{"id":530902,"date":"2023-10-11T17:40:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=530902"},"modified":"2023-10-11T18:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:15:57","slug":"agbonlahor-delivers-new-title-verdict-after-man-city-lose-three-star-men-to-injury-looking-at-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/agbonlahor-delivers-new-title-verdict-after-man-city-lose-three-star-men-to-injury-looking-at-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Agbonlahor delivers new title verdict after Man City lose three star men to injury – ‘looking at it now’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gabby Agbonlahor<\/strong> has insisted Man City are still Premier League title favourites despite struggling without the likes of Kevin de Bruyne, John Stones and Bernardo Silva.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Aston Villa striker, speaking exclusively to Football Insider<\/strong>, suggested “everyone’s talking about Man United’s injury problems” – but turning a blind eye to the absences at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man City suffered a 1-0 loss away at Arsenal on Sunday (8 October) – which is already their third defeat of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They were dumped out of the League Cup at the third round by Newcastle last month, while Wolves recorded a shock 2-1 win over the treble-winners at Molineux on 30 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stones<\/a> and De Bruyne have played just 45 combined minutes this season, while Bernardo Silva suffered a fresh injury last month before returning to the side for the Arsenal defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rodri has been suspended for City’s last three games after a straight red card against Nottingham Forest and will return for their clash with Brighton on 21 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agbonlahor told Football Insider<\/strong>\u2019s Ewan Kingsbury: \u201cWhen you look at it, everyone\u2019s talking about Man United\u2019s injury problems at the moment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut Man City have got those problems too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBernardo Silva, Stones, De Bruyne – they are three guaranteed starters in the best side.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey just haven\u2019t looked as good in midfield with the likes of Kovacic, Matheus Nunes and Kalvin Phillips coming in.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can add Rodri\u2019s suspension into that as well. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Man<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce they get two of those four players back, I think they\u2019ll be back to normal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still think Man City are favourites to win the league.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Pep Guardiola “really annoyed” at Man City stars after confirmed news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabby Agbonlahor has insisted Man City are still Premier League title favourites despite struggling without the likes of Kevin de Bruyne, John Stones and Bernardo Silva. The former Aston Villa striker, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, suggested “everyone’s talking about Man United’s injury problems” – but turning a blind eye to the absences at the …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":457246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[4,612,18923],"tags":[13],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530931,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530902\/revisions\/530931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}