The trainer of the Manchester City, Pep Guardiola, sure that it did not expect to finish the year 2017 with the setbacks of this Sunday. And it is that, in addition to empatar against Crystal Palace (0-0) and break the series of 18 consecutive victories in the Premier League, the Manchester City has suffered two important injuries of face to the next parties.
Kevin Of Bruyne could not finish the meeting and had to be withdrawn in stretcher, whereas Gabriel Jesús also lesionó in the knee and withdrew between tears to the changing rooms, having to be some months in the dry dam as it informed the own Guardiola in press conference.
Serious setbacks for the Manchester City, because of the big importance of the two players in question, although to day of today desconoce how long will have to remain Kevin Of Bruyne without playing. The Belgian player received a hard entrance in the final stretch of the party against Crystal Palace and the Manchester City finished the party with 10 players, when having exhausted already the changes.
The Manchester City, to a very high level
In any case, and in spite of the setbacks, the 'citizens' can celebrate to the big what have achieved in this last third of year, during the start of the season 2017-18, since they take out 14 points of advantage to the classified second, Chelsea, and are also alive in the eliminatory rounds of all the tournaments that contest.
In Champions League, in fact, the Manchester City is this campaign one of the serious candidates to conquer the title. It foresees that, of face to the meetings of eighth of final, can explain already with Kevin Of Bruyne and, perhaps, also with Gabriel Jesús.