Source: Liverpool_Echo
Roberto Mancini fears Joleon Lescott will miss most of the season
MANCHESTER CITY manager Roberto Mancini has resigned himself to being without defender Joleon Lescott for most of the club's bid to secure Champions League football, which he believes is still a four-horse race.[LNB]Lescott has been ruled out for up to five weeks with a hamstring problem sustained in the warm-up before the 2-1 win over Fulham at the weekend.[LNB]That means he will miss tonight's clash at home to former club Everton and will more than likely still be out for games against Manchester United and Arsenal at the end of April.[LNB]Lescott never missed a single game through injury during his three seasons at Goodison Park but has already had to sit out a dozen games this term for City - including the 2-0 defeat at Goodison Park in January.[LNB]'Joleon went to see a doctor in London and he said it will be four or five weeks before he can come back,' said Mancini.[LNB]'I think there is a good chance that Joleon could play in the last two weeks of the season.[LNB]'We are unlucky because Joleon is an important player for us and we have lost him in a crucial moment, but that is football.'[LNB]City have the chance to regain fourth spot against the Toffees, a match Mancini describes as 'crucial'.
