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Ruben Dias was back to his chest-beating, world-beating best against Liverpool after an extremely shaky display against Chelsea that saw Manchester City concede the most goals in a single match since he joined at the club.

Since coming in 2020, the Portuguese center-back has been a revelation, finally filling the shoes of Vincent Kompany when no one thought it was possible. Despite their reputations as tough defenders, they have an outstanding footballing brain that makes them ideal for a footballing brain.

Dias provided all you might want to see from a defensive standpoint against Liverpool. There were blocks, challenges, interceptions, and appeals for everything, as well as guttural roars and jubilation shared with his colleagues whenever one of the backline members succeeded in keeping the ball away from Ederson’s goal.

Dias made significant contributions at both ends of the pitch, in addition to his efforts to safeguard City’s end. His build-up play was superb, and he was instrumental in his team catching Liverpool off guard on a crisp November afternoon.

The opener had been a tense affair, with both teams sizing each other up and taking care not to give too much territory away. Whenever a pressure point approached, the opposition snuffed it out with a mistake or a bit of quality.

The game’s first significant flashpoint occurred after Alisson gathered a ball and Mo Salah and Liverpool turned around and went to face the impending kick. Except it didn’t show up.

A terrible slice from the second-best Brazilian custodian on the pitch bounced high and short, landing in the path of Nathan Ake 30 yards higher up the pitch than Mo Salah was expecting to receive the ball. Liverpool didn’t appear to notice the error, but Dias did, and as the ball fell, the defender was in Ake’s eyeline, advising his teammate to take his time because he had a lot to consider about his next moves.

That is not to diminish the quality that followed. In one move, Ake slid past two stunned Liverpool players and through Erling Haaland, who added insult to injury for Alisson by smashing a shot past him into the far corner.

Big games require big players to step up, and City had far more step-up than Liverpool. Nathan Ake, Bernardo Silva, and Ederson, in addition to Dias, were outstanding.

Ake deserves special mention because it appears that his contributions to the Treble have been overshadowed by Jack Grealish’s. Josko Gvardiol is the fresh and exciting defender, and his promise at left-back has led many to dismiss Ake’s departure.

Gvardiol has yet to produce a performance in Blue as impressive as Ake’s, with his assist for Haaland matching a fantastic defensive effort against one of the game’s greatest in Mo Salah. Just like Alisson played Liverpool into trouble on few occasions, Ederson used his ability to get City out of it.

When the margins are so close – and Jurgen Klopp rightly calculated before kickoff that his team was closer to the champions than they were last season when they came here and lost 4-1 – large teams require a collective effort from the starting XI and the substitutes. City were entirely missing in the latter category.

Ake was one of three players to recover from injury during the international break, along with John Stones and Sergio Gomez, but Mateo Kovacic and Matheus Nunes had joined Kevin De Bruyne in the treatment room at that period, and Grealish was a late addition due to illness.

It meant that, despite having two goalkeepers on the bench, City couldn’t name a full bench for the second time in a row, and effectively made a lot of Guardiola’s selections for him. Because of Grealish’s absence, there was no choice between Jeremy Doku and Grealish, and although Doku made such terrible use of the ball during the game, he was retained on the pitch because the only other option was the green (for other reasons!) Oscar Bobb on the bench.

Similarly, Julian Alvarez did well to get off to a good start in a Saturday noon game after his efforts for Argentina against Brazil in midweek, but he played as if he was still in another timezone and struggled to keep up with his colleagues. Again, if there were choices on the bench, it is difficult to believe Guardiola would not have used them to give City a new look.

Instead, they went through the second half on autopilot. There were still chances, and Dias was unlucky to have a goal disallowed when Akanji was unfairly adjudged to have fouled Alisson from a corner, but when Liverpool produced their magic via Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold, there could be few complaints.

City pressed on with their existing XI and nearly got a winner, but when none came despite Haaland going close at the death, there wasn’t the impression that the home team had done enough to match Sunderland’s 24-match winning streak at home dating back to 1892. The run comes to an end at 23, and after coming so close to a flawless year at the Etihad, it is heartbreaking to see it stop so soon.

The champions have now gone two games without a win in the Premier League, but there was also nothing to worry about from Liverpool today that there was yesterday. The visitors’ only advantage was bench depth; Klopp was able to bring on five replacements, including Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz.

That is an area that City will need to address as the season progresses, as Guardiola will realise he cannot rely on such a small group of players. He prefers small groups, but not this tiny.

City will still need individual brilliance to overcome Liverpool over 38 matches, but they cannot rely on so few.