Roberto Mancini believes Manchester City can top Champions League Group – UEFA Champions League Update
Manchester City manager, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roberto-c31294 Mancini believes that his team have just what it takes to top their UEFA Champions League group, once the group stages come to an end.
The team are currently set to take on Villareal at the Etihad Stadium and following their draw with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Napoli-c40003 and defeat at the hands of Bayern Munich, the team is looking to pick up all three points for their upcoming game.
“It is important for us to concentrate on Villarreal,” http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323 told reporters.
“If we can beat Villarreal, and I don't think it'll be easy, maybe we will have a better chance to go through to the knock-out stages. If we don’t beat them, it will be difficult. Certainly it would be impossible to finish top of the group.”
City are currently in the third spot in Group A and many experts believe the team just doesn’t have what it takes to make it to the next round of the tournament. However, Mancini seems to think otherwise and strongly believes that his team can produce just
the type of performances required to overcome the odds in their upcoming games.
The manager is however putting all his eggs in one basket, as he has admitted that beating Villarreal could make or break his teams Champions League season.
The manager when talking about the importance of beating his Spanish opponents in their upcoming game is quoted to have said: “We know we need more experience, but we still have four games left and, if we beat Villarreal, we can still get first place in
the group. If not, we can fight for the second place.”
At the moment City are performing exceptionally well in the Premier League. The team is currently sitting in the top spot in the league and seem to be in no mood of coming down any time soon. They have not tasted defeat in any of their opening eight games
of the Premier League season and are looking to carry that form into their Champions League games.
Mancini is going to be looking towards his star players to pick their form up in their midweek game, after he left almost every single star player on the bench this past weekend.
On paper, City have the squad that has the potential to go all the way and win the European competition, but it is now just a matter of taking all that potential and trying to produce results with it.
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