Manuel Pellegrini admitted that his Manchester City players were mentally shattered by Sunday’s defeat at Liverpool after their title hopes were dealt another devastating blow by bottom-of the-table Sunderland on Wednesday night.
The City boss refused to give up the chase as his team slipped to third favourites behind Liverpool and Chelsea following the shock 2-2 home draw - three days after losing at Anfield. Only a late slip by Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone, letting in Samir Nasri’s 88th-minute equaliser, spared them another defeat.
Pellegrini admitted: ‘We couldn’t take the Liverpool game out of our minds. It was very difficult for the players to do that after three days. At this moment it is more mental than physical. Mentally it was very difficult to play this game after Liverpool. We needed more intensity but our minds maybe were not right to do it.
The City boss refused to give up the chase as his team slipped to third favourites behind Liverpool and Chelsea following the shock 2-2 home draw - three days after losing at Anfield. Only a late slip by Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone, letting in Samir Nasri’s 88th-minute equaliser, spared them another defeat.
Pellegrini admitted: ‘We couldn’t take the Liverpool game out of our minds. It was very difficult for the players to do that after three days. At this moment it is more mental than physical. Mentally it was very difficult to play this game after Liverpool. We needed more intensity but our minds maybe were not right to do it.
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