Manchester Metropolis striker Erling Haaland stays a doubt for the Premier League champions’ conflict with Liverpool on the Etihad on Sunday, stay on Sky Sports activities, because the striker recovers from a knee harm, supervisor Pep Guardiola mentioned in his pre-match press convention on Friday.
Haaland harm his proper knee late in Metropolis’s 4-0 win over Newcastle United final Saturday and didn’t play within the membership’s 3-1 loss at Actual Madrid on Wednesday which noticed them eradicated from the Champions League on the last-16 stage.
Requested about Haaland’s potential availability to face the league leaders this weekend, Guardiola mentioned he was not sure and that the Norway worldwide will bear a take a look at on Saturday.
“Possibly, however I do not know but,” mentioned Guardiola. “Tomorrow [Saturday] we are going to comprehend it. We’ll practice at the moment and he’ll take a look at, however I do not know.”
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Haaland has scored 27 targets in all competitions this season however new signing Omar Marmoush final week netted a hat-trick in opposition to Newcastle, suggesting Metropolis do now produce other good attacking choices.
Guardiola mentioned: “It’s higher to have Erling on the pitch than not have him, clearly, and with Erling we’re within the place we’re proper now.
“Everyone is answerable for the great issues and the dangerous issues within the staff, however in fact with Erling we’re stronger.”
Centre-back John Stones, in the meantime, could possibly be out for a protracted spell after struggling a thigh harm within the opening minutes of the loss on the Bernabeu Stadium on Wednesday.
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Arne Slot and Pep Guardiola present harm updates on Erling Haaland, John Stones, Cody Gakpo, Conor Bradley and Joe Gomes forward of Liverpool’s go to to Man Metropolis on Sunday.
It’s the newest setback in what has been a irritating marketing campaign for the England worldwide, having made simply 20 appearances.
Guardiola mentioned: “He’s injured, it’s a troublesome one and within the subsequent hours or days we are going to know if he wants surgical procedure or not.”
Stones joins fellow defender Manuel Akanji and midfielder Rodri on the long-term casualty record.
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Scale of Metropolis rebuild nonetheless wanted laid naked in Madrid
It is actually troublesome to say in such a low second, however I feel that the information are laid fairly naked that Man Metropolis had been to date beneath the extent they needed to be to compete in opposition to Actual Madrid in Spain, wrote Sky Sports activities Information reporter Ben Ransom in Madrid.
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Sky Sports activities’ Ben Ransom displays on Manchester Metropolis’s subpar efficiency in opposition to Actual Madrid as Kylian Mbappe’s hat-trick helped Los Blancos dump Pep Guardiola’s facet out of the UEFA Champions League.
Since I arrived in Madrid a few days in the past, there was this rising perception that regardless of the primary leg, regardless of the best way that ended, Metropolis would come right here and actually problem Madrid, would rating, would hassle them.
I feel that was probably the most regarding factor from Pep Guardiola’s viewpoint on Wednesday night time – that the staff weren’t the staff we’re used to seeing. They had been unrecognisable within the sense that with the ball they did not trigger sufficient issues.
