Manchester City have concerns over goalkeeper Ederson who suffered an injury to his leg in the defeat to Newcastle United on Tuesday night and will have to play on given the club’s goalkeeper cover.

There was consideration given to Ederson coming off in the minutes before Matt Ritchie’s 80th-minute winning penalty and Pep Guardiola initially summoned his reserve goalkeeper Aro Muric from the bench before changing his mind. Ederson was in discomfort in the aftermath of the game at St James’ Park, the injury understood to be a gash or cut.

Muric, 20, a Kosovo international, is the current second choice and has played in the run to the League Cup final. Claudio Bravo is out until the end of the season with a ruptured Achilles tendon. As far as future goalkeeper cover goes, the club’s parent company City Football Group have signed the American Zack Steffen from Major League Soccer’s Columbus Crew, to arrive in July. Guardiola repeated his stance on Tuesday night that his club will not add to their first team squad in this window.

City play Arsenal at home on Sunday and their defender Aymeric Laporte says that his team-mates will not give up on the title race no matter what. He said: “There's still 14 games left and we are going to fight until the end. We have a great team no matter what the result was [against Newcastle] so I'm not worried about the performance and the players we have in our squad. Hopefully we can improve and we can do better in our upcoming games.