Pep Guardiola was pressed on his decision to leave Yaya Toure out of Manchester City's Champions League match.
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola says he did not want Yaya Toure to have a wasted trip to Romania after leaving him out of his side's game at Steaua Bucharest.
Toure was among a number of big names left in England for the first leg of the Champions league play-off tie, with Eliaquim Mangala, Samir Nasri, Wilfried Bony and Jason Denayer also left out of the travelling party.
Guardiola was pressed on the Ivory Coast international's omission at his pre-match media conference ahead of Tuesday's game and claimed it was nothing to do with his training performance, saying he did not want the midfielder to travel if he was unlikely to play.