Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure will miss Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final, first leg at Paris St Germain with a knee injury but keeper Joe Hart is fit, manager Manuel Pellegrini said on Tuesday.
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The two away goals they secured do however give them hope of progressing when the two sides meet for the second leg at the Etihad. Also, unfortunately for us, I think their second goal was offside.
“In the first half we make important mistakes that we can not make if we want to continue in the Champions League”. Some of our mistakes did not allow us to win this game. You know PSG will have a lot of the ball, but it was mainly between the two defenders and the three midfielders, so it wasn’t like they were pressing us all the time.PSG boss Laurent Blanc felt his team were made to pay for their errors. “But I think the team had personality throughout the whole game to try and win the game”.
“It’s up to us to make the away goals count. So if we manage to give the same performance, without committing the same mistakes, we can go through”.
Ibrahimovic looked nervy as he missed the target midway through the first half with only Hart to beat having been nicely played in by Thiago Motta in what was a scrappy start by PSG, whose normally neat passing game lacked accuracy. “But they’ve come away with a great result from Paris”.
“Now we must test him with more intensity and its very hard to tell now”.
“It’s not a good result”, said Blanc.
Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera believes his club belong in the Champions League next season, and he’s looking forward to a fight for a spot with just seven league fixtures remaining, according to United’s official team site.
“I have given Fernando the ball and he obviously thought there was an option to pass inside”, the stopper continued, attempting to explain the aberration, “and the big man put his size 15s on it and in it went”.
Fernandinho levelled on 72 minutes and Hart said: “It was a insane game that we were fully involved in”.
The 24-year-old has bagged six Premier League goals and recorded nine assists in 20 appearances.
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He added of Ibrahimovic: “Zlatan was on a rollercoaster”. We’ll be up against a team with quality and quality in depth – their squad overall has much more quality than ours. “I repeat, they are a very good team with very good players, so after that, when we qualify, we can talk about the other things”.
