However, Wissam Ben Yedder pulled two goals back before Pizarro stabbed home from a corner to protect Sevilla's year -
long unbeaten run at home.
A year
long unbeaten run at Anfield came crashing down, with three defeats in the space of a week against Swansea, Southampton and Wolves.
Not exact matches
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.
It's not the first time that we lost our first game of the season and then went on a
long unbeaten run and it won't be the first time if we are
at the top of the league during the Christmas period, only to drop out of the title race in the following months.Lets just enjoy the Good times and wait and see how it pans out.?
Our acting captain and centre back Laurent Koscielny even suggested recently that Arsenal were punished for getting a little too comfortable after a
long unbeaten run when we lost back to back games
at Everton and Man City.
So with all those players, and the confidence we have built up with our
long unbeaten run, surely we can really believe that this could be our season
at last and finally regain the Premier League trophy?
In 48 hours time Arsenal will be getting ready to
run out
at the RheinEnergieStadion to face Koln, but as the Gunners have already qualified for the next rounds I can seriously see Arsene Wenger picking an even weaker team than usual, although he will be keen to keep most of the
unbeaten second string side together as
long as possible, and of course a win will guarantee us top spot in the Group although the chances of anyone catching us is rather slim anyway...
Jose Mourinho's side are on the
longest current
unbeaten home
run in the Premier League (24 games — W14 D10 L0), with their last such defeat
at Old Trafford coming against Manchester City in September 2016 (1 - 2).
Benfica are five points clear
at the top of the league and on a
long unbeaten run that stretches back to November and the Champions League.
Salzburg have taken control of the tie thanks to a 2 - 1 victory
at Borussia Dortmund, who must end the Austrian side's
long unbeaten run to stay in the competition.
Mesut Özil's volley earned Arsenal the points against Newcastle and Napoli moved top of Serie A with a win
at Torino, before Celtic's
long unbeaten domestic
run finally came to an end.
Their
long unbeaten run may have come to an abrupt end
at Manchester City on 19 November, however Newcastle are showing they've lost none of their resilience and spirit.
The highlights of this mazy little
run of theirs, what was their
longest unbeaten run of the season, was a 1 - 1 draw with Chelsea, a 0 - 0 draw with Man Utd and a 2 - 1 win
at home to Birmingham City.
All eyes will now be on the game next Saturday
at Camp Nou against Leganés in the league; a positive result will see them equal the 38 - game record for the
longest unbeaten run of matches.
Would still look for the home side in this one because of their
long, confident,
unbeaten run, so a Man City One Goal Winning Margin is trading
at a good price of 12/5
at online bookmaker Paddy Power.
Should the Trotters, who have lost just two league matches thus far, avoid defeat
at Eastlands on Saturday, then they'll have equalled their
longest ever
unbeaten away
run in the Premier League, when ironically Man City were the fifth match Bolton managed to avoid a fifth successive lose in back in 2005.
City have been an unpredictable sort on the road so far, winning just one of their opening three away fixtures in the league: Tottenham Hotspur (0 - 0), Sunderland (1 - 0L) and Wigan Athletic (0 - 2W), while they were dumped out of the League Cup by West Brom
at The Hawthorns last month, so there are still some fragilities that need to be ironed out by manager Roberto Mancini although the team have collectively dusted themselves off admirably and will stretch their
unbeaten run to five games so
long as they get a result away
at Blackpool, who have yet to win a home fixture in the league up till now.
The
longest run they went
unbeaten last season was four, twice, and although equalling that feat will be difficult they will
at least head to the Emirates full of confidence and oozing with self belief.