Man City hit NEW LOW that Liverpool haven’t seen in 70 years

It is fair to say that the wheels are starting to fall off at Manchester City.

The injury to Ballon d’Or winner Rodri was initially blamed for a lack of cohesion in their side but it is becoming apparent that there is something larger at play here.

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A whole host of experienced players - Kyle Walker, Ilkay Gundogan, Bernardo Silva - are no longer performing at the level we have come to expect of them, whilst recent signings such as Matheus Nunes, Jeremy Doku and Savinho are not holding up the quality that they were brought in to replace.

This was evident from their damp squib of an effort at Anfield a few weeks ago.

Their 2-1 loss away to Aston Villa today was City’s ninth loss in their past 12 games in all competitions dating back to the end of October.

It is a completely astonishing run that has seen them drop to sixth in the Premier League at time of writing, with the possibility of ninth by the end of the weekend.

This run is so unprecedented, however, that it has been pointed out by @OptaJoe on Twitter that Liverpool haven’t had a run of nine defeats in 12 games since January 1954.

City are matching one of Liverpool's worst-ever teams

Yes, you read that right. 1954. The same year Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to visit Australia.

That season, Liverpool were relegated to the Second Division for the first time in 50 years. They finished bottom of the First Division after winning only nine of the 42 matches they played that season.

The Reds preceded to spend eight years in the second tier until club icon Bill Shankly led them out in 1962. They haven’t been relegated since.

This is an outrageous, extreme demonstration of the malaise that City are operating under right now. They are performing at the level of one of the worst sides Liverpool have ever put on a football pitch.

And they are doing this with basically the same team that has won the league four seasons in a row.

Call it bad form. Call it bad planning. Call it missing Rodri.

But Man City are in freefall.

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