Injury and fixture worries pile up for Manuel Pellegrini

‘Here in England all the teams have a lot of money to spend and a lot of them have very good players.

Leicester manager Ranieri, whose even-tempered approach has been one of the highlights of his team’s unexpected success story, made light of their new and unfamiliar position.

If City knock out Kyiv they will reach the quarter-finals for the first time in their history and this would also help the Uefa coefficient with the Premier League’s four places in the competition under threat.

“I only know that his Chelsea, with all the difficulty that comes with it, won the Premier League last season with four weeks to spare”. My mind goes over seven days and the next game against Arsenal, a tough match with fantastic players.

“I hope we can win to close the gap and continue fighting”. Now we have 39 points more to play for.

“I have a big talent for this”, said Guardiola.

“I think we didn’t defend well because they had other chances”.

The Manchester giants will reportedly have to stump up around £40million for the Uruguay worldwide, £18million more than Liverpool paid to bring him to the club from Ajax back in 2011. “Now it’s just time to finish in the best way we can do this season”, Zabaleta told British media.

“We enjoy it and the fans must continue to dream”.

“So if we have to play on the Sunday, we will have to see which players will have to play”. A fair point by the Spaniard, who we may not see in a press conference for a while, judging by his comments.

The 29-year-old joined from Fleetwood for £1million in 2012, has scored 44 goals in 133 games for the club and has started all 25 of Leicester’s league games this season.

Pellegrini believes Leicester have an edge because they are only competing for the league.

“But we’re alive and we want to fight”.

“Pressure, it could be a problem, but it is important we stay calm… Of course though, this was a defeat we didn’t expect”.

City, who were previously rumoured to be after Barcelona talisman Lionel Messi, have now turned their attention to Neymar as they feel it is unlikely the Argentine will move to the Premier League. It’s not easy. It’s the best spirit I remember in my career, as well as when I was a footballer.