The home side’s hopes of reaching the knockout stages now look extremely slim having only collected two points from a possible 12
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Veteran striker, Didier Drogba, started for Cote d’Ivoire along with Yaya and Kolo Toure despite the recent death of their brother, Ibrahim
Ibrahim Toure died on Thursday in Manchester, aged only 28, the Ivorian FA said in a statement
Seluk’s complaints include the fact, he says, that no one from City wished Touré happy birthday at a club event in Abu Dhabi to celebrate the Premier League title win
In a flat first-half by quadruple-chasing City, Fabio Borini put Premier League struggler, Sunderland, in front after 10 minutes
Egypt’s Mohammed Aboutreika beat Nigeria’s Sunday Mba to the African Player of the year based in Africa
Sambawa said: “As a patriotic Nigerian, I want Mikel to win the award because I happen to be the first person to give Mikel his first break through the 2005 World Youth Championship. I was also a major party to solving the transfer imbroglio between Manchester United and Chelsea before Mikei finally joined Chelsea. But my personal opinion is that Mikel has not done enough for club and country to edge out Yaya from winning the award
A scrappy opening saw Man City put the early pressure on the Gunners, who did well to stifle their opponents but they were rewarded for their good start with the lead after 14 minutes as Martin Demichelis’ flick on at the front post from Samir Nasri’s corner found Aguero, who adjusted his body shape and volleyed past Wojciech Szczesny from close range
This follows voting from members of the Technical and Development and the Media Committees from the initial list of nominees
The 30-year-old told BBC Sport: “I think I’ve been nominated for five years in a row and finally winning the award is amazing
The tone for the match was set inside the first couple of minutes, when Zoran Tošić blatantly tripped David Silva in the box and City were awarded a penalty
As the game seemed destined for a 2-2 draw after the first half, Ivory Coast got a penalty after Giovani was brought down
The Ivorian missed City’s midweek victory over West Brom but has been training throughout the week after being brought off at half-time against Swansea last weekend