Man City set to be without 4 players vs Liverpool amid Erling Haaland injury update

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. “Maybe, but I don’t know yet,” said the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager. “Tomorrow we will know it. We will train today and he will test, but I don’t know.”

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. Guardiola revealed the center-back might require surgery to address the issue.

He joins Manuel Akanji, Rodri and Oscar Bobb on City’s list of absentees and injuries have been a recurring theme this season for Guardiola. The Catalan admitted in Friday’s press conference that the club will inevitably have to move on players this summer who are not capable of playing regular matches in a season.

“That is a reality. 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. So this is the reality. 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. Playing in different competitions, traveling without the problems. The quality is there, injuries for a long time, recover and have be in the demanding opponents where today the modern football [improves].

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"The reality is for the future if we want to be there again we need players fit and available. It can happen sometimes but already it happens many times. 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. Conor Bradley is also expected to miss out after he was replaced with an injury in the midweek draw against Aston Villa, while Cody Gakpo remains a doubt.

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