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Manchester City lose another striker as Edin Dzeko goes down for 4 weeks

Dzeko hurt himself during warmups Saturday before Manchester City played Leicester City, and now he’s in a walking boot.

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Manchester City's front line is getting thinner and thinner. Last weekend, Sergio Aguero got hurt playing Everton, and is out 4-6 weeks. On Saturday, Edin Dzeko was hobbled with what was reported as another calf muscle pull before City's match against Leicester City and had to be removed from the starting lineup.

Now this popped up on the Bosnia-Herzegovina international squad twitter feed:

Now after looking to finally be able to get a nice, long run in the side for the first time seemingly in forever, Dzeko will instead hit the bench injured again. He joins Aguero, Stevan Jovetic, and likely Vincent Kompany as key Manchester City players who are out injured. Kompany was supposed to make a triumphant comeback from his own injury against Leicester, but instead he seemed to re-aggravate his hamstring injury and had to come off after just 14 minutes.

Whatever bad juju City had placed on them to rack up all these injuries, they need to look in to getting it lifted before they have no players left.

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