Guardiola unsure how bad Rodri’s injury is

Pep Guardiola says he’s not sure on the severity of the harm sustained by Rodri in opposition to Arsenal on Sunday.

Rodri picked up an obvious knee harm after colliding with Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey throughout a Man Metropolis nook. He needed to be substituted and only a minute after being taken off, Arsenal equalised. 

“I don’t know but. I didn’t ask the medical doctors,” Guardiola mentioned when requested about how lengthy Rodri is perhaps out for.

“He’s sturdy. He leaves the pitch and his motion is he felt one thing in any other case he would keep there.”

Guardiola went on to name Rodri “the perfect holding midfielder on the planet” and the Spaniard will surely be an enormous miss to Man Metropolis if he’s compelled to overlook matches. 

Man Metropolis’s subsequent PL fixtures

Sunday’s match was Rodri’s first begin of the season, and solely his second look, after recovering from a hamstring harm. 

The Ballon d’Or nominee’s significance to Man Metropolis is proven within the stats. Since Rodri’s debut for Metropolis in 2019 they’ve misplaced 24 per cent of matches with out him. That determine reduces to 11 per cent with him. 

He’s now unbeaten in an unbelievable 52 consecutive Premier League matches. The final time he performed, and Metropolis misplaced within the Premier League, was a 1-0 defeat to Spurs in February 2023.

Man Metropolis misplaced thrice within the Premier League final season, and Rodri was unavailable for all three of them.