Manchester City look away! Only ONE team has won the league after losing their first game of the season - and that's Sir Alex Ferguson's 部隊d on three occasions... so, can Pep Guardiola's 味方する 避ける the bad omens ahead of them?

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Manchester City will look 支援する in history and be 関心d: only one 首相 League club has ever won the league after losing their first game - and it's their arch-競争相手s Manchester 部隊d.

Pep Guardiola's 味方する 1-0 lost away to Tottenham in their 開始 match of the new （選挙などの）運動をする thanks to Son Heung-min's second-half 勝利者, meaning the Catalan's 味方する are already chasing the likes of 部隊d, Chelsea and Liverpool in the 主要な pack.?

There is plenty time for City's 経営者／支配人 to 解除する them 支援する into 最高の，を越す 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, but the 首相 League 傾向 示唆するs they are likely to 落ちる short 予定 to this 早期に 後退.?

Pep Guardiola's Manchester City lost on their first match as 統治するing league 支持する／優勝者s

Son Hueng-Min's (権利) goal gave Tottenham a 1-0 勝利，勝つ over City on the 開始 週末

Sir Alex Ferguson's 部隊d 現実に won the 首相 League on three occasions after losing their first game, 含むing the famous 1995 敗北・負かす to Aston 郊外住宅 where Alan Hansen 勧めるd the famous line: 'You can't 勝利，勝つ anything with kids'.

Ferguson's 二塁打 勝利者s from the year before travelled to 郊外住宅 on the 開始 day of the season with an 傷害-攻撃する，衝突する squad.?Paul Ince, Andrei Kanchelskis and 示す Hughes had been sold while?Steve Bruce, Andy Cole and Ryan Giggs were 負傷させるd and Eric Cantona still 一時停止するd for his 'kung fu' kick at 水晶 Palace earlier in the year.?

As a result, youngsters such as David Beckham, Gary Neville, Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes appeared in the Red Devils' starting line-up but goals from?Ian Taylor, 示す Draper and Dwight Yorke put 郊外住宅 into a 3-0 lead before Beckham netted a late なぐさみ.?

Only one club has won the league after losing their first game - Sir Alex Ferguson's Man 部隊d

部隊d lost the 開始 game of the 1995-96 season 3-1 to Aston 郊外住宅 before winning the 肩書を与える

On Match of the Day later that evening, Hansen made the 声明 that would elevate him to punditry fame.

Speaking about 部隊d's start to the season, he said: 'I think they've got problems. I wouldn't say they've got major problems. 明白に, three players have 出発／死d.?

'The trick is always buy when you're strong, so he needs to buy players. You can't 勝利，勝つ anything with kids.?

'You look at that line-up at Manchester 部隊d today and Aston 郊外住宅, at ４半期/4分の1-past two, when they get the team sheet, it's just going to give them a 解除する, and it'll happen every time he plays the kids. He's got to buy players, simple as that.'

Alan Hansen said Ferguson's 味方する 'would never 勝利，勝つ anything with kids' after the 郊外住宅 loss

Ferguson's youthful 味方する were league 支持する／優勝者s the に引き続いて May by five （疑いを）晴らす points

How wrong Hansen would be. Ferguson stuck with his guns and went unbeaten for the next ten games with the same 始める，決める of players, winning eight of those games. After New Year's Day, the Red Devils lost just once in the league until the end of the season and won the league by five points.?

部隊d also lost their 開始 match in their 就任の 首相 League match, 苦しむing a 2-1 敗北・負かす to Sheffield 部隊d at the start of the 1992-93 season.?

More recently, Ferguson's 部隊d were beaten 1-0 by Everton in their first match of the 2012-13 season, which was コマドリ 先頭 Persie's first game in 部隊d colours に引き続いて his shock £25million 移転 from 兵器庫 that summer.?

Marouane Fellaini, who would go on to join 部隊d, 長，率いるd home the winning goal at Goodison Park and 先頭 Persie could do little to 影響する／感情 the result from the 代用品，人s' （法廷の）裁判.?

The Red Devils also lost 1-0 to Everton at the start of the 2012-13 season, which they won

Ferguson's (left) 味方する have also drawn their first game three times before 保持するing the 肩書を与える

But the Dutchman turned his and 部隊d's season around by 得点する／非難する／２０ing 26 goals in his first season at Old Trafford, guiding the Red Devils to a 20th 首相 League 肩書を与える, though the club have not won the 肩書を与える since then.??

部隊d have also been the only team to 保持する the 首相 League 肩書を与える after failing to 勝利，勝つ their 開始 league game as 支持する／優勝者s.?

Ferguson's 味方する drew matches against Everton, Reading and Newcastle in 1999, 2007 and 2008 それぞれ, before bouncing 支援する to 解除する the 肩書を与える come May.?

Blackburn Rovers also drew their 開始 league game in 1994 - a 1-1 行き詰まらせる with Southampton - before winning the league 肩書を与える for the first time the に引き続いて May, while 兵器庫 began their dou ble-winning season in 1998 with a draw by the same scoreline away at 物陰／風下d.?

Chelsea are the most 最近の 支持する／優勝者s to lose their first game - a 3-2 home loss to Burnley

Gary Cahill and Cesc Fabregas (left) were sent off for Ch elsea in that game at Stamford 橋（渡しをする）

Chelsea are the 最新の team to lose their 開始 league match as 首相 League 支持する／優勝者s after Antonio Conte's 味方する were beaten 3-2 at home to Burnley in the summer of 2017. Gary Cahill and Cesc Fabregas were sent off for Chelsea in that game.

A Sam Vokes を締める and Stephen 区's goal 解雇する／砲火／射撃d the Clarets into a three-goal lead at half-time, while Alvaro Morata and David Luiz pulled 支援する late なぐさみs for the Blues.?

The year before, surprise 支持する／優勝者s Leicester City lost 2-1 away at 船体 City on their first game 支援する after Claudio Ranieri's 味方する had won the league at 5000-1 半端物s in 2016.??

It's not やめる a long way 支援する for Manchester City, but the omens do not look 有望な for the 統治するing 支持する／優勝者s.?

Robert Snodgrass and 船体 City （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Leicester on the 開始 day of the 2016-17 season

It's not やめる a long way 支援する for Manchester City, but the omens do not look 有望な for them