Pep’s idea of a crisis?

Manchester City’s defeat to Barcelona on Wednesday night in the Nou Camp might have been expected, but it means they are now on a run of four games without a win.

That’s a bit of a shock given their 10-game winning sequence to start the season and nobody at the club will be less accustomed to not tasting victory than coach Pep Guardiola.

In fact, if City are unable to beat Southampton on Sunday it will equal the longest winless streak of his top-level coaching career – the other occasion coming over seven years ago.

At both Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Guardiola enjoyed near total dominance with the slip-ups few and far between…

Worst run at Barcelona

After losing his first ever La Liga game as Barcelona coach away to Numancia and drawing the next one at home to Racing Santander, Guardiola won 19 of his next 20 league games and drew the other. The only blip came in February 2009.

After drawing at Real Betis, Barca were surprisingly beaten at home by Mauricio Pochettino’s Espanyol. Three away games in three different competitions stretched their winless run to five games for the first and only time in Guardiola’s managerial career.

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