Manchester City Danilo suffers injury blow during Brazil vs Argentina friendly

- Danilo left the field in tears after cropping an ankle injury during Brazil friendly against Argentina

- Danilo started ahead of Alex Sandro and Fabinho with Dani Alves missing in action

- The Brazilian has only featured in one game for Manchester City this term

Premier League champions Manchester City are set to do without Brazilian import, Danilo, who was injured in Tuesday's exhibition game against Argentina.

The encounter which took place King Abdullah Sports City, Saudi Arabia, saw the Brazilian roll his left ankle after halting an Argentina attack in the 53rd minute, and was stretched off amid tears by a medical truck.

The 27-year-old appeared worried after Liverpool's Fabinho stepped in for him, and will likely miss out of City's EPL home fixture against Burnley, at the weekend.

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At the last count, the Selecao star, Danilo has just one game for the Pep Guardiola tutored-side this term - the 3-0 EFL Cup win at Oxford.

However, with the latest setback, the defender will definitely find it tough to pin down a permanent spot at the Etihad.

Recently, he suffered similar injury to the same ankle, and was just returning to the nation team after missing the Selecao's summer World Cup campaign in Russia.

Equally, Danilo failed to take part in Manchester City's pre-season tour of USA and has not featured for defending champions in the Premier League season.

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Interestingly, the game appeared to be heading to a 0-0 draw between Brazil and Argentina, but Miranda had other plans as his 93rd minute headed goal seperated both sides in the Super Clasico clash in Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously had reported that Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has hinted he could leave England to coach an Italian side in the future.

The 47-year-old led the Citizens to the Premier League title last season and is contracted to the Etihad until 2021.

Guardiola recorded an unprecedented success with Barcelona and won everything at Bayern Munich except the Champions League in his three-year spell at Germany.

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