Guardiola supplies harm replace on Haaland and De Bruyne
- Manchester City might be with out Erling Haaland in opposition to Newcastle on Saturday
- The striker suffered a foot harm final month and can now miss his ninth match
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Manchester City are nonetheless with out prime scorer Erling Haaland – stretching his absence to a ninth recreation.
Haaland suffered a foot harm after a defeat at Aston Villa final month and had appeared like making optimistic progress over the festive interval.
The 23-year-old travelled with the Treble winners for his or her Club World Cup triumph and was present process particular person work with Saudi Arabia earlier than re-joining crew classes.
But Haaland will miss the journey to Newcastle United on Saturday night, with midfielder Kevin De Bruyne in competition to characteristic from the beginning following hamstring surgical procedure.
‘Jack [Grealish] has been sick and hopefully in the present day he’s again,’ Pep Guardiola mentioned. ‘Erling is out and John [Stones] is out.’
Manchester City might be with out prime scorer Erling Haaland in opposition to Newcastle this weekend
But Kevin De Bruyne is now in line to begin after recovering from surgical procedure on his hamstring
Manuel Akanji was pressured off throughout final week’s FA Cup win over Huddersfield Town and has not skilled all week both.
Guardiola added: ‘Kevin De Bruyne is able to begin and I can see he is superb and the journey to Abu Dhabi [next week] will do him good too.
‘I noticed him yesterday and he feels good and dynamic. He performed properly, higher than the classes earlier than Huddersfield. He’s getting higher.’
Haaland stays the frontrunner for the Premier League’s Golden Boot regardless of lacking the final 4 matches, whereas City can go inside two factors of leaders Liverpool ought to they win at St James’ Park.
‘You can’t think about how happy I’m for us to be the place we’re within the competitions this season,’ Guardiola mentioned. ‘I used to be drained at the start of the season and I used to be a bit nervous with all of the challenges now we have confronted, however we gained two trophies already.’
Pep Guardiola insisted he was happy along with his facet’s progress throughout a number of fronts this yr
