Top Five Most One-Sided Title Races

Top Five Most One-Sided Title Races
07:00, 18 Dec 2017

Just over four months in and Manchester City already look strong favourites to become Premier League champions after opening up an 11-point lead between them and Manchester United in second place.

The Citizens have looked imperious since the start of the campaign and recently set a new record, winning 15 consecutive league matches in a single season.

In light of the way Pep Guardiola’s men have dominated the conquest for domestic glory we decided to look back at five of the most one-sided title races:

Celtic win sixth successive Scottish Premiership in style

Last season Celtic maintained their iron-clad stranglehold on the Scottish league title, clinching the crown with an amazing eight games still left to play.

The Bhoys secured their place as domestic champions once more in emphatic fashion, thrashing Hearts 5-0 at Tynecastle thanks to a Scott Sinclair hat-trick and goals from Stuart Armstrong and Patrick Roberts.

Brendan Rodgers men had put together an incredible run which saw them claim 28 victories from their previous 30 league matches and subsequently open up an unassailable 25-point advantage over second-placed Aberdeen.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic a key figure in historic Paris Saint-Germain campaign

Paris Saint-Germain have aspirations to become a global powerhouse but have first made it their aim to dominate Ligue 1.

Winning three crowns in successive seasons might’ve provoked an air of complacency from some teams but PSG were in no mood to hand over their status as French champions, cruising to domestic glory in just 30 matches.

Breaking a record set by Gerard Houllier’s Lyon team in 2007 the Parc des Princes outfit moved 25 points clear of nearest challengers Monaco after a 9-0 annihilation of Troyes, which included a nine-minute hat-trick from Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Barry Town continued to stake their claim as the kings of Welsh football

Following their amazing achievement on the European stage, becoming the first League of Wales club to make it beyond the first round of a European competition, Barry Town flexed their muscles back in Wales.

They won a domestic treble during the 1996-97 campaign before cruising to another league title the following season.

The Dragons were head and shoulders above the rest of the competition that campaign, finishing 26 points clear of runners-up Newtown.

Copenhagen set new Danish League record

FC Midtjylland were the only team to wrestle three points off Copenhagen during the 2010-11 Danish Superliga campaign, on the way to the Dragons winning their ninth championship.

Norwegian manager Ståle Solbakken went out on a high, seeing his team become the first to win the title with seven games to play.

His time at the Telia Parken club coincided with the most successful period, winning another four Superliga titles, a Danish Cup and two Royal League titles under his stewardship.

Dinamo Zagreb still the overwhelming juggernauts of Croatian football

Since the Croatian First League was established in 1992 Dinamo Zagreb had quickly built up a reputation as the all-conquering kings of football in the Eastern European nation, amassing nine league crowns.

During the 2007-08 campaign there was nothing different about Zagreb’s domination, with Zvonimir Soldo guiding the club to their tenth domestic crown.

Such was the gulf in class between the capital club and the chasing pack, second-placed Slaven Belupo eventually finished an absurd 28 points behind the champions.

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