{"id":3460,"date":"2014-04-11T18:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2014-04-13T01:44:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T01:44:41","slug":"arguero-train-all-week-in-readiness-for-tittle-rivals-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/arguero-train-all-week-in-readiness-for-tittle-rivals-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguero Train All Week In Readiness For Tittle Rivals, Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Manchester City’s top scorer, Sergio Aguero, is back in contention for Sunday’s game with their Premier League title rivalsLiverpool.<\/p>\n

City’s leading striker has missed their past five games with a hamstring injury but has been back in training for more than a week. Manuel Pellegrini is now hopeful the Argentina international, who has scored 26 goals this season but none since January, will be able to have an impact at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Pellegrini said: “Sergio is OK. He has worked the whole week with the squad as normal. He doesn’t have any problems.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool lead the Premier League heading into the eagerly anticipated contest, with third-placed City four points behind but with two games in hand.<\/p>\n

City have actually fared well in Ag\u00fcero’s absence, winning four and drawing one, but Pellegrini says there is no doubt Ag\u00fcero has been missed.<\/p>\n

The Chilean, speaking at a press conference to preview the game, said: “He is a top player, he is a player that is very difficult for the other defences to stop him. Of course he is very important for us.<\/p>\n

“We always miss important players such as Sergio Ag\u00fcero, but we have had a lot of other players injured during the year and the squad has had a good answer. We have a squad prepared to not depend on just one player.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City’s top scorer, Sergio Aguero, is back in contention for Sunday’s game with their Premier League title rivalsLiverpool. City’s leading striker has missed their past five games with a hamstring injury but has been back in training for more than a week. Manuel Pellegrini is now hopeful the Argentina international, who has scored 26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}