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Manchester City’s fatigue has been noticed in Marseille as they prepare for their Champions League match.
Pep Guardiola ran out of five first-team players for West Ham on Saturday, can only call Kevin De Bruyne on the bench and had to use his third replacement to cut Kyle Walker because the right-back was very broken. if that meant he wouldn’t play in the middle of the week, the city chief said the team’s condition meant he’d be in the race.
With Sergio Aguero also adding to his concerns about injuries, Les Bleus head to France where they have bad memories. They ran for a 2–2 draw with Lyon in 2018 the last time they were in the country, while the same parties to the conflict eliminated them. in the quarter-finals of August.
After betting one more game than City while in action for 3 more weeks, coach Andre Villas-Boas hopes his team’s most productive condition is possibly more to decide Tuesday’s game than anything that stands out from Lyon’s triumph.
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“You can’t be inspired by Olympique de Lyon when you’re at Olympique de Marseille, that’s pretty transparent, but of course we’re ready and we’ve seen a lot of Manchester City games, adding Olympique de Lyon’s game in the 16-bit circular,” he said.
“Obviously, Array [City] is a team with few flaws to exploit, however, as its coach said, they have had a pretty intense and possibly now exhausting series of games. Play.
“We’re going to put a strategy in position and it’ll work, no, but we’re focusing on tomorrow. “