newcastle in April – offering a glimpse of what was to come in the following season.A famous win by the seaside. Think we all remember where we were when early goals from Abou Diaby and Emmanuel Eboue set the Gunners on their way to an against-the-odds win over Charlie Adam, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, DJ Campbell and co.
They also blew a 3-1 lead at Tottenham of all places and had that very silly 1-1 draw with Liverpool where both goals were penalties deep into added time.A 1-0 win over Man United did open up the title race with three matches to go, but more for Chelsea than Arsenal who were still six points adrift of the leaders and three adrift of the Blues despite this win.
To make it even more annoying that it doesn’t quite tip over into double-figures, it’s also an eight-match run without victory bookended by 2-1 wins over Watford and Swansea. They were so close! Defeat at Chelsea barely registers by this point, while losing at home to Wolves in a game Spurs led twice is also weirdly on brand for a fixture that has always had a curious away bias for some reason.
Okay, fair play. As highlights in miserable runs go, that’s actually pretty good. Especially as we’re talking about pre-doldrums United here as well. City were really quite good here, especially given how good a season Forest are having. Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne and Jeremy Doku were all on target in a win that while never one to right the ship entirely did at least hint at the worst being over. SPOILER: The worst was not over.Worth noting straight away that the two draws are also quite rubbish here.
For City to equal top spot in this list they’ll also need to fail to beat Leicester and West Ham. To take top spot outright they’ll need to come unstuck at home to Salford in the FA Cup and then we really will be in the realm of the bizarre.
For good measure, Spurs followed that up by ending the season on a winning note against Birmingham thanks to a stoppage-time winner from Roman Pavlyuchenko. Then they lost at Wolves, and went down 2-0 in both legs of the Champions League quarter-finals against Real Madrid. Domestically, there was more Stamford Bridge despair against both Brighton and Brentford to tee up a 3-1 defeat at Arsenal. They did manage to salvage draws at home against Nottingham Forest and Newcastle, but had nothing to show for a pair of trips to Manchester in between.
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