Gabriel Jesus will be suspended for Manchester City's Champions League quarter-final second leg against Atletico Madrid next week after he picked up his third booking of the competition in their win at the Etihad on Tuesday night.
Man City need Southampton FA Cup tie to reset ahead of Liverpool FC crunch
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If you discount the gift of facing Manchester United at their bedraggled worst, Manchester City would have scored three goals in their last four games. That 4-1 thrashing of their neighbours and erstwhile title contenders was a shining beacon in what has become, if not exactly a gloomy part of the season, at least a slightly murky one.
The fluent, all-consuming machine that rolled through the Premier League in autumn and winter seems to have got slightly bogged down in the spring, and that has allowed Liverpool to close the gap at the top to just one point. Everything points to that Etihad Stadium showdown on April 10 as being crucial to the destiny of the crown, with both teams knowing that winning all of their remaining games would ensure they end the season as champions.
But City need a tweak to get themselves back on track before they head into that game - and they have just two games in which to do so, starting with Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final at Southampton. Normally Pep Guardiola would rotate, to some degree, for a domestic cup tie, and players like Ilkay Gundogan, Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling will all be in the mix when he sits down to pick his team.
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There is not much wrong with his team, even though the lack of goals recently - which has also allowed the Merseysiders to overhaul what had been a considerably better goal difference - has predictably reawakened the old spectre of whether the Blues can consistently win trophies without a recognised goalscorer. Many thought that City’s failure to land Harry Kane, or any other player capable of filling Sergio Aguero’s boots, would cost them, especially as Chelsea had hauled in Romelu Lukaku
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