City’s Aguero won’t hold back against Juve

An inquest by City’s players in the wake of their defeat to Liverpool left City’s French right-back Bacary Sagna admitting the events of last week’s terror attacks in Paris had physically drained him.

Juve beat City in Manchester at the start of the group campaign but consecutive draws against Borussia Monchengladbach have seen them cede the initiative, as their opponents beat the Bundesliga side before chalking up home and away triumphs over Sevilla.

“We have more experience [of the competition] now than we have had in the other years”.

Pellegrini said: “I think that we finished with the game – that very bad game that we played on Saturday – on Sunday morning”.

Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart says the Citizens are determined to seal top spot in Champions League Group D with a win over Juventus in Turin on Wednesday.

The Old Lady began to regain its confidence and have only lost one of their last seven domestic matches, although they remain nine points behind leaders Inter Milan. A Juventus victory, meanwhile, would book their place in the knockout phase and send them two points clear of City at the top. It won’t be easy against Shakhtar Donetsk (PSG face a much easier trip to Malmo), especially on the back of an extremely poor performance against Barcelona, but their Champions League form is very good and if they go odds-against it’s probably worth taking the chance.

“You can not truly measure the intensity with which you play”, Aguero said.

85 – Sergio Aguero is now the top-scoring South American player in Premier League history (85 goals).

Pellegrini said it had not taken long for City to get the Liverpool result out of their system.

City are already assured of a spot in the round of 16 ahead of Wednesday’s trip to last season’s finalists Juventus. “We need to go out and produce a great performance if we are to stamp our ticket for the last 16”.

Delph – who has had two serious hamstrings injuries – Fernandinho, Nicolas Otamendi are all in line for recalls but City are still without Vincent Kompany, David Silva, Wilfried Bony and Samir Nasri. Mentally I was ready to play. Nicolas Otamendi should return to the starting side following Eliaquim Mangala’s howler of a game on the weekend, with Aguero, Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Jesus Navas up front.

Barcelona proved a major obstacle for both City and Juventus last season, the Spanish giants ousting City 3-1 on aggregate in the knockout phase before outclassing Juventus in the final in Berlin.