Red-hot Manchester City dropped points at bottom club Southampton at St Mary's on Saturday and Pep Guardiola was not happy.

There was little to speak of in a turgid first half but Doku's introduction after the break led to him cutting one back for Silva to dig one goalwards that Stephens hacked to safety

Having seen a significant number of players return to full first-team training over the course of the last few weeks, namely longer-term absentees Rodri and Erling Haaland, Manchester City now have just Nathan Ake and John Stones as their only sidelined stars due to injury.