Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero is set to miss the remainder of the season but will be fit to play in the World Cup for Argentina, manager Pep Guardiola confirms it, according to report in Goal.
The Argentine striker underwent surgery on his right knee in Spain, Barcelona after he sustaining an injury during the clash against Manchester United.
Manchester City has already wrapped up the Premier League title following the Manchester United 1-0 defeat to West Brom on Sunday.
, Guardiola told a news conference about the situation of the striker: "Here, yeah. It is four or five weeks. Hopefully, we are going to try for him to be ready for the World Cup.
"He is in Barcelona right now for the first part of the rehabilitation."
Aguero's attention is now firmly fixed upon Argentina's World Cup opener against Iceland in Moscow on June 16.
Argentina's team doctor Homero D'Agostino said this week that he fears Aguero will struggle to be at peak fitness by the time Russia 2018 comes around.
"That a player has undergone an arthroscopy with 60 days to go before the World Cup is worrying," D'Agostino told Radio 10.
"The recovery process will require at least five weeks. When one has old injuries, the recovery process is not as fast as one would like it to be. It's never going to be less than three or four weeks, or even more.
"I imagine that he will not arrive 100 percent fit with the limited time that is left before the World Cup. The anatomy is the anatomy. The injury is what it is. He can try but I don't think he will arrive 100 percent.
"The important thing is to know what he had. The doctors would have tried to resolve the issue in a conservative manner, non-surgically, but they were unsuccessful. The arthroscopy
is a process that you do when there are old injuries."
Aguero was selected alongside some of his Manchester City teammates for the PFA Players of the year.
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