Captain Vincent Kompany tells his team’s news site this week that his squad is motivated to win the Champions League this season.
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Manager Manuel Pellegrini admitted his side needed to be more clinical but refused to apportion blame, particularly with £49million man Sterling facing criticism for his misses.
Another critical moment came after 75 minutes, with the score at 1-1, as City skipper Kompany was forced off with a calf injury. Juventus lost their three main players, as Andrea Pirlo, Carlos Tevez and Arturo Vidal changed their teams in the summer transfer window.
“It was a very different game than in previous campaigns…there was actually nothing wrong with our performance”, he said.
Manchester City vs Juventus 2015 (en vivo live score results below) delivers one of the big battles of the UEFA Champions League today.
City almost broke the deadlock after just two minutes when Fernandinho played Raheem Sterling through on goal, however the winger was thwarted by a fine save from Gianluigi Buffon.
The Citizens disappointingly fell to a 2-1 defeat at home to last season’s Champions League finalists on Tuesday after being a goal up.
Juventus have made a poor start to their domestic season but Pellegrini said: “We are not thinking where we are going to get to in this year’s Champions League, we are just thinking about tomorrow”.
Every team have a lot of injuries throughout the year because we play so many games.
“We deserved to win it but football is a amusing old game”. “We were a bit unlucky, but are still confident for what’s coming”. Morata curled in the victor from outside the penalty area after a long ball forward was deflected into his path.
Wilfried Bony also proved a modest deputy for Sergio Aguero, who was only fit enough for a late cameo off the bench.
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The Italians thought they had taken the lead in the 12th minute when Paul Pogba headed in Juan Cuadrado’s right-wing cross, but it was ruled out as Morata was offside and interfering with play.
