Pep Guardiola takes positives from Man City display despite Carabao Cup exit

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was able to take positives from the Carabao Cup third round defeat at Newcastle (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Pep Guardiola was counting the positives despite seeing Manchester City dumped out of the Carabao Cup at Newcastle.

Wednesday night’s 1-0 defeat at St James’ Park ended City’s interest at the third-round stage, although boss Guardiola scoffed at the suggestion afterwards that a quadruple to go with last season’s treble was ever on the cards.