After predicting Liverpool to go without defeat for their last 159 Premier League matches, Mark Lawrenson has finally gone against his former club by backing Manchester City to beat the champions this weekend.
BBC pundit Lawrenson predicts every Premier League result each matchday week and had predicted that Liverpool would go unbeaten for 1,638 days - which would have been the longest in English football history.
However, that remarkable run of results - which if it had actually happened, would have easily eclipsed the real-life achievements by Arsenal's Invincibles, who remained unbeaten for a record 49 games between May 2003 and October 2004 - has come to an abrupt end with Lawrenson forecasting a 2-0 victory for City at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.