Manchester City lost all three games when Rodri was suspended recently, including back-to-back defeats in the Premier League.
Rodri joked with his Manchester City teammates that they cannot win without him as he prepares to return to the starting XI this weekend.
Pep Guardiola confirmed that Rodri had returned to Madrid for a week before the international fixtures for a personal break, and he then helped Spain qualify for Euro 2024 in their two fixtures this week. He is likely to come straight back into the side when City resume Premier League action, with nobody else putting up a convincing claim to replace him in his absence - and he has joked that he is fully aware of his importance to the side.
"At my club we have lost the last two Premier games and we need to win again. I sometimes tell them as a joke when they touch my nose, that without me they lose." "It was more to my credit, I told him to calm down the night before," Rodri revealed. "I talked to the people who were going to cover him; Laporte already knew him and the rest I gave some guidelines. We did very well. In the country side there are no friends, you have to look for where he is not so strong; He doesn't have many weak points."
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