Manchester City manager Roberto http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323 wants to win UEFA Europa League
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has labelled the UEFA Europa League as a ‘great competition’ and insisted that his team has the depth and the quality to win the competition.
Mancini said, “The Europa League is a great competition. There are big teams in it. You can get to the quarter-finals and meet an important team. There are a lot of well-known sides in the competition. All the teams we can play usually play in the Champions
League. It is a little Champions League. All the teams are big ones. We will try to reach the final if it is possible, both in the Europa League and the FA Cup.”
Manchester City are plying their trade in three different competitions in the ongoing 2010-11 season: the Barclays Premier League, FA Cup and Europa League. Mancini believes that his team has to give its best in order to end the club’s 37-year trophy drought.
Mancini’s men have been in the top four of the Barclays Premier League since the start of the season. Manchester City are well placed in the League standings- sitting third with 53 points to their credit out of 29 league games.
The Citizens are already through to the quarterfinals of the FA Cup. The Blues thrashed Aston Villa by three goals in the previous round of the competition and are set to face League One side Reading in the last-8.
Moreover, Manchester City are favourites to win the season’s Europa League having finished as the leaders of the group which included the likes of Juventus, Salzburg and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lech-Poznan-c39779. The Citizens defeated Sparta in the previous round and will now face Dynamo
Kyiv in the round of 16.
Dynamo Kyiv have an extraordinary home record in the UEFA fixtures. The Ukrainian Giants are unbeaten in last six European matches and their last defeat came against Barcelona in 2009.
David Silva was a part of the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 team that visited Dynamo Kyiv and the midfielder admitted that it is one of the difficult venues to play at.
He said, “It's a difficult place to go to. We got a 1-1 draw so we didn't do too badly. They're a difficult team and at their stadium it's very tough but we're excited about our chances of going through.”
Manchester City won their last silverware back in 1976 when they won the League Cup by defeating Newcastle United. By looking at City’s overall progress in the current season, it seems like the Citizens are well on their track to end their trophy drought.
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