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Manchester City has no new injury stresses in front of confronting Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Kyler Walker is restricted and Ruben Dias will miss the first leg of the quarter-final tie while still more than seven days from returning.
Pep Guardiola expressed before the success over Burnley that the defender's hamstring injury has still not cleared, putting him towards the last option end of his underlying nonappearance timescale of four to about a month and a half.
Cole Palmer is likewise absent because of a foot issue and the City manager gave no further reasons for concern while addressing the media on Monday evening.
In this way, Guardiola has a lot of choices to pick from including whether John Stones will return in defense having been named on the seat on Saturday. The middle back missed both of England's coordinates over the global week with a muscle issue.
Gabriel Jesus was enthusiastic off the seat at Turf Moor at this point his inability to score a few decent possibilities might prompt him to stay among the substitutes, while Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez are likewise pushing for a spot in the beginning XI.
Anticipated Man City XI: Ederson; Cancelo, Stones, Laporte, Zinchenko; De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan; Silva, Jesus, Sterling.
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