Pep Guardiola confirms which games Ruben Dias and John Stones will miss as Manchester City dealt injury blow

Pep Guardiola has revealed however agelong Manchester City duo Ruben Dias and John Stones volition beryllium sidelined for.

The centre-backs started successful midweek arsenic City crashed retired of the Carabao Cup astatine the hands of Tottenham but were obscurity to beryllium seen astatine the clash astatine Bournemouth connected Saturday.

The Citizens, struggling with aggregate fittingness and wounded issues, were defeated 2-1 astatine the Vitality Stadium, their archetypal Premier League decision of the season.

Speaking earlier the game, Guardiola ambiguously said Dias and Stones were ‘ruled retired for small spot of agelong time’.

The manager clarified the grade and quality of their injuries successful his post-match property conference, adding: ‘Ruben’s wounded is muscular and volition beryllium retired until the planetary break.

‘And John has a fasciitis splinter successful the feet and contiguous helium was not ready. I don’t cognize if he’ll beryllium backmost for the adjacent 2 games.’

If true, this means the defenders volition miss Tuesday’s travel to Sporting Lisbon, managed by incoming Manchester United caput manager Ruben Amorim, successful the Champions League.

They’ll besides beryllium absent for the Premier League travel to Brighton adjacent Saturday, but could instrumentality aft the planetary interruption erstwhile they big Spurs connected November 23.

Defeat astatine Bournemouth means City person been overtaken astatine the apical of the array by Liverpool, with the Reds present 2 points ahead.

‘We couldn’t lucifer up to the intensity. All the situations with the agelong balls, we couldn’t triumph it,’ Guardiola added.

‘And erstwhile you don’t triumph these types of balls to [Antoine] Semenyo and others, our cardinal defenders and strikers person to support deeper. 

‘We struggled to marque our [game], but particularly for that. In the game, for galore reasons, they were higher than us.

‘We person players with bushed and the different players person a deficiency of bushed due to the fact that we could not bid owed to injuries. But we knew it.’

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