It's a sentence people are used to hearing, but this is the first time in nearly five months that the champions will spend a day on top of the Premier League table. By the end of Sunday, they may be back down to third again.
It hadn't been a vintage performance, summed up by the second successive City goal inside the opening two minutes. Whereas Bernardo Silva's strike in Madrid owed much to creativity and quick-thinking, Erling Haaland managed to miss a one-on-one with Thomas Kaminski and then when it came back to him his acrobatic volley was flying well wide before it took a big deflection off Daiki Hashioka and flew into the net.
Matheus Nunes, one of six changes from the side that started in the Bernabeu as Rodri got the rest he needed with Phil Foden, Bernardo and Jack Grealish also on the bench, did his usual routine of making the hard things look easy and the easy things look hard. He ghosted into the box at the beginning of the second half to get onto the end of a ball over the top, only to lose his footing and fall over when he should have been putting the ball past Kaminski.
As the game ticked past the hour mark, shot number 26 was thundered into the net by Mateo Kovacic to give the hosts some breathing space. Breaths in the City dugout were held minutes later when Fred Onyedinma robbed Josko Gvardiol in his own third only to see substitute Cauley Woodrow's effort hit the bar and bounce clear.
When it gets to this time of the season, a win is a win. As Rico Lewis said after the game at Palace last week, dropping points can be fatal and any win is massive.
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