Manchester United winger Ashley Young claims that rivals City have crumbled under the pressure to win the Premier League amidst reports of in-fighting in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roberto-c31294 Mancini’s squad.
The Citizens were high flying for most part of the season and it caused many pundits to name them as the undoubted favourites to lift this year’s title.
Mancini’s expensively assembled team was further strengthened during the summer with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Samir-Nasri-c32360 being the latest recruits.
The Blues already had some of the world’s best players playing for them, but with new additions, it took them from being UEFA Champions League hopefuls to genuine title contenders.
A major part of their play was focusing on attack and it was a certain http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Silva-c10601, who earned a plethora of plaudits as City employed swash-buckling football with devastating effects.
Their pinnacle of success was surely the drubbing they gave United at Old Trafford, but the pressure to live up to expectations has now cast a dreary look over the Etihad Stadium.
From once being nearly 10 points ahead, Mancini now finds himself playing second fiddle to Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson and 5 points adrift of the summit.
Furthermore, their low point erupted in their last game against Sunderland, when http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mario-Balotelli-c23937 had an on-field clash with
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleksandar-Kolarov-c4475 before taking it up with Ivorian star Yaya Toure in the dressing room.
Things are not going well in the City camp as of now and United midfielder Ashley Young claims that they only have themselves to blame for it.
“I think they’re fearing our reaction already. A lot of people wrote us off earlier in the season with City being seven points clear. But we’ve just been going about our http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 quietly and now we’ve clawed it back.”
“The pressure has always been on City, there aren’t any nerves coming from our side. We don’t play with fear and we haven’t got nervousness going into games. We’ve got the momentum,” the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 International was quoted as saying.
City play http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323’s team do slip up, it surely is game over for the season.
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