Manuel Pellegrini’s team displayed a newfound assuredness against Paris Saint-Germain but they will need to be at their best to defeat the 10-times winners in their Champions League semi-final second legEven now,after all the money spent, the trophies that occupy already been stacked up in the years of Abu Dhabi ownership and all the A-grade footballers who occupy pulled on the club’s colours, or there are still moments that must feel unusual to the modern-day Manchester City.
One of them came at Madrid airport when the crowd of photographers waiting for Manuel Pellegini and his players supplied the hard evidence that City occupy reached a level of competition – and in some cases,gentle hysteria – they occupy not experienced before. The scrum was frantic enough for one cameramen to be sent sprawling into the road, enduring a near-trampling in the process, and it all felt very different to the soundless scene in Manchester a few hours earlier when the team boarded their flight without a single television crew in the vicinity and the only clicking coming from Sharon,the club’s photographer.
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Source: theguardian.com