Out of the Carabao Cup afer a defeat from Tottenham 2-1. Nothing special for Pep Guardiola. He won many with Manchester City over the years and when he loses, he will just tell you it’s not an important trophy. And yet, the Spanish coach was deeply worried after last night’s loss. The reason? Injuries. Apart from Manuel Akanji, Savinho got injured during the game which left the Spanish tactician not only in worries over future games, but in shortage of bodies for the recovery training on Thursday! Manchester City are already without key players like Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri and Kyle Walker, while Oscar Bobb, Jeremy Doku and Jack Grealish have also missed recent games. According to Pep, they won’t be available until after the international break. Still, City are top of the Premier League by a point over Liverpool and face Bournemouth on Saturday.Spurs end City’s unbeaten streak, reach League Cup quarter-finals with a Sarr stunner”When you have this situation with all the squad is fine but… Tomorrow we have two ‘keepers and Erling Haaland for a training session and we don’t have anything else. We are 13 players. We are in real difficulty but we have to make the effort. The guys who played, most finished with problems and we will see how they recover. I think when we are in trouble like we are – because in nine years I have never had this many injuries for this many reasons – in these situations, the players make a step forward, they are more together than ever and we will try to do this week in a short time for recovery“ said Guardiola. Guardiola on the international-duty injuries: ‘If it’s a friendly game, you cannot come back injured’City coach added that Ruben Dias and Josko Gvardiol were among those who finished the game that had issues while Rico Lewis was extremely tired.”Savinho had a knock in the 18-yard box for a potential penalty and we will see what happened. We have to see just a knock, or maybe something else. It was in the bone. Hopefully it is nothing dangerous but we will see. Akanji yesterday in the last action felt something muscular in the meniscus and today in the warm-up he didn’t feel good. He said he could take a risk but I said no. Ruben is struggling sometimes as well. It’s been getting more difficult game by game but maybe one day we will be all together” explained the Spaniard. ##NAJAVA_MECA_8456968##
