5 Premier League records Manchester City could break this season

#3 Most wins in a Premier League season – 30 wins

Pep's men could be on course to take a record number of Premier League wins

Despite a decidedly dodgy start to the season, once Antonio Conte switched Chelsea’s defence to a three-man unit in October, the Blues were largely unstoppable in 2016/17.

Despite languishing in 8th position in the league table at the end of September, they went on to record a huge number of wins – 30 in total, one more than Mourinho’s legendary 2004/05 side, although, they finished with one less point.

Just a season later, Conte’s record looks like it could be shattered at the hands of Pep’s Man City side. Of their opening 14 games, they’ve only failed to win one – a draw with Everton in the second game of the season – which puts them well ahead of last season’s Chelsea team, who had already drawn one and lost two at the same stage.

Granted, after that sticky patch of three games, the Blues went on a run of thirteen straight wins, before they were defeated by Tottenham in January.

The crazy thing? That thirteen-game run was the best that Chelsea managed in 2016/17, as their other runs were broken by the odd draw and loss – draws with Liverpool and Burnley in January and February and then a pair of April losses.

Pep’s City side will equal that thirteen-game run with one more win – a victory that almost seems guaranteed against David Moyes’s dreadful West Ham side – and that would put them in pole position to break that record of 30 wins. The way they’ve been sweeping aside the competition, who would doubt them?