Manchester City defenders Aymeric Laporte and Ruben Dias both made Garth Crooks’ BBC Team of the Week. City kept another clean sheet in Saturday’s 1-0 victory over Chelsea and have only conceded once this season.
At the heart of the City performance at Stamford Bridge was the duo of Laporte and Dias, who kept Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner quiet for the majority of the game.
The home side were restricted to five shots at Ederson’s goal and none of them hit the target. And although Bernardo Silva stole the plaudits for his goal, Crooks opted to draw attention to the defence with his picks.
On Laporte, Crooks told the BBC: “This was a very impressive defensive display by Manchester City. I've often thought you can cause City problems,
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