Manchester City injuries mount up as Premier League title race nears conclusion
City will head into their crucial final two games without a raft of players.
Manchester City are closing in on another Premier League title – but Pep Guardiola will have to patch up his backline to get over the line.
City are three points clear of Liverpool and have a better goal difference with two matches remaining, but travel to West Ham and then host Aston Villa having to deal with a number of defensive problems.
Guardiola said “it doesn’t look good” in that area of the field, and here the PA news agency looks at the injury issues the City boss has to contend with.
Kyle Walker
Guardiola has ruled Walker out for the rest of the season and slotted versatile Joao Cancelo in at right-back, with Oleksandr Zinchenko deployed in his place on the left.
John Stones
The England centre-back had been substituted with the issue against Brighton the previous week and will miss the rest of the campaign.
Ruben Dias
Guardiola confirmed the hamstring injury would rule him out for the rest of the campaign. Fernandinho replaced him at centre-back for the Wolves match.
Aymeric Laporte
Guardiola is waiting to see how he progresses ahead of the trip to West Ham.
Fernandinho
Riyad Mahrez came on for veteran Fernandinho with 13 minutes remaining at Wolves, with Guardiola revealing “it will be difficult” for the Brazilian to feature on Sunday due to “some muscular problems”.
