Manchester City will be without a handful of high-profile players in the Champions League meeting with Juventus on Wednesday. Manager Manuel Pellegrini takes however not the foot of the gas pedal.
Chile he expects his team take three points in Wednesday’s tricky away match and attach an even tighter grip on first place in group D.
The light blue of Manchester has long been ready for the knockout stages, but Pellegrini is not interested in releasing Juventus past and thereby risk getting a group wins as opponent in semi final next year. It has namely City bad experiences with.
The last two years, Pellegrini’s crew finished just second in the group stage and both times been knocked out by Barcelona in the next round.
Nasty smell
– This year it is important that we end on top of the group. Not only to avoid Barcelona and other big teams, but it will be a nice test for us to win here in Torino and in this way ensure group victory, says Pellegrini.
Manchester City traveled in addition to Italy with Saturday 1-4 blow against Liverpool fresh in the memory. A similar performance against Juventus they will light blue all means avoid.
– We played a weak game and made us finished it already Sunday morning, claims City boss.
Pellegrini hopes his team attacker Wednesday’s task in the same way as when Sevilla were beaten 3-1 away from home earlier in the tournament.
– We must resolve the fighting in Europe in the same way as against Sevilla. We allowed them few chances and created many self, says Chilean.
Damage Trouble
The downside is that Pellegrini struggling with a particularly damaging plagued squad ahead of Wednesday’s key match. Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany, Eliaquim Mangala, Samir Nasri, David Silva and Wilfried Bony is all irrelevant to the settlement.
In addition, great scorer Sergio Aguero got back from injury. Pellegrini has said that Argentine should be matched carefully, but there are indications that Aguero is playing his second consecutive game from the start on Wednesday.
(NTB)
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