Manuel Pellegrini insisted Manchester City can not be billed as favourites to reach the Champions League semi-finals, despite emerging from the Parc des Princes with a 2-2 quarter-final first-leg draw against Paris Saint-Germain.
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With two away goals, Hart and his teammates will surely be very confident of advancing to the semi-finals, even if they may well feel they ought to have taken a victory from the Parc des Princes.
Fernando was involved in a mix up with Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart, and gifting PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic with a fortuitous goal. We have 90 minutes more, and we must do our best. “I don’t know if it has to do with nervousness but we made a lot of technical mistakes, especially for City’s second goal – and we all know the importance of away goals”.
“We should have gone a goal up, but then they scored against the run of play. I don’t think City will just sit on their lead, but it is true that we will need to be much better defensively”, said Blanc, whose side must negotiate a league fixture at Guingamp this weekend, while City are at home to West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League. They only had two chances. I think the tie is absolutely open heading to Manchester because we are playing a team that plays like us, the same home and away.
In 2013, he scored in the 2-2 drawn first leg against Barcelona but did not add to his tally in a 1-1 draw in the return fixture at the Nou Camp. PSG are a risky team but we are always going to believe we are a good team as well.
Aguero who has been in incredible form for City as well as De Bruyne this season.
City took advantage of the penalty miss to go ahead through De Bruyne but immediately gifted an equaliser as Fernando miscontrolled a Hart pass and Ibrahimovic pounced.
“We will see how Vincent is”, Pellegrini said.
“And I was at the right place at the right time and got the chance”. We weren’t as organised as we usually are but we will not repeat the mistakes.
Ibrahimovic, who had not missed a penalty since September 2013, admitted he could have done more to help his side, despite pouncing on a defensive error to level the score at 1-1.
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Wolfsburg now have the upper hand ahead of Tuesday’s return leg at the Bernabeu. City keeper Joe Hart then played a short kick out to Brazilian Fernando, who dithered on the ball before inexplicably cannoning it off the on-rushing Zlatan and into his own net.
