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Without seven of his first-team players, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola admits his team is on edge despite their initial win over Wolves.
City claimed an impressive 3-1 victory at Molineux last night, when Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden and Gabriel Jesus all scored in their first Premier League game.
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However, they remain without Joao Cancelo, Bernardo Silva, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Sergio Agüero, Aymeric Laporte and Eric García, while Ilkay Gundogan self-isolates after testing positive for coronavirus.
“All we want is the seven players who are ready to come back,” Guardiola said.
“Now we have a competition where we cannot spend the energy that we spent today, before Leicester, so we will play mainly with academy players and try to keep the energy for the Premier League.
“With this lack of preparation and seven players out and not coming back soon, we have to keep Monday’s players as safe as possible.
“We will see how many are available, how they recover. We only have three days. We won the Carabao Cup three times in a row and we would like to continue, but we do not have players in this period to play every three days ”.
The next step for the Cityzens is their Carabao Cup defense against Bournemouth on Thursday, before playing Leicester City in the Premier League on Sunday.
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