ROBINS’ HEROICS AT BOTH ENDS

MANCHESTER CITY’S defence was tested to breaking point when John Stones’s lunge on Bobby Reid (left) resulted in a penalty, which Reid got up to convert just before half-time. But there was still time before the break for Bristol City’s rearguard to pass their own test when Aden Flint got back to divert Raheem Sterling’s chip over the bar (above), with his keeper Frank Fielding helpless on the ground.