Roberto Mancini targets Manchester City’s game against Napoli as a must win – Champions League Update
Manchester City manager http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323 has gone ahead labelled City’s clash against Napoli to be the most crucial game for City in the Champions League group stages.
The manager made these claims after his side went on to beat Villarreal by two goals to one and in doing so ensured their first win in the tournament.
The match kicked off with Villarreal picking up an early goal in the game and with City being given a glimmer of hope in the dying stages of the first half via an own goal. Aguero, who came on in the second half as a substitute for the injured http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nigel-de-Jong-c27882,
went on to score the winning goal in the dying stages of the game and helped the team pick up a two goals to one win.
City are now going to play Villarreal in the return leg, before facing off against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Napoli-c40003 on November 22nd.
Mancini when talking about the most important game left in the group stages went on to highlight the game against Napoli, as the manager went on to state: "Yes, 100 percent. I think that game will be very important. Before this we will play the game in Villarreal
and it's important we take all the points there. But the game in Naples will be the crucial game. I don't know for which position, but first place is open."
However, the manager didn’t take anything away from the game against Napoli as he was delighted to see his team pick up their first three points of the game.
"It was important for us to win this game," he told reporters after the match. "I hope this will be very important. It was important to win the first game in Champion League and now I think anything can happen in this group in terms of first place. At the moment
Bayern Munich have seven points, Napoli five and us four. It's open for the first and second places."
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