The news that Pep Guardiola receives prior to the duel that the team does not like
Pep Guardiola and Haaland
Manchester City and Liverpool FC meet in an important match for the Premier League classification. Pep Guardiola’s team has always had complications when facing Liverpool FC, regardless of whether they are champions in the English league or not. In fact, Jurgen Klopp’s record against Manchester City is usually the kryptonite of the English team.
However, prior to this match, the English team receives unexpected news regarding what to expect in the match. After the FIFA International Break, Manchester City has many footballers in the infirmary. Kovacic, among the most important absences. However, according to Mail, Haaland arrived with discomfort from Norway, something that was known long before. The coach placed himself strongly with his selection, but he arrived with physical discomfort.
It is unlikely that Haaland will not play, but Manchester City has 9 injured, bad news for Pep Guardiola, who intends to reach this season in the best possible way. “The Champions League ends and they go with the national teams for two or three weeks, next year there is the Club World Cup, go to the United States with 37 teams to play the Club World Cup when before it was the Libertadores and the Champions League. It’s too much and Therefore you have to adapt, move forward, train very little, be at home a lot and have energy in the games,” he explained.
Guardiola complains a lot about the FIFA calendar
“It’s a lost battle until the players stand up and say: we’re not playing. If not, there is nothing to do, neither in UEFA nor FIFA meetings. And on top of that, now they are adding more minutes, now there are 110 minutes. This will mean that at the end of the year we will not have played 38 games, but 43.”