Football Update: Roberto Mancini Defends his negative approach
Manchester City held Arsenal to a goalless draw in the top-of-the-table clash at Emirates Stadium and Roberto Mancini claims that he was right to play defensive formation against the Gunners.
The high flying Manchester City, who were without their two in-form attackers David Silva and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mario-Balotelli-c23937, failed to register even a single shot on target in yesterday’s match.
With that one point at Emirates Stadium, Manchester City remained second in the table, two points above Arsenal and two points short of league leaders Manchester United. However, Roberto http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323’s men have played a game more than Arsenal and two games more
than Manchester United.
Arsenal are currently placed third in the league and with that one point from last night, the Gunners are four points short of Manchester United.
Arsenal dominated Wednesday night’s fixture with more attacking approach; however, their attack was equally cancelled by the exceptional defending of the visitors. Moreover, Arsenal were unfortunate not to score goal as the struck woodwork twice in the first
half and Joe Hart’s exceptional saves in the match forced the Gunners to settle for a draw.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pablo-Zabaleta-c29022 of Manchester City, both were shown a straight red card for a needless clash on the far touchline in the last minutes and both teams finished the match with 10 men.
After the match, Manchester City drew plenty of criticism from everywhere but Roberto Mancini insisted that he is not concerned about such criticism.
Roberto Mancini said that he prefer such criticism of playing negatively and finishing the game with a point rather than losing all three points
"Not all the teams can play like Arsenal.”
Roberto Mancini added: “When you play here against Arsenal, it could be that Arsenal play better than you and you might defend, and this is football. We were lucky in the first 25 minutes when Arsenal have four or five chances to score but after, I think
we defended very well. I think defensively we played well, offensively so-so but after four games in 10 days, this can be."
Mancini praised Arsenal’s style of football and compared it to Barcelona and said that Arsenal play beautiful game and it is really hard to even get a point against them at Arsenal’s home. However, the Citizens’ manager insisted that if he had David Silva
and Mario Balotelli, he would have played more attacking game.
Manchester United are now leading the Barclays Premier League with some margin but Manchester City feels that title race is not over yet.
He said: "We are in a good position, like Arsenal and Manchester United. The season is very long. Also, although http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 and Tottenham both lost tonight, I think they can still arrive on the top."
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