Aymeric Laporte may have been striking a relaxed pose while being stretchered off against Brighton in late August - with his interlocked fingers propping up his head. But the centre-back's subsequent lengthy absence was one of the decisive factors in Manchester City's stuttering title challenge. Aymeric Laporte was stretchered off against Brighton in the first half after damaging his knee in an innocuous collision The collision with Brighton's Adam Webster forced the Frenchman off in the first...