Aguero injured in taxi crash

Football: Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has been involved in a road accident in the Netherlands and will be assessed by club doctors when he returns to Manchester today, the English Premier League side said.

Earlier reports in the Argentine media said Aguero, who has scored six goals in six league appearances this season, travelled to Amsterdam to attend a concert and was the passenger in a taxi that crashed into a pole. The player was said to have suffered a fractured rib.

Premier league leader City, which faces Chelsea at Stamford Bridge tomorrow, had already been dealt an injury blow this week when scans showed French international defender Benjamin Mendy has ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and could face several months on the sidelines.