Aguero retires: 10 of the best goals from the Manchester City legend

BREAKING
NEWS:
Sergio
Aguero
forced
to
retire
due
to
heart
issue

He
spent
a
trophy-filled
decade
in
Manchester,
winning
the
Premier
League
title
five
times
with
a
club
that
had
never
claimed
the
honour
before
his
arrival.

And
Aguero’s
goals,
of
which
there
were
260,
played
a
huge
part
in
that
success.

On
the
day
he
revealed
he
had
hung
up
his
boots,
Stats
Perform
takes
a
look
back
at
10
of
the
best
goals
Aguero
scored
for
City.

Swansea
City
(H):
August
15,
2011

A
club-record
signing
following
his
reported
£38million
arrival
from
Atletico,
Aguero
announced
himself
with
a
stunning
substitute
cameo
in
City’s
opening
game
of
the
2011-12
campaign.
Having
slid
in
at
close
range
to
double
the
advantage
granted
by
Edin
Dzeko’s
opener,
he
inventively
set
up
David
Silva’s
third
before
saving
the
best
until
last.
Aguero
collected
Yaya
Toure’s
flicked
pass
30
yards
from
goal
and
arrowed
a
venomous,
dipping
long-range
strike
into
the
corner.
It
was
love
at
first
sight
for
the
City
faithful.

Norwich
City
(A):
April
14,
2012

Carlos
Tevez
going
AWOL
for
a
significant
chunk
of
Aguero’s
debut
season
in
the
Premier
League
meant
a
forward
partnership
that
promised
much
was
only
viewed
fleetingly.
However,
the
dynamic
Argentine
duo
belatedly
linked
up
during
the
closing
weeks
of
the
campaign,
never
more
effectively
than
in
a
6-1
demolition
of
Norwich
at
Carrow
Road.
Tevez
famously
swung
an
imaginary
golf
club
–
in
reference
to
his
recently
curtailed
leisure
time
in
Argentina
–
upon
completing
his
hat-trick
but
the
first
of
an
Aguero
double
provided
the
game’s
outstanding
moment.
He
latched
on
to
a
bouncing
return
backheel
from
Tevez,
the
pair’s
livewire
movement
having
perplexed
the
Canaries
defence,
to
thump
into
the
top
corner
from
the
edge
of
the
box.

QPR
(H):
May
13,
2012

An
unforgettable
moment
replayed
countless
times,
both
era
defining
for
the
league
and
career
defining
for
its
central
figure,
it
is
easy
to
forget
what
a
technically
brilliant
piece
of
centre-forward
play
Aguero’s
heroic
intervention
during
the
dying
seconds
of
the
season
against
QPR
was.
As
the
seeming
formality
of
Premier
League
title
glory
slipped
ever
closer
to
the
clutches
of
rivals
Manchester
United,
the
Argentine
mimicked
many
of
his
country’s
great
attackers
by
dropping
into
midfield.
Taking
possession
from
Nigel
de
Jong,
an
alert
Aguero
picked
out
Mario
Balotelli
with
his
back
to
goal.
As
with
much
before
and
after
the
eccentric
Italian’s
time
at
the
Etihad
Stadium,
what
followed
was
not
simple,
but
Balotelli
managed
to
complete
a
return
pass
while
on
his
backside.
Aguero
touched
the
ball
into
space
beyond
Taye
Taiwo’s
lunging
challenge,
keeping
his
balance
as
the
QPR
defender
clipped
him.
“I
hit
the
ball
as
hard
as
I
could
and
hoped
for
the
best,”
Aguero
recalled.
Cue
bedlam.

Liverpool
(H):
February
3,
2013

City’s
title
defence
the
following
season
stuttered
as
their
talisman
grappled
with
fitness
niggles
but
he
was
at
his
awe-inspiring
best
to
snatch
a
draw
against
Liverpool.
Five
minutes
after
a
trademark
long-ranger
from
Steven
Gerrard
put
the
Reds
2-1
ahead,
Aguero
scampered
after
Gareth
Barry’s
raking
ball
into
the
right
channel
and
found
visiting
goalkeeper
Pepe
Reina
hurtling
off
his
line.
The
City
man
got
there
first
and
hooked
home
from
an
improbable
angle
out
on
the
wing.

Manchester
United
(A):
April
8,
2013

United
were
on
the
verge
of
regaining
the
title
from
their
neighbours
by
the
time
City
arrived
at
Old
Trafford
for
the
season’s
second
derby,
but
Aguero
served
up
a
reminder
of
the
misery
his
final-day
exploits
inflicted
upon
them
11
months
earlier.
There
were
parallels
with
that
famous
strike
as
he
stole
in
front
of
Danny
Welbeck
to
receive
a
pass
from
Toure
and
embarked
upon
a
driving
diagonal
run
towards
the
right-hand
corner
of
the
United
six-yard
box.
Phil
Jones
launched
a
despairing
lunge
as
his
adversary
superbly
dug
out
a
finish
into
the
roof
of
the
net.

Manchester
United
(H):
September
22,
2013

Aguero
set
the
tone
for
a
rampant
City
derby
display
and
a
season
of
contrasting
fortunes
for
the
Manchester
clubs,
who
were
each
under
new
management
in
the
form
of
Manuel
Pellegrini
and
David
Moyes.
Samir
Nasri’s
backheel
found
Aleksandar
Kolarov
and
the
overlapping
left-back
fizzed
over
a
fierce
cross
that
Aguero
contorted
himself
brilliantly
to
convert
with
a
left-footed
volley.
He
claimed
a
second
in
a
4-1
win
and
City
would
finish
the
campaign
as
champions,
with
United
in
seventh
and
Moyes
out
of
a
job.

Newcastle
United
(H):
October
3,
2015

The
Buenos
Aires
native’s
insatiable
appetite
for
goals
has
never
been
more
clinically
demonstrated
than
when
he
put
an
overmatched
Newcastle
to
the
sword.
City
won
6-1
and
Aguero
scored
five
of
them,
all
in
the
space
of
20
minutes.
Half-time
did
at
least
give
Steve
McClaren’s
men
respite
after
their
tormentor
cancelled
out
Aleksandar
Mitrovic’s
opener,
but
a
brutal
evisceration
followed.
Aguero’s
third
was
his
best,
when
he
applied
a
delicate
dinked
finish
on
the
end
of
an
irresistible
passing
triangle
featuring
Silva,
Fernandinho
and
Kevin
De
Bruyne.

Leicester
City
(H):
February
10,
2018

Already
with
the
match
ball
in
the
bag,
Aguero
had
one
more
thunderous
trick
up
his
sleeve
in
the
5-1
thrashing
of
Leicester
in
2018.
Phil
Foden
picked
out
City’s
penalty
box
animal
outside
his
natural
habitat
25
yards
from
goal.
Nevertheless,
there
was
only
one
thing
on
Aguero’s
mind
as
he
touched
the
ball
forward
and
larruped
a
strike
past
Kasper
Schmeichel
that
crashed
against
the
underside
of
the
bar
and
bounced
up
into
the
roof
of
the
net.

Arsenal
(N):
February
25,
2018

City
made
a
nervous
start
at
Wembley
before
Aguero
tuned
into
the
same
wavelength
as
Claudio
Bravo.
The
Chile
keeper
floated
a
goal-kick
in
the
direction
of
his
fellow
South
American,
who
nudged
a
dawdling
Shkodran
Mustafi,
bore
down
on
goal
and
lifted
the
bouncing
ball
delicately
over
the
advancing
David
Ospina.
The
first
trophy
of
the
Pep
Guardiola
era
was
scarcely
in
doubt
after
that
point.

Chelsea
(H):
February
10,
2019

Having
earlier
missed
an
open
goal
from
three
yards
out
to
leave
Guardiola
in
disbelief
on
the
touchline,
Aguero
almost
overcompensated
with
the
stunning
quality
of
his
strike
that
set
him
on
his
way
to
claiming
the
match
ball.
City
went
on
to
win
this
game
6-0,
but
it
was
Aguero’s
13th-minute
thunderbolt
that
will
live
longest
in
the
memory.
He
held
off
the
attentions
of
two
Blues
defenders
before
rifling
in
a
25-yarder
that
left
Kepa
Arrizabalaga
with
no
chance.