Manchester City suffered a pre-season injury scare as Yaya Toure limped out of the 2-1 win over Vancouver Whitecaps.
Yaya limps off as visitors struggle to narrow victory
Manchester City suffered a pre-season injury scare as Yaya Toure limped out of the 2-1 win over Vancouver Whitecaps.
Toure landed heavily after challenging for a first-half header and immediately crumpled to the ground.
Toure's departure marked the low point of a generally disappointing night for the Blues, which was salvaged by late goals from John Guidetti and Shaun Wright-Phillips, who lashed home the winner six minutes from time.
With the Carlos Tevez affair rumbling on City could have done with a convincing performance, just to reassure their fans everything else was proceeding as planned.
They were not helped by an awful surface which needed to pass a pitch inspection for the game to go ahead, such has been the rain that has lashed the Pacific coast over recent days.
Adam Johnson was lively but City's best player was Joe Hart, which just about summed it up.
Hart denied Eric Hassli and Camilo Sanvezzo with excellent saves before he was eventually beaten as Alexandre Morfaw's shot deflected in off Stefan Savic.
Sanvezzo then had another goalbound shot saved by Hart before curling a free-kick into the side-netting which the City keeper appeared to have given up as a goal.
Mario Balotelli was amongst those introduced at the break, although it was the hosts who should have added a second when Long Tan stabbed wide after being left on his own at the near post, barely three yards out.
Guidetti eventually restored parity with a far-post header midway though the second-half, although by then Balotelli was committing some niggly and unnecessary fouls, and it was left to Wright-Phillips to score the winner late on.
