Mancini Hails Win But Bemoans Performance
City manager Roberto Mancini hailed City’s 3-0 win over Wigan, which lifted the blues back into fifth and two points behind Spurs, but was not happy with the performance, particularly in the first half.
“We were not good in the first half and it was impossible for us to be like that again after the break,” Said the Italian. “I’m pleased with the clean sheet. If we want to finish fourth, we really have to pay attention in defence but we also need a lot of goals.
It took until the 72nd minute for City to finally break the deadlock, but when it happened, Carlos Tevez couldn’t stop and scored a 13 minute hat-trick. The first goal came following a blunder by the Wigan keeper which left Tevez with a simple tap in. Two minutes later, Tevez scored at the far post before completing his hat-trick with a superb solo goal.
Mancini later hailed the Argentine’s performance. “It was a good performance by Carlos. He scored three important goals. I am happy with him. He is scoring a lot of goals and has always been a good player. He is a young player, who is improving every year.”
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Erik in the States on
Tue, 30th Mar 2010 5:18 pm
Dodgey play int he first half to be certain. We couldn’t link but a couple passes together before giving up posession so then we started to bunker down in the back and try to catch WAFC on the counter. Wigan were defenitly on the front foot and just looked better on the ball. They were giving us time when we had the ball and we should have been cutting them to peices but we were lacking. We need to be better in these next 7 games. I do like the clean sheet though. THFC have a tough road. We need to match them for points at least until the final game and then win it…. Though I would rather pick up all 21 points available to us and not have to worry about it….
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