"9:55PM Full time Manchester City restore their lead to 16 points with a masterly, indeed masterful, victory over 19th-placed Stoke who are not unique in being comprehensively outclassed. David Silva was brilliant, Raheem Sterling also played very well. 9:53PM 90+5 min Keepball from City for 90 seconds until Bauer picks off a pass from David Silva. They work it up the right and Bauer spears in a deep cross that bypasses Crouch. The ref has seen enough and emits three peeps from his Acme Thunderer. 9:51PM 90+4 min City corner on the right. The Silvas twain and De Bruyne knock it about and go all the way back to Ederson who starts a foray up the left with Zinchenko who then move sit back to safety in midfield. 9:49PM 90+2 min We'll have five minutes added because of Otamendi's cut. Stafylidis lets fly from 30 yards and cracks his shot into Otamendi. 9:48PM 90 min City sub: Ilkay Gundogan on, Gabriel Jesus off. David Silva is named man of the match. 9:47PM 88 min Stoke sub: Ramadan Sobhi on for Geoff Cameron. Seems a little pointless and cruel. You've had naff all football under Lambert then he chucks you on for 90 seconds of a game you've long lost? Must be tempting to tell him to get stuffed. 9:44PM 86 min Stoke corner on the right, curled by Shaqiri straight down Ederson's throat. He sparks a rapid City break from which they're caught offside, back come Stoke and Komany makes the only telling tackle that has been required of him all night. 9:42PM 84 min City sub: Sterling, who has played very well, departs to a chorus of disapproval. Bernardo Silva takes his place. 9:41PM 82 min Don't know how Sterling missed that, or what Jon Moss said to City at the drop ball. But even City's fans went a but quiet after it. 9:39PM 79 min Jonathan Moss restarts the game with a drop ball 40 yards out. City contest it, Stoke don't because they think they were going to have possession. Sterling hares off towards goal with Ndiaye chasing him looking intent on whacking him with more than an etiquette guide. Sterling, with Jesus in support, drops his shoulder and veers to the right to try to round Butland which gives Ndiaye the opening to whip the ball behind for a corner. All hell then breaks loose about City's alleged chicanery. 9:35PM 78 min Otamendi is back on his feet having wrapped his head in Elastoplast. 9:35PM 76 min Sane stings Butland's palms with a flayed shot then there's quite a stoppage when Otamendi collides with Stafylidis as they fought for De Bruyne's cross. The latter is OK having caught his opponent with his brow, Otamendi is still down with a gash on his scalp. 9:32PM 74 min Joe Allen bundles over Jesus in the centre-circle and the ref waves play on. De Bruyne threads a pass down the right for Sterling's run into the box and he decides to take the shot on from an angle of about 45 degrees and shanks it almost perpendicular. The ref then goes back and books Allen. 9:30PM 72 min Sterling dribbles through the box on the right, shimmies his hips and sells Stafylidis a dummy that causes him to slide in, miss the ball and catch it with his arm as he slid past. Sterling didn't stop and carried on until his pass towards the spot was blocked. 9:29PM 71 min Otamendi outmuscles Crouch to win the ball and sets off on a gambol upfield to start an attack down the left. Stoke see it out. 9:27PM 68 min Stafylidis hits a long diagonal up for Crouch who wins the aerial battle but was offside. At last they have a focal point for their strategy. 9:26PM 67 min Man City fans are now singing their Yaya Delilah song. Talk about cultural appropriation. 9:24PM 64 min Bauer takes an inswinger, whipping it a foot or so beyond the far post. Crouch wins it comfortably and squares it back across the box. Choupo-Moting wins the second header and diverts it back across goal to Martins Indi who wellies his right-foot volley from six yards over the bar. Miss: Stoke 0 - 2 Man City (Bruno Martins Indi, 64 min) 9:21PM 62 min Good pass from Shaqiri frees Jese down the left. He doubles back on Otamendi who hacks him down. The ref plays the advantage then brings it back. That's Jese's last touch. Off he goes to be replaced for the free-kick he won by Peter Crouch. David Silva scores his and City's second Credit: Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty Images 9:18PM 59 min From the corner Sterling shifts it to Sane who takes a touch to make some space for the shot then cuts his foot across it and sends it swerving in towards goal then away again then in again. Butland does well to save it. Miss: Stoke 0 - 2 Man City (Leroy Sané, 59 min) 9:16PM 58 min Sterling attempts to Ricky Villa his way through the box on the right, twists Stafylidis' blood, but can only find Butland's shins with his shot. 9:15PM 56 min Fernandinho makes a lung-bursting 60-yard run, feeds De Bruyne down the left then continues his charge into the box to take the return after his team-mate's lovely pass cut out Bruno Martins Indi. He was a little too wide to squeeze his post in at the near post but tried anyway, stabbing it into the side-netting. 9:12PM 53 min What happened here 20 years ago gave birth to the 'We're not really here' era and Man City's fans give it a good airing now, followed by their C-bomb Mourinho song. Wildean it ain't. 9:10PM 52 min Gorgeous finish from David Silva, leaping up to take the return in a one-two with Gabriel Jesus. The ball bounced up to chest height but he acrobatically hooked in a flying volley as Bauer, trying to make up for being caught out of position and Butland closed in on him at pace. Stoke 0 - 2 Man City (David Silva, 50 min) 9:07PM Goal!! Stoke 0-2 Man City (David Silva) 9:07PM 49 min Man City corner after opening Stoke up on the left by virtue of David Silva's curling pass into Sane's stride. He takes a touch with his right that actually sows him down and he has to improvise, stopping then shifting it over to the right where Sterling wins a corner. 9:04PM 47 min Shaqiri's got his Toblerone-shaped boots on tonight, slicing an attempted ball over the top for Jese's burst up the right into touch. 9:03PM 46 min No changes. Man City kick off, rolling the ball back to Kompany who chips it diagonally over to the left where Sane wins the header, beating Bauer aerially, but Stoke then win the second ball. 8:59PM Southampton have sacked Mauricio Pellegrino Marco Silva? Slavisa Jokanovic would be ideal but I doubt he would leave Fulham. 8:53PM Half-time shot maps Stoke vs Man City shots on goal Stoke vs Man City shots on goal And the weighted touch positions to illustrate City's dominance of possession and territory: Average touch positions (half time) 8:50PM Half time Some snarl and a lot of huff and puff from Stoke and it has been a pretty entertaining ground. Man City's class has told in the final third. David Silva has been whack-a-mole-ing all over the shop. Both left-backs look vulnerable and Stoke have had a couple of glimmers but they need the final ball, from Shaqiri largely, to be better ... perfect, in fact, if they're going to score. 8:47PM 45 min Shaqiri spots Choupo-Moting's run into the box from the left touchline and hits an isnwinging left-footer from the right towards the far post. He significantly overclubs it and smears it over Ederson and into touch. 8:46PM 44 min Stoke give the ball away cheaply with a panicked clearance and their fans are livid. They get away with their indiscretion and, via a free kick, work the ball towards the City goal on the left. City defend it comfortably and knock it long themselves. Martins Indi is all over Jesus though that's not the referee's interpretation as he allows the centre-half to win the ball. 8:43PM 42 min Stafylidis is being beasted on the left side of Stoke's defence and is allowing City unimpeded access. Once again De Bruyne gets behind him, centres to Sane who roundhouses a left foot volley on the run just wide. Miss: Stoke 0 - 1 Man City (Leroy Sané, 42 min) 8:41PM 41 min Smart save from Butland, diving low to his left to block Fernandinho's bunny-hopper of a shot. Then De Bruyne smacks a shot wide. 8:40PM 39 min Both Ederson and Butland have to come sprinting out of their areas for some sweeper-keeper action that inflames/tickles the crowd but they were pretty unruffled, Ederson particularly. 8:39PM 36 min Butland kicks it long, Choupo Moting beats Kompany to it but flicks rather than heads it on. The ball bounces through towards the City box and Jese gives chase. Walker tacks in from the right, follows the unusual flight of the ball and gets a toe to it and inadvertently knocks up an up and under that threatens to drift under the bar. Ederson scoots back to tip it over. 8:36PM 33 min Martins Indi plays a blind, preposterous, hospital pass to Butland without spotting De Bruyne's scavenging run into the box. Butland sprints off his line and beats De Bruyne to it by an inch to block tackle his attempted stab with a very strong challenge. De Bruyne's boot rakes his metatarsals and leaves the keeper hobbling momentarily but he soon recovers. David Silva scores the first Credit: Manchester City FC 8:33PM 31 min Terrific pass between Zinchenko and Otamendi by Shaqiri that Jese races to meet. The bounce takes him a touch too wide and he can't warp his foot around it to give his shot the power or precision it needed to beat Ederson. 8:31PM 28 min Zinchenko, the baby-faced tactical fouler, disrupts Stoke's attempts to take a quick throw-in he had just conceded. Shaqiri wants him sanctioned but the referee restricts himself to a telling-off instead. Shaqiri and Zinchenko tangle Credit: Simon Stacpoole/Offside 8:28PM 26 min De Bruyne crosses from the right and Silva has made another menacing, penetrative run. Cameron has gone with him this time and the delivery is a foot behind him. Silva essays a bicycle kick but doesn't connect, Stoke dig it out of the box where Fernandinho is first to it. He responds to cries from City fans of 'Shoot!' with a wild shank over the bar. 8:26PM 23 min Sane has been quiet so far but goes off on a crossfield run, plays it to Fernandinho and darts beyond Sterling to overload Stafylidis. The intended pass to free him is intercepted by Stafylidis who clips it up to Shaqiri. His touch deserts him and he bludgeons his offload back to David Silva who angles a pass from the right towards the penalty spot where Gabriel Jesus is heading for after tearing past Zouma. But he's gone too soon. Offside. 8:22PM 20 min Stoke come close when Shaqiri, in the right corner, megs Zinchenko, runs round the inside then cuts back a daisycutter to the 18-yard line. Ndiaye pulls his shot as he aims for the far post and a deflection takes the bobbler wide for a corner that City defend well/Stoke waste. 8:20PM 18 min City should have had a free-kick on the edge of the box when Stafylidis pulls down Sterling, his hand gripping his shoulder. The referee mistakes Sterling for Dele Alli and waves away all legitimate protestations and the Stoke crowd boos him for the sin of being fouled. Here's the goal: David Silva steers home Sterling's cross Credit: Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge 8:17PM 16 min Zinchenko, who was culpable of a filthy foul on Eden Hazard eight days ago, clatters into Shaqiri very late here, sliding in to chop him down at the ankles. Free kick. Possession: Stoke vs Man City 8:15PM 14 min Very good work from Ndiaye who tracked Sterling's run into the box as he received a pass from Walker's cute knock-down. He made himself a second skin without actually fouling him as he harried Sterling into touch. 8:12PM 11 min Lovely pass round the corner from Jesus takes Stafylidis, who was too far forward, out of the game and finds Sterling who has bombed round the back on the right. Sterling picks his head up and centres calmly for David Silva who sidefoots his firm finish on the run with his left past Butland. Stoke 0 - 1 Man City (David Silva, 10 min) 8:09PM Goal! Stoke 0-1 Man City (David Silva) 8:09PM 9 min Choupo-Moting steps in off the left and wins a header, knocking it on for Jese to run on to but the centre-forward didn't read his intentions. 8:08PM 7 min Direct and tigerish in the tackle, the orders of the day. Ndiaye snaps into one 25 yards out, left of centre and is penalised. De Bruyne takes it and works a routine, hooking it to the 18-yard line where Otamendi was lingering all alone. He flicked it two yards further forward hoping to find Kompany but it didn't get there ad Stoke play it up to Jese, Allen finding him with a fine pass. Walker sticks to him and eventually hassles him out of possession. 8:06PM 5 min When Sterling is penalised for a shove, Butland spears another free-kick long ball up for Jese who doesn't have the height or timing of jump to beat Kompany. Already Davie Provan thinks Stoke need Crouch if they're going to ply this way. 8:04PM 4 min He distributes it to Bauer who tries to steer it up the right for Shaqiri to run at Zinchenko but he can't control the long pass. Direct is the order of the day for Stoke. 8:03PM 3 min De Bruyne strips the ball off Ndiaye 40 yards from goal but the Senegal midfielder sticks with him and forces him to lay it off. City try to thread a diagonal for Jesus's run into the box but Butland is on to it and gets there first. 8:02PM 1 min Jese kicks off for Stoke. Vibrant, noisy atmospheer at the Brit tonight. Delilah is fighting it out with Blue Moon. Stoke whack it up the left and immediately lose possession. City move up the right, 10 yards infield until Ndiaye tackles De Bruyne and Stoke quickly knock it over the top again but to no benefit. 7:56PM Kurt Zouma Spoke to Matt Law about facing Manchester City tonight: ""This was the worst defeat I've ever had in my career in football.""But it can happen and I forgot about it, and I don't want to think about it. I don't think about that game. ""Man City are a top side. But our job is to make it difficult and they have to feel we want to win the game. The mistakes we made in the 7-2 we can't make again and we have to try to win to make the fans happy and us happy as well."" 7:37PM A truncated Monday Night Football No Keith Hernandez tonight. Gary Neville flies solo. Paul Lambert is wearing his Gianluca Vialli schoolboy grey V-neck. Pep has his yellow ribbon close to his heart but beneath his jacket. Pep Guardiola watches the warm-up Credit: REUTERS/Hannah McKay Lambert says Stoke have to 'play ugly' and 'run more than they've ever run before'. 7:32PM Your teams in black and white Stoke Butland; Bauer, Zouma, Martins Indi, Stafylidis; Allen, Cameron, Ndiaye; Shaqiri, Jese, Choupo-Moting. Substitutes Haugaard, Johnson, Adam, Shawcross, Fletcher, Crouch, Sobhi. Man City Ederson, Walker, Kompany, Otamendi, Zinchenko, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Silva, Sterling, Gabriel Jesus, Sane. Substitutes Bravo, Danilo, Stones, Gundogan, Laporte, Bernardo Silva, Toure. Referee Jonathan Moss (Leeds) 7:03PM Man City XI Three changes: Vincent Kompany, Raheem Sterling and Fernandinho return for Aymeric Laporte, Bernardo Silva and Ilkay Gundogan. How we line-up tonight! City XI 
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