straight to your inboxPep Guardiola suggested Sergio Aguero and Raheem Sterling are not yet fully fit to start for Manchester City in their Premier League trip to Tottenham.
Both players had returned to training this week and were named on the City bench at Spurs, but were not quite ready to start.
Explaining his team selection, Guardiola said that fitness played a role in their inclusion among the substitutes, as well as simply selecting other players in their positions.
Ferran Torres and Gabriel Jesus were picked to start instead of Sterling and Aguero, and Guardiola was asked for his reasoning behind both calls. "I decide for the player," he said of Sterling. "He trained one day, the last week.
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