Beautiful loss
We create enough. Football is a continued transition. When you attack good, you defend good. It is not about the strikers just focusing on attack and the defenders just focusing on defend. I don’t think like that.”
He was more reluctant to discuss City’s poor disciplinary record and will have reminded his players they need to keep a lid on their emotions, whatever the frustrations caused by referees or rivals.
Sergio Aguero and Fernandinho’s dismissals in the ugly fracas at the end of the Chelsea KICKING OFF: Aguero will play tonight despite his actions on Saturday game took City’s total of red cards to six already this season.
Aguero will serve a four-game league ban for his reckless lunge on David Luiz, having already served a retrospective ban for elbowing Winston Reid. But he is expected to play tonight.
Fernandinho will miss the game having been sent off for two cautions against Borussia Monchengladbach.
He will also miss the next three domestic fixtures following his throat grab on Cesc Fabregas.
Nolito and Claudio Bravo are the other players to have seen red this season, while Nicolas Otamendi will also miss Saturday’s trip to Leicester after picking up his fifth BLAME GAME: John Stones, inset, takes the flak from his team-mates after Chelsea scored three times caution of the season against Chelsea. Guardiola responded with a cryptic answer when he was quizzed about City’s disciplinary record.
“We are the best team for ball possession and we are also first for red cards. It is a pity what happened in the last minute and of course we are going to accept the bans from the FA [for Aguero and Fernandinho].
“It’s better that I don’t talk about the referee.”
Guardiola will rotate his squad for the game tonight with young centre-half Tosin Adarabioyo set to start and Willy Caballero, Bacary Sagna, Pablo Zabaleta, Fabian Delph, Gael Clichy, Fernando and Nolito all set to be recalled.