Tottenham 2 - 1 City
It seems to be the first defeat for City this season. But judging by Pep's satisfied face, he is completely satisfied to miss unimportant games here and concentrate on other tournaments. City were eliminated very early last year too.
By the way, despite the modest score, it was not a tough equal fight, Tottenham should have scored at least one more goal, while City did not have any more chances.
Guardiola does not consider today's EFL Cup match an important match. That's why Guardiola rested key players in the squad today. Champions League and Premier League matches are more important for Guardiola. So in today's match, City played their second tier squad.
However, the overall performance of Tottenham players was quite good in today's match. Tottenham took a 2-1 lead in the first half. Tottenham's players managed to have only 31% of the ball possession in the match. But every attack from Tottenham's players was strong. City's inexperienced players failed to counter the attacks of Tottenham's players.
Not that Manchester city head coach doesn't consider this match to be for their favour but the full force Tottenham players used to Play Manchester city make them not to equalize the goals despite the different strategies Manchester city apply at the end of the match but the match still ended up 2-1. Assume Manchester city head coach make use of all their potential players to play the England league competition, I don't think Tottenham would have win the match, because Manchester city head coach reserved those players for other matches for them to perform well in the champions League and premier League competition which they are standing in a good position already.