Pep weighs up keeper options

PEP Guardiola will make a late decision on which goalkeeper to play in Manchester City's FA Cup fifth-round replay against Huddersfield.

City must take on the Championship promotion-chasers again after being held to a goalless draw when they first met last month.

Willy Caballero now appears to have become Guardiola's first-choice keeper having played five of the last six games in preference to Claudio Bravo.

But Bravo, who was controversially signed to replace Joe Hart earlier this season, did play in the last meeting against Huddersfield and Guardiola claims he chooses on a match-by-match basis.

LINE-UP

The City manager said: "I have to think about it - not just with our goalkeepers - for the line-up.

"We were one week out so it is not about how tired they are, more a final against one team who impressed a lot when we played there.

"I have to think about it after the training session. I am not thinking about who is the first one, who is the second one. We are going to decide game by game."

Guardiola, who is again without captain Vincent Kompany, insists there can be no room for complacency against the side who are currently third in the Championship. A quarter-final trip to Middlesbrough lies ahead for the winners.

He said: "They are there, (near the) top of the league in the Championship. Sometimes in the Championship the teams at the top are stronger, in some periods of the season, than the Premier League teams. It is one game, and I know how many surprises there are in the cup."