Manchester City have suffered their first major setbacks of the season this month, so how did they respond last season?
Manchester City must find a response after suffering a surprise defeat to Crystal Palace at the weekend.
Pep Guardiola's side find themselves four points off top spot in the Premier League after a difficult December that has seen them suffer their first major setbacks of the season.
Despite the many, many highs of the last campaign, there were a number of times the would-be Centurions needed to regroup and go again on their way to a league and cup double.
As City look for the right reaction on Boxing Day at Leicester, here is how they responded last season to unexpected results.
December 6: Shakhtar 2-1 City
City were not too distraught to be defeated by Shakhtar given they put out such a scratch team, but this game still represented the first defeat of the season in any competition.
The response in the Manchester derby was emphatic. A storming performance left Jose Mourinho's bus in tatters as the Blues passed their way to a dominant victory at Old Trafford to hammer home their Premier League dominance.
December 31: Palace 0-0 City
Roy Hodgson's team were also the scourge of City last season, earning a 0-0 draw that ended a run of 18 straights victories in the league for Guardiola's exhausted side.
Just two days later, they picked themselves up as Raheem Sterling scored against Watford inside the opening minute and a second was added before 15 minutes were on the clock.
January 14: Liverpool 4-3 City
City's first Premier League defeat of the season came at Anfield, so what impact would such a reckoning have on the league leaders? An efficient 3-1 win over Newcastle kept their lead at the top to 12 points, with Sergio Aguero scoring a hat-trick to keep up his remarkable record against the north-east side.
With 65 points on the board, Guardiola declared that his side needed 10 wins from their remaining 14 games to be champions.
February 3: Burnley 1-1 City
A game that saw the Blues low on energy and low on quality, with Danilo's wonderstrike cancelled out with a deserved Burnley equaliser minutes from time.
After a few days recharging as a group in Abu Dhabi, City returned with a 5-1 win over Leicester. Sterling scored after three minutes and, although Jamie Vardy's effort meant the teams went in level at the break, Aguero scored four times for a convincing win.
February 19: Wigan 1-0 City
This date marked the end of all mention of the quadruple for the season as the League One side beat City for the third FA Cup meeting in six years.
Six days later, Guardiola was lifting his first trophy as Blues boss after a 3-0 win over Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final. It wasn't a thrilling performance but it was still more than enough to beat Arsene Wenger's side, and they put on a masterclass three days later at the Emirates for good measure.
March 7: City 1-2 Basel
A defeat that appeared to matter little at the time but marked the beginning of the end for another season in City's attempt to conquer Europe was swiftly followed by Stoke away in the Premier League.
It was there, as David Silva scored his second goal of the night, that the supporters sang for the first time that their team was going to win the league. Sixteen points clear with eight to play, Vincent Kompany didn't disagree as he spoke of a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to clinch the title in the derby.
April 4: Liverpool 3-0 City
Arguably the worst performance of the season - and certainly the worst result - came days before the derby. With the second leg in mind, Guardiola made four changes to his starting lineup and was sitting pretty at half-time with a two-goal lead.
However, as Fabian Delph infamously articulated, they forgot to do the basics and suffered a humbling 3-2 reversal that silenced the party atmosphere.
April 7: City 2-3 United
Liverpool were up days later at the Etihad, and the response was exactly what the manager wanted.
An early goal brought them back into the tie and Leroy Sane looked to really tee them up for the second half...only for the goal to be wrongly ruled out, Guardiola to be sent off for protesting and City to slump to a third successive defeat.
April 10: City 1-2 Liverpool
Dumped out of Europe and having blown the chance to win the title in record time against their fiercest rivals, it looked like some of the gloss had been taken off a team that had looked outstanding for so long.
What followed at Wembley was perfect, with a 3-1 win in a dominant performance exorcising the issues of Tottenham away the previous season and reminding everyone why City were so far ahead in the league. With United's home defeat to West Brom a day later, the league was won.