🔵 First seriously injured it in 2021 🔵 Decided not to have surgery due to EURO 2020 🔵 Played with strapping Kalvin Phillips' shoulder problem has him at risk of missing the World Cup. SamLee, PhilHay_ & polballus report.
For Phillips himself, the timing could not have been much worse, although England boss Gareth Southgate will give him every chance of being fit for theSet to undergo surgery in the coming days, Phillips will have nine weeks to get himself fit enough to reprise his starting role in midfield before England kick off their campaign on November 21.
“With the shoulder, if it happens more than three or four times the doctors say that surgery may be necessary,” Pep Guardiola said after City’s win at Wolves on Saturday. , so he would not consider surgery as it would have ruled him out of the competition. Had it not been for that, Leeds might well have booked him to go under the knife.“I was very fearful that I wouldn’t be involved in the camp and in the tournament,” Phillips said at the time.
“If the time that he needs to recover from this injury exceeds the one that he needs to recover from his shoulder, then it makes sense,” former Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa said at the time. Now the hope for him and City is that he will recover in time for the World Cup. Phillips is understood to have been wary about surgery as he was conscious that he missed a lot of last season with injuries and that he may not have been a guaranteed pick for Southgate anyway.