{"id":392164,"date":"2026-01-06T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/392164\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:30:15","slug":"ruben-dias-out-for-six-weeks-with-hamstring-injury-for-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/392164\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Dias out for six weeks with hamstring injury for Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a>‘s defensive injury crisis has worsened after Pep Guardiola revealed R\u00faben Dias<\/a> is set to miss up to six weeks with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Guardiola is already without Josko Gvardiol<\/a>, who will undergo surgery on a broken shin bone this week.<\/p>\n

Like the Croatian, Dias was also forced off during the second half of City’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

And ahead of Brighton’s visit to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday, Guardiola has confirmed that the Portugal<\/a> international has been ruled out for more than a month.<\/p>\n

Ruben Dias will miss six weeks for Manchester City.\u00a0Carl Recine\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

John Stones<\/a> is also absent after making just one league start since August.<\/p>\n

“With the spirit that we have, always we can cope,” said Guardiola.<\/p>\n

“It happens sometimes and we wish Josko and Ruben to come back well and John as well and we survive that period.<\/p>\n

“I’m so positive and confident we will do it.”<\/p>\n

The lack of defenders has raised the possibility that City could look to sign Crystal Palace<\/a> centre-back Marc Gu\u00e9hi<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

– Premier League January transfers: All confirmed ins, outs for every club
–<\/a> Manchester City confirm Josko Gvardiol leg fracture, return time unknown
–<\/a> Transfer rumors, news: Aston Villa to move for Marmoush?<\/a><\/p>\n

Guehi, who came close to joining Liverpool<\/a> in the summer, is out of contract at Crystal Palace at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

City also remain close to signing Antoine Semenyo<\/a> from Bournemouth after indicating they will trigger the \u00a365 million [$88m] release clause in his contract.<\/p>\n

“Maybe we will get something [in January] but it’s completely different,” said Guardiola.<\/p>\n

“We are not going to buy four or five players like happened last season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City‘s defensive injury crisis has worsened after Pep Guardiola revealed R\u00faben Dias is set to miss up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-392164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}