Premier League's four biggest shock results as Liverpool aim to avoid 13-year first

Premier League leaders Liverpool sojourn bottommost broadside Southampton connected Sunday aiming to debar joining the database of table-toppers who person slipped to astonishment losses against 20th-placed sides

Southampton look a daunting task connected Sunday day arsenic they invited top-of-the-table Liverpool to St Mary’s.

Saints are rock-bottom of the Premier League having taken conscionable 4 points from 11 games truthful acold this season. Russell Martin is opening to consciousness the pressure aft his broadside threw distant 5 invaluable points astatine the decease astatine location to chap promoted sides Ipswich and Leicester.

By stark contrast, Liverpool are flying nether Arne Slot, coming into the play aft the planetary interruption 5 points wide with 28 points – 24 much than their opponents. The immense bulk of shot fans volition person predicted a comfy triumph for Liverpool – even without Trent Alexander-Arnold – but determination are nary guarantees.

Statisticians Opta report that determination person lone been 39 erstwhile matches betwixt teams starting the time successful archetypal spot against those successful past presumption successful the past of the Premier League. The atrocious quality for Southampton is that nary of the past 14 specified clashes person seen the bottommost broadside travel retired victorious.

But Saints bash astatine slightest person immoderate acquisition of specified games, having held Arsenal to a 3-3 gully successful April 2023 – the past clip apical played bottommost successful the competition. If Martin is looking for immoderate much inspiration past helium tin archer his players astir the pursuing 4 matches – the lone clip the Premier League’s bottommost nine has beaten those astatine the apical since 1992.

Oldham 1-0 Manchester United

March 9, 1993

United visited Boundary Park conscionable a constituent wide of Aston Villa astatine the apical of the Premier League successful the archetypal twelvemonth of the revamped competition. It looked similar the cleanable fixture for Sir Alex Ferguson ’s broadside to proceed their momentum, but Oldham had different ideas.

Some shambolic defending from a regular country allowed Neil Adams to caput past a furious Peter Schmeichel, who had fractional travel for the cross, successful the 26th minute. United couldn’t find a effect and near gutted astatine the missed opportunity.

Happily, the effect worked retired for some sides, with Oldham going connected a superb tally of signifier to enactment up by taking 21 points from their last 12 games, portion it was United’s past decision of the run and they lifted the inaugural Premier League trophy anyway.

Wolves 1-0 Manchester United

January 17, 2004

This looked similar a implicit mismatch connected paper. Wolves were not lone bottom, they had been dreadful and came into the lucifer 35 points down apical broadside United. Ferguson’s broadside were successful large form, with six wins and a gully from their erstwhile 7 matches and would person been assured of securing 3 points.

It was not to be. Kenny Miller ended the play with 2 goals successful 25 league games for Wolves but scored against United to gain 3 points astatine Molineux. Wolves inactive finished bottommost to beryllium relegated consecutive backmost to the Championship, but they did win successful derailing United. Ferguson’s broadside mislaid their signifier wholly and ended up finishing successful third, 15 points down eventual winners Arsenal.

Tottenham 2-1 Liverpool

November 1, 2008

Spurs were amazingly bottommost of the heap astatine the commencement of November successful the 2008/09 play aft a miserable commencement nether Juande Ramos. The Spaniard was sacked soon earlier the sojourn of Liverpool, handing implicit the reins to Harry Redknapp, who instantly made an impact.

Redknapp oversaw a 2-0 triumph implicit Bolton and a singular 4-4 gully against rivals Arsenal earlier welcoming a red-hot Liverpool, who had 26 points from a imaginable 30 nether Rafa Benitez. Dirk Kuyt enactment the visiting squad up aboriginal on, earlier it each went wrong.

Jamie Carragher netted 1 of his 7 Premier League own-goals – remarkably 1 of 3 for Spurs – earlier Roman Pavlyuchenko netted the victor to instrumentality Spurs disconnected bottommost spot. They ended up climbing to eighth nether Redknapp’s absorption portion Liverpool finished second, 4 points down champions United.

Wolves 2-1 Manchester United

February 5, 2011

The 3rd clip Ferguson’s United were connected the receiving extremity of specified a decision – and this 1 was astir apt the astir remarkable. United visited Molineux connected a 29-match unbeaten tally – their champion tally of results successful the league since September 1999 – and were 5 points wide astatine the apical of the table.

They were eyeing a club-record 30th league crippled unbeaten and went up aboriginal connected done Nani earlier Wolves deed back. Mick McCarthy’s broadside responded with 2 goals from acceptable pieces earlier half-time, from George Elokobi and Kevin Doyle and held connected to grounds a important win.

Wolves managed to narrowly debar relegation astatine the extremity of the season, portion United recovered to clinch the rubric by 9 points.

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