Roberto Mancini has told Manchester City’s fans not to expect a three-prong attack too often despite it working in the win over Aris Salonika.<\/p>\n
Carlos Tevez, Mario Balotelli and Edin Dzeko all started Thursday’s 3-0 win over Aris as City booked a Europa League last-16 clash with Dynamo Kiev.<\/p>\n
With David Silva involved as well, it provided a fearsome forward line the Greeks were incapable of resisting.<\/p>\n
As City took their tally to 19 goals in their last five home games, Dzeko took the honours with a double inside the first 12 minutes.<\/p>\n
However, just because it worked against Aris, Mancini does not think he can go for broke all the time.<\/p>\n
“I thought we did well and in the first half I was very pleased,” said the Italian.<\/p>\n
“The problem comes when we don’t have the ball. If we don’t close down every situation, it could be difficult for us.<\/p>\n
“We can play this formation but not often, unless we improve.”<\/p>\n
Dzeko’s efforts doubled his previous tally since a \u00a327million move from Wolfsburg last month.<\/p>\n
The Bosnian should have had a hat-trick too after being sent through by Silva in the final minutes of the first half.<\/p>\n
However, the chance went begging when Michail Sifakis robbed him as Dzeko attempted to go round the Aris goalkeeper, and it was left to Yaya Toure to complete the scoring with a deflected effort 15 minutes from time.<\/p>\n
It means City now travel to Ukraine on March 10 for the first leg of a tie featuring legendary striker Andriy Shevchenko.<\/p>\n
“They have a lot of experience,” said Mancini.<\/p>\n
“Dynamo have always played in the Champions League and we know this will be a very hard game because they are a good team.<\/p>\n
“There is no point looking any further forward than that because there are still a lot of big teams left in this competition.”<\/p>\n
Mancini claimed Balotelli is still not firing at 100 per cent after a recent knee injury, although there were signs of improvement and the Italian did hit the post with one second-half effort.<\/p>\n
However, with injuries already ravaging his squad, Mancini can only hope the hip problem that forced Vincent Kompany off before the break proves not to be too serious.<\/p>\n
“We won’t know what has happened until tomorrow when we see what the situation is,” said Mancini.<\/p>\n
“We have a lot of injuries at the moment, so I hope it is not serious and he will be available for Sunday.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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