Riyad Mahrez's disallowed penalty in Leicester's 2-1 loss against Manchester City was a "freak" occurrence, said Foxes boss Craig Shakespeare.
However, City's manager has made clear that he only wants focus on the final three matches of the season, starting with Saturday's home game against Leicester, as his side try to secure Champions League qualification.
Man City have won only two of their last seven Premier League meetings with the Foxes (D2 L3).
The Nigeria worldwide impressed under Manuel Pellegrini previous year, recording eight goals in 26 appearances, and while Guardiola is said to admire his attitude, there are doubts over whether he fits the Spaniard's style of play. It doesn't matter if he's going for the ball because I can't see it.
Leicester had been outplayed up to that point, but replied through Japan striker Shinji Okazaki's acrobatic volley in the 42nd and caused City problems in the closing stages. Photo: Martin Rickett/PABut Otamendi called the referee's attention to the double hit penalty.
The victory moves Manchester City onto 72 points and above Liverpool into third in the table, with a six-point cushion between them and fifth-place Arsenal ahead of their trip to Stoke City. Jamie Vardy leads the club in goals with 12, while Robert Huth and Kasper Schmeichel have been holding down the defense.
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Leicester were the better side after the break and Riyad Mahrez had the chance to equalise from the penalty spot but his effort was ruled out for a freaky double contact.
That's a lot of depth to be missing against a team like Manchester City, making Leicester's job much more hard in this match.
And Sterling says he intentionally missed the ball to ensure that the goal would not be disallowed. I feel younger than Raheem [Sterling] now. "He is blocking my view, he goes for the ball". Leroy Sane was sent sprawling in the area by Yohan Benalouane and Gabriel Jesus fired the resulting spot kick into the corner.
The hosts had dominated the first half at the Etihad Stadium, and looked like they were cruising to victory when they went 2 -0 up.
Mahrez couldn't capitalize and with some desperate late defending, City clung on. "We got the luck we needed throughout the season", Sterling told Sky Sports. "Those games we played really well but we didn't get all we deserved".
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