Guardiola has yet to decide whether De Bruyne will play against Liverpool

Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said he will know at the last minute how fit Kevin De Bruyne will be for Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool, after the midfielder was unable to train due to a calf stitch.

He replaced De Bruyne in the second half of the Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid, and Guardiola said the Belgian international and defender Kyle Walker, who suffered a leg injury, had not trained.

"He has some stitches in his calf, it's not a muscle injury," Guardiola told reporters today before the match at Wembley. "We will know tomorrow the condition of De Bruyne and also Walker.

Walker has a severe sprain but his condition is improving.

(Defender) Ruben Diaz trained today and we'll see what happens with him.” Guardiola has hired American goalkeeper Zach Stephen in the FA Cup this season, but he has not confirmed whether he will start the match at the expense of the main goalkeeper Ederson.

"I will think if Stephen will start the match .

But I usually pay it in cup games.

I will discuss it with the doctors."

And Manchester City played with a disciplined performance, to draw narrowly without goals with its host, Atletico Madrid, after a tense match, and qualified for the semi-finals of the European Champions League, with a 1-0 lead in the aggregate score, to set a date with its neighbor Real Madrid.

City will play the Liverpool match just three days after the return match against Atletico in Madrid, and the English team trained at Millwall, the second division, to avoid traveling from Manchester to London.

"Traveling from Manchester to London is stressful," he said. "The club tried to find somewhere close to us and that's why we used Millwall."

City and Liverpool drew 2-2 in a match at the top of the Premier League standings this weekend, and Guardiola likened playing with Jurgen Klopp's team once again to the rivalry he had with Real Madrid when he led Barcelona.

"We played with Real Madrid four times in ten days. It's the second time we face the same team, you always learn when you face Liverpool. When you play in a short time, you learn more. It's like basketball."

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