{"id":325081,"date":"2011-03-20T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/20\/manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-blames-defeat-to-chelsea-on-fatigue\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T19:00:00","slug":"manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-blames-defeat-to-chelsea-on-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-blames-defeat-to-chelsea-on-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini blames defeat to Chelsea on fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Mark Fordham<\/h3>\n<h4>20 Mar 2011 19:00:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"69.8645621181\">\n<div readability=\"16.4781021898\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL,Mario Balotelli,Roberto Mancini,Manchester City vs Bolton Wanderers(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/49a59e27118970_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>EPL,Mario Balotelli,Roberto Mancini,Manchester City vs Bolton Wanderers(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"38.1456483126\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/170\/roberto-mancini\">Roberto Mancini<\/a> believes that his team&#8217;s preparation and focus will be improved greatly in the run in to the end of the season now that they have been knocked out of the Europa League, and blamed fatigue for his side&#8217;s loss to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mancini\u2019s men lost third spot in the Premier League with Sunday\u2019s defeat to Chelsea and the Italian feels that his team will be more focussed for their last eight league games without the distraction of European competition.<\/p>\n<p>He told Sky Sports: \u201cIn this moment we are eight games from the end and it is very important for us to recover all the players who aren\u2019t fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can now train and prepare better for the last eight games of the season because we don\u2019t have to play in the Europa League now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game gave City the chance to extend their lead over Tottenham in fifth, who could only draw against West Ham United on Saturday, but Mancini seemed unperturbed by Spurs being four points behind them.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI think that after yesterday\u2019s result Tottenham drawing, today was an important game for us because if we won this game or if we drew it would have been fantastic but now nothing has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mancini appeared to blame fatigue for his club\u2019s defeat to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think until 70 minutes it was normal that Chelsea had more ball possession but we conceded nothing but after we conceded the goal everything changed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played two days ago, in the last 20 or 25 minutes we were so tired but we were ready to change when we conceded a goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3b4e10aebeacon.dll_354.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/20\/2403887\/manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-blames-defeat-to-chelsea-\" title=\"Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini blames defeat to Chelsea on fatigue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini blames defeat to Chelsea on fatigue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Mark Fordham 20 Mar 2011 19:00:00 EPL,Mario Balotelli,Roberto Mancini,Manchester City vs Bolton Wanderers(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini believes that his team&#8217;s preparation and focus will be improved greatly in the run in to the end of the season now that they have been knocked out of the Europa League, and blamed fatigue for his side&#8217;s loss to Chelsea . Mancini\u2019s men lost third spot in the Premier League with Sunday\u2019s defeat to Chelsea and the Italian feels that his team will be more focussed for their last eight league games without the distraction of European competition. He told Sky Sports: \u201cIn this moment we are eight games from the end and it is very important for us to recover all the players who aren\u2019t fit.\u201d \u201cWe can now train and prepare better for the last eight games of the season because we don\u2019t have to play in the Europa League now.\u201d The game gave City the chance to extend their lead over Tottenham in fifth, who could only draw against West Ham United on Saturday, but Mancini seemed unperturbed by Spurs being four points behind them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini blames defeat to Chelsea on fatigue - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-blames-defeat-to-chelsea-on-fatigue\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini blames defeat to Chelsea on fatigue - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Mark Fordham 20 Mar 2011 19:00:00 EPL,Mario Balotelli,Roberto Mancini,Manchester City vs Bolton Wanderers(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini believes that his team&#039;s preparation and focus will be improved greatly in the run in to the end of the season now that they have been knocked out of the Europa League, and blamed fatigue for his side&#039;s loss to Chelsea . 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