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Manchester City will be without at least four players for Sunday’s Premier League meeting against Liverpool - and that number could be extended further if Erling Haaland is out through injury.
The striker sustained a knee injury in the latter stages of last week’s 4-0 win over Newcastle United that prevented him featuring in the midweek Champions League defeat against Real Madrid.
Speaking on Friday, Pep Guardiola revealed Haaland is still a doubt for the game against Liverpool.
City will also be without John Stones for the Liverpool clash after he suffered a thigh injury and had to be replaced after just five minutes at the Bernabeu.
We have to sit down with the doctors, with physios, with the players, with the agents, and be clear that some of them cannot sustain every three days, every month, every two months, playing every three, four days.
There’s one more year, [then] a World Cup.
"There are already a lot of players who cannot sustain what we have done in the past every week in, week out.
Guardiola has said his players must be able to play more regular minutes
It's so so demanding for the teams are quicker, faster, stronger and we cannot handle it right now.”
As for Liverpool, it is without Joe Gomez and Tyler Morton for Sunday’s trip to the Etihad
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