With Pep noticing the importance of these players and how their absence can seriously affect the teams performance, he is a smart man and will not want to remain limited to them, so that if there is another time like this this season in all the competitions they play were they have to be without Rodri, that their team will still be able to maintain their high performance. This two losses in the premier league does not mean that they cannot still go on to win the premier league again, it just shows that they are not very strong this season.
I do not agree that they are not very strong this season because they have almost the same squad as last year and they also added an important defender like Gvardiol to the team. They still maintain their good squad from last year and are still one of the strong teams in the EPL. I think they are still the strongest teams for the championship.
I am not too worried about Manchester City current condition, which has suffered two consecutive defeats in the EPL. I am actually happy that Manchester City was defeated by another team in the race for the EPL title, this defeat will make Guardiola put more emphasis on his players to continue to maintain their performance and close every space tightly for the opposing team.
Last season, Manchester City also suffered several defeats, they were also far behind Arsenal, who had dominated the standings for a long time. Manchester City strength is still very consistent, they will make changes in the next match in order to end the bad results achieved in the last two matches. Arsenal and Tottenham could try to undermine Manchester City dominance, but they must maintain consistent performances until the end of the season.