Manuel Pellegrini has come to the defence of Yaya Toure after the Ivorian was subjected to criticism following City’s 2-1 defeat to Arsenal on Monday.
Jamie Carragher criticised Toure in his post-match analysis, deeming the 32-year old’s performance to be “unbelievably selfish”.
Pellegrini, however, says that his player does not deserve such criticism and made reference to the part Toure played in City’s late push.
Speaking at today’s press conference, Pellegrini said:
When you lose a game, the losers are always doing bad things. The first shot Arsenal had on our goal was on 33 minutes and they scored.
Toure scored a sublime consolation goal for the Blues and Pellegrini says he is not one to scrutinise individual performances.
We dominated the game – maybe we were not aggressive, but we had a couple of great chances and Yaya was involved in all of that. I never criticise individual performances.
