Manchester City and Arsenal had been left hoping for excellent news relating to John Stones and Thomas Partey after the pair suffered accidents in final night time’s FA Cup tie on the Etihad Stadium.
Partey, the Arsenal midfielder, needed to be substituted firstly of the second half of his facet’s 1-0 defeat after taking a knock to the ribs in a sort out by Ilkay Gundogan.
He knowledgeable the Arsenal physios of the issue throughout a break in play within the first half and was changed by Albert Sambi Lokonga at half-time.
Arsenal, who play City within the Premier League in lower than three weeks’ time, shall be hoping that the harm is just not critical as the one different back-up to Partey, Mohamed Elneny, might miss the remainder of the season with a knee harm.
“Thomas had some discomfort and it was getting worse and worse,” Mikel Arteta, the Arsenal supervisor, mentioned. “Tomorrow or the day after he could have an MRI scan and see [how bad the injury is].
“We have for the time being the harm of Mo. Sambi has are available and has executed effectively however it’s true that Thomas is an enormous affect and an enormous persona and within the second half we didn’t have him.”
Arteta’s reverse quantity, Pep Guardiola, was left sweating on the health of Stones after the England centre again went down clutching his proper hamstring after difficult Leandro Trossard for the ball within the ultimate jiffy of the primary half.
Stones suffered a hamstring grievance
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Guardiola has 4 different choices in reserve, however none of them has been as constant as Stones, who additionally missed 5 video games close to the beginning of the season with a special hamstring downside.
The City supervisor instructed that Stones mustn’t have performed as a result of he was fatigued.
“Today he was not prepared [to play],” Guardiola mentioned. “I noticed it from the primary minutes and when that occurs you get injured.”
Guardiola was impressed by the efficiency of Nathan Aké, the match-winning centre again who was deployed at left again final night time.
“What a season he’s having,” Guardiola mentioned of the Holland defender. “He managed one of many hardest opponents within the Premier League as a result of [Bukayo] Saka is in an unbelievable second.
“He is admittedly good within the duels within the field — defending the far put up and [against] set items is an additional bonus. He is an distinctive man; there was a interval the place he didn’t play and he by no means complained as soon as.”
Arteta rued his staff’s lack of ruthlessness within the ultimate third.
“We had large conditions within the sport and we didn’t put them away,” the Arsenal supervisor mentioned. “We can take lots of positives from the sport, although. It is admittedly tough to win in opposition to this staff however we went face to face with them.”
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