John Stones has laughed off criticism about his form at Manchester City.

The England international was ridiculed for his mistake in the Carabao Cup final win over Aston Villa.

Speaking on the official England YouTube channel, Stones told Micah Richards: "Literally everyone is different, so some might take it to heart, it might affect some more than others.

"I've got to try and turn it into a positive and let that negative press or whatever it might be motivate me to come back better and stronger.

"Take for instance the Carabao Cup final. The ball's gone up in the air and I'm backtracking, but as I'm looking up in the air, all I could see - and you'll know when you kick the ball up in the air and it's just blue sky - it's coming down and you don't know where it's going to land. I just got disorientated. The next minute I'm on the floor and thinking 'oh, no, just get up, get back into it.'

"But it could have gone two ways, I could have crumbled and not done anything and let it affect me. But then I thought my character and performance after that was something I should be proud of. How I reacted and helped the team, especially in the last 10 minutes."