N'Golo Kante insists his injury troubles are behind him after an impressive performance in Saturday's loss to Manchester City.

The World Cup winner has dealt with niggling injuries all season, limiting him to just six Premier League appearances.

However after completing 90 minutes in his last matches for the Blues, Kante is ready to kick on.

"I feel fine," said Kante at the Etihad Stadium, via Goal.

"I have a good feeling on the pitch. I went to the national team and it was good for me.

"I hope the difficulties have ended and I can keep giving my best for the team."

On the loss to City, in which he scored, Kante added: "We are a little bit disappointed," he added. "We wanted to come for the win to keep our run going and to stay second in the table. I think it was a difficult game and we know City are a good team. We can be proud of what we did and we need to keep going for the next game.

"I think we had our chances. We could have scored to equalise but I think we are playing against a strong team. It was difficult, it was tight and they won. It is what we want. We want to fight against every opponent. We gave our best. Even Liverpool was a tight game.

"This is the way. We need to believe that we can compete against everyone in the league and give our best to see what we can achieve this season. I think they have played together for a long time with the manager and players.

"We can feel that they have a lot of ways to play together. They gave us many difficulties in their counterattacks. I think we could have done better in some ways but, in the end, it was a tight game."