The Premier League champions went into the game without their key stars, with John Stones and Ruben Dias out of the game and they were unable to keep up with Bournemouth, who played defensively but also put on a superb attacking display, and Antoine Semenyo and Evanilson scored to give them their first Premier League win over Manchester City .

Guardiola said in statements after the match: ” Ruben Dias will be out until the international break, Manuel Akanji and Nathan Key made a great effort in a match in which we needed them, Kyle Walker also missed training for 18 or 19 days.”

Rico Lewis has had a lot of minutes and he is tired too, so that is the position we need, we have to deal with the minutes, but we did not succeed in that, they were very fast today and we did not succeed in dealing with them,” he added.

“Sometimes we have to accept that the opponents control the game as well. Sometimes we manage to deal with that and sometimes it is a bit difficult. That is what happened today,” the Manchester City coach continued .