Plus:orCity hold started the season with five wins and are yet to concede a goal, writes JB Hollick. “What’s the longest a team has gone without conceding at the start of the season?”City are the fourth team to start a top-flight season in England with five successive clean sheets. In 1997-98 Manchester United kept five clean sheets before conceding to West Ham in the sixth game of the season, while in 2006-07 Portsmouth went five games without conceding then conceded 22 minutes into their sixth game (Bolton’s Kevin Nolan breaking the deadlock).
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Source: theguardian.com