Rodri Injury Updates | City say ligament injury (pg117)

Gray said:
Everybody should stop flapping and trust Pep to come up with a solution if Rodders is out for a long period.

We have Guardiol, Stones, Akanji, Kovacic, Gundogan, Stones and Grealish who could all do a job there.

Remember when we were struggling for a left back and Pep put Fabian Delph in that position, he took to it like a duck to water.

I suspect Guardiol will be the answer with Lewis at left back.
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Pep will solve it so I’m not worried.

I remember once Pep saying he could see Foden 1 day playing as a 6. I don’t think that will be the solution here but it shows how he sees football compared to others. He may put Lewis & 1 other which means we have less in attack. Teams may come at us thinking we are weaker & leave space but Pep will solve it.

Rodris played 60 mins this season & we are already top.
 
youngbob said:
This is the one for me. We won a Centurions title and a domestic treble with Fabian Delph and a 20-year-old Zinchenko at LB. Pep will find something.
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Left back is a less pressured position, and Pep was pushing the left back into midfield much of the time anyway, so it was probably an easier transition.

Gvardiol looks like a great player, but it's a huge step up going from the left back role to the DM in a City team. 50% of Rodris role is in his head, being in the right place, at the right time, and I don't think Gvardiol has the experience and awareness to do that yet.
 
eastmanc said:
The problem with buying a proper back up for Rodri, not Kalvin Phillips, is he isn't going to sit on the bench waiting for him to get injured, he will want to play all the time. That's the dilemma. We will just have to go with what we have and see where it takes us.
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Agreed and I completely agree why we didn’t get an understudy for the bench. However given the length of time Rodri may be out we may now decide to do something in January
 
bluenova said:
Left back is a less pressured position, and Pep was pushing the left back into midfield much of the time anyway, so it was probably an easier transition.

Gvardiol looks like a great player, but it's a huge step up going from the left back role to the DM in a City team. 50% of Rodris role is in his head, being in the right place, at the right time, and I don't think Gvardiol has the experience and awareness to do that yet.
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That’s the problem but there’s nothing we can do about a bad knee injury, which is what Pep has to do, and will do
 
Tevez32mcfc said:
Great post. Very rarely a player in his position is made favorite for a Ballon Do'or. There is literally nobody who can replace him. Definitely nobody who would be happy to sit on the bench anyway.

I would personally go back to the 4 solid defenders we had at the back end of the treble season who didnt push forwards as much with Kovacic in front. Let Gundogan play alongside him so we have control of the tempo and the other 4 can carry on as usual.

I'm not too worried about the smaller games as we have done ok without him already this season but its games like Saturday it becomes a concern.
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This would be interesting to see. It might invite teams onto us more and with 1/2 pacy wingers (depending on team selection) a new style could be very effective
 
If true - going to be a lot of knock on effects - not just who stands in in his role.
Think we'll see a lot less Doku, who knows, even Haaland may sit a couple out to give balance and cohesion.

Really is a huge blow - so fingers crossed not as feared.
 
Gray said:
Everybody should stop flapping and trust Pep to come up with a solution if Rodders is out for a long period.

We have Guardiol, Stones, Akanji, Kovacic, Gundogan, Stones and Grealish who could all do a job there.

Remember when we were struggling for a left back and Pep put Fabian Delph in that position, he took to it like a duck to water.

I suspect Guardiol will be the answer with Lewis at left back.
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Any of those and we're not talking inadequates. They might not a spot on like for like, but they are seasoned pros and they can keep DM reasonably safe till Rodri comes back!
 
bluenova said:
Left back is a less pressured position, and Pep was pushing the left back into midfield much of the time anyway, so it was probably an easier transition.

Gvardiol looks like a great player, but it's a huge step up going from the left back role to the DM in a City team. 50% of Rodris role is in his head, being in the right place, at the right time, and I don't think Gvardiol has the experience and awareness to do that yet.
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Sorry, I guess what I meant is that we managed to win five trophies and get to 198 points across two years without a recognised full-back in that time. So my hope is that, while DM is a much more difficult position to work out and while Rodri is a much harder player to replace than Mendy, Pep will find something that's at least 80-90% as good as five trophies and 198 points in tougher circumstances. Even in the 19/20 season, when we lost Kompany to semi-retirement and Laporte to injury, we still notched 81 points and won the League Cup. If Liverpool hadn't run away to 99 points that season we still would have been in a title race. After the four seasons we've just had, if this is a down period that "only" ends with us finishing top four and going for the cups then eh, I can live with that.
 
Pep improves players and reinvents them too. Rice was never coming to City and I suspect our interest in him was limited at best. Winding Arsenal up by making out we wanted their big target was clever.

Sadly, you can’t have two Rodris at City and keep them both happy. We’re not a one man team and Pep will find a way. I am near certain.
 
Essentially, with Rodri in the team we dominate possession, and with the odd exception, are rarely exposed.
Subsequently we can suffocate the opposition until they tire and concede goalscoring opportunities.
Without Rodri the possession percentage reduces so the opposition see more of the ball.

However we still won at Chelsea and West Ham without him and didn't lose to Arsenal.
All is not lost
 
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This is our worst nightmare coming to fruition... It's a scenario many warned against (including me), that we needed a player who can provide viable competition, & can rotate & rest with Rodri.

Kovacic has had an outstanding start to the season, which gave Rodders additional time off after another gruelling season, but he's suffered niggling injuries at times himself.

Nunes is essentially a £50m paperweight for all the use he's been.

Grealish has shown for England that he can be used effectively in the middle in a free role like he had at Villa, but City don't really do free roles. Rotating positions yes, but not a player choosing to play where he feels most effective.

Gundog has made a timely return, but I've never thought he has the physicality to be a No 6, especially now at his age. He's best as a creative No 8 all day long.

My thoughts are, we'll have to rely on a combination of all the above, with Lewis, Stones, Akanji & maybe Gvardiol stepping into midfield to form a double pivot.

Our squad is well stacked, however this season echoes the seasons we had after Kompany left & Aguero was mostly injured toward the end of his career at City. We lacked the depth to cover them with like for like.

The other obvious position which is a concern is Striker. I'm not a square pegs in round holes for a season, type of person. Striker & CDM were two obvious weak areas of depth for us, & I suppose we'll soon find out if Txiki & Pep should've been more proactive in covering those positions.

It'll be interesting to see what Baldy does to mitigate the loss of Rodri & to protect Haaland as the season progresses.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Any of those and we're not talking inadequates. They might not a spot on like for like, but they are seasoned pros and they can keep DM reasonably safe till Rodri comes back!
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Ah, I thought you were replying to the conclusion, where they picked out Gvardiol.

I think it will end up with one of the others. Or more likely a couple of players doing the role. One advantage we have is that with Rodri becoming more attacking, other players have been filling in throughout the game anyway. His position has become more flexible, and is arguably a little easier to fill than it used to be.
 
Probably been mentioned but I was watching SSN on the dodgy box last night. John Cross from the Mirror said there's a correlation between playing a lot of football games in a season and ACL injuries.

I doubt if the greedy bastards at UEFA of FIFA will listen but as a protest I hope for the Club World Cup we send a complete second string made up of the players who don't feature much this season and Academy members. It will do them good, they can then have 5/6 weeks off and the Senior players can finish their season in May and have a good break before the start of the 25/26 when hopefully Rodders will be fit and raring to go.

Fuck the prize money, our team would be strong enough to progress to the knock out stage anyway earning a few quid on the way, this is one tournament too many.
 
We lost KDB last season for 5 months, Haaland for two months.
In previous years we’ve had injuries to Gundo, David Silva, Vincent, Sergio and many others.
Pep has always found a way and I’m supremely confident he’ll find a way again.
Rodri is a big loss, without any shadow of doubt, but not one player we’ve had, whilst under Pep’s tutelage, has ever been irreplaceable.
Here’s to a good recovery for Rodri and in the meantime enjoy the Pep Guardiola show, now that’s magic!!!
 
AshtonBlueMooner said:
We lost KDB last season for 5 months, Haaland for two months.
In previous years we’ve had injuries to Gundo, David Silva, Vincent, Sergio and many others.
Pep has always found a way and I’m supremely confident he’ll find a way again.
Rodri is a big loss, without any shadow of doubt, but not one player we’ve had, whilst under Pep’s tutelage, has ever been irreplaceable.
Here’s to a good recovery for Rodri and in the meantime enjoy the Pep Guardiola show, now that’s magic!!!
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When the chips are down, like you say, is very often when we are at our best. Backs to the walls is good for us (clearly not in this specific situation, but we are where we are)
 
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