Pep Guardiola leapt on to the St Mary’s turf jubilantly to join the celebrations, in the knowledge his team had become the first in English top-flight history to reach 100 points in a single campaign.
City made a habit of breaking new statistical ground while turning what had promised to be a captivating title race into a procession – although a similarly dominant performance from Liverpool this time around means some of those best marks will be under threat as and when the Premier League resumes.
Here, we have a look at some of the most astonishing numbers from what proved to be the first of back-to-back title triumphs.
100 – City passed Chelsea’s previous Premier League best of 95 points by beating Brighton and Hove Albion 3-1 in their penultimate match. Adjusting Liverpool’s efforts in the 1978-79 season to three points for a win, the overall record stood at 98 - a number City matched in 2018-19 when pipping Jurgen Klopp’s Reds to retain the title by a point.
100 – Despite winning six previous league titles across spells at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Guardiola reached 100 points in a season for the first time in his career - surpassing 99 with Barca in 2009-10.
32 – No English team has won more games in a top-flight season than City in 2017-18. Their 16 away wins also represented a competition best. Liverpool’s tilt at the latter mark might be ruled out by any Premier League restart at neutral venues this term, although six wins from their remaining nine games would take them to 33 victories.
18 – Beginning with a 2-1 win at Bournemouth on August 26, 2017, and concluded by a 1-0 triumph at Newcastle on December 27, 2017, City set a Premier League best of 18 consecutive victories. Liverpool matched this streak before losing 3-0 at Watford in February.
106 – Jesus’ goal concluded the most prolific team season in Premier League history. Tottenham’s 1962-63 Division One winners scored 111 times.
5 – City won the Premier League with five games to spare, equalling the efforts of Manchester United (1907-08 and 2000-01) and Everton (1984-85). This is a record Klopp’s men were on course to surpass when this season’s action paused.
1 – Guardiola was the first Spanish manager to win the Premier League.
19 – The gap between first and second in the final standings has never been bigger than the 19-point gap between City and Jose Mourinho’s United. At present, City trail Liverpool by 25 points with a game in hand.
79 - No Premier League side has ever had a larger positive goal difference.
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