Juve Go Top With Win Over City

Mandzukic answered his critics in the 18th minute when Alex Sandro sent over a cross from the left and the Croatia forward held off Nicolas Otamendi’s challenge to volley the ball in from close range.

City have qualified for the last 16 with two games to spare, and a win in Turin tonight would guarantee them top spot in Group D.

Juve only need a point from their final match at Sevilla to finish first ahead of City, who have been dumped out by Barcelona in the past two seasons as second-place qualifiers and will now fear a similar fate against a European heavyweight.

“We know it will be difficult to win everything, but we’ll be trying as hard as we can because we have the squad, we have the players and I think if everything is right at the right time, we can perform and beat anybody”, the Ivorian worldwide concluded.

“We qualified (for the last 16) in the last two years and were very unlucky to get the same draw against Barcelona”, Pellegrini told a news conference on Tuesday. “I think that all managers want to try to find the weakest points of the other teams, I don’t think you can take the game from Saturday as one of our normal performances”, said Pellegrini.

The Old Lady are well known for grinding out important results when it matters most and they did exactly that this evening.

“We hope we don’t lose him but for if for some reason he can not play I have trust in Willy Caballero”. Fox Sports 1 is showing Manchester United’s home game with PSV in the 2:45pm slot and it’s Juventus playing Manchester City at the same time on Fox Sports 2.

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini is extremely anxious about number one goalkeeper Joe Hart, who limped off the field during their 1-0 Champions League defeat to Juventus, according to reports from the Mirror.

“We mustn’t forget that our main aim is to get back into the top three in the league”, Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini said.

Fernando nodded the ball downward and it hit the under of the post but Yaya Toure failed to score from a rebound, Buffon alert to the situation. Last year, Man City, despite beating Bayern Munich in the group stages, faced Barca in the first knock-out stage and lost out.

“We will see. We don’t have many days until Saturday but when we arrive in Manchester we will have a look”.

“The group is not finished”, he said. “But if we can avoid important teams at this stage, then I think it’s also important for our team”.