Manchester City will begin the 2025\/26 Premier League campaign without Rodri as he continues to recover from the issue sustained at the Club World Cup. Pep Guardiola confirmed the midfielder will miss the start of the season while the club manages his return to full fitness.<\/p>\n
Rodri left the tournament with a fresh problem after being brought off the bench in the last 16 against Al Hilal. He was removed in extra time having picked up a groin problem, an injury Guardiola has described as significant as the club calibrates a cautious approach to his comeback.<\/p>\n
\u201cRodri is getting better but he had a big injury in the last game against Al Hilal,\u201d Guardiola revealed. \u201cHe has trained better in the last few days, hopefully after the [September] international break is when he will be really fit.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully in these games he can play some minutes but what is important is he doesn\u2019t have pain because we don’t want this Rodri coming back injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe try desperately to avoid that. He has been training the last two sessions with us and that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n
City have only three Premier League fixtures before the season pauses for international action, which gives Guardiola some opportunity to ease Rodri back if his recovery continues to progress. The opening run includes an away trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers, a home match against Tottenham Hotspur, and an away fixture at Brighton & Hove Albion before the break.<\/p>\n
The club will be keen to have Rodri available for the matches that follow the international pause. City host the derby against Manchester United on September 13, with a trip to Arsenal scheduled eight days later. The management\u2019s priority is clear: restore Rodri to full fitness while avoiding any recurrence of pain that could prolong his absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rodri to miss start of 2025\/26 season as he recovers from Club World Cup groin problem. Return soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[59,242,323],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","tag-featured","tag-injury","tag-rodri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}