{"id":638941,"date":"2024-04-23T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=638941"},"modified":"2024-04-23T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:25:15","slug":"phil-foden-erling-haaland-injury-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/23\/phil-foden-erling-haaland-injury-man-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Blow for Manchester City as \u201cWorld-Class\u201d Forward Stays Out of Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Foden and Erling Haaland both missed Manchester City\u2019s training on Tuesday. The Citizens have suffered two more injury scares as they prepare to take on Brighton upon their return to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Sweating Over Fitness of Key Forwards<\/h2>\n<h3>A Turbulent Week<\/h3>\n<p>City will return to the Premier League title race after an exhausting week that saw them play in two cup competitions. On Wednesday night, the Citizens suffered a heartbreaking defeat in the penalty shootouts against Real Madrid as they crashed out of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/18\/manchester-city-rayan-ait-nouri-wolves\/\" target=\"_self\">Citizens Eyeing Summer Move For \u2018Phenomenal\u2019 Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, only three days later, they bounced back to reach the FA Cup final after a narrow victory over Chelsea. Kevin De Bruyne returned to the starting lineup despite his injury scare against Real Madrid. However, Manuel Akanji and Haaland stayed out of the matchday squad.<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola\u2019s side are now handed another injury blow ahead of their match against Brighton on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h3>Latest Updates From Man City Training<\/h3>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkyAnton\/status\/1782724985477382300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a>, Haaland stayed out of his side&#8217;s training session on Tuesday, still recovering from the muscle injury that he picked up against Real Madrid. Another notable absentee was Foden, who played for 90 minutes against Chelsea on Saturday. The club have offered no explanation for the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/phil-foden-man-city-8fa266f497b06080a044efbf8f44dd38\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world-class<\/a>\u201d star\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/05\/manchester-city-liverpool-arsenal-chasing-history\/\" target=\"_self\">Citizens, Liverpool and Arsenal Are Chasing History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Stones, who came off at half-time against the Blues, trained alongside his teammates. In his press conference on Wednesday, Guardiola is also expected to offer an update on Akanji, who missed the FA Cup game with a knock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch<\/strong>: Who Wins The Premier League?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THREE WAY WAR - Who Wins The Premier League?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6XQStPx9Lw0?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>More Rest for Man City<\/h3>\n<p>THe manager fumed at his side\u2019s congested schedule after the Chelsea game, saying (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/39982777\/pep-guardiola-slams-unacceptable-schedule-manchester-city-semifinal-win\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN<\/a>): \u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable to let us play today. It\u2019s impossible, for the health of the players. It\u2019s not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His side are set to have a two-week period without mid-week games soon, a perfect opportunity for their injured stars to return.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/02\/27\/manchester-city-oscar-bobb-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">Citizens Agree Contract Extension For Emerging Premier League Talent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following their match against Brighton, City will take on Nottingham Forest on Sunday. The Citizens will then face their next two league opponents (Wolves and Fulham) in the span of two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Foden and Erling Haaland both missed Manchester City\u2019s training on Tuesday. The Citizens have suffered two more injury scares as they prepare to take on Brighton upon their return to the Premier League. Manchester City Sweating Over Fitness of Key Forwards A Turbulent Week City will return to the Premier League title race after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5073,"featured_media":637985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1830,17,30],"tags":[1393,2811,1620],"class_list":["post-638941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-injuries","category-manchester-city","category-news","tag-erling-haaland","tag-fpl","tag-phil-foden"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}