Here are the answers to some of this week's questions:

Hello, may I ask where exactly Núñes is injured? Is there an approximate recovery time? Rex David

Nunes looked to be flexing his right leg as he walked off against Ipswich, so potentially an ankle or a foot. He got a big kick on his ankle at the beginning of the season that took some time to heal so it could be a continuation of that.

What has been made clear from Maresca is that it is not a significant injury that will require a lengthy lay-off; of all of the players that got injured against Ipswich, Semenyo was differentiated from the rest so Nunes is more like Erling Haaland; if he doesn't play against Aston Villa, he won't be far off. I'd be surprised if we didn't see him next week even if the Villa game is too soon.

Thoughts on Ait-Nouri basically not even getting a look in. Couldn't even start against AEK. Lewis

It doesn't look great for him, Lewis. With Maresca having said earlier in the season that he doesn't consider him a full-back, that limits his opportunities for minutes and Phil Foden and Rayan Cherki are ahead of him in the queue to pick up minutes that the injured Antoine Semenyo would have done despite those two not being wingers.

At the minute, it is hard to see a situation where Ait-Nouri doesn't end up leaving either in January or the summer - especially given a loan to Old Trafford was floated in September. All I would say though is that Nunes was in a similar position 18 months into his City career, yet he roared back and is now an extremely valuable part of the team so such a comeback can happen.

Do you think Rico Lewis move into the midfield next season with Kovacic time with Man City finishing this season? Ollie

It's an interesting though, Ollie. There was a feeling that Rico Lewis could move into midfield once Bernardo Silva left given he has a talent that can be hard to pigeonhole just as Silva did. He clearly has matchwinning talent, as he showed in the AEK game, but can he do it against better opposition, can he do it consistently, and can he find a role in the team that allows him to do that without exposing his defensive shortcomings?

Lewis may well stick around to see, despite saying in summer that last year had made him realise that he needs to be playing regularly. Mareca's door is open and players can easily work their way into favour but it still feels like Lewis needs a moment in a bigger game before he can start to think about a bigger role.

Why are City so publicly bullish about the appeal? Also, are they as confident behind the scenes? Mick

As City have said, they are convinced they have "irrefutable evidence" that wasn't properly acknowledged by the three-man panel that made up the independent commission. It was presented, it just wasn't accepted with the Premier League argument believed instead.

It wouldn't be a simple overturn because this case isn't being retried so the odds are against them, but City still believe that they have the evidence to back up their position. The verdict of the independent commission has to be taken as golden for now, but it is far more common than you would think for decisions to be overturned in the legal world - hence why there are appeal courts in the first place - so it's hard to be 100 per cent certain of what the outcome will be without having the evidence.

There are plenty of people who work at City who haven't seen the evidence that the club have - given that it is so confidential, so how confident they feel about it depends on how close they are to the executives that have seen it. Khaldoon Al Mubarak and Ferran Soriano may ultimately be proved wrong but they are not bluffing, which is why their words have been accepted by the players.