Bernardo Silva identifies the game that kick-started Man City treble charge this season

Manchester City's Premier League away win over Arsenal made the squad believe they were ready to kick-on and realise their treble ambitions.

After an inconsistent start to the season, including mixed results either side of the World Cup break, City were at risk of getting cut adrift from Premier League leaders Arsenal. However, after knocking the Gunners out of the FA Cup, City travelled to the Emirates Stadium in February and came away with a 3-1 win to keep themselves in title contention.

City had lost at Tottenham a week earlier, but would embark on a 25-game unbeaten run in all competitions after that to win the Premier League, as well as reaching the FA Cup and Champions League finals.

Until that point, City's longest winning run was six games between September and October, and then four games a month later. However, after the World Cup, City couldn't go past three wins in a row before suffering a setback. So the all-important win at Arsenal not only put City back on track in the league, but also gave them belief that they can compete with the best to win the trophies they craved.

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“This has been a difficult season, because 90 per cent of the season, to start with, we were always behind Arsenal and we couldn’t win four or five matches in a row,” Bernardo Silva explained.

“So we couldn’t get that momentum of confidence, of thinking: okay, now we’re unstoppable. Because, when you start winning five, six, seven matches in a row, you get that feeling that you’re unstoppable. And it’s difficult to stop a team when they have this feeling.

“Any team, not just us. And this past year, it was always like, one, two, three