Sergio Aguero bags hat-trick against QPR - so why didn't he make PFA Team of the Year?
Argentina striker stretched his lead at head of this season's Premier League goalscorers against relegated QPR
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Your support makes all the difference.Sergio Aguero's sterling season in front of goal continued today, as the Argentinian striker hit a hat-trick to condemn QPR to relegation.
Aguero also bagged an assist - he now has 25 Premier League goals this season, five ahead of Harry Kane, and six more than Diego Costa - the two front men who looked set to duke it out to be top scorer a month and a half ago.
His goals today made him the first Manchester City player to score at least 24 in a single Premier League season.
In addition, his assist today took him to eight - meaning he has been responsible for 33 of City's 77 league goals despite playing only 31 games, in a disappointing season for Manuel Pellegrini's men.
It's all the more baffling, then, that Aguero failed to make the PFA Team of the Year - with Kane and Costa preferred to him up front.
He also failed to make the shortlist for PFA Player of the Year, an award eventually won by Chelsea's Eden Hazard as Jose Mourinho's side romped to their first league title in five years.
Perhaps Aguero has passed under his fellow professionals' radar no thanks to injury and City's relatively poor form compared to last season.
But without Costa, Chelsea still have Hazard - indisputably the league's best player this season.
Take away Aguero's contribution, and City may well have experienced the ultimate failure in missing out on the Champions League.
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