Swansea vs Man City 1-0 | Mancini: Didn't Deserve to Lose | English Premier League
- 10 years ago
Roberto Mancini remains confident Manchester City can lift the Barclays Premier League after Swansea dealt a severe blow to their title hopes with a 1-0 victory at the Liberty Stadium.
Manchester United's 2-0 victory over West Brom at Old Trafford means their city rivals will go into next weekend off the top of the table for the first time since October 15th.
But Mancini feels a second 1-0 defeat in four days, following Thursday evening's Europa League reverse at Sporting Lisbon, does little to alter the overall title picture, and said: "It's been difficult the last four days for me, but football is this - sometimes you can lose."
He added: "I don't think that we deserved to lose this game. I should say that Swansea played very well in the first 30 minutes. They played very good football. But in the second half we had control of the game. We missed three or four chances on the counter-attack and we conceded a stupid goal.
"Now it's important that we are very confident together because it changes nothing. It is better to stay on the top and now we are behind, but this doesn't change our targets."
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Manchester United's 2-0 victory over West Brom at Old Trafford means their city rivals will go into next weekend off the top of the table for the first time since October 15th.
But Mancini feels a second 1-0 defeat in four days, following Thursday evening's Europa League reverse at Sporting Lisbon, does little to alter the overall title picture, and said: "It's been difficult the last four days for me, but football is this - sometimes you can lose."
He added: "I don't think that we deserved to lose this game. I should say that Swansea played very well in the first 30 minutes. They played very good football. But in the second half we had control of the game. We missed three or four chances on the counter-attack and we conceded a stupid goal.
"Now it's important that we are very confident together because it changes nothing. It is better to stay on the top and now we are behind, but this doesn't change our targets."
/football on Youtube brings you the latest football news, transfer rumours and footballing gossip from the English Premier League and European Champions League.
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"premier league news" "Swansea vs Man City 1-0" "Swansea City F.C." "Manchester City F.C." Mancini "Roberto Mancini" "Man City" "Manchester City" "Premier League" Football Soccer "Association Football"