Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says his side must keep focusing on one game at a time after their goalless draw against Stoke City on Wednesday.

The result now leaves City third place in the Premier League with 56 points, having won 17 out of 27 matches played so far this season.

Guardiola believes his side created numerous chances throughout the match but failed to break down the Potters defence on the attack.

‘They defended deep and it was complicated to find the players between the lines. We were there in the last minutes. I don’t have regrets about how they ran, how they fought.,’ Guardiola told the Manchester City website.

‘It’s not easy when the opponents are there. We created a lot of situations for the last pass and sometimes we missed it.

‘When Silva came in, we created a few more chances. When you analyse the chances we had, I don’t really remember more than one Stoke chance.

Despite, their busy fixture schedule, the Spanish managers insists that his side are taking their fixtures ‘game by game’ instead of focusing on every fixture at once.

‘The priority is the next game. In two and a half days, we have another game,’ He added.

‘In three or four days, we travel to France to play Monaco and then we have another game against Liverpool. We have to make rotations when we play a lot of games.’

‘The gap was big and is still big. We have to focus game by game.’

Manchester City will next take on Middlesbrough in the FA Cup on Saturday.

The match at the Riverside Stadium kicks off at 14:15: