Yaya out for two weeks

Manchester City will be missing talismanic
midfielder Yaya Toure for up to two weeks
due to a groin injury.
The Ivory Coast star limped out of
Sunday's 3-2 defeat at Liverpool 19
minutes in - shortly after shooting off-
target and appearing to tweak a muscle.
Toure, 30, was initially all but ruled out of
playing again this season, so the news will
come as a boost to City as they attempt to
overhaul Liverpool at the business end of
the Premier League campaign.
The Manchester City Twitter feed quoted
manager Manuel Pellegrini as saying of
Toure: "Yaya has a muscle injury and we'll
see how it is. Maybe it's not as bad as we
thought at the beginning but he needs at
least ten days or two weeks to recover."
Better news for the Chilean comes in the
forms of captain Vincent Kompany and star
striker Sergio Aguero, who both came
through the game at Anfield with no
adverse reaction to recent injuries.
The 2012 Premier League champions play
host to bottom-placed Sunderland on
Wednesday evening at the Etihad Stadium,
and Pellegrini is expected to name both in
his starting XI.
Pellegrini said of the pair: "Vincent is fine -
he is on the squad list for tomorrow and so
is Sergio. We'll see tomorrow who starts.
It's important we start with the same high
performance we showed in the second half
of the Liverpool game."
On a thrilling title race in prospect,
Pellegrini added: "There are still six games
for us to play. The important thing is that
we win our games because we can do
nothing about the other teams.
"We can do a lot of things here and I'm
sure the players know exactly what they
have to do. They know that that starts
tomorrow in winning one of the two games
postponed so both Liverpool and Chelsea
can feel that we are just four points and
three points behind them."