Manchester City will have a huge night at Eastlands tonight as they seek to overturn a 2-0 deficit against Dinamo Kyiv in order to progress to the quarter finals of the Europa League
Ahead of what seems like a huge clash for Roberto Mancini and his boys, the Italian has raised concerns over fitness problems that have crept into his squad lately. Mancini admitted that City are struggling to maintain their form with their captain Carlos Tevez finding it hard to regain his goal-scoring form.
After a magnificent first half of the season, Tevez has failed to score consistently this year and Mancini admits that he has a major exhaustion problem in his hand.
"Carlos needs to work in the next week," he said.
"In the last 45 days, it's been impossible. If we have 20 or 23 players when we play four or five games in two weeks, we would be able to change six players every game. We don't have that option and when you can't train it's difficult to keep the same level for one month or 45 days. That's the same for all the players.
"It isn't only Carlos who has lost his sharpness, all the players have. But if we don't have problems against Kiev or Chelsea, then we can recover all our players after the internationals. Then they can come back very well, like they were four or five weeks ago. But the next two games will be very hard."
Manchester City will be hoping for their captain to get back in form as soon as possible while they prepare for a daunting task against Dinamo Kyiv tonight.
After a magnificent first half of the season, Tevez has failed to score consistently this year and Mancini admits that he has a major exhaustion problem in his hand.
"Carlos needs to work in the next week," he said.
"In the last 45 days, it's been impossible. If we have 20 or 23 players when we play four or five games in two weeks, we would be able to change six players every game. We don't have that option and when you can't train it's difficult to keep the same level for one month or 45 days. That's the same for all the players.
"It isn't only Carlos who has lost his sharpness, all the players have. But if we don't have problems against Kiev or Chelsea, then we can recover all our players after the internationals. Then they can come back very well, like they were four or five weeks ago. But the next two games will be very hard."
Manchester City will be hoping for their captain to get back in form as soon as possible while they prepare for a daunting task against Dinamo Kyiv tonight.
