Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini refuses to panic buy amid injury crisis

Hull City were on the wrong end of a 4-1 result in the Capital One Cup against Manchester City on Tuesday night, extending their winless run in all competitions to three games.

Thereafter De Bruyne raced past the Hull defence to score twice in the 82nd and the 87th minute, thus leaving no chance for the opponents to make a comeback in the game, the Guardian reported.

With his goal in the 1-1 draw with Manchester United last weekend, Vardy eclipsed the Premier League record previously held by Ruud van Nistelrooy, who scored in 10 straight games in 2003.

An away defeat to Juve last time out means it is the Serie A side who are favourites to finish top of Group D, but Aguero is still confident City can become genuine contenders.

City are perennially linked to Barcelona ace Lionel Messi, while there have been reports they are trying to lure Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola to the Etihad Stadium.

City allowed both Edin Dzeko and Stevan Jovetic to leave and instead bought attacking midfielders Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne. “It was very important for David”, Pellegrini said after their League Cup win on Wednesday.

Manchester City are the outright favourites for the competition after reaching the last four by thrashing Championship side Hull 4-1.

Now 14 games into the season, Manchester City find themselves at the top of a very tight Premier League table.

In order to thwart what Stoke do best, City will have to pressure players like Xherdan Shaqiri (87% passing accuracy), Marko Arnautovic (84%) and even deeper down the field with Glenn Whelan (87%).

Manuel Pellegrini likes to name a strong side, no matter who the opposition are and barring injuries, Everton will face them at their best.

Eight minutes later he set up Everton’s second goal, bamboozling Fernando Amorebieta with a flurry of step-overs and crossing for Romelu Lukaku to head in his 13th goal of the season, and sixth in five games.

“Obviously everyone wants to play every game but that can not happen at this level, you have to get rotated at times and that is what happened. I am very pleased with how things are going”. The second goal finally came in the 80th minute from substitute Kelechi Iheanacho.

Klopp said: “I have absolutely no problems with a match against Everton”.

“Joe (Hart) worked yesterday and today without any problems, so he’s in the squad list – we’ll see tomorrow if he can play”, the manager told journalists yesterday.