‘He is the most disappointed guy’ – Man City star reacts to Mendy injury

Manchester City beat Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday night in Ukraine.

City won their second game of the group stage to cement their place at the top of the table.

The match also marked Ilkay Gundogan’s first appearance in the competition since last year.

Gundogan only returned to action last week after spending months on the sidelines with a knee injury.

There was however, some bad news on the injury front.

Benjamin Mendy was forced off from Saturday’s 5-0 win over Crystal Palace last weekend.

Mendy suffered a knee injury and could be out for a lengthy period of time.

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Gundogan said after the Champions League victory over Shakhtar that he will offer his support to Mendy and that he knows what he is going through: “He is the most disappointed guy.

“I think our task now is just to support him and just to be there if he needs something from us. I know how difficult these kind of situations are. There’s not really much to talk about at the moment. We just should try to behave as normal as possible. We wish him a very speedy recovery and we support him every way.”

Gundogan returned to first team football 11 days age coming off the bench against Watford.

The midfielder of Turkish origin then made his first start against West Brom in the Carabao Cup last week.