DOHA: Manchester City face injury concern that is likely to disrupt the club’s perfect start to the season.
City only had six outfield players on their bench for the 3-1 Champions League victory over Serbia’s Crvena Zvezda FC on Tuesday night.
And their seventh successive triumph in all competitions came at a cost as midfielder Bernardo Silva became the latest player to pick up an injury which, according to Guardiola, will keep him out for “the next few weeks”.
The Portuguese international joins Kevin de Bruyne, Jack Grealish, Mateo Kovacic and John Stones on the sidelines.
City have three more Premier League games, including a trip to Arsenal on 8 October, a Carabao Cup tie at Newcastle and another Champions League outing, at RB Leipzig, before the next international break, Guardiola says “we are in trouble”.
“We are in trouble but I am not going to say ‘oh, we have a lot of injuries’. It is what it is,” said Guardiola
