Guardiola defended the selection of James Trafford and explained the decision followed Trafford's strong previous performance. Trafford played instead of Ederson and a sloppy pass from Trafford led to Joao Palhinha's second-half goal after the ball reached Pape Matar Sarr. Ederson was named on the bench and is reportedly considering his future, while the club prefer he stays. Brennan Johnson opened the scoring for Tottenham and City created chances but produced a disjointed performance. Guardiola emphasized outstanding effort and running but said the team missed simple details and must improve step by step before the Brighton match.
After the manager decided to name Ederson as a substitute at the Etihad Stadium, he saw a sloppy ball from Trafford lead to Joao Palhinha scoring Spurs' second goal at the end of the first half. The 22-year-old goalkeeper, who rejoined City from Burnley for 31m this summer, tried to find Nico Gonzalez but passed instead to Pape Matar Sarr, the ball eventually reaching Palhinha.
He made a good first game, James, and I decided to continue. When I take decisions in the first part of the season for all the players you play one or two [games] everyone thinks: OK, this is the starting lineup.' It was just today I decided that. Brennan Johnson had opened the scoring and while City had chances their performance was disjointed. Guardiola said: We missed the simple things. The effort and running is extraordinary and I have no doubts about that. It's been really good. But we missed the simple things [for example] read better what we should do. We created chances, we created enough. It happened, it's football.
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