SERGIO AGUERO is OUT of Manchester City’s crunch clash with Tottenham on Saturday.
Pep Guardiola suggested the knee injury was aggravated by the heavy tackle from Ashley Young in the Manchester derby defeat last week.
Young crunched the striker half way up his shin but no penalty was given – Manchester United went on to beat Man City 3-2.
Pep said: “He’s not ready. I don’t know [when he will return].
“We cannot forget he was injured for one month.
“He made a huge effort [to play against Liverpool], because after the Ashley Young tackle… he could not train.
“He played the last 20 minutes [against Liverpool] and after the game he said, ‘I cannot run, I have a lot of pain, I cannot run’.
“I don’t know if he’ll be ready for Swansea, but hopefully for the final games if we need him and especially for the World Cup.”
Guardiola was criticised for leaving Aguero on the bench for the Champions League quarter-final defeat to Liverpool – but it appears he took a risk naming him on the bench.
The City boss will also be without midfield maestro Fernandinho, who has been banned two games for accumulating 10 bookings.
Benjamin Mendy is a long-term concern, while John Stones is also missing after he picked up a knock in training last week.
“We have 14 players for the next game, plus the kids,” added Guardiola.
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The Catalan coach has suffered through a miserable 10 days, but insists his players only need to remain calm in the final months of the season.
“Try to be who we were during the season and thinking about three points,” he said.
“We are 13 points clear because we deserve to be there.
“In the last eight or nine Premier League games, we lost one. We won the last five in a row before United. Results are good.
“We need to think about the strong points of Tottenham, try to win the game.
“One of the successes we have had is when we drop points, we have then win, win, win, win.”
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