Sergio Agüero on mission to follow in Maradona’s footsteps following hat-trick heroics

A hat-trick for Manchester City against Wigan Athletic, breathtaking as it was, might fall short of lifting a World Cup and inspiring a previously unheralded club to glory, but Agüero knows precisely where he wants to be heading with Roberto Mancini’s team.

Having already chosen to marry Giannina, the daughter of the Argentine icon, Maradona, Agüero obviously holds no fear of association with football’s most controversial and talismanic figure.

Yet with City matching champions Manchester United stride for stride at the top of the Premier League and Maradona’s former club, Napoli, due at Eastlands on Wednesday for City’s Champions League debut, Agüero’s ambition to emulate his father-in-law is no longer a fanciful daydream.