Manchester City Juventus Highlights & Match Report as the Citizens

Manchester United failed to break down a stubborn PSV Eindhoven in a 0-0 draw in the Champions League on Wednesday, missing the chance to qualify from Group B with a game to spare. “But for if for some reason he can not play I have trust in Willy [Caballero]”.

Juventus squandered a chance of their own two minutes later, as Mario Mandzukic sprung the offside, before directing his header horribly wide of the mark.

“We have so many injuries it is hard to continue the same pace, but we had the personality to do it and were maybe a bit unfortunate”.

Nevertheless, qualifying as runners-up has resulted in City being dispatched with relative ease by Barcelona in consecutive last-16 ties, underlining the importance to Pellegrini of finishing top of the pile. We know they want to get first place and we also want to be first. They are already guaranteed a place in the knockout phase of the Champions League. We have to wait on Juve playing Seville away from home.

He allowed the game to flow as much as he could, but the second half was littered by a number of fouls from both sets of players. “That’s why I was not so unhappy with the way we played because we didn’t have many chances to make substitutions and had to take Sergio Agüero out after 65 minutes”.

“A couple of years ago, we were in this competition and we didn’t finish in the top two”. The Argentine, who found the net with a customary finish, was not risked for the final half hour despite City chasing the game, a decision which highlights the importance of him staying fit. It was easily City’s best Champions League display, eclipsing the two wins against Bayern – games that had little at stake for the Germans.

The Italians were good value for their victory, with reported City target Paul Pogba outstanding, but the injury-hit visitors had a host of chances in an entertaining contest. We have seven or eight players injured and we will see the medical report to see what team must start on Saturday against Southampton. Punters will also be able to get all the live in play markets at bet365 throughout the course of the match and those whom wish have a couple of special offers like the Bore Draw Money Back and Euro Soccer offer at bet365 Sports. Those were goals that could have essentially put the game on ice and would have prevented us from having a few of those late-game heart-up-in-your-throat situations that always seem to happen when watching this team.