Mancini Telan Kekecewaaan Gagal Lolos di Liga Eropa
Mancini Left Dissapointed by European Flop
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Parulian Manalu
Dortmund (B2B) - Pelatih Manchester City Roberto Mancini kecewa atas kegagalan juara Liga Utama Inggris (Liga Premier) lolos ke Liga Europa setelah kalah 0-1 melawan Borussia Dortmund di laga terakhir penyisihan grup Liga Champions pada Selasa atau Rabu dini hari.
Kegagalan City melawan Dortmund di pertemuan kedua menjadikan Dortmund sebagai pemuncak grup, sementara juara Liga Premier tersebut harus berada di posisi terbawah. Manchester City menjadi tim Inggris pertama yang mengakhiri penyisihan grup Liga Champions dengan hanya mengemas tiga angka tanpa meraih kemenangan satu kali pun.
"Lolos ke Liga Europa merupakan target kami malam ini," kata Mancini, yang di dua musim sebelumnya membawa Manchester City menjuarai Piala FA dan juga Liga Premier di musim berikutnya seperti dikutip StraitsTimes.
"Kami ingin menang tapi untuk menang kami butuh gol. Kami tidak bisa berlaga di Liga Europa dan kami harus kecewa. Kami berada di grup neraka tetapi jika Anda melakukan kesalahan di pertandingan awal sebagaimana yang kami lakukan, Anda tidak akan lolos," lanjut Mancini.
Joe Hart
Penjaga gawang Manchester City, Joe Hart, yang menjadi pemain terbaik malam itu, mengatakan bahwa hal ini terjadi sama seperti cerita lama dan ia tidak mengetahui jawaban atas masalah tersebut.
"Malam ini kami merasa lapar kemenangan, seolah-olah Liga Europa lebih baik," kata Hart, yang melakukan beberapa penyelamatan untuk mengamankan gawangnya.
"Namun kami punya masalah lebih besar dari pada itu. Kami melawan tim lemah dan kami harus menang. Kami harus berjuang agar lolos ke 16 besar di hari terakhir serta kami hanya bisa menyalahkan diri sendiri bahwa kami tidak bisa mencapai itu," lanjutnya.
Dortmund - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini was disappointed the English champions failed to even qualify for the Europa League after their 1-0 loss against Borussia Dortmund in their final Champions League group match.
City's abject display against a second-string Dortmund side - who topped the group while the English champions finished bottom - saw them become the first English side to finish a Champions League group stage with just three points and without a victory.
"Getting into the Europa League was our target tonight," said Mancini, who in his two previous seasons has guided City to first the FA Cup and then last term the Premier League title.
"We wanted to win but to win we needed to score. We are not in the Europa League and for this we should be disappointed. We were in a tough group but if you make mistakes in early games as we did you will not qualify."
Joe Hart
City keeper Joe Hart, who was probably the team?s best player on the night, said it was the same old story for his side, and he doesn?t know the answer to the problem.
"There was a hunger to win tonight, and if that meant Europa League than great," said Hart, who made a series of great saves to keep the scoreline respectable.
"But we have got bigger issues than that. We were up against a weakened team and we had to win.
"We should be fighting to go through to the last 16 on the last day and we have only got ourselves to blame that we are not."
