Manchester City ‘doesn’t have many players’ for Cup derby vs Man United

Manchester City supervisor Pep Guardiola says he “would not have many gamers” for the Carabao Cup semifinal with Manchester United.

The Metropolis squad have been hit with an outbreak of COVID-19 that compelled the membership’s coaching base to quickly shut.

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They beat Chelsea 3-1 at Stamford Bridge on Sunday with out Ederson, Kyle Walker, Ferran Torres and Gabriel Jesus and Guardiola says he nonetheless has restricted numbers to choose from forward of the derby at Outdated Trafford on Wednesday.

“We do not have many gamers and like I mentioned after the primary press convention, to play one or two video games is OK but when this sustains for a very long time and I can solely use 14 or 15 gamers will probably be harder,” mentioned Guardiola.

“Like everybody on the earth, we adapt, you must modify our lives and our professions as a lot as attainable and we do not have an alternate.

“A very powerful factor is that the blokes who’ve COVID can recuperate properly and the blokes deal with it properly and attempt to keep away from it as a lot as attainable.”

Metropolis face a United aspect who’re stage on factors with Premier League leaders Liverpool after a run of unbeaten home video games which stretches again to Nov. 1. Metropolis put themselves again within the race for the title with the spectacular victory at Stamford Bridge and Guardiola believes United will likely be one of many key challengers for the trophy.

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Manchester United are assured forward of their semifinal towards Manchester Metropolis.

“They’ve at all times been contenders,” he mentioned.

“Yearly, once we begin the season, United is a contender. If it did not occur in the previous couple of seasons, it’s a query for them.

“Years earlier than it was between two, possibly three, however not more than that. Now there are a lot of groups and everybody can win and everybody can lose.

“We’ll now see the consistency of each membership and the ups and downs, each membership has good moments and unhealthy moments.

“So long as the competitors goes on, I feel the large groups are going to drop much less factors. That’s the actual Premier League competitors the place everybody can beat everybody.

“It’s about being calm, being contemporary for the second of the sport, pray to not be contaminated by this pandemic state of affairs all over the world and be contemporary the second the sport begins.”