{"id":16449,"date":"2025-11-21T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=661998"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:37:13","slug":"pep-guardiola-confirms-rodri-unavailability-for-the-next-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/pep-guardiola-confirms-rodri-unavailability-for-the-next-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola confirms Rodri Unavailability for the next game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"394\">Pep Guardiola has confirmed that Rodri will once again be unavailable for selection this weekend for Manchester City due to his ongoing recovery process. \u201cRodri is making good steps, it\u2019s been three weeks since his last setback,\u201d Guardiola stated, adding: \u201cHe knows he has to take the real time to recover well mentally and especially physically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"793\">The Spaniard midfielder, who has been nursing muscular and fitness concerns while attempting to return to full match-sharpness, remains sidelined. Guardiola insisted the absence is not a major injury relapse, but rather a precaution as the club manage his return with care. \u201cIt\u2019s nothing dangerous I would say. It\u2019s more caution than anything else,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"1228\">Manchester City now face the challenge of navigating upcoming fixtures without one of their key midfield anchors. With Rodri unavailable, Guardiola will likely look toward alternatives such as Mateo Kovacic, Bernardo Silva or other squad members to step up in the defensive midfield role. The manager recognised the importance of the Spaniard\u2019s presence: \u201cWe\u2019re stronger with him. But he\u2019s out\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola has confirmed that Rodri will once again be unavailable for selection this weekend for Manchester City due to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3918,3796,1303,3800,359,4034,2898],"class_list":["post-16449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-injury","tag-manchester-city","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-premier-league-2025-26","tag-rodri"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}