'Haaland plus two keepers' - Pep Guardiola confirms more Man City injury blows

Pep Guardiola said that Manchester City are down to Erling Haaland and two 'keepers in training on Thursday after their injury crisis got even worse.

The City boss cannot remember a situation as bleak as the one he is currently facing after a defeat at Tottenham in the Carabao Cup that may have bigger consequences. Manu Akanji pulled out in the warm-up with a meniscus issue and Savinho took a knock to the foot that the Blues are left hoping scans on Thursday will show is not 'dangerous'.

On top of that, Guardiola suggested that Ruben Dias and Josko Gvardiol were among those who finished the game that had issues while Rico Lewis was 'exceptionally tired'. To compound matters, he isn't expecting any of Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish or Kyle Walker to return before the international break.

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"When you have this situation with all the squad is fine but... Tomorrow we have two 'keepers and Erling Haaland for a training session and we don't have anything else," said Guardiola.

"We are 13 players. We are in real difficulty but we have to make the effort. The guys who played, most finished with problems and we will see how they recover. I think when we are in trouble like we are - because in nine years I have never had this many injuries for this many reasons - in these situations, the players make a step forward, they are more together than ever and we will try to do this week in a short time for recovery.

"[Savinho] had a knock in the 18-yard box for a potential penalty and we will see tomorrow what happened. We have to see just a knock, or maybe something else. It was in the bone. Hopefully it is nothing dangerous but we will see tomorrow.

"Akanji yesterday in the last action felt something muscular in the meniscus and today in the warm-up he didn't feel good. He said he could take a risk but I said no. Ruben is struggling sometimes as well. It's been getting more difficult game by game but maybe one day we will be all together."