Pep Guardiola admits he may have made a major mistake in freezing out Yaya Toure as Manchester City head into a defining Champions League game shorn of their weekend match-winner.
Toure scored twice in Saturday's 2-1 win at Crystal Palace after almost three months out — but will be unavailable away at Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday having been excluded from boss Guardiola's Euro squad in a long-running feud involving his agent.
Well aware that City are still misfiring, Guardiola will be gutted to be without a player whose quality — he says — has never been in doubt.