Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany could be out for up to eight weeks with a calf injury, Belgium boss Marc Wilmots has said.

However, despite the Belgium coach revealing he expects Kompany to be "out for six to eight weeks," Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini is hopeful that he will have his skipper back before the end of the season.

"Talking with the doctor, I think that Vincent has an injury in his other leg - not the same calf as last time. We will see the way he improves, but maybe in one month he can be ready so part of the season he can play," said Pellegrini.

"It is a new injury in the other calf, a little bit higher behind the knee," added the Chilean. "It is similar to [Aleksandar] Kolarov injury a month ago. Kolarov took around three weeks to one month to come back.

"It's very important the way he improves in the first two weeks that he starts working - it's difficult now to say, but the first thing we think is that he can return in a month."