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While one Manchester City full-back was busy shackling Mohamed Salah, the other was having an impact at the opposite end of the pitch. Nico O'Reilly took another step forward as a left-back against Salah and Matheus Nunes continued his own renaissance with a superb assist for Erling Haaland.

This isn't what anyone expected to say at the start of the season, but are the Portuguese midfielder and the English midfielder now City's first-choice full-backs? Their record together would certainly suggest so.

When Nunes and O'Reilly start together in the full-back positions, City have won 11 games in a row. In 16 starts together in total, they have 14 wins, a goalless draw at Old Trafford and a meaningless Carabao Cup defeat at Tottenham.

It is seven out of seven this season and

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