Manuel Pellegrini: "The satisfaction is the same. We cannot expect to win by three or four goals every match. It is important to know how to win both ways."
Stoke boss Mark Hughes felt his side acquitted themselves well but paid a heavy price for some errors.
Mark Hughes: "I was pleased with what we produced.
"We had a game plan and whenever you have one, you have to execute it to the best of your ability and I thought we did that for most of the game.
"We made a couple of errors that led to the goal and consecutive errors tend to lead to goals. Apart from that we were resolute.
"We had a couple of efforts where we might have scored, most notably Charlie's (Adam) effort where Joe Hart made an outstanding save.
"I thought on a couple of occasions - call it professionalism or good play, or a bit of cynical play - we had good opportunities that were stopped because my players were being taken out.
"The player that you mentioned (Vincent Kompany) and on three or four other occasions Stoke players were taken out quite cynically in my view.
"It is part of the game and the ref, in fairness, booked the majority of them but maybe he should have looked to give another yellow card."