Rodri Likely Injury Duration and the likely impact on city’s performance

Yekini Abdul Jelil
2 min readSep 24, 2024

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While many city mourned losing 2 points against Arsenal at the Etihad stadium just last Sunday, the citizen was also hit by a major injury as their veteran midfielder, Rodri was withdrawn out of the game after colliding with Thomas partey of arsenal in the first of half of the match

What had looked like a minor knock on Rodri turn out to be an even more serious as scan revealed that Rodri’s injury is severe with multiple news outlets reporting that the Spanish midfielder has his Achilles tendinitis torn.

What a blow to the player and Manchester too. ACL injury is a nightmare to players as many suffered from it may likely return back to their full strength again after they healed.

Rodri’s Injury length

While many media outlets reported that the player injury is a torn ACL and predicted that he will be out for the remainder of the season, the club officials are yet to confirm the severity of the injury likewise the length the Spanish midfielder will be out

However, one thing is certain, Rodri will not be back in action for quite a long time and that will definitely have a toll on city’s performance

Will Rodri injury affect man city?

Obviously, Rodri is the best dm and the whole of city style is mastered by him perfectly that is, his absence will greatly affect how his team play.

Just last season when he missed city games due to suspension, Manchester was seen struggling against teams like wolves and that was very insulated. Every other matches that was missed by Rodri ends in disappointment to Manchester city and the city’s fans will be hoping that won’t be the same this season

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