Winning feels like a distant memory for seven clubs spread across four continents, each locked in a five-match losing streak that has delivered zero points and mounting pressure.
In Morocco, Wydad Casablanca have watched their Botola Pro campaign unravel with five consecutive defeats. The same bleak form line (LLLLL) now defines Sport Recife in Brazil's top flight, while compatriots Ponte Preta endure an identical slide in Serie B. Colombia's Deportivo Pasto cannot escape the same spiral in the Categoría Primera A.
The malaise extends into European football, where Bolton Wanderers and Watford are both winless through five Championship outings. Neither side has managed a single point, leaving both clubs rooted to the bottom early in the campaign.
Continental competition offers no respite
Perhaps most striking is the Champions League double: AC Sparta Praha and AEK Athens have each lost all five matches in Europe's premier club tournament, their continental ambitions effectively extinguished before the calendar turns. The Czech and Greek sides join the growing list of teams desperate to halt a freefall that shows no sign of slowing.
For all seven, the arithmetic is unforgiving. No draws to cling to, no late equalisers to offer hope. Just five losses, zero points, and the weight of expectation growing heavier with each passing matchday. Someone's run has to end eventually, but right now the evidence suggests otherwise.