Mueez Ajao
– Kevin de Bruyne will start against RB Leipzig as Manchester City complete their successful Champions League group campaign in Germany on Tuesday.
– Belgium midfielder De Bruyne returned as a substitute in Saturday’s 3-1 Premier League win at Watford after missing four games due to coronavirus.
– “People who have suffered coronavirus, after they feel empty,” said City manager Pep Guardiola.
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– “Step by step he will play the minutes. Tomorrow he will start.”
– Named the Professional Footballers’ Association men’s Players’ Player of the Year for a second consecutive season last term, the start of De Bruyne’s 2021-22 season was disrupted by an ankle injury sustained at Euro 2020.
– And Guardiola warned the 30-year-old he must “come back and fight for a position like everyone else”.
– “Kevin doesn’t have to show absolutely anything to me,” he added.
– “But he has to come back to being himself and show himself he’s back – and do what he has to do, like he has done the last five or six years, every single three days.”
