Manchester Metropolis already holds the document for essentially the most one-sided clashes within the historical past of the English soccer league and now has the chance to increase it.
Pep Guardiola’s males face Bournemouth on Saturday seeking to proceed their historic unbeaten run, whereas the Cherries will wish to finish nearly 40 years of distress.
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Bournemouth haven’t gained any of their 20 league video games in opposition to Man Metropolis, shedding 18 and drawing two.
It’s a streak that stretches again to 1987, when each golf equipment had been within the previous Second Division, to the current day within the Premier League.
Nonetheless, Saturday’s 3pm kick-off might present the reigning English champions with their hardest take a look at in opposition to Bournemouth so far, with an damage disaster at Metropolis and the south coast aspect nonetheless flying excessive after of a morale-boosting victory over Arsenal.
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Pep Guardiola had six gamers sidelined forward of the midweek Carabao Cup match in opposition to Tottenham, however then Manuel Akanji suffered a calf drawback within the warm-up and Savinho was stretchered off within the second half with an injured ankle.
These two be part of Ballon d’Or winner Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne, Oscar Bobb, Kyle Walker, Jack Grealish and Jeremy Doku on the injured record, leaving Guardiola with simply 13 match outfield gamers.
Bournemouth supervisor Andoni Iraola mentioned of the document: “It is 14 video games, 14 losses (within the Premier League). There’s a purpose and this 12 months they’re undefeated within the Premier League, on the high of the desk.
“It isn’t simply troublesome for Bournemouth, it is troublesome for everybody. However now we have to play them twice a season, so now we have to maximise our choices, give our greatest and see whether it is sufficient.”
Their first assembly was within the Second Division, in December 1987, and Manchester Metropolis took the primary three factors of the run with a 2-0 victory.
February 1999 was the final assembly between the Soccer League golf equipment earlier than each lastly reached the highest degree.
They lastly met 16 years later within the Premier League, in October 2015.
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Manuel Pellegrini’s workforce beat Bournemouth 5-1 due to a hat-trick from Raheem Sterling and a double from Wilfried Bony.
Glenn Murray scored the visiting workforce’s solely purpose.
That day was the beginning of a 14-match shedding streak for the south coast workforce on the high degree of English soccer.
Final season’s consequence was notably memorable for Manchester Metropolis followers: Guardiola’s workforce beat Andrei Radu in purpose by six targets and solely Luis Sinisterra managed to get on the scoreboard for the Cherries.
Man Metropolis had six completely different goalscorers, with Jeremy Doku being the primary after which topped man of the match with 4 assists.
Doku turned the ninth participant in Premier League historical past to help 4 instances in a single match, becoming a member of the likes of Harry Kane, Dennis Bergkamp and Cesc Fabregas.
He additionally turned the youngest participant to take action, aged 21 years and 161 days, and recorded 5 purpose involvements in a single Premier League match.
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Bournemouth got here shut in February 2024, once they solely misplaced 1-0 to a Phil Foden purpose within the twenty fourth minute.
Dominic Solanke nearly tied the rating with a header in direction of purpose, however Ederson was nicely positioned to save lots of the ball on the road.
Enes Unal additionally had a golden likelihood however narrowly missed with a header as Ederson climbed in direction of his proper publish.
However after beating Arsenal and holding Aston Villa to a draw of their final two video games, Bournemouth can relaxation assured of claiming one other huge scalp and at last ending their 37-year voodoo with Manchester Metropolis.
