Pep Guardiola has offered updates on the fitness of Abdukodir Khusanov, Rodri and Erling Haaland ahead of our Carabao Cup clash with Swansea City on Wednesday.
The boss revealed Khusanov, who has missed the last seven games, is set to play a part against the Championship side.
He said Rodri would be back ‘hopefully soon’ but isn’t quite ready yet despite returning to training at the CFA.
Our influential midfielder, who won the Ballon d’Or a year ago today, has been absent from the last three games with a muscular issue.
Haaland, meanwhile, looked in some discomfort in our 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa and Guardiola says he’ll be assessed today ahead of afternoon training, although the manager hinted he would be looking to rotate for this latest clash.
“Khusa is ready to play a few minutes tomorrow and Rodri is still not,” the boss told waiting media.
“So is getting better, training with us partial. But, of course, after what happened two times with the muscular injuries we are going to see how he is this week.
“Erling I didn’t see him today but it was a knock and day by day is better. But now we train this afternoon and will know more exactly how does he feel.”
Asked whether this was the sort of game where rotation of the squad comes into this thinking, the manager added: “Yes. Absolutely.
“The Carabao Cup has always been like that.
“The guys who take a lot of minutes be ready to show me and show themselves and the team they are completely recovered and ready mentally and the skills and everything to be ready to play.
“And some rest especially for the players who play a lot of minutes.
“Not just Erling, Ruben and Josko and the other ones.
“In the previous season we were in that stage with a lot of injuries. Now we have less and now have players who need minutes to get. And the Carabao Cup is perfect for that.”
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