Erling Haaland is still recovering from a groyne injury, and according to Pep Guardiola, a decision will be made about his readiness for this weekend later on Friday.

Haaland has had a sensational debut campaign with Manchester City, tallying 42 goals across all competitions, easily the most of any player in Europe's top five leagues.

However, an injury that prevented the forward from joining up with Norway set him back going into the international break.

Despite Guardiola's desire to take his time with that decision, City is hopeful that Haaland will be available for Saturday's crucial match against Liverpool.

"Erling is recovering," the manager said. "We have the last training session and we will see how he feels."

Guardiola, who added Phil Foden would be out for "two or three weeks" following appendix surgery, was asked if he would risk Haaland if he was not convinced he was fully fit.

The City boss was happy to trust the 22-year-old's judgement, but he is also confident his side would cope without their superstar striker.

Hungrier than ever! 🍽️ 🔵 #mancity pic.twitter.com/pmwRnC2hTC— Erling Haaland (@ErlingHaaland) March 19, 2023

In the Premier League, Haaland has scored 28 goals, making up 42 per cent of City's total this term and earning 20 points. All three are high marks for a City player in a single season.

"The doctors and especially the players will decide," Guardiola said. "How does he feel? Yesterday I spoke with him and he feels good. But we will see, we will see what happens.

"We have scored a lot of goals this season, and he's scored an incredible amount of goals, but in the past we also scored a lot of goals.

"Since we were here, and with Roberto Mancini and [Manuel] Pellegrini, always Man City was a team that scored a lot of goals in the season – with different players, different strikers.

"They scored a lot of goals, which is what we will try to do until the end of the season."

City have scored the second-most goals across Europe in all competitions this season, with their 109 trailing Bayern Munich's 112. They are the only two teams to reach three figures.