Get the City transfer window latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox Losing on the first weekend of the league season is not something Manchester City or Pep Guardiola are particularly used to.
Sunday's lacklustre 1-0 reverse at Tottenham snapped a run of 10 consecutive opening wins for the reigning Premier League champions, while they were undefeated immediately after the big kick-off for 12 years.
Guardiola himself had 11 successive opening day victories, a streak going all the way back to the start of his Barcelona tenure in 2008-09, when a shock loss to Numancia gave little indication of the era-defining successes that were about to unfold.
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