Resurgent Aguero has Manchester City chief Guardiola purring

Pep Guardiola has praised Sergio Aguero for evolving his all-round game and battling his way back to become a vital cog in the Catalan coach’s Manchester City vision.

Earlier this season, Aguero’s face seemingly didn’t fit under Guardiola, and despite the 136 goals the striker had previously scored in five years at the Etihad Stadium, the 28-year-old was dropped for Brazilian starlet Gabriel Jesus at the turn of the year.

However, with Jesus sidelined, Argentine ace Aguero has fully regained City’s leading role up top and his goal in last weekend’s 3-1 win over Hull City was his tenth in as many games.

He has notched 28 times this term and is on course to better his best-ever total of 32 that he achieved for City in their 2014-15 Premier League title-winning campaign.

Guardiola is suitably impressed.

“He’s more involved in the game. He’s not just in the box scoring goals,” said the Etihad chief.

“He’s involved in our process. When I was talking about (Aguero’s goal against Hull), for everybody to be involved; it was for that.

“Not just for the strikers to be there – for the ball to arrive and score a goal.

“He’s arrived in our process. He’s touching and involving.

“He comes and gets out for the central defenders, spreads out for the positions he normally leaves, and makes the actions, and I like to see that.”