Pep Guardiola admits his Manchester City side couldn’t handle Tottenham duo James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski. The Premier League champions fell to a fifth consecutive defeat after they were thrashed 4-0 by Spurs, extending an already unprecedented run of poor form for Guardiola.

If the first scarcely left City distraught, with Guardiola unworried by exiting the Carabao Cup, the latest was more emphatic, more dramatic, more chastening, more stunning. Guardiola’s joint heaviest defeat became an embarrassment.

Pep Guardiola admits that Man City “couldn’t handle the duels” like they normally do as they fell to a crushing 4-0 defeat to Spurs in the Premier League. James Maddison grabbed a first-half

Pep Guardiola has put Manchester City's awful recent run down to many little things - here are 16 of them, and their impacts explained

Pep Guardiola said hopes of a fifth successive Premier League title will be over if Manchester City lose at Liverpool next week after his “fragile” side suffered a fifth defeat in a row.