Pep Guardiola has demanded to meet the referees’ chief, Mike Riley, again after the controversial 2-2 draw against Tottenham Hotspur while Yaya Touré said Manchester City were “robbed” of the three points by Andre Marriner’s refusal to award a penalty when Kyle Walker pushed Raheem Sterling in the Spurs area.

Guardiola’s request for a further meeting suggests the initial discussions with Riley, which occurred after the 2-1 win over Burnley on 2 January, proved unsatisfactory. Riley may be open to seeing Guardiola again as these kind of meetings between all Premier League managers and the Professional Game Match Officials Limited manager can occur throughout the season.

Touré could face a Football Association charge if his comments are judged to have questioned Marriner’s integrity. The Ivorian also said that if the referee watched the incident again he would conclude that “something was very wrong”.

The incident occurred during the second half as City, who dominated the game, led the visitors 2-1. When Sterling closed in on Hugo Lloris’s goal Walker clearly pushed the forward – who did not go to ground – yet Marriner turned down the penalty appeals. Moments later Mauricio Pochettino’s side move upfield and equalised through Son Heung-min to compound the sense of injustice.

Guardiola’s side had taken a two-goal lead thanks to Leroy Sané and Kevin De Bruyne before Dele Alli pulled one back for Spurs. Walker later admitted he had pushed Sterling and it is understood that the sense at the PGMOL is that Marriner will be disappointed not to have given the penalty when he views it again.

Touré revealed the strength of feeling towards the official inside the City dressing room. “We feel a little bit robbed because we dominated the game,” he said. “It was a fantastic game for us. He [Guardiola] was frustrated. When you see how many chances we had, particularly in the first half, it was unbelievable against a big team like Tottenham. The manager and the players were frustrated because we feel like we’ve been robbed.

“I’ll go home and watch the highlights and I’ll probably break the glass and be angry because we’ve lost two points like that. If he [Marriner] looks again he’ll see something was very wrong.”

Touré wants technology introduced. “If video can be involved in football it is going to be brilliant,” he said. “If the ref looks at the highlights he is going to feel something is unfair. We all do wrongs in life but this is difficult to take. It is two points going away. Something has to be done.”

Touré also believed Sterling was too honest in not going down under Walker’s challenge. “If he’d dived everyone would have been saying: ‘It’s a dive,’” the midfielder said. “If you have a bit of experience like me, you’d maybe dive in that situation and that’s maybe what you have to do. He’s too honest, he wants to be proper in these sort of games. If the lad’s like that, you can’t tell him he’s wrong, if that’s what he tries to do. When you see it, he can’t miss from there, he was so close and after that Walker pushes him in the back.”

The complaints of Touré and Guardiola about decisions are the latest to come from City. Last week Bacary Sagna was fined £40,000 by the FA for an Instagram comment saying “10 against 12”, regarding the referee Lee Mason who sent off Fernandinho in the Burnley match. Guardiola’s deep frustration at the incident, which led to the meeting with Riley, also resulted in him having to apologise to the BBC and Sky for awkward post-game interviews.

Guardiola was also unhappy that Ilkay Gündogan was not awarded a penalty by referee Anthony Taylor in December’s 3-1 defeat by Chelsea, in which Fernandinho and Sergio Agüero received red cards.

Indiscipline has become a serious issue for Guardiola. City have had seven dismissals in all competitions, with Fernandinho’s against Burnley his third of the campaign.

City’s form is the head coach’s major headache, though. After the 4-0 hiding at Everton, Guardiola desperately needed a victory to revive the team’s morale. So to draw against Spurs after holding a two-goal advantage, particularly when pinning them back throughout the contest, will further sap spirits.

City are in fifth position and Touré said they are in a fight to qualify for the Champions League. “Definitely. We have to win once and after that things will come,” he said. “People look at the details, the possession we had. But scoring goals is most important.”

Tottenham disappointed yet displayed backbone in earning an unlikely draw. Harry Kane said: “It was one of our worst performances of the season so to come away to City, play bad, go 2-0 down and come away with a point shows how far we’ve come,. We will come away the happier team but City is a tough place to get a point.”

With Jan Vertonghen out for around six weeks because of an ankle injury, his fellow central defender Toby Alderweireld gave Tottenham a further scare when he limped off after 65 minutes. The Belgium international is thought to have done so as a precaution and there is hope that if he is ruled out it will be for only a short time. Danny Rose, who played the whole game, left the stadium with a knee in a brace, though the club claimed it was only a precaution.

Tottenham are taking a break in Barcelona until Wednesday for some warm weather training before they play Wycombe Wanderers of League Two in the FA Cup fourth round at White Hart Lane on Saturday.