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Gabriel Jesus faces a month on the sidelines as Manchester City’s serious injury situation worsens.
With the club’s record scorer, Sergio Agüero, one of the first seven teams to miss the Premier League opener against Wolves, Jesus led the line and scored in the 3-1 victory. However, a muscle injury sustained in that game means that the Brazilian will not be able to shoulder the scoring burden of replacing Aguero and leaves Pep Guardiola with no recognized forwards to choose from for upcoming games.
City face Leicester on Sunday in the Premier League before trips to top flight teammates Burnley and Leeds next week and Guardiola will have to find a solution in his exhausted pack, with 17-year-old Liam Delap, unexpectedly disputed after scoring. debuting in the Carabao Cup this week.
“We don’t have Sergio, we don’t have Gabriel. We have Liam,” said the coach with a tired smile.
“We have a lot of options. Cole Palmer can also play as a forward. We’ll see.” “Sergio still has not trained and Gabriel was injured against the Wolves, so he will be out for a month.”
City also can’t wait for much respite in the international break before returning with Premier League matches with Arsenal, West Ham and Sheffield United and the start of the Champions League in October. Aleks Zinchenko, Bernardo Silva and Joao Cancelo returned from the September camps with their injured national teams and are not expected to return before the second half of October at the earliest.
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