straight to your inboxAs the news of Nathan Ake’s injury filtered through to Pep Guardiola’s phone on Wednesday night, he may have been tempted to launch the device at the nearest wall.
A few hours earlier in Liverpool, the same feeling will have come across Jurgen Klopp after it was confirmed Joe Gomez had suffered a knee injury while with England.
Both men will have felt a sense of frustrated vindication after they championed the Premier League to reinstate the use of five substitutes following the draw between the sides at the weekend.
Three days later, and both managers had lost another key player to a non-contact injury.The Premier League’s decision to revert from five substitutions per match to three irked both Guardiola and Klopp,.
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