Kevin De Bruyne Could Miss Ireland Date At Euro 2016

The Belgian global featured for the Citizens as they overcame a 2-1 deficit in the first leg of their Capital One Cup semi-final against Everton by beating the Toffees 3-1 at the Etihad Stadium.

De Bruyne will miss the Capital One Cup final for Man City against Liverpool, both the legs of the Champions League round of 16 clash with Dynamo Kiev and Premier League games against Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspurs.

It was feared that De Bruyne, whose introduction turned Wednesday’s League Cup semi-final in City’s favour, could miss the rest of the season following a challenge by Ramiro Funes Mori.

Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has announced he faces 10 weeks out of action after damaging his knee and ankle against Everton.

“I spoke with him earlier and he’s a little bit sad because he’s got a tear in the ankle and in the lateral in his knee ligaments”, said his agent Patrick de Koster to Sky Sports. “His dream is to always be playing football”.

Do Manchester City deserve their place in the final? If you tell me we are going to replace him with any player: “no, because he is a very important player, but as a team we must find a way to replace him”.

This time around Martinez’s gripes come with the linesman’s decision not to flag shortly before Kevin de Bruyne’s equalising goal – with Raheem Sterling crossing the ball despite it already having gone out of play.

‘We are an important player less but we must continue with the same optimism and more responsibility from the rest of the squad.

‘It’s not our intention to bring anyone in. we have a squad that’s doing very well so far. “I’ll be out for around 10 weeks”, he wrote.

De Bruyne was key to City’s success, scoring the second goal and creating the third, in the 3-1 victory.

Everton goalkeeper Joel Robles repeatedly tried to lift up De Bruyne as he lay injured and later apologised on social media.