Get the biggest City stories, analysis and transfer updates delivered straight to your inbox Before Ruben Dias made his Manchester City debut, on an unspeakably foul night in deepest Yorkshire, the Blues had conceded seven goals in three games.
With their new record signing at the heart of the defence, and despite the team going through the rocky spell of this title-winning season, it would take them another 14 games to concede so many.
And once City had the bit between their teeth and were defending better as a team - due in no small part to the influence and sheer grit of their new 23-year-old defender - they quickly became the meanest defence in the Premier League.
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