Pellegrini said: “Vincent has worked the last three weeks without any problems. He played 45 minutes in a friendly with the Under-21s so I think that he is ready now to play”, Pellegrini said.
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“There’s a lot of things you can do to try to have less injuries but no one will be sure you are not going to have any more”, Pellegrini said.
City’s influential captain has been blighted by injury this term and a persistent calf problem has limited him to just eight starts in the league.
Bacary Sagna and Delph, however, have joined City’s injury list with Eliaquim Mangala, Samir Nasri, Jesús Navas, Kevin De Bruyne and Wilfried Bony already out.
No such luck for Bacary Sagna and Fabian Delph, however – both will miss out through injury.
The defender has spent the last three weeks in full training and is poised to make a timely comeback against Spurs as Pellegrini’s men look to bounce back from last weekend’s shock defeat to leaders Leicester to keep their title hopes alive.
“We’ll see what the starting XI is tomorrow – we’re not just thinking about one player and one game, we’re involved in a lot of competitions”.
The quartet played together in the first four games of the season and City won them all – scoring 10 goals without conceding. “David Silva is OK”, the outgoing City boss reported.
“But I understand that is maybe his position, he needs to challenge one of the best strikers in the world”. “I think he is doing very well and also plays an attractive football that, for me, is very important”.
“Pochettino is doing very good work in Tottenham”.
Jurgen Klopp has in the past urged the striker to “run more” and Benteke will certainly need to show greater desire if he wants to win back a regular place for a Liverpool side that has often struggled for goals this season. But this weekend is not decisive.
Manchester City have beaten Tottenham in each of their last five home games.
“We have top players who have experience of Premier League, the balance is good, we have to give the credit to the senior players too”.
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“We have confidence and trust in ourselves”. He is a very clever player, and has enough quality to play for us.
