Manchester City defender John Stones admits defeat to Chelsea left the players feeling "sour".

Stones rued the chances City wasted before Chelsea ran away with the game.

"There's quite a sour feeling running through everyone's minds, I suppose," he told Sky Sports. "It's a difficult one to take in the end. I don't think the score reflected the way we played. In my opinion, it should have been us 3 them 1 but that's football.

"From how we played in the first half and the second half, there's a lot of positives to take and we're moving forward as a team: playing out form the back, creating a lot of chances.

"We need to take those early in the second half and it will b e a different game; in the same respect, we need to keep them out in the other end. It was a strange second half for everyone.

"We kept creating chances after missing and that's great character to the forwards and all the boys that were getting in those positions. We just got done and they were clinical when they got their chances."