Pep Guardiola says Omar Marmoush is more likely to miss this week’s UEFA Champions League conflict with Bodo/Glimt.
Marmoush has been away with Egypt on the African Cup of Nations the place he bagged two objectives as The Pharaohs completed fourth on the event in Morocco.
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Egypt topped their group and beat Benin and Ivory Coast on their method to the semi-finals the place they misplaced to Senegal earlier than defeat on penalties to Nigeria within the third-place play-off.
That sport came about on Saturday night and with such a brief turnaround, Marmoush is anticipated to be absent for our subsequent UCL conflict in Norway on Tuesday at 17:45 (UK).
However Guardiola is blissful to have the 26-year-old again with the squad quickly to supply help to fellow ahead Erling Haaland, who the supervisor described as ‘exhausted’ within the aftermath of our Carabao Cup semi-final first leg victory over Newcastle United.
“No I don’t suppose so,” he mentioned of Marmoush’s possibilities of making the UCL sport.
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“We’d like Erling and all of them. I don’t know if Omar comes and Erling goes to play. Erling is so necessary to us.
“We’ll see what occurs subsequent sport. We’ve got to journey to Norway proper now, go there and we’ll see how they recuperate and I can scent how they really feel and after that proceed.
“We did it final season and we proceed this one. We’ve got gamers coming again quickly and attempt to be there.
“The power is related one to the opposite one. The power comes from the opposite one – you with me, you with me, you with me. It’s so simple as that.
“We’re fortunate now we have Erling this season for what he has finished. It’s necessary when you’ve gotten video games each three days, three days, three days to maintain it lots.
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“We’ve got to stay with it, take care of it and it makes us stronger. Our spirit that we had within the difficulties was unbelievable. We had it in Newcastle for a lot of causes, we responded and [against Manchester United] we weren’t in a position to do it.”
Marmoush joined Metropolis in January 2025 and his performances had been instrumental in serving to us to safe a third-place end within the Premier League and qualification for this season’s Champions League.
He’s been unavailable for our final 9 matches resulting from his AFCON journey together with our derby defeat at United however the supervisor mentioned our loss at Outdated Trafford was not all the way down to his prolonged absence.
“Omar is an distinctive participant, his moments in behind are extraordinary however it might be so poor from me to say the rationale why we didn’t get a consequence right here or the earlier ones is as a result of Omar shouldn’t be right here,” Pep added.
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“It’s not truthful for him and it’s not truthful for the staff and all the blokes which are right here. We have to do it.”
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