- Haaland, 24, suffered an ankle damage within the 2-1 win at Bournemouth on Sunday
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Pep Guardiola has revealed Manchester Metropolis striker Erling Haaland can be out for as much as seven weeks after he left Bournemouth on crutches on Sunday.
Haaland was noticed carrying a protecting boot after limping out of Metropolis’s 2-1 victory on the Vitality Stadium.
Metropolis had stated the Norwegian star would miss the vast majority of the rest of the season with the ankle damage.
And Guardiola confirmed he could be with out his star frontman for ‘5 to seven weeks’.
Ought to the 24-year-old be absent for the following seven weeks, he might miss a possible FA Cup last however return on the final day of the Premier League marketing campaign and be match for the Membership World Cup.
‘The medical doctors instructed me Erling Haaland can be out between 5 and 7 weeks,’ Guardiola stated on Tuesday.
Erling Haaland was noticed leaving the Vitality Stadium with a protecting boot on Sunday
Haaland suffered an ankle damage throughout Manchester Metropolis’s FA Cup win at Bournemouth
‘Hopefully on the finish of the season and World Cup he can be prepared.
January signing Omar Marmoush, who scored Metropolis’s winner on Sunday, will lead the road in Haaland’s absence.
Marmoush, who price £59million from Eintracht Frankfurt, has already scored 5 targets in eight begins for Metropolis.
‘We are going to discover a resolution from the gamers that now we have,’ added Guardiola. ‘All of them have totally different abilities and qualities. We could have one other one [striker].’
Guardiola’s facet have struggled this season and sit fifth within the Premier League desk forward of Wednesday’s conflict with Leicester Metropolis.
However with simply two wins of their final six, the race for Champions League locations is congested – with solely 4 factors separating themselves and Bournemouth in tenth.
Metropolis face Nottingham Forest within the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley on the final weekend in April. The ultimate is because of happen on Might 17, with the final day of the Premier League season following the week after.
The champions will then head to america to participate within the money-spinning first version of the revamped Membership World Cup.
