Reigning champions Liverpool made it 4 Premier League defeats in a row on Saturday with .
The Reds have additionally been crushed by Manchester United, Chelsea and Crystal Palace in current weeks and now sit seven factors behind league leaders Arsenal.
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However they don’t seem to be the one reigning Premier League champions to have misplaced 4 league video games in a row the season after profitable the title, and a few of them have been very current.
Right here’s the opposite Premier League champions to have misplaced 4 in a row through the subsequent marketing campaign, and the way they ended up…
Manchester Metropolis 2024/25
Manchester Metropolis (Photograph by Carl Recine/Getty Photographs)
The latest reigning Premier League champions to lose 4 video games in a row really got here final season.
Man Metropolis had been crushed 4 occasions in a row over November and December, struggling defeats towards Bournemouth, Brighton & Hove Albion, Manchester Metropolis, and Liverpool.
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That additionally made up a run of six defeats in eight video games as Pep Guardiola’s facet didn’t defend their crown.
They’d flip issues round considerably later within the season, nonetheless, profitable 9 of the final 12 video games and ending third within the Premier League desk.
Liverpool 2020/21
Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold (Photograph by JUSTIN SETTERFIELD/POOL/AFP through Getty Photographs)
This isn’t the primary time Liverpool have received a title after which misplaced 4 video games in a row the next season.
Again within the 2020/21 season, Jurgen Klopp’s facet had been crushed 4 occasions in a row over February, shedding to Brighton, Manchester Metropolis, Leicester and Everton.
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It was a part of a really poor run of kind for the Reds, who misplaced eight out of 12 video games amid an harm disaster.
Like Metropolis final season, they rallied in direction of the tip of the marketing campaign and secured Champions League qualification with a third-placed end.
Leicester Metropolis 2016/17
Claudio Ranieri in command of Leicester Metropolis (Photograph credit score ought to learn LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP through Getty Photographs)
The one different earlier reigning Premier League champions to lose 4 in a row the next season had been Leicester Metropolis.
The Foxes defied 5000/1 odds to elevate the Premier League trophy however misplaced key participant N’Golo Kante in the summertime and struggled, parting methods with boss Claudio Ranieri through the season.
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Leicester’s is a singular case in that they weren’t anticipated to be title winners within the first place, they usually ended up ending twelfth that season, which was one thing of successful given that they had appeared in relegation hassle at one level.