-- Both United (W6 D2) and City (W7 D1) have made eight -
game unbeaten starts to the league campaign, but it is Roberto Mancini's City who go into the game top of the Premier League.
Not exact matches
Look back to the very
start of the season, when the knives were out for the boss after Arsenal picked up just a point from the first two
games against Liverpool and Leicester, after which we went on an 18
game unbeaten run.
Messi, who
started the
game on the bench and came on around the hour mark, only to end up scoring a last minute equaliser, helped preserve the Blaugrana's now 37 -
game unbeaten streak in La Liga with a fine strike in the later stages of the
game.
The Chelsea team of Jose Mourinho went a long time
unbeaten a few years back and Man City have looked a bit unbeatable at the
start of this season and the last one, but the only side yet to lose an EPL
game so far this season is Tottenham and it just so happens that our north London rivals are heading to the Emirates to face Arsenal next.
If you look at just the EPL
games, our longest
unbeaten run is six
games from the
start of the season, but only two of those were wins.
Okay, Arsenal do need to
start winning
games, but if we are still
unbeaten on the way home from Germany, it will have been a pretty strong
start to the season in difficult circumstances.
At least Wait until we are
unbeaten in ten
games before you
start blowing the trumpet?
Ferguson certainly has a point to prove and victory over leaders Bristol City would be one way to do that, with the Robins now having lost two
games in a row, to Swindon and fellow promotion chasers Preston North End, following a long
unbeaten start to the season.
Gabriella Marshall took to the court for Manchester Thunder's first five
games, helping the team
start their season with an
unbeaten streak ahead of their
game against Surrey Storm in Manchester tonight.
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Also Jon, while we're talking about Riley, a former referee, famous for ending the Invincibles 49 match
unbeaten run by awarding a disgraceful penalty against Sol Campbell after a Wayne Rooney dive and for also giving 11 penalties in 11
games to Ruud van Nistelroy in the days when Manchester United were Arsenal's only challengers and we've not even
started talking about Mike Dean from Merseyside who told the BBC that he was a Tranmere Rovers supporter after giving several bad decisions against Everton but recently was forced to admit to being Liverpool fan.
If we want to win the PL this season we should
start realizing that there are no easy
games in the PL and definitely not against Spurs, the only
unbeaten team in the PL.
Norwich meanwhile got off to a shaky
start, but after a four nil hammering at Millwall the Canaries have gone six
games unbeaten to lift them within three points of the top 6.
We put on a good
unbeaten run, have anomalous
games like this one on the rare occasion, and then the hapless Wenger reverts to type,
starts making irrational decisions, doesn't listen to advice when things
start going wrong, and then things get progressively worse, as other teams put their foot on the accelerator, and our wheels come off.
But a lot like the first
game back from the winter break against Genoa on Monday, Juventus just didn't seem to find that same kind of spark that they had in a good portion of their December
games when this current
unbeaten run got
started.
Villa remain
unbeaten, with 10 points from their first four
games giving them their best
start to the season since the 1998 - 99 campaign, when they went on to finish sixth.
City travel to St James» Park to take on Rafa Benitez's side looking to defend their
unbeaten start to the season and their current winning streak of 17
games.
Despite making a rocky
start to the campaign, Arsenal will be hoping to brush away the early season cobwebs by finishing September
unbeaten in six
games.
Burnley
started the match in energetic style, unsurprising when they are
unbeaten in four premier league
games; the clarets were enjoying their best run in the top - flight for 40 years.
The victory takes Spurs up to third place and maintains their
unbeaten start to the Premier League season, picking up 11 points from five
games along the way.
We have had a great
start to the season,
unbeaten so far for every Premier League
game we've played.
Once on a rocky
start, the New England have righted the ship, beating Montreal 4 - 0 and extending their
unbeaten run to four straight
games.
The Blues are
unbeaten in all competitions since losing their season opener and even though they will likely be making plenty of changes to their regular
starting eleven, they will be expected to see off Forest who have lost three of their last four
games in the second tier.
The Club World Cup, the Champions League, a record
unbeaten streak and top of La Liga by one point with two
games in hand; Zinedine Zidane couldn't have dreamed of a better
start to his managerial career.
Wenger is
unbeaten in six
games against City and we turned a corner at the
start of last year with a 2 - 0 win at the Etihad that is still considered a blueprint for how to win big
games with a disciplined, counter-punching approach.
Spurs came from behind with two late goals to snatch all three points from London rivals West Ham, and maintain their
unbeaten start to the Premier League season after twelve
games.
After suffering back to back defeats at Newcastle in recent times, the visitors will have to up their
game going into this one if they're going to maintain their
unbeaten start to the season.
So their
unbeaten streak from the
start of the season has gone now and there's a bit of pressure mounting with a W3 D2 L1 record in their last six league
games.
In the other
game in Group C, Azerbaijan continued their impressive
unbeaten start to qualifying with a goalless draw away at Czech Republic.
Jose Mourinho's men will of course be looking to extend their
unbeaten start, having not lost in 20
games in all competitions this season, including 13 Premier League matches.
The win over Forest was the
start of a seven
game unbeaten run in all competitions and United weren't to lose again until the end of October.
Bolton had made a promising
start to the new league season following an early three -
game unbeaten run, but that positive streak came crashing to an end last Saturday when Arsenal dumped them to a 4 - 1 loss at The Emirates, although Owen Coyle had plenty to feel aggrieved about after the
game.
It put an end to their best ever
start to a Premier League season of eleven
games without defeat, winning seven, though they remain in fourth − a whole three points above a handful of sides − meaning that, despite relinquishing their
unbeaten record, Newcastle won't be short of motivation when they take to Old Trafford seeking to end a 49 - year wait for a win.
Tottenham Hotspur, stretched their
unbeaten run to 14, a club record, when they came away with a 1 - 1 draw from the Hawthorns, a
game they could have won, given the amount of control they established from
start to finish.
The Foxes have been
starting to put things together in the Premier League since their chance of manager and they are now five
games unbeaten and crawling their way up the table.
FOXBOROUGH, MA — The New England Revolution bested the Montreal Impact 4 - 0 at Gillette Stadium on Friday night, maintaining control from
start to finish in cold and damp conditions as they extended their
unbeaten run to four
games.
It also means the Toffees have lost successive
game following Saturday's defeat at Bournemouth — after the 63 - year - old had
started his reign with an
unbeaten seven - match run.
9 — Tottenham have
started a season
unbeaten in their first nine
games for the first time in the Premier League.
Barcelona have gone
unbeaten in in their last eight away from home in the league (W5 D3) and they
start the weekend just the one point behind leaders Real Madrid so have to step up here, especially as they have played an extra
game already over Real.
The Nerazzurri continued their
unbeaten streak during the preseason, winning their last four
games after drawing with Schalke 04 to
start the preseason in July.
And with Calum Chambers suspended, Per Mertesacker is set to form a fourth new defensive pairing against Alan Pardew's in - form visitors, who made it seven wins from nine
games when they ended Chelsea's
unbeaten start to the season last weekend.