Ghana forward Semenyo suffered the issue during last week’s 3-2 win at Ipswich as table-toppers City made it seven wins out of seven in the Premier League this season.

Maresca, speaking ahead of City’s Champions League encounter against AEK Athens at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday, was upbeat about the fitness of Erling Haaland, Mateo Kovacic, Matheus Nunes and Nico O’Reilly, but was less positive regarding Semenyo.

“The rest are more or less all OK,” he said. “The only one that will be out for probably eight weeks is Antoine.”

Semenyo, however, has had a scan which Maresca said was “not as bad as we expected”.

Star striker Haaland was seen limping after the end of the game ag0ainst Ipswich.

“He can be available, we will see, we have a (training) session now. We have some doubts after Sunday’s game. He was quite good yesterday, better. So we will see today,” Maresca said.

“First of all to lose Antonine or any player for us, it is not good.

“Then in terms of Erling, we said that we can use Antoine as a nine but also we have different players that we are going to try and find new solutions.

“We will see, again. At the moment it is Erling, why do we need to think about a different nine when Erling is there?

“Then, if something happens and we need a different plan or a different nine, we will see,” the Italian added.

Maresca is the first manager to win their opening seven Premier League games at a new club.