Pep Guardiola has confirmed Rodri won’t play for Manchester Metropolis once more this season after present process surgical procedure on an anterior cruciate ligament harm.
Rodri went down within the opening phases of Metropolis’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal and it was shortly feared the Ballon d’Or candidate had suffered a critical harm which might maintain him out for the foreseeable future.
Metropolis delayed revealing a proper analysis, however Guardiola has now confirmed an ACL harm will finish Rodri’s season.
“Good surgical procedure this morning, ACL and a few meniscus, and so subsequent season he can be right here,” Guardiola mentioned. “This season is over.
“Sadly we bought the worst [news] however these items occur at this degree. We can be there to assist him in his restoration step-by-step and transfer ahead.”
Changing Rodri on the base of midfield won’t be a straightforward process for Guardiola, however the boss backed the likes of Ilkay Gundogan and Mateo Kovacic to assist steer Metropolis by means of the Spaniard’s absence.
“What he offers us, we do not have an analogous participant,” he continued. “However the different gamers all collectively can change what Rodri has given since his arrival to us. We must do it as a group and we have now to discover a strategy to play over numerous months with out an essential participant for us.”
Requested whether or not he feels his present Metropolis squad are extra able to coping with out Rodri than each earlier than, Guardiola joked: “If we win, yeah. If we do not win, it is as a result of we miss Rodri.
“There may be not sooner or later over the previous few years that I used to be not assured [in the team’s ability to cope without Rodri]. In fact we’re stronger with him, identical to we’re stronger with Nathan Ake, we’re stronger with Oscar Bobb and all of the accidents, with Kevin [De Bruyne], that is simply how it’s. We do not need it, but it surely occurs it soccer.
“It is a lengthy harm, eight or 9 months, and after that you must watch out for muscular accidents. When you could have an ACL, after a 12 months off, you could have muscular issues. That is why it is longer. Rodri will turn into his greatest not simply after 9 months, however it’s what it’s.”