Dele Alli insists there are no hard feelings after Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling's reckless challenge left the Tottenham midfielder nursing an injury.

Sterling was lucky to avoid a red card in Spurs' 2-0 win over City on Sunday when he went in studs-up on his England team-mate and caught him above the ankle.

Referee Mike Dean only awarded a yellow card and VAR did not overrule him.

Alli initially played on as Spurs won the game through goals from debutant Steven Bergwijn and Son Heung-min before limping off in the final 10 minutes.

The 23-year-old is an early doubt for Wednesday's FA Cup replay against Southampton, but is still mates with Sterling.

"We will see how it is on Monday, but hopefully it is not too bad," Alli said of the injury.

"I am not sure if it was a red to be honest, I have not had a proper look back at it, it is obviously for the referee and VAR to make the decision. They didn't give the red card.

City suffered a sixth Premier League defeat of the campaign but it could have been different had they taken a plethora of chances, not least Ilkay Gundogan's first-half penalty.

Fernandinho, who made his 300th appearance for City, told the club's official website: "We played the same way we've played this season by creating chances but at the end the result was not the one we wanted.

"Now we need to stick together as a squad. We created chances especially in the first half where we hit the post and in the second half we hit the bar. We also missed a penalty so it was a strange game.

"We had a chance to score at least three goals but we have to accept it. We have to get back to training and improve."