Bernardo Silva wants to back up Manchester City's red hot form with silverware

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Bernardo Silva is hoping Manchester City can reward their fans with some silverware after they booked their place in the last four of the EFL Cup with a penalty shoot-out victory at Leicester.

The Portugal international scored a first-half opener for the runaway Premier League leaders, only for Leicester to level in the sixth minute of added-time with a controversial Jamie Vardy penalty to send the game to extra-time.

Claudio Bravo was the hero, saving from Riyad Mahrez to send the Blues through to the semi-finals.

City look unstoppable in the league, but Silva was taking nothing for granted.

"It's been a great first half of the season and I hope we can keep doing our job, keep winning games because this team deserves to keep winning because of the way we play and the spirit," he said.

"We will keep working hard to keep giving our fans victories and at the end of the season we will try and celebrate something."

Youngster Alexander Zinchenko was unsure if the Foxes' last-gasp penalty should have been given after Kyle Walker was deemed to have brought down Demarai Gray.

"We had to keep going and play the same way because before the penalties we hadn't played too badly, we had controlled the whole game except the last moment," he said. "I don't know if it was a penalty or not but we won it."