“I think the group is not finished. Sevilla have to win that game to try to qualify for the Europa League”, said Pellegrini. “But we’ve got to have the mentality that we want to win the competition – that’s the only mentality we can have”, Hart told the Daily Telegraph. “We’re proud of that statistic so the lads deserve all the credit they get”.
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The Argentina striker marked his return to action after a seven-game absence with a stunning goal in Saturday’s otherwise dispiriting 4-1 thrashing by Liverpool on Saturday.
“Juventus have a very strong side”.
“It is the first time we have had the carrot of winning the second-last game to win the group, so it is a new experience for us”, Hart said. Year two started with a fine performance at Real Madrid but two late goals condemned them to another loss and they would never win a game that season, putting Roberto Mancini out of a job.
The Italians were good value for their victory, with reported City target Paul Pogba outstanding, but the injury-hit visitors had a host of chances in an entertaining contest.
All four of Griezmann’s goals in this year’s Champions League have come against the Turkish team.
“I made the decision to field Mandzukic a couple of days ago, we needed a player with his characteristics”, Allegri said in a touchline television interview. However, those battling displays full of grit and detetmination seem to be catching up on them.
City were briefly left with 10 men when Jesus Navas fell under a challenge from Sandro, and Juventus brazenly capitalised. Only two English teams have advanced beyond the last 16 in the last three seasons, and at the moment, depending on the draw of course, you’d have to be quite the gambler or have a lot of faith in the power of the Premier League to put much money on that record improving.
“We hope we don’t lose him, but for if for some reason he can not play I have trust in Willy Caballero”.
Sergio Aguero, Fernando and Raheem Sterling all had chances to equalise for the Citizens, but they were unable to find the net as they slipped to a second defeat in four days.
“It is a very hard game they must play away”.
But with Aguero benefitting from minutes under his belt to boost his match sharpness, there will be the temptation to start him against Juventus and then hauling him off at a similar moment to when he was substituted against Liverpool.
Manuel Pellegrini’s side were without six first-team players for the trip to Italy, with Wilfried Bony, Pablo Zabaleta, Eliaquim Mangala, Vincent Kompany, Samir Nasri and David Silva sidelined through injury.
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Louis Van Gaal’s side failed to take their chances and now have a do-or-die clash at Wolfsburg in two weeks time.
