David Platt believes Manchester City have ample depth in squad to overcome injuries to strikers – Premier League News
Manchester City’s first team coach David Platt has gone ahead and expressed his faith in the club as the manager has admitted City have ample strength in their squad depth, to be able to cope with the injuries suffered by the team’s strikers.
Both http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mario-Balotelli-c23937 went on to suffer injury setbacks and are now looking to sit on the sidelines for some time before they can run the show for the team once again.
Aguero picked up an adductor injury during City’s game against Blackburn, while Balotelli’s injury is said to be related to his back. Due to the injuries that both the players picked up, they are going to be missing out on the opportunity to represent their
countries on the international stage.
As a result, both the players are quite unlikely to play for City in their upcoming game against Aston Villa, this coming Saturday.
However, despite that fact, Platt feels City have ample strikers to fill in for the injured players and feels that Dzeko is going to be more than capable of filling in for the two and adding to his goals for the season.
When talking about just what City have in store for Villa, if Aguero and Balotelli are going to be missing for the game, Platt is quoted to have said: "We have plenty of ways of playing"
"We have Yaya Toure, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-c10409 Silva and Samir Nasri, three who can all work off the striker as well.
"Let's just concentrate on what we have available. We know we have a squad of players which means we can put a team out against anyone and make a good game of it."
Despite being short strikers, it seems like City aren’t even considering the possibility of recalling Tevez back into the team. The forward seems to have dug his grave at the Etihad stadium and might just have to wait till January, before he can step onto
the pitch and start playing first team football once again.
Nonetheless, that being said, should Dzeko be played as an all out striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Samir-Nasri-c32360 could shadow the forward and feed him some through balls. Should the two attacking midfielders be able to do just that, then City might just even up cruising
past Villa.
However, Villa are going to be well aware of the situation that Manchester City find themselves in and could try and build their tactics around this.
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