London (AFP)
With 21 consecutive victories in all competitions, Manchester City have in view the record of 23 wins set by Bayern Munich at the start of the season and could come close to it by triumphing over their runner-up and neighbor, United, on Sunday (16:30 GMT).
European tour of records in the five major championships.
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Germany: Bayern Munich with 23 wins
We thought this record was going to last, but the incredible series of the Bavarians is already in danger.
It started on February 16, 2020 with a 4-1 success in Cologne on the 22nd day of the 2019-2020 season, just before the Covid pandemic came to shake up European football, and ended on September 27 with a 4-1 defeat at Hoffenheim on Matchday 2 of the current season.
It allowed Bayern to achieve a legendary five-fold: German Championship, Cup and Supercup, Champions League and European Supercup.
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Spain: Real Madrid with 22 wins:
The longest streak in Spain belongs to Real Madrid led by Carlo Ancelotti.
It started with a bang in mid-September 2014 with a 5-1 Champions League success against Basel and was marked by a 3-1 victory in the Clasico.
Real also won the FIFA Club World Cup on December 20 before their momentum was shattered in the next match, two weeks later, by Valencia (2-1).
Despite this series, Real had to leave the league title to Barcelona and yield in the C1 semi-final against Juventus.
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England: Manchester City with 21 wins, current series
We must go back to December 15, 2020 to find traces of a match where City did not raise their arms at the final whistle, with a draw against the poorly classified West Bromwich Albion (1-1).
The Sky Blue are having an even more impressive season than Liverpool last year and have beaten almost all of their main rivals at home during this period: Chelsea (3-1), Manchester United (2-0 in the League Cup), Liverpool (4-1), Everton (3-1).
The Citizens have finished 13 of those 21 games without conceding a goal.
With 14 points ahead after 27 days, the title seems promised to them.
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France: Bordeaux and Paris with 16 victories
Under the orders of Laurent Blanc, Bordeaux was the first to string together 16 victories, straddling the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons.
A series which allowed them in particular to achieve a double championship / Coupe de la Ligue and to win the Champions Trophy.
It ended with a draw (0-0) against OM.
As dominant as it is in France, Paris SG has never done better.
He could only equal this series at the heart of the 2015/2016 season.
It is Lille, one of its pet peeves, who cut it short with a 0-0 during the 26th day of Ligue 1.
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Italy: AC Milan with 15 wins
It is the oldest national record of the five big championships since it is necessary to go back to 1992 to find 15 victories in a row, straddling two seasons, by AC Milan of Fabio Capello.
The Rossoneri had won the championship those two years.
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Elsewhere in Europe, Ajax:
Out of the five major championships, the benchmark is Johann Cruyff's Ajax Amsterdam record in 1970/1971 with 26 straight wins, including double confrontations against Marseille and Arsenal on the road to one of his three European Cups. champions clubs.
But the "official" record in Europe, according to the Guinness Book of Records, belongs to the Welsh team of New Saints who chained 27 successes in 2016, scoring the trifle of 88 goals in passing, for only 13 conceded.
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