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Newcastle v Manchester City: Pep Guardiola's pre-match injury update
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27/09/2024
The Manchester City manager gave an update on Rodri's knee injury and Kevin De Bruyne's availability this weekend.
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I'm outside Manchester City's media centre where this afternoon Pep Guardiola has held
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his pre-match press conference ahead of the game against Newcastle on Saturday.
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The big story was always going to be Rodri, with today Pep Guardiola confirming that the
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Spanish midfielder won't play at all again this season.
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Of course he suffered that knee injury last weekend against Arsenal, there have been lots
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of little updates on Rodri across the course of this week.
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Guardiola confirming that he was out for a long time on Tuesday, the club confirming
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he'd suffered a knee ligament injury, but today Guardiola confirmed it is an ACL injury
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and a meniscus injury and Rodri will not play again this season.
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Guardiola actually wanted to stress that it's not just an injury he thinks about in terms
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of eight, nine months' time, he wants to ensure that when the player comes back he doesn't
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suffer any minor muscular injuries and he sees it as a long-term process to get Rodri
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back to his best.
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A huge blow for Manchester City of course, probably the most important player in their
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side and the record speaks volumes whenever he's not on the team compared to when he is
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back.
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But Guardiola spoke again about trying to find the solutions without him, said that
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it won't just be one player, said that they don't have a like-for-like replacement for
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the midfielder, said it's going to have to be a combination of players, he said something
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like all together we can replace him but not one individual player.
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It's going to be a huge talking point over the next couple of weeks and months I think.
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Guardiola trying to find the solution and the answer to how his team function efficiently
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without Rodri.
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And the only other major news from today was that Kevin De Bruyne is also out.
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He was a doubt coming into the game and has missed the last two with a minor injury.
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Not a long-term problem but he isn't going to be back in time to face Newcastle.
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It means that City are going to travel there without Rodri, De Bruyne, Nathan Ake and Oscar
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Bobbs.
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So without four players at this stage of the season, not ideal, but certainly City will
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know they've got enough strength and depth to put out a very strong team at St. James's
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Park.
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