{"id":229186,"date":"2026-01-05T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229186\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:16:06","slug":"city-confirm-that-gvardiol-has-suffered-a-broken-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229186\/","title":{"rendered":"City confirm that Gvardiol has suffered a broken leg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City have confirmed that defender Josko Gvardiol suffered a broken leg in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gvardiol was one of two City centre-backs who went off injured in the second half, along with Ruben Dias, before Enzo Fernandez scored a stoppage-time equaliser for the visitors.<\/p>\n

Revealing that Gvardiol sustained a tibial fracture to his right leg, City added: “The defender will have surgery later this week and assessment remains ongoing to ascertain the full extent of the injury and expected prognosis.”<\/p>\n

Prior to confirmation of Gvardiol’s injury, manager Pep Guardiola admitted it “doesn’t look good” for either player. The extent of Dias’ injury is not yet known.<\/p>\n

Their absences will further limit Guardiola’s defensive options with John Stones having been out for the past month with a thigh injury and Rayan Ait-Nouri away at the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n

In addition, midfielder Nico Gonzalez missed the Chelsea game with a knock and Guardiola is also without Savinho, Oscar Bobb, Mateo Kovacic and Omar Marmoush for Wednesday’s clash with Brighton.<\/p>\n

The positive news from the weekend was the successful return of Rodri, who played the full 90 minutes on what was his first start since October.<\/p>\n

The influential midfielder has suffered a number of setbacks, the latest being a hamstring problem, as he attempts to come back from the serious knee problem that ruled him out for much of last season.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a terrible, terrible time for me,” the Spain international said. “Everything that comes right now is a gift, every minute that I’ve been on the pitch, it’s a joy for me.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to God for giving me this second opportunity and to enjoy my profession and recover my smile.”<\/p>\n

Rodri was particularly strong in the first half and created a chance for Erling Haaland, who hit a post, before having a hand in Tijjani Reijnders’ opening goal.<\/p>\n

City continued to control large spells of the game but were unable to breach a resilient Chelsea side for a second time.<\/p>\n

It had been an unsettling week for Chelsea after the sudden departure of manager Enzo Maresca on New Year’s Day but, under the temporary stewardship of Under-21 boss Calum McFarlane, they showed character to battle back.<\/p>\n

Fernandez snatched the point when he struck from close range in the fourth minute of time added on after initially miskicking and then being denied by goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.<\/p>\n

Rodri said: “In winter we know all the games, we know all the players we have out, but this is the rhythm, we have to adjust.<\/p>\n

“There are no excuses, we have to go through these situations and lift our heads up and focus on the next game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City have confirmed that defender Josko Gvardiol suffered a broken leg in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-229186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}