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Injured Aguero felt 'something strange'

Sergio Aguero was in tears as he left the pitch injured during Manchester City's victory against Everton © PA Photos

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Sergio Aguero said there was a "strange" feeling in his knee when he sustained a potentially serious injury on Saturday.

Aguero was in tears as he came off after being hurt in the second minute of Manchester City's 1-0 win over Everton on Saturday, amid fears the forward could be out for a month with suspected ligament damage.

City have already ruled their 19-goal top scorer out of Wednesday's Champions League decider against Roma but face an anxious wait over the extent of Aguero's injury, with medical staff forced to wait another 48 hours for swelling around his knee to go down before they can administer a scan.

"I have spoken to Sergio, he was in the dressing room," manager Manuel Pellegrini said. "He had pain in his knee and he told us he felt something strange happen."

Aguero scored a hat-trick in City's last Champions League game, the 3-2 win over Bayern Munich, and has delivered five goals in his last three European matches.

While Pellegrini described his top scorer in the same sentence as the two best players in the world, he suggested City are not a one-man team and can prevail without him.

"Every big team must have important players like Sergio," Pellegrini added. "I suppose [Cristiano] Ronaldo is very important for Real Madrid and [Lionel] Messi is very important for Barcelona, but neither of those teams are all about just one player.

"We would prefer to play with Sergio, but if he cannot play, we must try to continue the same way we have been playing in the last week. Remember, last season we played a lot of games without Sergio - and these are the same players and the same team."

City are already without the suspended Yaya Toure against Roma and are waiting to see if David Silva and Vincent Kompany will be fit to face the Serie A runners-up.

In attack, Edin Dzeko, who had been out for a month, made his comeback on Saturday as a second-half substitute while Stevan Jovetic missed that match with a minor knock and is expected to be fit to face Roma.

Pellegrini added: "We have beaten a very difficult team like Everton without Sergio, without Silva, without Kompany, without Jovetic and with Dzeko only able to play 20 minutes."

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