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Manuel Pellegrini refuses to blame Raheem Sterling for Man City defeat
MANUEL PELLEGRINI refused to blame £49million Raheem Sterling for the gilt-edged misses that conspired to condemn Manchester City to defeat.
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Sterling was off target as early as the second minute and later spurned another chance with only Gianluigi Buffon to beat .
“I expect that when we have chances we must score,” said Pellegrini, whose problems intensified when skipper Vincent Kompany was substituted with a calf injury.
“The differences are very slight, especially against a strong team like Juventus. But I don’t think this result is just because of Raheem.
Raheem Sterling missed two key chances in City's 2-1 defeat to Juventus
“We controlled the game and didn’t have many problems but football is like that.
“It’s disappointing, I don’t think we deserved to lose. We had better chances and played better than Juventus. It was not a tactical problem, Juventus just scored two beautiful goals.”
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