Supercomputer predicts how many points Rodri injury will cost Man City in title race

Early leaders Manchester City are expected to beryllium without influential midfielder Rodri for the remainder of the season, handing rivals Arsenal a large vantage successful the rubric race

Arsenal person been handed a boost successful their rubric conflict with Manchester City aft a caller supercomputer predicted the remainder of the play with Rodri absent.

The midfielder is understood to person ruptured his ACL during Sunday's melodramatic gully with Arsenal. Such an wounded if confirmed would regularisation him retired for the remainder of the season, leaving City brag Pep Guardiola with a large headache.

Guardiola faces a hard task to triumph different title, with Arsenal erstwhile again acceptable to propulsion them each the way. City besides person a wretched grounds erstwhile Rodri is sidelined, with Guardiola's men winning conscionable 64 percent of the 45 games helium has been absent for since 2019.

In total, they person dropped 23 points successful 21 Premier League games without him, sending their points-per-game mean crashing down from 2.37 to lone 1.86. By contrast, City person won 74 percent of the 260 games helium has featured in, drafting 15 percent and losing conscionable 11 percent.

Based connected that miserable grounds with Rodri absent, the Standard has calculated City volition decorativeness connected 80 points this season. That is improbable to beryllium capable to spot them triumph the title, with the past squad to decorativeness apical with that fig of points being Manchester United successful 2010/2011.

Arsenal's caller finishes besides marque it improbable City volition pip them to apical spot. Two seasons ago, the Gunners ended up connected 84 points, portion past word they picked up 89 points to decorativeness second.

Last play meanwhile, City ended up with 91 points to tempest to their 4th successive title. The past clip they ended up with 80 points oregon little was successful the 2016/2017 run erstwhile they picked up 78 points during Guardiola's archetypal twelvemonth successful charge.

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That was lone capable for 3rd place, with Chelsea winning the league afer claiming 93 points. A tally of 80 points would apt beryllium capable for a apical 4 spot though, with Aston Villa lone needing 68 points to marque the chopped past season.

Boss Guardiola admitted connected Sunday that Rodri's wounded is simply a immense stroke to his team. He was besides adamant that had the midfielder stayed on, City whitethorn good person beaten Arsenal, a effect that would person dealt an aboriginal stroke successful the rubric race.

"I don't cognize yet, I didn't inquire the doctors," said Guardiola. "Rodri is strong. He leaves the transportation successful this enactment due to the fact that helium felt something, different Rodri stays there. He's the champion holding midfielder successful the world.

"He is simply a imaginable Ballon d'Or winner, I would emotion for him to win. But it happened successful the archetypal minutes. These games with Arsenal are similar that and we person to grip it. We did it. We did truly bully things.

"The abstraction is not determination successful the team, they equalise the team. Kova [Kovacic] and Ruben [Dias] is destined for the shot. With Rodri it whitethorn person been different. Congratulations to Arsenal, to beryllium truthful beardown mentally to block, it's not casual but astatine the aforesaid clip we were not casual to bash it."

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