Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has admitted that Jeremy Doku is likely to be missing during “a while”, before the big Premier League games and Champions League.
Doku had scored three goals and three assists in successive appearances against Salford City and Ipswich Town earlier this month. But was absent from injury to Paris Saint-Germain last week and was again low The Saturday’s comeback against Chelsea.
There is no definitive calendar about Doku’s recovery, but he will not play against Club Brugge this week and probably will not appear on the Arsenal on Sunday’s Sunday.
“A while. I don’t know how much, but a while, yes. It won’t be ready for Wednesday, sure. I don’t believe it for Arsenal (either). We’ll see.” Guardiola Explained.
Although City has the depth to cover Doku’s absence, the team continues to deal defensively. This caused the new 20 -year signing Abdukodir Khusanov to be introduced directly into the titular alignment against Chelsea with a minimum preparation and supporting a nightmare debut.
“The problem is that we continue with the problems. Khusanov should not have played; he had to take time to do so,” said the head.
“It is not easy against Chelsea at the Premier League, coming from another country and does not communicate much with his colleagues and arrives without training to see what you want to do, what process you have and others.
“To start in this way he started; imagine that we all live what Khusanov has experienced and what happened, would be: ‘Oh God!’ … but the situation is that Ruben (days) is not there Nathan (Ake).
Guardiola describes the Bruges game as “final” because all the status of the City Champions League for the season is a 90 -minute game.
Has only won two of his first seven games and none of the last five City Outside the top 24 before the eighth day. They have to overcome the Brugge, which has three points of advantage and struggle to stay in the quarterfinals, and hope that other results will also favor them to qualify.
At best, the City can finish 19th, which would mean two additional games to play the play-off of the Round Round. If they do not get three points against the Brugge, the City would be outside the Champions League before the tie phase for the first time since the 2012/13 campaign.
