‘Has The Team Been Cursed?’ ‘Sack Our Fitness Coach’ Fans Vent As City Star Picks Up Another Injury

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola confirmed after the 4-2 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain that Ruben Dias was forced off at half-time due to a fitness problem.

Guardiola did not offer much detail on Dias’s latest setback, only saying that he “didn’t feel good”.

With a crucial game coming up against Chelsea this weekend, Dias is not expected to feature and fans on X have been left wondering why the defender has all of a sudden become injury-prone:


Dias has already had two spells out this season


The Portuguese international was originally sidelined with a calf issue back in November, missing four games as a result.

Dias then made his comeback at the beginning of December before being stuck down by another muscular injury in the build up to Christmas.

He returned to play the full 90 minutes against Ipswich Town last week only to suffer a setback in Paris.

City are playing too many games

Without knowing the details of this latest problem, it’s probably safe to assume that Dias was called back into action too early.

Unless he has been incredibly unlucky and sustained an unrelated injury, it is more likely that he has aggravated an issue by playing too many minutes. It remains to be seen when he will return to fitness.

Find out who is in Manchester City’s first-team squad for the 2024/2025 season here

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David Tully

David Tully

David has worked as a football reporter for the last fifteen years. Having started as an intern at Snack Media, he then went on to become a freelancer, working on various different sites. At the start of 2023, he took up his current role as content writer for National World's Football News Network.