{"id":404508,"date":"2011-04-28T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-calls-on-players-to-focus-on-premier-league-rather-than-fa-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:52:00","slug":"manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-calls-on-players-to-focus-on-premier-league-rather-than-fa-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-calls-on-players-to-focus-on-premier-league-rather-than-fa-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini calls on players to focus on Premier League rather than FA Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>28 Apr 2011 12:52:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"59.9834070796\">\n<div readability=\"14.8994708995\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roberto Mancini - Manchester City (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/18412a0f129948_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Roberto Mancini &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"21.88996139\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/170\/roberto-mancini\">Roberto Mancini<\/a> has asked his players to turn their attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\">Premier League<\/a>, instead of looking ahead towards the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2900\/fa-cup\">FA Cup<\/a> final.<\/p>\n<p>City have a chance of breaking their silverware drought this season &#8211; which has lasted for over three decades &#8211; as they play Stoke City in the final of the competition on May 14.<\/p>\n<p>But the Eastlands outfit first have league games against West Ham United, Everton and Tottenham before the cup final, and the former Inter boss has encouraged his players to concentrate on the task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have five games to go and we should do the maximum that we can do,&#8221; Mancini said, according to <em>Sky Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But step by step now we have West Ham and our focus will be on West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For every target that you set it&#8217;s better that we play to win every game then in the end we see where we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Concerning the FA Cup, he added: &#8220;I think it is an important moment for the supporters after many years but now for us it is important to focus on the next three games in the Premier League.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/18412a0f129948_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/28\/2462043\/manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-calls-on-players-to\" title=\"Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini calls on players to focus on Premier League rather than FA Cup final\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini calls on players to focus on Premier League rather than FA Cup final<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 28 Apr 2011 12:52:00 Roberto Mancini &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has asked his players to turn their attention to the Premier League , instead of looking ahead towards the FA Cup final. City have a chance of breaking their silverware drought this season &#8211; which has lasted for over three decades &#8211; as they play Stoke City in the final of the competition on May 14<\/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-404508","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 calls on players to focus on Premier League rather than FA Cup final - 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\/04\/28\/manchester-city-manager-roberto-mancini-calls-on-players-to-focus-on-premier-league-rather-than-fa-cup-final\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini calls on players to focus on Premier League rather than FA Cup final - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 28 Apr 2011 12:52:00 Roberto Mancini - Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has asked his players to turn their attention to the Premier League , instead of looking ahead towards the FA Cup final. 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