5 THINGS WE LEARNED LAST NIGHT
1 THIS win set a new league record of 12 straight victories for Pep Guardiola’s side, beating the previous best set under Manuel Pellegrini over two different seasons between April and September 2015. This makes it 19 straight wins in all competitions.
2 DAVID SILVA might be a City ‘legend’, but a day after eulogising about the Spaniard, Guardiola left him on the bench until the 74th minute. City missed him as they struggled to break down a dogged Southampton.
3 PEP GUARDIOLA’S friendship with Mauricio Pellegrino may stretch back to their one season together at Barcelona in 1998-99, but they were at odds on the half-hour mark when Vincent Kompany caught Shane Long in the face with a trailing arm in front of the dug-outs.
4 FRASER FORSTER became the second Southampton goalkeeper after Paul Jones to make a century of Premier League appearances for the club.
5 EVEN teams like City need a bit of luck now and then. They were fortunate that Wesley Hoedt and Maya Yoshida could not convert chances from point-blank range before they took the lead.