Savinho looked in serious pain before being taken off against Tottenham (Picture: Getty Images)

Pep Guardiola suffered more injury headaches on Wednesday night against Tottenham as Savinho was taken off and Manuel Akanji was struggling in the warm-up.

Spurs beat the Premier League champions 2-1 to progress to the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup thanks to goals from Timo Werner and Pape Matar Sarr.

Akanji was due to start but was injured shortly before kick-off and Ruben Dias took his place in the starting XI.

On the Swiss defender, Guardiola told a post-match press conference: ‘Akanji yesterday, I didn’t know it, in the last action felt something miniscule in the muscular part of his body and today in the warm-up he didn’t feel good. He said he could take a risk but we said no.’
Savinho scored City’s goal but went down and was clearly in a lot of pain, seemingly in his ankle, before being substituted just after the hour mark.

Explaining the situation, Guardiola said: ‘He had a knock in the 18-yard box, potential penalty and we’ll see tomorrow what happens.

‘We have to see if it’s just a knock or something else. It was in the bone, hopefully it’s nothing dangerous but we’ll see tomorrow.’

Manuel Akanji was injured in the warm-up at Tottenham (Picture: Getty Images)

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