West Bromwich Albion midfielder Jake Livermore has been handed an extended rest by manager Tony Pulis.

The England international will miss Wednesday night's Carabao Cup clash with Manchester City because he is mentally 'jaded'.

"We had a chat with Jake at the beginning of the week," said Pulis. "Jake came to see me.

"He has felt a little bit jaded, mentally more than anything else and we check all of his running stats, and his data and he had dropped off a bit.

"So we are going to give him a couple of days off. We could have done with his energy today with the way the game went. We could have done with Jake.

"Physically he is fine but mentally he just feels a little bit tired.

"I think for the first time going away with England during the summer and then having these two call-ups, I think playing all the time has really, really taken it out of the boy.

"And he is such a good player for us that we don't want to risk him going into a deeper, deeper, deeper hole. He won't play on Wednesday. But hopefully he will be ready to face Arsenal on the Monday."