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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Chris McKenna

Manchester City’s win at Leeds revealed Pep Guardiola’s most important player – and it’s not Erling Haaland

Antoine Semenyo scored the winner for Manchester City at Elland Road - (Getty Images)

For much of the first half of this season, it almost became a running joke about asking Pep Guardiola on the fitness of Rodri.

The Manchester City midfielder was being nursed back from a hamstring injury between October and December after he missed most of the previous campaign due to an anterior cruciate ligament tear.

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