Managers will forever push the "one game at a time" rhetoric but when it was revealed that Kyle Walker's suspension for his red card against RB Leipzig had been upped to three games, Manchester City fans couldn't help but think ahead.
The England international is set to miss both of City's games against Sporting Lisbon in the last 16 of the Champions League, while he'll also be absent from the first leg of the quarter-final should City progress.
Pep Guardiola opted to play John Stones at right-back in the recent win over Brentford as he prepared for life without Walker.