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.

Considered one of the modern era's greatest managers ever, Pep Guardiola has done a whole lot of winning and not a lot of losing, which makes his 4-0 defeat to Tottenham so glaring.

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.