Chelsea take on Manchester City this weekend and ahead of the big clash it seems City will be without three men.
Pep Guardiola has officially ruled out Vincent Kompany from this weekend’s trip to Chelsea.
Kompany has not completed a full training session with the first-team squad in a month and he will not be considered for the crucial Premier League game at Stamford Bridge.
He has been called up to the Belgian national squad for their upcoming matches with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cyprus – but Guardiola says he will not play for the Red Devils.
“No way [will Kompany be fit to play against Chelsea],” he said.
“He didn’t make one training session with us since one month ago, the Gibraltar game.
“I spoke to Roberto Martinez [Belgium manager]. He told me he will go there to meet with the Belgium doctors but he is coming back.
“Of course he cannot play with Belgium.”
Guardiola will also be without City star Benjamin Mendy after he suffered a knee injury in the win over Crystal Palace last weekend.
Pepe says he expects the Frenchman to be out until April.
Mendy, signed from Monaco in the summer, is currently in Barcelona and will undergo an operation later today to cure the problem.
“Mendy will be operated on this afternoon in Barcelona by Dr [Ramon] Cugat and will be out until the semi-finals of Champions League,” Guardiola said.
Meanwhile, Guardiola says Sergio Aguero will return to Manchester later today to be assessed after he was involved in a road accident in Amsterdam.
Aguero was visiting the Dutch capital on his day off when the incident happened, and Guardiola was relieved his striker came away unharmed.
“Sergio, as you know, has had an accident in Amsterdam and he will be back this afternoon,” he said.
“I don’t know, I am not a doctor, I don’t know exactly what he has. It was an accident. Fortunately, he will come back and recover as soon as possible.
“It was his day off, I’m not the police. I would prefer to be with Mendy, with Kompany and with Sergio Aguero [but] we will play with eleven.
“The first impression we have is he has broken the rib. Exactly how many days he will have off, I don’t know right now.”
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