Al-Riyadh newspaper Manchester City flop sends Guardiola to worst losing streak of his coaching career
Manchester City flop sends Guardiola to worst losing streak of his coaching career
Manchester City suffered a fourth successive defeat in various competitions after they were beaten by Brighton on Saturday in the English Premier League Championship, making it the longest losing streak of Spaniard Pep Guardiola’s coaching career.
The British news agency (BA Media) recently highlighted Manchester City’s losing streak, as well as the series of losses Guardiola suffered in his coaching career, which we highlight in the following lines.
Tottenham 2 Manchester City 1, League Cup, 30 October
Manchester City have won the League Cup four times under Guardiola, before Tottenham denied them a fifth title this season as Timo Werner and Pep Sar scored for the Londoners in the first 25 minutes of the match and Matthews Nunes scored, but Manchester could not find a way back to reduce the deficit. City.
Bournemouth 2 Manchester City 1, Premier League, 2 November
Once again, Manchester City fell behind against hosts Bournemouth to two unanswered goals from Antoine Semeneu and Ivanilson, while Croatian defender Jusco Guardiol scored the only goal for the Celestial club, who suffered back-to-back defeats for the first time in more than a year. . It also ended a 32-match unbeaten streak for the team in the English Premier League.
Sporting Lisbon 4 Manchester City 1, Champions League, 5 November
Phil Foden scored an early goal that gave Manchester City fans hope about their chances of victory, but Sporting, led by Portuguese coach Ruben Amorim, who was now preparing to take over as coach of Manchester United, launched a fierce attack and expanded. His influence during the match.
Spotting Lisbon translated that control after Victor Jeukerres equalised, while Maxi Araujo added the Portuguese’s second goal, before Jeukerres scored again after two penalty kicks for the hosts’ third and fourth goals, doubling City’s woes in a disappointing result.
Brighton 2 Manchester City 1, Premier League, 9 November
Norwegian Erling Haaland scored the main goals for Manchester City, but substitutes Joao Pedro, who returned from injury, and Matt O’Reilly, making his first appearance in the English Premier League, turned the tables for Brighton.
In addition to this match being Guardiola’s longest losing streak as a coach, Haaland managed to score in Manchester City’s first loss in the English Premier League.
The worst series of Guardiola’s career
During his coaching tenure at Bayern Munich, Guardiola suffered back-to-back defeats against Bayer Leverkusen and Augsburg in the German league in May 2015 and against his former club Barcelona in the Spanish league in the Champions League in the German Cup semi-final against Dortmund, which was officially recorded as a draw but is the only instance of Guardiola being defeated. .
Guardiola lost twice in three consecutive matches with Manchester City, the first of which was in April 2018 when they lost 2/3 to Manchester United in the English Premier League, led by his then French star Paul Pogba, which came in between two defeats for the team. Home and away to Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the European Champions League.
It is the second time he has lost 3 matches in a row, spanning two seasons of three tournaments, as Manchester City lost to Chelsea in the Champions League final of the 2020/2021 season, before also losing to Leicester City in a Charity Shield match. His first defeat in the English Premier League came against Tottenham at the start of the 2021/2022 season, when he lost to them 0–1.
Guardiola never lost more than two matches in a row with Barcelona, ​​as he lost to Poland’s Wisla Krakow and Numancia in his second and third matches in office in 2008, and against Mallorca and Osasuna in the Spanish league in 2009. In April 2012 in England against Chelsea and in Spain against arch-rivals Real Madrid.