Champions League 2015: Juventus defeat leaves Manchester City facing another

Allegri told UEFA after the game that he felt they’d done well to get through a very tough group.

That’s why in this moment I am not so unhappy in the way we played because we didn’t have many chances to make substitutions.

“But we had chances and didn’t score”.

Heading into this year’s competition, City will have been desperate to avoid finishing second in the pool and facing one of the top seeds in the second round.

Defenders Vincent Kompany, Pablo Zabaleta and Eliaquim Mangala are all ruled out, but David Silva is included in the squad.

It was back in November and December 2008 that City last lost back-to-back home league matches.

Pellegrini’s frustration was compounded by goalkeeper Joe Hart having his latest impressive European performance curtailed by an apparent hamstring injury.

A draw would probably have been good enough as they face Borussia Monchengladbach in their final group game next month.

City nearly levelled on 53 minutes when Fernando got up to meet a De Bruyne corner and his downward header was pushed on to the post by Buffon before he gathered before Toure could force the ball in from close range.

Joe Hart says the hamstring injury he sustained in Manchester City’s Champions League defeat to Juventus is “nothing”.

Pogba’s backheel to play in Mario Mandzukic was completely inconsequential as the striker fired over and was flagged offside anyway. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images) Manchester City coach Manuel Pellegrini attends a news conference ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League soccer match against Juventus, at the Juventus stadium in Turin, Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. “Mandzukic finished well, but we had chances to at least draw – but missed them. We could have had it all to play for in Seville, so I’m delighted with the lads for getting this win for us”.

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City and Juventus have sealed qualification into the knockout stage of the competition and will now battle it out to see who wins the group.

“Nicolas Otamendi’s defending for the goal is hopeless”.

Juve went straight down to the other end of the field and would have doubled their lead, if not for a pesky post.

Then it was the turn of Buffon to perform heroics, as he rushed from his goal to deny Sergio Aguero, who couldn’t take advantage of a one-on-one chance after being presented the ball by Claudio Marchisio’s blind backpass.