Manchester City’s striving to book her place in the Champions League -KO -KO phase was strengthened on Tuesday by the presence of striker Erling Haaland at the training.
Haaland seemed to optimize the knee in the late phases of the 4-0 victory of city via Newcastle United at the weekend and immediately fears of its availability for the all-or-Nor-Nnicht conflict against Real Madrid on Wednesday in the second leg of her champion League -Plays. From the tie.
City wants to overturn a 3-2 deficit from the first leg and seem to call up their star striker in order to do the task as the film material of the training on Tuesday clearly showed how Haaland was involved in all team activities.
That was not the only injury that City increased when Pep Guardiola welcomed the trio of Ruben Dias, Nathan Ake and Jack Grialish back to training after missing the Newcastle game.
Grialish was replaced early in the first leg against Real Madrid by an obvious muscle injury, while the slides had to rest at the weekend, and AKE complained about an illness in which he was held out of the squad to face Newcastle.
Despite such significant news of injuries, Guardiola is in his assessment of the challenge with which City was confronted with Santiago Bernabeu and win two goals if you want to seal a victory within 90 minutes.
Guardiola recognized that his team decreased this season this season and insisted that City has only a “1% chance” to climb into the KO phase at the expense of Madrid.
“But as [long] Since you have a chance, we will try, that’s sure. “He added.