Every Premier League champion to lose four games in a row | OneFootball

Liverpool have become the fourth team in Premier League history to lose four consecutive games as reigning champions. 

Brentford beat them 3-2 at the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday afternoon to inflict their fifth defeat in their last six games in all competitions.

The Reds have now lost as many league games as they did all last season, while they are the first side to win their first five games and lose the next four.

It’s worth noting that no team has ever lost lost four matches in a row and successfully defended their crown. Here are the other sides Arne Slot’s men have emulated.

Every Premier League champion to lose four games in a row

Leicester City – 2016/17

A fall off was certainly expected after Leicester City completed the miracle of all miracles to win the Premier League. But they were a lot worse than expected, the loss of N’Golo Kante to Chelsea hitting them particularly hard.

Claudio Ranieri signed a new four-year contract in August but was gone before the end of the campaign. A five-game losing streak, featuring defeats to Chelsea, Southampton, Burnley, Manchester United and Swansea across January and February, spelled the end for the Italian.

Craig Shakespeare stepped in, initially as interim boss, and steadied the ship to avoid becoming the first champions to get relegated. But they still hold the record for worst title defence, coming 12th in the table.

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Liverpool – 2020/21

After completing one of the most dominant title triumphs in Premier League history and ending a 30-year wait for the trophy, Liverpool went on to have a miserable campaign the following year.

Their air of invincibility was cracked by a shock 7-2 defeat at Aston Villa, although they were still in the title conversation by the winter, which was backed up by a 7-0 win at Crystal Palace in December.

The Merseyside outfit then went winless in their next five Premier League outings, culminating in a 1-0 defeat to Burnley at Anfield which ended a 68-game unbeaten run at home.

Liverpool recovered with back-to-back wins, but worse was to come. They lost six of their next seven games over February and March, including four straight defeats to Brighton, Manchester City, Leicester and Everton and sending them down to eighth in the table.

Remarkably, they won eight of their remaining ten games, drawing the other two, to finish third and qualify for the Champions League.

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Man City – 2024/25

Pep Guardiola led his City side to an unprecedented four Premier League titles in succession, but could not follow it up with a fifth. Indeed, they didn’t even challenge last season.

City actually started the campaign in raring form, winning eight and drawing two of their opening ten matches. They proceed to win just one of their next nine, though, as the rot set in during the winter.

It began with an away losses to Bournemouth and Brighton before getting hammered at home by Spurs. Liverpool confirmed their status as frontrunners for first place with a 2-0 win at Anfield on 1 December.

City did eventually recover in the second half of the season to finish third, but not before Arsenal dismantled them with a 5-1 win at the Emirates Stadium to cement the Gunners’ place in the top two.

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Liverpool – 2025/26

For the opening month of this season, Liverpool fans dared to dream that they might successfully defend a league title for the first time in 42 years. A series of late goals helped them win all of their first five games, including a 1-0 victory over challengers Arsenal to send them top of the table.

The warning signs were there, though. The Reds were playing poorly and getting bailed out by late penalties and moments of magic. Aside from Hugo Ekitike, the new signings were failing to integrate as Slot struggled to fit his expensively assembled group of players into a structure.

That has not changed in the last month, with the team looking rudderless in successive defeats to Crystal Palace, Chelsea, Manchester United and Brentford. There was a 5-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt, but that looks like it was a bit of an anomaly.

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