Tyrone Mings put pen-to-paper on a new contract on Monday and judging by this performance, it must include a handsome heading bonus. Certainly his manager suspects that is the case.
Dean Smith hailed both of his central defenders after Aston Villa opened their season with this win and rightly so. Mings was excellent in front of the watching Gareth Southgate, while Ezri Konsa shook off a hamstring complaint to head home the winner against 10-man Sheffield United.
Those two - along with Emiliano Martinez, the former Arsenal goalkeeper who marked his Villa debut by denying John Lundstram from the penalty spot - looked a class act at the back.