THEWithout the national player Ilkay Gündogan, who tested positive for Corona, Manchester City won the game at Wolverhampton Wanderers 3: 1 (2: 0). Kevin De Bruyne (20th / foul penalty), Phil Foden (32nd) and Gabriel Jesus (90th + 5) scored for coach Josep Guardiola’s Premier League team on Monday evening. The goal for Wolverhampton was scored by Raul Jimenez (78th), who had ensured an exciting final phase. The English club Gündogans had previously announced the test result. According to the association, the 29-year-old German is now following the Corona guidelines of the Premier League and the British government and is in ten days of self-isolation. He is the first German national player to be infected. “Everyone in the club wishes Ilkay a speedy recovery,” the message said. The association did not provide any further information. Gündogan himself did not want to comment on sid’s request either.
In addition to the game on Monday, Gündogan will definitely miss the home games on Thursday (8.45pm) in the third round of the League Cup against AFC Bournemouth and on Sunday (5.30pm) in the Premier League against Leicester City. The team had already reported two corona cases at the beginning of September: Riyad Mahrez and Aymeric Laporte. In general, the UK is recording worrying numbers of corona infections. As the government announced on its website, it recorded 3899 new cases on Sunday alone.
A few days ago Gündogan had been optimistic about the new season and the title fight against champions FC Liverpool, this time it should not be 18 points behind the “Reds” (99 points in 2019/2020). “It’s hard to get 100 or 98 points every year, but if we want to play for all titles, we have to get closer to this standard,” he told the Guardian. Most recently, Gündogan was on the field with the selection of the German Football Association (DFB) on September 3 and 6 in the Nations League against Spain and Switzerland. In the 1-1 draw against the Swiss he even scored and harshly criticized his team for their mediocre performance.
With his corona findings, Gündogan joins the ranks of prominent players who have been infected in the past few weeks. Only the Champions League finalist Paris St-Germain, trained by Thomas Tuchel, complained of numerous cases: Superstar Neymar and his teammates Mauro Icardi, Angel Di Maria, Leandro Paredes, Marquinhos and goalkeeper Keylor Navas were infected while on vacation in Ibiza, Kylian Mbappe tested positive with the French national team. Where Gündogan came into contact with the virus initially remained unclear.
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