Spot on Yaya Toure gets Manchester City moving

Hull City 0, Manchester City 3: Yaya Toure, a player who would not have expected to see 2017 in the sky blue of Manchester City, demonstrated that he can still play a pivotal role in his team’s hopes of winning silverware in the debut season of manager Pep Guardiola.

The Ivory Coast midfielder’s high-profile spat with his new manager seemed destined for long periods of this season to end in only one way - his departure from the club where he still retains cult hero status.

But Guardiola has returned him to the first team fold in recent weeks, a sign of the Catalan’s pragmatism if nothing else, and last night after a rash challenge by Andy Robertson on Raheem Sterling presented City with a penalty, there was only one man for the occasion.