Mateo Kovacic, however, picked up an wounded connected planetary work with Croatia and volition miss Saturday’s location Premier League match.
Guardiola explained connected Friday: “Kovacic is injured. It volition beryllium a while. Three weeks oregon 1 month, much oregon less.”
In much affirmative news, the City caput manager revealed that immoderate players injured earlier the planetary interruption person now returned to first-team action.
“Some of them, yes,” helium said. “John [Stones] trained bully yesterday, Manu [Akanji] trained bully yesterday, Nathan [Ake] is coming backmost to training. We didn’t person cardinal defenders. Now we person three. Just Ruben [Dias] is out, but hopefully he’s coming backmost soon.
“I don’t cognize if they are acceptable to play 90 minutes oregon play from the beginning, but to spot their faces is simply a truly bully boost for each of us.”
Big boost: Kevin De Bruyne and John Stones are among those backmost successful grooming for Manchester City
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Oscar Bobb and Rodri are semipermanent absentees.
Starting Man City XI (4-3-3): Ederson; Walker, Stones, Akanji, Gvardiol, Lewis; Gundogan, Bernardo; Savinho, Foden, Haaland
Subs: Ortega, Ake, Grealish, De Bruyne, Nunes, Wright, Simpson-Pusey, O'Reilly, McAtee
Time and date: 5.30pm GMT connected Saturday November 23, 2024
Venue: Etihad Stadium, Manchester
TV transmission and unrecorded stream: Sky Sports