Manchester City had Kyle Walker and Nathan Ake missing at Real Madrid through injury, while Phil Foden limped off with a dead leg and Kevin De Bruyne sat out with sickness.
Pep Guardiola will accept Rodri 's call for a rest in the coming weeks, but he didn't have much sympathy for his midfielder ahead of Manchester City's clash with Luton.
"I didn't speak with him but if he needs a rest he will have rest. Or no. I don’t know," he said. "More than the physicality, it is a case of Spending mental energy. Playing every three days, three days. Of course he's tired, playing a lot of minutes. "It's not just Rodri. I’d love to rest central defenders but we don’t have them. In the friendly games they were injured and we are in big, big trouble. So they cannot rest."
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