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  "textContent": "Erling Haaland has missed Manchester City’s trip to Leeds United (Getty)\n\nErling Haaland has been ruled out of Manchester City’s Premier League match against Leeds United due to injury.\n\nPep Guardiola’s side are looking to close the five-point gap behind Arsenal at the top of the Premier League with a positive result at Elland Road on Saturday night.\n\nBut City will be without Haaland, who has scored 22 goals in the Premier League this season.\n\nAccording to Norwegian broadcaster Viaplay, Haaland has suffered a ‘minor injury’ in training this week and has been unable to recover in time for City’s trip to Leeds.\n\nViaplay host Jan Aage Fjortoft added that Haaland is set to return for City’s next Premier League game at home to Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.\n\n##  Leeds United vs Man City team news\n\n**Leeds:** Darlow; Bogle, Justin, Rodon, Struijk, Gudmundsson; Ampadu, Gruev, Stach; Aaronson, Calvert-Lewin.\n\n**Subs:** Perri, Bijol, Bornauw, Longstaff, Tanaka, James, Gnonto, Piroe, Nmecha.\n\n**Man City:** Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Guehi, Ait-Nouri, Rodri, Bernardo, O’Reilly, Semenyo, Cherki, Marmoush\n\n**Subs:** Trafford, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Doku, Nico, Savinho, Khusanov, Foden\n\n**More to follow …**\n\n##  Your football fix\n\n**Metro** 's Head of Sport James Goldman delivers punchy analysis, transfer talk and his take on the week's biggest stories direct to your inbox every week.\n\nSign up here, it's an open goal.\n\n**For more stories like this,check our sport page**.\n\n**Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on**Facebook, **Twitter and Instagram**.\n\nComment now Comments  Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source ",
  "title": "Erling Haaland ruled out of Leeds vs Manchester City due to injury"
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