Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini is happy to have his Ivory Coast again available.

Yaya Toure and new signing Wilfried Bony are back after winning the Africa Cup of Nations.

"It is very important to have Yaya back and playing with the team but we don't just depend on one player," he said. "It is a very important player but we must win without him.

"Bony will be a very important player for the squad also but we are not just depending on what Bony can do. We have also Edin Dzeko, we have Jovetic, we have Kun Aguero, we have Silva. We have a lot of players that always score.

"The players have different moments during the season. If you remember, at the beginning of the season, everyone asked why Yaya continued playing. After that it was a team that was only (relying) on Sergio Aguero and without Sergio Aguero it was impossible to play. When Sergio wasn't fit, we continue winning all the games. Now he is coming back and all of us are expecting that he will recover his normal performance."