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Manchester City have issues with injury and form, and need their big players to step up and turn the ship around
At Bod?/Glimt, in a first Champions League outing since 1 October, the 29-year-old appeared what he is: a player still recovering after 18 months out with a serious knee injury and several related setbacks. This was only a third start since his latest return began with the second 45 minutes of the goalless draw at Sunderland on New Year?s Day. Last week Rodri declared he was ?ready to go? and said: ?I?m really happy to be on the pitch every single day.? Yet in Saturday?s 2-0 loss at Manchester United he was a one-paced, non-factor unable to do what he did with ease pre-anterior cruciate ligament rupture: run midfield and so the contest. In Tuesday?s 3-1 humbling in Norway the Spaniard was the same, and two moments tell the tale of his form. First Jens Petter Hauge left him a statue before registering a memorable long-range strike for Bod??s third goal; thencame the two yellow cards in two minutes that had Rodri sent off.
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At Bod?/Glimt, in a first Champions League outing since 1 October, the 29-year-old appeared what he is: a player still recovering after 18 months out with a serious knee injury and several related setbacks. This was only a third start since his latest return began with the second 45 minutes of the goalless draw at Sunderland on New Year?s Day. Last week Rodri declared he was ?ready to go? and said: ?I?m really happy to be on the pitch every single day.? Yet in Saturday?s 2-0 loss at Manchester United he was a one-paced, non-factor unable to do what he did with ease pre-anterior cruciate ligament rupture: run midfield and so the contest. In Tuesday?s 3-1 humbling in Norway the Spaniard was the same, and two moments tell the tale of his form. First Jens Petter Hauge left him a statue before registering a memorable long-range strike for Bod??s third goal; thencame the two yellow cards in two minutes that had Rodri sent off.
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