{"id":11519,"date":"2022-04-14T20:04:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=213734"},"modified":"2022-04-14T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:34:35","slug":"pep-guardiola-believes-man-city-in-serious-trouble-after-injuries-in-atletico-madrid-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/pep-guardiola-believes-man-city-in-serious-trouble-after-injuries-in-atletico-madrid-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola believes Man City in serious trouble after injuries in Atletico Madrid clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Man City maintain their calm in Madrid to advance to the Champions League semi-finals, however, Pep Guardiola admits the triumph came as a consequence of a fraught battle versus Atletico; Kevin de Bruyne and Kyle Walker will be examined before Saturday\u2019s FA Cup semi-final versus Liverpool at Wembley.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After seeming to suffer a muscular injury whilst chasing the ball down, De Bruyne looked to limp off uncomfortably. Kyle Walker crashed hard on his ankle just several shortly afterwards and was reluctant to resume despite his utmost tries. Guardiola would be anxious ahead of City\u2019s FA Cup semi-final versus Liverpool since there is no direct substitute for the English player in the team (Nathan Ake being his alternative in the Wanda).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola reckons his treble-chasing side is in \u201cbig trouble\u201d entering into the closing stages of the season owing to injuries incurred in their Champions League triumph over Atletico Madrid. City progressed to the semi-finals again for the third time in club history following a 0 \u2013 0 draw in Madrid clinched a 1-0 aggregate advantage and lined up a clash with 13-time champions Real Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, with the FA Cup semi-final versus Liverpool waiting on Saturday, City\u2019s advancement came at the expense, with Kevin de Bruyne and Kyle Walker pushed out injured, and Phil Foden receiving a wrap to his head at the Wanda Metropolitano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are in big trouble,\u201d Guardiola said to BT Sport. \u201cWe cannot forget we played three days ago a tough game against Liverpool. We came here, we have a lot of injuries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Guardiola\u2019s squad stands an opportunity to clinch a treble<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>although their advantage at the top of the Premier League is a lone point, and the next month and a half will characterize their overall season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City will meet Real Madrid for the semifinals of the Champions League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[410,311,1939,720,2604,220,359,2478,48],"class_list":["post-11519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-fa-cup","tag-kevin-de-bruyne","tag-kyle-walker","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-real-madrid-cf","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}