Mancini's biggest mistake?
Part of me wants a european final in May but an even bigger part of me wants us to just concentrate on the league.
Today we were lacklustre; no drive, no passion. Can this be down to our trip to Lisbon? Swansea have had 8 days to prepare for this game.
I'd rather us die trying by throwing everything at the league and win nothing at all than a consulation trip to Bucharest.
By all means play the likes of Johnson, Milner, Dzeko, Pizarro, Pants, Savic and Toure in Europe, and supplement them with the likes of Rekik, Suarez & Roman but for fooks sake please, please, please leave our key players back in Manchester. Had we done this Kompany and Lescott may not have been injured, and may have actually made the difference today; Silva and Aguero might not have looked so jaded; and Hart might not be letting mistakes creep into his game.
If Balotelli hadn't got himself sent off against Dynamo Kiev last season I don't think we would have won the FA Cup with all the fixture congestion going through would have entailed. We are not in position to dominate United, we should choose far more ccarefully on which front to battle them and apply everything to it.
Mancini wants to win everything, and maybe that's a quality of a winner but I think it's a mistake.