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.
As is the Championship, matches come thick and fast as the Robins will climb onboard their team bus to make the 188-mile trip back up north today looking to pick up their first back-to-back wins of the season.
The three and a half hour journey back from Blackburn to Bristol would have given Pearson plenty of time to ponder tomorrow's trip and more specifically whether he sticks or twist with his backline.
Usually, it would be foolish to change a defence on the back of a 1-0 victory but that's easier to say from an outsider's perspective and not one of a manager who has consistently emphasised the importance of game management.
There are two real standout question marks ahead of Barnsley and that's whether to pick Robbie Cundy again and stick with Andi Weimann at right wing-back.
That is assuming Timm Klose, Rob Atkinson and Jay Dasilva remain shoo-ins for the fixture with Pearson's options rather stretched across the defence.
Cundy finally made his full Robins debut on Saturday three years after joining from Bath and showed little sign of being out of place as he largely kept a dangerous opponent in Reda Khadra quiet throughout teaming up with Weimann on that right side.
Aerially, he was up to the task and ability-wise, there should be no doubt that Cundy deserves another start. However, it's his fitness that will be playing on the mind of Pearson when making his team selection.
A serious knee injury picked up before the start of the season meant he was forced on the sidelines until January when he came on for an eight-minute cameo against Preston at the end of the month.
Before Saturday, he had then mustered up 58 minutes of action across three more matches which suggested that Pearson was plotting a future without Cundy or he wasn't showing enough behind the scenes to get himself in the side.
It's amazing how one appearance can change opinions, and Tomas Kalas' groin injury that ruled him out of Blackburn, and could also see him miss out on Tuesday meant Cundy had the opportunity to prove what he's about.
City's physio Andrew Proctor was one of the first to congratulate Cundy on Saturday, revealing on Twitter the dark times that player has endured mentally to get his chance in the side.
He wrote: "Buzzing for this guy. Some tough, dark times getting over the injury but we got there."
It was the feel-good story on Saturday, and his beaming smile at the whistle as he congratulated the 480 away fans up in the Ewood Park gods painted a picture of both a team and personal accomplishment.
There was no denying that by the end of the contest he looked to be running through quicksand having given his all and Pearson acknowledged his tiredness when speaking to the media after the game.
The last thing the manager and player would want to do is to risk his body with a second game in three days against a side who are fighting for their lives down in the relegation zone - especially with another game at home to West Brom at the weekend.
Only Cundy will know if he's fit enough to feature and Barnsley will certainly let him know he has been in a game by the end of it.
If Kalas is back, that would remain an option but Pearson is scraping the barrel in terms of personnel if the Czech international fails to recover in time.
Zak Vyner has fallen down the pecking order having failed to make the bench again on Saturday which really only leaves one option in Cam Pring. The only issue with that is then City will have three left-footed central defenders at the back.
Pring's form has also been questionable of late having appeared to be one of the casualties of Pearson's chopping and changing since the defeat at Swansea over a month ago.
Another conundrum for the manager is whether to stick with Weimann at wing-back again. The tactical switch to put City's top scorer out wide instead of the likes of Alex Scott had some people eating humble pie by the end of the match.
Again, options are limited with the use of six different players being started in that position although none have been able to make the shirt their own.
The Sam Bell experiment appears over for the time being, meaning Scott could take the role if Pearson decides he wants Weimann further up the field. However, he seemed content with his side's attacking prowess having switched formation by playing with a flat midfield three and leaving Chris Martin partnering Antoine Semenyo up front.
Pearson said after the game: "We created some good chances today so we're still capable of doing that even when we don't play with a three up top."
Which is a different outlook compared to recent weeks when the manager has been so reluctant to switch up those three players in attack, even admitted he is not prepared to sacrifice the danger of his attacks to find an answer to their defensive worries.
But in Weimann at wing-back, Pearson may just have conjured up a short-term solution for a long-term problem.
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