Juventus’ players celebrate after the Champions League match against Manchester City.
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City will be home to Borussia Monchengladbach, while Juve will play away to Sevilla on the group stage’s final matchday. He added: “Both teams played well and we were unlucky to lose that game”. ― Reuters picTURIN, Nov 26 ― Massimiliano Allegri woke up today blissfully free of criticism over his team selection following Juventus’ Champions League win over Manchester City which sent them into the round of 16. We have two spare games to try to win the group. We hope our team will have more luck in the draw of the round of 16 this year but we will see.
Substitute Raheem Sterling passed up a glorious chance to equalise in the closing stages before a miserable night for Pellegrini was compounded by an apparent groin injury to Joe Hart. It was a good opportunity for us but we will see what Juve will do against Sevilla. “In the first and second half we had clear-cut chances to draw, but at the end of the day it’s 1-0 to them”.
Yaya Toure believes City have the squad to cope with these problems however, and also reaffirmed how they must quickly turn their attention back to the league.
Manuel Pellegrini’s side could do with a fresh face in that area of the field.
City pushed for an equaliser and were almost rewarded in the 53rd minute, as Buffon pushed Fernandinho’s header onto the post, before Toure fired over from the rebound.
Atletico secured their place in the next round with a 2-0 victory over Galatasaray in Group C and will travel to Benfica to decide first place in two weeks’ time.
“David Silva is working with the physio in Manchester and we will know more tomorrow, but Vincent Kompany has no chance to play this week”. We have got through in the Champions League too, and that is not so easy. “If he can play all the games it is better for us”.
City had shown signs of promise from early on as Fernandinho drove wide after Kevin De Bruyne’s risky low ball was poorly dealt with by the Juve defence.
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Allegri admitted the match could have gone either way but said Hart had made the difference on at least one occasion. AFP/Getty Images Juventus’ midfielder from France Paul Pogba (L) vies with Manchester City’s Argentinian defender Martin Demichelis during the UEFA Champions League football match Juventus vs Manchester City on November 25, 2015 at the Juventus Stadium in Turin.
