Turn for Laporte

The damage of Nathan Ake is the negative log sort of City of Manchester for the semi-finals of the Champions League for the third consecutive year. The versatile Dutch defender, starter in the 1-1 draw match Bayernwithdrew from the Allianz Arena in Munich due to hamstring problems and is a doubt for the next matches of Pep Guardiolathat the season is played in just 20 days.

This Saturday, the city will play in the first semi-final of the FA Cup at Wembley against Sheffield United -Championship team-, before seeing the faces next Wednesday with Arsenal in an important rivalry for the Premier League. To take the three points against the ‘gunners’ and win the game pending Brightonthe ‘skyblue’ team will be relying on themselves to lift their third straight league title.

The Bernabéu on the horizon

On the horizon, and then play against fulham, West Ham and leeds in the Premier, there is a first leg at the Santiago Bernabéu. An unmissable rerun of last season’s semifinal Ake depending on the results of the tests where the former del Chelsea.

In that case, it will be Aymeric Laporte in charge of replacing him on the left side of the back of the ‘citizen’. The Spanish-French saw how his role in the plans of Guardiola this campaign was scaled back after being indisputably superior to the previous one. Santpedor bets on a line of four that forms Stones, Ruben Dias, Akanji and himself Ake, who exercises the first lateral-central-midfielder in the latest invention of the Catalan coach. Of successful results, by the way.

Treble in sight?

report He has played just 18 games so far this year and until last weekend, when he started in victory Leicester (3-1), amassed a five-game Premier League streak without stepping on the grass. However, the damage Ake could bring the Spanish international back to the fore in the decisive stretch of the season, where the city came opting for a triplet -Champions, Premier and FA Cup- that Guardiola already achieved in 2009 with the FC Barcelona.