STOKE CITY 0, MANCHESTER CITY 2
Manchester City visited Stoke City on a rainy Monday night and veteran midfielder David Silva turned on the magic to score twice and restore City’s 16 point Premier League lead with eight games to go.
Silva had been commuting between Manchester and Valencia, training alone in Spain after being given compassionate leave to visit home regularly in recent months after his son had been born prematurely.
Arguably Stoke’s best chance came from a spectacular possible own goal by Kyle Walker which was tipped away by Ederson – the home side didn’t even muster a shot on target to test the Brazilian all game long.