Pep Guardola’s side extended their impressive run with a comprehensive victory over Spurs at the Etihad Stadium. Ilkay Gundogan opened the scoring in the first half before De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling’s double completed the win after the break.
The frightening thing about this Manchester City team is that it doesn't matter which one of their players will make the difference, you just know one of them will.
And increasingly you just know City are going to win, no matter who they play
It does not stop there either. Nobody expected David Silva to miss Saturday's game, fewer still expected City to cope so well without him. Yet that is what happened, thanks to Ilkay Gundogan.
Silva has been the heart beat of this team for years, and is playing the best football of his career under Pep Guardiola. The Spaniard, missing due to personal reasons, runs games alongside Kevin De Bruyne, so much so that fans of rival teams have been reduced to wondering what would happen if either get injured.
On this evidence, at least, the omens are once again good for Guardiola's men.
Gundogan himself can tell you all about lengthy lay-offs, following the cruciate knee ligament injury which kept him out for the best part of 10 months. He has been used sparingly this season, and rarely from the start in meaningful matches, as Guardiola aims to build up his fitness.
But twice now he has come in for Silva, in two of City's most demanding games of the season, and twice he has done a fine job of replacing the irreplaceable.
The first time was Napoli away, a game in which the home side strangled the visitors for 20 minutes, went a goal up, but lost 4-2 anyway. It was a sign of how far City have come under Guardiola, and of how capable a footballer Gundogan is, that Silva was not overly missed that night.
The Germany international repeated the trick against Spurs, probably the one league side who are capable of taking the game to City and having a chance of getting something out of it.
But it was Gundogan's goal that got the Blues on their way once again. It was not just an example of the various different players that can hurt you, but the various different ways they can do it.
The German's first-half header was City's ninth goal from a set-piece in the Premier League this season - they scored 11 in the whole of last season.