In the build-up to the Chelsea game, Pep Guardiola will have been thinking his team selection might depend on whether there was still a Premier League title to win but Erling Haaland will have wanted to start regardless.
The Manchester City forward has scored against 16 of the 19 teams in his debut season in English football, with Liverpool the only team he has failed to score against (in fairness to him, he missed the home game and did score against them at home in the cup).
With three games remaining, there are two clubs that Haaland hasn't scored against. Read next: Pep Guardiola gives Barcelona tip for Man City in Treble chase The first of those is Chelsea, after Haaland failed to find the net in that weird Stamford Bridge performance when City were struggling to find their rhythm and were rescued by Jack Grealish and Riyad Mahrez.
That would take him to 17, which is the highest number of teams any player has scored against in a single season; Mo Salah, Andy Cole, Ian Wright, Alan Shearer and Robin van Persie have previously achieved it.