please log in to view this image Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini must decide whether to draft in Carlos Tevez for his team's Champions League encounter with Bayern Munich. After drawing with Napoli, City will be without the suspended Mario Balotelli so Mancini has to choose from Tevez, Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero in attack. Owen Hargreaves has not been registered for Europe, so will not face his former club, who are unbeaten in nine games. City winger Adam Johnson is out with an ankle injury. "Carlos could have a chance," said Mancini. "I will decide the team on Tuesday. I am sure I can choose well because I have Carlos, Edin and Sergio to pick from." Bayern defender Holger Badstuber is struggling with flu, while Arjen Robben may not be ready to start after playing his first 10 minutes in more than a month in the 3-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen at the weekend. City will travel to Germany buoyed by breaking down a resolute Everton team on Saturday but they will come up against a Bayern side which is top of the Bundesliga and has not conceded a goal in nine games. However, David Silva insists City can claim an away win by maintaining their attacking instincts, which have seen them score 22 goals in eight games. "I think we can attack them like we do at home," said the Spain playmaker. "We can stick to our footballing principles. We don't have to change our style against other teams home or away. "We believe in what we are doing and have confidence in each other so we will keep doing the same things." But Mancini was more cautious, saying he was focused on reaching 10 points to reach the knockout stages. "We are not here to lose," the Italian added. "We know it will be difficult but we want to win if possible. "I am certainly satisfied with the progress we have made, even if we need to improve a lot. "This is the second game for us in the Champions League. Now we are a good team but if we want to arrive on the top like Bayern Munich, who have such a big history, we need to work very hard." Despite their strong start Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes insists that facing City will be his team's toughest test so far this season. "It is going to be a real challenge for us," he admitted. "Manchester City are currently on a par with Manchester United and that says enough really. "They are a top European team. I am very impressed by them." Meanwhile, a delegation of Manchester City officials, led by long-serving secretary Bernard Halford, will lay a wreath at the memorial to the Munich air crash on Tuesday. City are keen to pay their respects to the 23 people who died after the plane crashed at the Munich-Reim airport in 1958 while carrying the Manchester United team, club officials and journalists back from a European Cup tie against Red Star Belgrade. Legendary City keeper Frank Swift, who became a journalist at the end of his playing career, was among those killed. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson welcomed the gesture. He said: "I think it's refreshing. We appreciate that from Manchester City." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14982446.stm
City getting smashed by Bayern, and receiving a European schooling session. abit of a reality check for City, back to the Uefa Cup they go
Unlucky City, certainly don't deserve to be 2-0 down. Two excellent penalty shouts and their second shouldn't have been a free kick and was subsequently off-side. Here's hoping for a better second half.
We are in the hardest group and if we don't make it through at least we have been there and the fans have seen their club in the CL something we could only dream of a few seasons ago, one thing is for sure you lot wont be taking part for many seasons to come.
I think we topped the hardest group didn't we? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...s-Man-City-are-Spurred-on-for-Euro-glory.html ...blah blah Toure!
Barry leaves the field with the word 'average' above his name...didn't take the Sky producers long to work that out!
