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contrasting news on City's pair of injured Bulgarians, with Valeri
Bojinov making good progress in his battle to overcome a serious
Achilles injury.
The desperately unlucky striker ruptured his right
Achilles tendon just minutes before City's opening league fixture at
Villa Park was due to begin. This latest blow came after he had fought
back from a cruciate ligament injury that had ended his first start for
the Blues a year earlier, while Martin Petrov was ruled out for around
four months after sustaining a knee injury while on international duty
earlier this season.
Of the injured pair, City's assistant Mark
Bowen says: "We expect them both back before the end of the season. If
you're asking for an exact date, I can't give that but Boj is back on
the training ground now and he's working hard on a one-on-one basis
with our sports science department.
"His fitness seems to be
improving every day, and I imagine without having any exact dates that
it could be a matter of weeks rather than months before he is able to
work with the rest of the players.
"Martin's situation is more
serious, he has had his operation and is not even doing any work at the
moment, he's waiting for the initial stages of his rehab to unfold.
"We've
missed him - we've missed both of them, but with Martin we know what he
can give to the side. Boj is a different kettle of fish, I don't think
anybody has seen too much of him since he came here because he has been
so unlucky with injuries. The sooner they are back, the better."
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