Pep Guardiola rules out four Man City stars and responds to Erling Haaland injury concern

Four Manchester City players volition miss the Premier League gathering with Fulham connected Saturday, but Erling Haaland is acceptable and available.

There was immoderate interest implicit the prolific Norwegian aft helium suffered a sound to the ankle against Newcastle past weekend.

Haaland did commencement against Slovan Bratislava successful the Champions League connected Tuesday nighttime and scored City’s 3rd extremity successful a 4-0 rout earlier being taken disconnected aft 60 minutes.

That was conscionable a precaution, though, with Guardiola confirming that his prima striker volition beryllium disposable agaisnt the Cottagers, telling a property league connected Friday: ‘Erling is fine.’

However, Kevin De Bruyne is inactive struggling with a thigh contented and won’t beryllium progressive this weekend, nor volition Nathan Ake, Rodri oregon Oscar Bobb.

‘Everyone other but Nathan, Kevin, Rodri and Oscar. The remainder are OK,” said Guardiola. ‘Kevin is not acceptable for tomorrow.’

It is nary large astonishment that the Belgian volition not beryllium progressive arsenic helium missed the crippled successful Bratislava and Guardiola said of him earlier successful the week: ‘Hopefully aft the planetary interruption helium [Kevin] volition beryllium back.’

De Bruyne has lone played successful 4 of City’s Premier League games truthful acold this season, not turning retired successful the apical formation since the 2-1 triumph implicit Brentford connected 14 September. He picked up his existent wounded occupation against Inter Milan successful the Champions League connected 18 September.

Manchester City person won their past 16 meetings with Fulham, which represents the longest ever tally of consecutive wins by 1 English squad implicit another.

However, Guardiola had lone praise for the Cottagers, picking retired immoderate circumstantial threats and players helium admires successful Marco Silva’s side.

‘Marco Silva has already spent a fewer years determination successful London and they bought absorbing players there, particularly [Joachim] Andersen and different experienced guys,’ helium said.

‘It’s ever a squad that creates a batch of problems. They person a batch of weapons, velocity – [Alex] Iwobi, the signifier helium is playing, the velocity from Adama Traore ever creates a problem, the operation defensively, that is my lone concern.

‘What they do, not what happened successful the past.’

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