{"id":739,"date":"2019-02-28T17:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T09:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/2019\/02\/28\/guardiola-de-bruyne-nearing-man-city-return\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T09:45:25","slug":"guardiola-de-bruyne-nearing-man-city-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola: De Bruyne nearing Man City return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> The Belgian has been hampered by injuries this season but the Manchester City midfielder is close to a comeback <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola revealed star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne is closing in on a return from injury.<\/p>\n<p>De Bruyne has been hampered by injuries this season, with the Belgium international damaging his left knee in November&#8217;s EFL Cup win over Fulham.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has only made five appearances in all competitions in 2018-19, having suffered lateral collateral ligament damage in his right knee in August.<\/p>\n<div>  <span>Article continues below<\/span> <\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Editors&#039; Picks<\/h3>\n<p>    Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea &amp; Pedro impress in Spurs win    Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show    Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over    Man City monitoring Barcelona &amp; Chelsea target Jovic    <\/p><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>   <\/div>\n<p>Guardiola, though, said De Bruyne is nearing a comeback as Premier League leaders City prepare to face Chelsea on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he will be back training in maybe one week,&#8221; Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said many times, I&#8217;d like to have Kevin available, but we try to not put pressure on one player and instead on everyone involved to make a good team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is coming back. Sergio also in the next few days and weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kevin was incredible last season but [Ilkay] Gundogan and Bernardo [Silva] have been outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will see the pressure. My target as a manager is bring out the best in them and that is the best thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City currently sit atop the league with a two-point lead over second place Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>After Chelsea, Man City face Hoffenheim to wrap up the Champions League group stage before taking on Everton in the team&#8217;s return to Premier League action.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian has been hampered by injuries this season but the Manchester City midfielder is close to a comeback Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola revealed star midfielder Kevin De Bruyne is closing in on a return from injury. De Bruyne has been hampered by injuries this season, with the Belgium international damaging his left knee &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=739\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guardiola: De Bruyne nearing Man City return&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uefa-champions-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}