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Manchester City vs Fulham: Premier League – BBC Sport

Manchester City vs Fulham: Premier League – BBC Sport

  • Manchester City have won each of their last 16 meetings with Fulham in all competitions, the longest winning streak any English league team has had against another in history.

  • Three of Fulham's four Premier League wins against Manchester City have come at the Etihad Stadium (2006, 2008 and 2009). However, they are winless in their last 18 games against them in the league (D3 L15) and have lost each of their last 13 in a row.

  • Manchester City have conceded a penalty in each of their last six Premier League meetings against Fulham, the longest streak by one team against another in the competition's history. The Citizens scored all six of those penalties in this run.

  • Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 49 home games in all competitions (W40, D9) since the 2-1 defeat against Brentford in November 2022. They would be the fourth English top flight team to go more than 50 years without defeat at home (85 between 1978-1981), Chelsea (74, 2006-2008 and 58, 2004-2006) and Sunderland (50, 1890-1893), after Liverpool. .

  • Man City are unbeaten in their last 29 Premier League games (W23 D6) and if they avoid defeat in this game it would be the longest unbeaten run in their league history (30 games between April 2017 and January 2018).

  • After losing their first Premier League game of the season 1-0 at Man Utd, Fulham are now unbeaten in their last five games (W3 D2). They last had a longer unbeaten streak in the competition between August and October 2010 (7).

  • Man City have drawn their last two Premier League games, despite scoring first in both games (2-2 v Arsenal, 1-1 v Newcastle). The last time they failed to win three league games in a row despite scoring first in each was in December/January 2003/04 (D2 L1).

  • Erling Haaland has scored 60 goals in just 52 games in all competitions at the Etihad Stadium for Manchester City. He is already the stadium's fourth highest goalscorer since it opened in 2003.

  • If he plays, it would be Man City defender Kyle Walker's 400th Premier League game, the 44th different player to reach the milestone. Whatever the result in this game, Walker would have the highest win rate of any player with 400 appearances in the competition (64%, level with Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville).

  • Only Dwight McNeil (21) has created more chances in the Premier League this season than Fulham's Andreas Pereira (20). Five of those chances came from Rodrigo Muniz, who has had more shots without a goal than any other player in the Premier League so far this season (5).

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