The city hospital cannot cope: Guardiola has the biggest injury crisis with only 13 players available

Manchester City‘s hospital is full and its coach, Pep Guardiola only has 13 outfield playersfigure decreased in the last hours after the injury of Savinho, who suffered a blow to his ankle in the defeat against Tottenham Hotspur, in the round of 16 of the English League Cup.

The Brazilian is the latest casualty of a team that cannot currently count on Oscar Bobb, who broke his leg during the season, Kevin de Bruyne, Jeremy Doku and Jack Grealish, who has a muscle problem for weeks, and Kyle Walker He has a knee. injury

It is not known when they will all return, although Guardiola hopes to have Doku after the international break in November. In fact this break can be a cushion for the ‘Sky Blues’, giving time to several of these players to recover, as long as the matches with their national teams do not bring new injuries.

Before the break though, City must play away from home this Saturday against Bournemouth, Tuesday 5th Champions League matchday four against Sporting de Portugal and the following Saturday, against Brighton back in the Premier League League. However, this is not the worst possible record for City, who are third in the Champions League group stage with seven points from a possible nine, and are leaders in Premier, with 23 of 27 points after nine games.

“We’ve never had so many injuries”

“It is a complicated time. We are in trouble. We have a lot of players with problems. In nine years we have never had so many players with so many injuries, but they will effort, they will take the step forward and they will be more together than ever,” admitted Guardiola. The man from Sampedor, who had to play three young players in the duel against Tottenham and acknowledged that he would be playing with the B team, will be left without lifting the League Cup for the fourth time consecutive season after being fired this Wednesday.