Man City boss Pep Guardiola makes admission over Erling Haaland injury

Pep Guardiola has revealed for the first time that Erling Haaland fractured a bone in his foot as he played down fears the striker could suffer a recurrence of the injury issues that dented his time at Borussia Dortmund.

The striker is back in full training with Manchester City and is in line to make his return to action against Burnley on Wednesday, at which point it will be around eight weeks since he picked up the foot injury.

At the time City stressed that Haaland hadn't suffered a fracture and he initially returned to training in December before complaining of pain in the bone and returning to the treatment table. Guardiola has now said the injury did turn out to be a fracture that has taken time to heal.

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Haaland suffered seven different injuries in his final two seasons at Dortmund and required careful monitoring from City's medical staff in his first campaign at the Etihad, when his availability was a major part of the club's treble success.

He missed just five games in his first season at the club, but his absence from the squad at Tottenham will mean he's now been injured for 10 successive games this term. But Guardiola is confident the nature of the problem means it can be considered a one-off.

"It was a bone. We thought it was a bit less but in the end it was a little bit of a fracture of the bone and the bone is not a muscular issue that you can do a little bit (of work) and come back," he said.

"When you have this injury it’s a question of time, people say six to eight weeks, it is six to eight weeks. It is not about how much you work or whether you go to Abu Dhabi or not.

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