Man City is in an injury crisis, Savinho breaks down in tears

Manchester City winger Savinho was carried off on a stretcher during Wednesday's 2-1 defeat to Tottenham in the Carabao Cup, compounding the Premier League champions' injury crisis.

“Tomorrow we have two goalkeepers and Erling Haaland for a training session, we don’t have the rest,” said City coach Pep Guardiola.

Savinho was in tears and consoled by his teammates as he was carried off the field in the 63rd minute after injuring his right ankle while running into the penalty area.

Guardiola said the Brazilian winger would find out the extent of the injury on Thursday. City also lost Manuel Akanji in the warm-up session as the centre-back was a doubt about playing due to a knee problem.

Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish, Kyle Walker, Jérémy Doku and Oscar Bobb were already on the injury list, while Guardiola said Rúben Dias had played through an issue.

Rodri, who won the Ballon d'Or on Monday, is out for the season with a cruciate ligament injury, while Guardiola said De Bruyne, Grealish and Walker would not return until after the next international break.

Guardiola said the injury situation was the worst he had experienced in his time at the club since arriving in 2016.

“We are 13 players,” he said. “We are in real trouble, but we have to make an effort. The guys who played mostly struggled and we’ll see how they recover.”

“I think when we're in trouble like this – because in nine years I've never had so many injuries in this situation for so many reasons – then the players take a step forward. They are more together than ever before.”

City lead the Premier League by one point after nine games over Liverpool.

Tottenham also suffered two injuries – Micky van de Ven and Timo Werner. Van de Ven had a hamstring problem, said coach Ange Postecoglou, while Werner may have just been tired.

Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.