Man Metropolis handed enormous damage enhance forward of decisive week


Manchester Metropolis centre-back Ruben Dias has been noticed again in coaching after a spell on the sidelines by damage, together with his potential return coming forward of a vital run of fixtures.

Dias has been nursing a muscular situation for the previous month, final showing within the membership’s late defeat to metropolis rivals Manchester United in mid-December. Metropolis loved a mini-revival after Christmas, stringing collectively three consecutive victories with performances that weren’t all fully convincing, earlier than falling to a calamitous 2-2 draw with Brentford on Tuesday evening.

Metropolis led 2-0 on the Gtech Group Stadium with lower than ten minutes remaining however nonetheless conspired to emerge with out all three factors. The defending champions have already shipped 29 league targets – as many as Arsenal conceded throughout everything of final season.

On the time of Dias’ absence, Pep Guardiola predicted that he could be with out his centre-back for “three or 4 weeks”. That tough restoration interval has elapsed and the imposing defender participated in first-team coaching on Wednesday with the gamers who did not begin the draw with Brentford.

Ruben Dias

Ruben Dias has been diminished to the function of annoyed spectator / Carl Recine/GettyImages

Dias’ arrival can’t come quickly sufficient for Metropolis. The Sky Blues journey to newly promoted Ipswich City on Sunday earlier than venturing to the French capital for a vital Champions League tie towards Paris Saint-Germain. Each trendy European giants are flirting with the distinct chance on failing to qualify for the competitors’s knockout levels.

After that continental conflict, Metropolis return to home duties with a go to from high-flying Chelsea on Saturday, 25 January.

Guardiola has at all times maintained that the straightforward answer to Metropolis’s fragility would at all times be a return to health for his fleet of injured gamers. Dias has been sharing the remedy room with fellow first-choice centre-back John Stones and the reigning Ballon d’Or holder Rodri.

Apart from relying solely upon the membership’s medical division, Metropolis have turned to the switch market in a bid to strengthen their backline.

Abdukodir Khusanov is poised to reach from Lens and a deal has additionally been agreed for Palmeiras defender Vitor Reis. The younger centre-backs have a mixed age of 39 and can seemingly command a sum within the area of £70m between them.

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