Aguero in the form of his life
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MANCHESTER City striker Sergio Aguero was named Player of the Year in a vote by 250,000 English fans this week — and it probably won’t be the last honor he picks up this season.
The 26-year-old, who won the Premier League title with City in May and reached the World Cup finals with Argentina in July, topped the Football Supporters Federation poll, ahead of City teammate Yaya Toure, Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling, Morgan Schneiderlin of Southampton and the Chelsea duo of Eden Hazard and Branislav Ivanovic.
He has scored 19 goals in all competitions already this season and 30 in his last 33 Premier League games and his unstoppable rocket from 20 meters which pulled City level at Sunderland on Wednesday left Sunderland substitute Jozy Altidore exclaiming “Oh My God!”
Aguero has been playing like one of the gods all year and after being honored by the FSF at its annual gala dinner in London on Monday, he said that the title race was far from over even though City trailed leader Chelsea by six points.
“We are two games behind them, six points, but there is still a long way to go. What is in our favor is that City know how to catch teams — we’ve done it in the past and can do it again.”
Aguero himself is hitting top form with a phenomenal run in recent weeks starting at the end of October when he scored all four in City’s 4-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur. Next he had two against Queens Park Rangers in a 2-2 draw and a match-winning hat-trick in the 3-2 win over Bayern Munich in the Champions League last week.
His two goals in City’s 4-1 win at Sunderland on Wednesday rook his tally to 11 goals in his last nine league games.
A candidate for the FIFA World XI and the FIFpro World XI, Aguero is also the front-runner for the English Footballer of the Year award at the end of this season.
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