Nigel Pearson is likely to have a tricky decision on his hands when it comes to selecting his defence for the trip to Barnsley on Tuesday.
Nobody would have been breathing a bigger sigh of relief than the manager at 5pm on Saturday (well, perhaps Dan Bentley and Han-Noah Massengo) when Bristol City finally came away from home with a clean sheet.
The statistics don't particularly need repeating, but after waiting over a year for an away clean sheet and 16 games to keep the ball out of the net, it feels perfectly acceptable to keep revelling in Saturday's defensive display. It was a record that inevitably would have irked the manager to no end particularly as it was his job to help stop the opposition from scoring during his 18-year playing career as a no-nonsense defender.
