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Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini: We won't change anything against Bayern Munich
Citizens have their work cut out as they must either take points off a team who remain undefeated in the group stage, or face being flushed down into the Europa League
Dec 4, 2011 5:13:00 AM
By Adithya Ananth
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Roberto Mancini insists that he will not change the attacking style of football employed by Manchester City, but admits that it could have been more defensive when it first faced Bayern Munich.
The Premier League leaders locked horns with the German club in their second game in Group A of the Champions League, and were well beaten, going down 2-0 at the Allianz Arena.
"The first game away in Champions League maybe we should have defended better, with one striker less," Mancini said, according to The Sunday Telegraph. "That would have been good for us. But we started the season with this mentality. We scored a lot of goals in this way but sometimes it’s important to defend very well, like we did against Liverpool.
"When we’ve played in the Champions League we have been more offensive."
Now City need to take the game to the Bavarian side when it visits Eastlands on Wednesday night, as it is in serious danger of being knocked out of the premier European competition.
Meanwhile, Napoli only needs to win its fixture against Villarreal to go through to the next stage of the tournament. At the moment, however, former Inter manager Mancini sees City's continental campaign as a learning experience.
"At this moment there are several teams in the Champions League who are better than us," said Mancini. "If Chelsea didn’t win it in 10 years this says something. We won’t change anything [for this game]. We want to get to second stage but if that’s not possible will go into the Europa League and we will try to win it."
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The Premier League leaders locked horns with the German club in their second game in Group A of the Champions League, and were well beaten, going down 2-0 at the Allianz Arena.
"The first game away in Champions League maybe we should have defended better, with one striker less," Mancini said, according to The Sunday Telegraph. "That would have been good for us. But we started the season with this mentality. We scored a lot of goals in this way but sometimes it’s important to defend very well, like we did against Liverpool.
"When we’ve played in the Champions League we have been more offensive."
Now City need to take the game to the Bavarian side when it visits Eastlands on Wednesday night, as it is in serious danger of being knocked out of the premier European competition.
Meanwhile, Napoli only needs to win its fixture against Villarreal to go through to the next stage of the tournament. At the moment, however, former Inter manager Mancini sees City's continental campaign as a learning experience.
"At this moment there are several teams in the Champions League who are better than us," said Mancini. "If Chelsea didn’t win it in 10 years this says something. We won’t change anything [for this game]. We want to get to second stage but if that’s not possible will go into the Europa League and we will try to win it."
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