It’s a statistic that makes Dan Bentley visibly wince as it’s read out: 14 games since Bristol City last kept a clean sheet.
December 4 seems a long time ago, not just in a football sense but the world itself and only reinforces the Robins defensive struggles since then. Granted, Bentley hasn’t been part of the team for 10 of those matches but he still takes that run deeply personally, in his role as team captain and also a part of the goalkeeping department.
How exactly City go about solving their inadvertent generosity to the opposition is a complex matter; intense work has been done at the Robins High Performance Centre, in terms of honing systems and reactions to situations. A “tough week” as Nigel Pearson framed it.
