Diaz at double but de Bruyne gets injured

MANCHESTER City’s teenagers shone as they eased into the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup with a 2-0 win over Fulham.

All eyes were on 18-year-old Phil Foden and Brahim Diaz, 19, as they were handed rare starts at the Etihad Stadium, and neither disappointed.

Diaz’s first senior goals settled the tie and gave a hint of why Real Madrid have been linked with the Spaniard, while Foden, who has also seen his name in the transfer gossip columns this week, went close twice and was full of running and intelligent passing in City’s engine room.

The only sour note for City came late on when Kevin De Bruyne, still working his way back to full fitness, went down in pain and was immediately replaced.

City manager Pep Guardiola was unable to shed any light on the nature of De Bruyne’s injury, telling Sky Sports News: “He’s being checked by the doctor. Right now I don’t know if it’s nothing or something serious.”

He was satisfied with the result, however, which ensured a place in the last eight of the competition, where they will face either Leicester or Southampton.

“Excellent, it was a good performance. We played with a lot of discipline, we were clever with the ball.”

Vincent Kompany headed down a looping cross from Fabian Delph and Diaz ran on to it to hit a powerful shot which deflected off Aleksandar Mitrovic to beat Rico.

Later, Leroy Sane in turn played in Gabriel Jesus but when the Brazilian’s shot across goal was touched on to a post by Rico, the ball fell for Diaz to finish.