Pep Guardiola offers Kevin De Bruyne injury update as Man City star could miss Arsenal clash
Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne was forced off during his team'S Champions League meeting with Inter Milan, leaving his participation against Arsenal up in the air
by David McDonnell · The MirrorKevin De Bruyne is a major doubt for Manchester City's showdown with Premier League rivals Arsenal on Sunday.
The City playmaker suffered what appeared to be a groin injury towards the end of the first-half of the goalless draw with Inter Milan and did not emerge for the second-half. City boss Pep Guardiola said it was too early to assess the full extent of the injury suffered by the 33-year-old Belgium international, but there is concern De Bruyne could miss out.
Asked about De Bruyne's injury, Guardiola said: “I don't know, I haven't spoken with the doctors yet. I will have more information when I do. We will assess him tomorrow.
"We played so well and I love my team. We are a fantastic team. But Inter are the masters of defending, and in transition they are really strong as well. I’m really pleased with the performance we did. It is the beginning of the season, so these players will be better.”
City defender Ruben Dias said: "The season has just started. When we came back from the international break, the pre-season had just finished. It's very early stages, obviously we know what we are as a team and today I think we were on a very good level.
"We ended up not scoring, we could have, we had the chances, but that's football and obviously there's a lot of margin to progress from our side.
"We knew they could be dangerous in many different scenarios. They have people who know very well how to keep the ball and also in transitions they can be very dangerous.
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"We know them very well, especially since the final we played against them. We knew the different ways in which they can hurt us, but in the end we are who we are, we played the game we played and we dealt with it.”
Inter boss Simone Inzaghi said: "I said well done to my players, because they put in a giant performance. I asked them to play exactly as they did.
"We all know City and what they are capable of. We knew we had to pull out all the stops, play a great game and we did it."
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