Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero out a month

While the club is disappointed to have lost Aguero, Ivorian forward, Wilfried Bony sees the silver lining in the cloud as he believes this is his chance to step up and fill the void left by the Argentine.

After being a goal down at home against Newcastle United, Sergio Aguero scored five goals in space of 20 minutes to help Manchester City seal a 6-1 victory over the Tyneside club.

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The City boss has hit out at Belgium after captain Vincent Kompany featured in their final Euro 2016 qualifier this week.

Elphick last featured at Norwich City last month, with veteran centre-back Sylvain Distin coming into the heart of the Bournemouth defence since.

League leaders Manchester City host promoted Bournemouth following the worldwide break which wasn’t kind to them as two of their star players in Sergio Aguero and David Silva getting injured.

“I am sure now he has the responsibility and he will demonstrate why he is here”.

As well as Aguero and Silva, the hosts are also without Aleksandar Kolarov after the full-back limped off during Serbia’s clash with Portugal with a thigh problem.

– Bournemouth have scored in 12 of their last 13 away league games. They face a spell of five games in 14 days across three competitions, including a table-topping Manchester derby.

Kompany himself has denied he was playing through any injuries, but Pellegrini was still evidently annoyed, saying: “It was just important for him to work a whole week before playing a game”.

“The last time I played for them was almost nine years ago and a lot of things have happened since then so I think l will be fine”.

“He’s more than capable of scoring goals and doing well for them as he did for us”.

“I assume he will play the majority of games now and that is the chance you want as a player”.