In two days, City have managed to whittle away all Christmas cheer

TALKING POINTS FROM 4-1 THRASHING AT QPR

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the latter half of last season. Is it fragility? Can they not cope with the setbacks of going behind?

Cifuentes thinks not, pointing to times when his side have responded well.

"It's easy to say that just looking at those games, but we have managed to turn results," he said when City's potential fragility was put to him.

"Some games we have managed to turn negative results against us."

He's right to a degree. City have picked up eight points from matches in which they've conceded the first goal.

Only three sides in the division have a better record than that.

But most of their recoveries were in the opening stages of the season.

Of the last seven times City have conceded first, they've lost six. Only at Norwich did they turn the game around.

Against Sheffield United and Hull, there were attempted come backs but they gave themselves too much to do.