Kompany Ready For Villa?

Roberto Mancini hopes skipper Vincent Kompany will be fit to play in next Monday's league trip to Aston Villa.

Kompany has missed five games due to a calf problem.

Mancini also revealed right-back Maicon faces a month on the sidelines after a knee operation.

The Brazilian was out for the Christmas programme and the whole of January with a knee injury but had made three substitute appearances this month.

Roberto Mancini: "He has had surgery on his knee, but in a month he can recover.

"The operation was to clean his meniscus."

Source: Manchester City MAD