The Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus says that he is still playing with fear of injuring himself again having scored his first goal of 2018 in the defeat by Basel on Wednesday night on the comeback from his second major injury at the club.

The Brazilian is five games into a return from a knee medial ligament injury that he sustained on New Year’s Eve against Crystal Palace and the Champions League goal was his first for the club in 14 games, going back to Nov 18. He broke a metatarsal in his right foot in February of last year and admits that the prospect of another injury is always on his mind.

"When you playing in a game, without wanting to, you end up thinking about the previous game where you got injured,” Jesus said. “You have a bit of fear. But, as you are playing more and more, you are going to lose that fear and play your football.

"I think [against Basel] I still played with some fear. There's some moments when I still have some fear I will get injured again. I know anything can happen, but I'm sure that the more you play, the more chance that fear is going to go away.