despite losing the figure of the captain who led in midfield with KDB and currently kdb is suffering from an injury long enough to return with the main squad, but there is a replacement figure in his position the captain of man city at the moment he is phil foden proven by 2 appearances in epl able to play a very good role in the midfield with mateo kovavic and rodri, I'm pretty sure by looking at the current manchester city midfield even though without kdb they will perform well because the main squad with their second squad have very good skills and mentality. so it's no wonder that Man City is predicted to win the UCL again in 2023/2024.
Guardiola's main strength is that his bench team is very strong. Manchester City have a number of talented players on the bench. Due to this, Manchester City does not face much problem if any player in the squad is injured. Because they have qualified replacements. Other teams in the Premier League do not have this. The bond between Arsenal players is strong. Their squad is strong. But the bench players are not talented enough. And so when key players in the squad get injured, Arsenal's performance deteriorates. Without three key players in the team's midfield, it is absolutely commendable that Manchester City is performing the way it is. This team is performing quite well. Still their performance is stable.
This is one of the advantages of Pep which is that he is not only good at managing the first team but the reserve team that he takes care of also all have great talent although indeed in this case money also determines but he is one of the coaches with good advantages in team management.
So that when one of the core players is injured, it even has an impact but does not give too much concern because they can make several backup schemes with several existing reserve players. Their core and reserve players are not too far apart in terms of quality differences so that with conditions like this there is no imbalance for the players and formations they have.