Man City 1-1 Real Madrid

Mancini left to rue missed opportunity

November 22, 2012
By Richard Jolly, Etihad Stadium
(Archive)
All in all, it was not a great day for Italian managers named Roberto. A Champions League winner lost his job, a Champions League loser his place in the competition. Arrivederci, Roberto Di Matteo and Roberto Mancini, the man who plotted a path to an improbable victory and the man who can find the exit all too early.

Di Matteo triumphed in 2012 and Mancini found a way back into the game when 2013's possible winners threatened not just to overcome, but to overwhelm, Manchester City. They ...

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