{"id":101027,"date":"2026-01-05T06:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/concern-in-the-city-guardiola-fears-injuries-after-draw-against-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:19:34","slug":"concern-in-the-city-guardiola-fears-injuries-after-draw-against-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/concern-in-the-city-guardiola-fears-injuries-after-draw-against-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern in the City: Guardiola fears injuries after draw against Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guardiola Expresses Concern Over Injuries at Manchester City<\/h2>\n\n\nManchester City coach Pep Guardiola expressed his concern after the 1-1 draw against Chelsea in the Premier League. Sunday&#8217;s match left the team with several important absences due to defensive injuries.\n\nJosko Gvardiol and R\u00faben Dias were forced to leave the field in the second half. Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez scored the equalizing goal for Chelsea in added time.\n\nNico O&#8217;Reilly also seemed to suffer hamstring discomfort at the end of the match.\n\nGuardiola is already without John Stones, who has only played one league game since August, while Nathan Ak\u00e9 has also had trouble staying fit.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Of course I have concerns. Have you seen the bench today? Four youth players and now we will have more. We don&#8217;t have players.<\/p><cite>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>After the losses of Gvardiol and Dias, City&#8217;s makeshift defense conceded Chelsea&#8217;s equalizing goal in the 94th minute.<\/p>\n\n\nThis is the second consecutive match in which Guardiola&#8217;s team drops points, remaining six points behind leader Arsenal at the top of the Premier League.\n\nGuardiola commented on the team&#8217;s current situation.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We have many injuries. John Stones is out, I don&#8217;t know for how many months. Rub\u00e9n will now be out, Josko will also be out. Nathan, we always know that Nathan can&#8217;t play regularly. That is the situation.<\/p><cite>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGuardiola admitted to being especially worried about Gvardiol, who needed help to leave the field.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We&#8217;ll see tomorrow, it doesn&#8217;t look good. He and Rub\u00e9n, we&#8217;ll see what happens. I haven&#8217;t spoken to the doctor, but if Rub\u00e9n is out it&#8217;s because he felt something.<\/p><cite>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola Expresses Concern Over Injuries at Manchester City Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola expressed his concern after the 1-1 draw against Chelsea in the Premier League. Sunday&#8217;s match left the team with several important absences due to defensive injuries. Josko Gvardiol and R\u00faben Dias were forced to leave the field in the second half. Enzo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[11224,1198,355,1200],"class_list":{"0":"post-101027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-defenses","9":"tag-guardiola","10":"tag-injuries","11":"tag-manchester-city"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}