City are on 17 points. Liverpool, who play later, are on 18. Arsenal slipped up yesterday and are on 17. This all means that City can go briefly top with a win. Their hosts are right down the other end, a wretched one point from 7 games and level on doal difference with bottom club Southampton.

The Premier League champions visit Wolves with Gary O’Neil’s hosts desperate for a result. Join Daniel Harris. That the league table doesn’t lie is one of football’s truest truisms. There is a metric specifically designed to tell us which team deserves to win a match – it’s better known as “the score” – and these results are then collated into a precise overall ranking which brooks no argument.

Manchester City take Wolverhampton Wanderers later today at Molineux in Premier League action. Pep Guardiola’s side will be expected to pick up all three points against bottom-of-the-table Wolves.