Mancini says it's his fault. Richards says ..... it's Mancini's fault. Mancini then says ....it's not just me.
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"It was probably my fault because I prepared badly for this game," Mancini said. "I didn't prepare the players and I'm at fault. When you prepare for a game sometimes it is a different to what you expect. Sometimes you think the game goes one way and it goes another. We played a bad game. We had a few chances to score but the players didn't really play well."Mancini started the match with a 4–2–3–1 system, changing it early on to 4–4–2 and then abandoning that for 3–5–2 during the second half. His right-back, Micah Richards, questioned the changes after the match, making it clear there was opposition within the dressing-room to operating with a three-man defence.
"It's not something that we've worked on a lot, we're just used to a back four," Richards said. "But the manager likes it and if we want to do well then we'll have to work harder on it. It's a hard system and I think the players prefer 4-4-2 but he's the manager and we'll do what he says."
Mancini, however, suggested the problem was not solely about the way he set up his team, but also their attitude. "I don't know what he [Richards] said but I don't want to have this. On the pitch we are always 11 players. If you have spirit and quality you can play in the Champions League. If you don't have it, you can't. When you play this game you must have spirit and it is my fault because I should have prepared differently for this game.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...r-city-schalke
Nice to see confusion and finger pointing ......... and a defeat.