Manchester City manager http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roberto-c31294 Mancini has admitted that he wants his team to go all out against Porto, as he wishes for his team to win the Europa League.
City crashed out of the Champions League in the group stages, but ended up being sent to the Europa League. The team is now going to take on Porto, who won the tournament last season. As a result, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323 doesn’t expect the game to be an easy one and wants
his full strength squad to be available for the game.
The Italian manager admitted that he would be using his strongest possible squad, since he doesn’t want to take any chances in the upcoming game.
Mancini is quoted to have said: "I will play a strong team against Porto"
"We want to win the Europa League because it is an important trophy.”
"We have no game next week so we can concentrate fully on a good performance.”
"It will be difficult to go through because Porto are a top team, but we want to do the best we can in this competition.”
The City boss admitted that he was rather disappointed to see his team fall out of the Champions League, but hoped for the squad to fight on and win the Europa League, in order to have something to give their fans.
He then ended by stating: "We were disappointed not to do well in the Champions League, but it was a difficult group and we were unlucky to go out with 10 points.”
Manchester City have been performing exceptionally well in the Premier League this season and they are currently sitting on top of the league. However, the team didn’t manage to produce the best possible results in the Champions League group stages.
Most experts believe that City need to tray and adjust their style of play onto a European level, or they could see themselves crash out of the Europa League as well.
Nonetheless, it is now going to be a wait to see just how far City go in the tournament and whether they end up winning a European trophy this season or not.
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