That's the end of Matchday Centre for today after another hard earned win.
Don't forget we will have highlights to follow at 19.00pm with extended highlights and a full match replay to follow at midnight tonight.
As always many thanks for your company and we will see you again on Wednesday for our Carabao Cup fourth round trip to Tottenham.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
We have just two or three days to recover now. We are used to playing during 11 months every three or four days.
The issue is that we can't rest some players but hopefully sooner or later we can rest some and some can come back.
The important thing is being there. We created chances, as always Erling [Haaland] had two or three clear ones.
But I'm not concerned, it's important to have 23 points now.
It's a good game to learn as a manager. I am going to learn a lot with Russell because they did really well.
We were humble and accepted that they did really well. Last two games, Wolves and Southampton, are at the bottom of the league and if this is the level that shows how tough this Premier League is.
They played really good. They didn't create many chances but it was an incredible effort to get the ball from us. We created chances that we couldn't convert but the result is good.
Today marks the start of another busy, hectic week for City.
Wednesday sees us venture to London to take on Tottenham in the Carabao Cup fourth round (kick-off 20.15pm).
We then return to Premier League action on Saturday with another lengthy road trip to visit Bournemouth, kick-off (15.00pm).
We have the big guy up front so these type of crosses, these type of actions inside the boss that is his main quality.
He’s there, he’s hungry to score more and more.
Today he helped us win the game and we are very happy to have him in our team as you can imagine.
We’re used to that when teams defend deep against us which makes it more difficult, we have to be patient. We are used to that.
We had our chances to score three or four goals to make it, but they deserve a lot of credit for what they did here today.
Also worth stressing that today's win ensures we remain the only unbeaten side operating in the 92 match professional English pyramid.
A stat that speaks volumes as the standards we continue to set.
They press high, they try to build up with the ball.
It makes it very difficult to press them because if you go man-to-man in the middle they find the space, then it’s not easy for our defenders and they have fast guys up front.
Tough game for us but very happy with the three points.
CommentaryReporting by Holly Percival @mancity