Top 10 longest unbeaten streaks in the English Premier League and how they ended

#9 (Joint Ninth) Manchester United (2016-17) - 25 matches

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jose Mourinho at Manchester United

Manchester United enjoyed one of their best seasons of the post-Ferguson era during the 2016-17 campaign under Jose Mourinho. They managed to win a treble that season, well, not The Treble, but three different trophies, including one at the continental level.

They finished sixth in the league standings that term and thus it would be hard to fathom the fact that they enjoyed one of the longest unbeaten runs in the history of the competition. Interestingly, they only conceded five defeats that season, only second-placed Tottenham Hotspur lost fewer games.

A 4-0 loss at Chelsea proved to be the impetus for their 25-game unbeaten streak, which was, to put it mildly, dull. Though going 25 games undefeated is no small achievement, it should be noted here that they played some uninspiring football in that period and half of these 25 games ended in a draw.

A defeat against a London side set them on course for this unbeaten streak and it took another London side to bring their run to an end when Arsenal inflicted a 2-0 loss over them at the Emirates on 7 May 2017.

After not tasting defeat in 25 games, they lost two in a row, with their second defeat in as many games coming against Tottenham Hotspur in the game that ended 2-1 at the White Hart Lane, before it was shut down for renovation during the 2017-18 campaign.