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# Manchester City v Tottenham: Roberto Mancini relishing chance to join
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'biggest clubs in Europe'
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## Roberto Mancini believes Manchester City's rise to the Champions League is
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the first step towards the Eastlands side joining the likes of Real Madrid,
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Barcelona and Manchester United as one of the biggest clubs in Europe.
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By Rory Smith 12:13AM BST 11 May 2011
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A tense [**victory**][3] over Tottenham last night confirmed City will take
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part in Europe's most exclusive competition next season for the first time,
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three years after Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan began his billion-pound
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project to establish the club among the game's elite.
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Mancini does not believe City have the right to claim that status just yet -
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should they fail to catch Arsenal in third place, they will still require a
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play-off to reach the [**competition's**][4] group stages - but the Italian is
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adamant the club now stand on the brink of realising their owner's vision.
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"I am very happy," Mancini said. "It was our first target and I have to
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congratulate all the players, because they have done a fantastic job up to
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now. We have been in a top-four position all season.
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"The manager, the players, the people, this is for them. When I arrived here,
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I said City will become one of the top two or three teams in Europe. After
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many years, Manchester City can play in the Champions League."
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Reaching the lucrative group stage without the need for a knockout tie -
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potentially against Spanish, Italian or German opposition - will only be
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certain if City can overhaul Arsene Wenger's side, presently two points ahead
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with a significantly superior goal difference.
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## Related Articles
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"We are going to hunt down that third spot now," goalkeeper Joe Hart said.
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"With all the pressure on us, we have got guts and we really proved that. The
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Champions League means the absolute world. Trips away to Real Madrid, Inter
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and AC Milan. What more can you ask for?"
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Prior to that, the club have an FA Cup final against Stoke City to prepare
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for, one they may have to face without Carlos Tevez. The Argentine striker
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featured for just eight minutes against Spurs and Mancini admitted he would
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"take all the time" he can to decide whether he would play at Wembley.
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More significantly, the City manager admitted in an interview in Italy
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yesterday that he could only hope that Tevez "changes his mind" after
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informing the club that he wished to move to Serie A in the summer.
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How strained relations are between the two became abundantly clear as the two
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appeared to fall out before Tevez's eventual introduction.
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Mancini had planned to introduce the Argentine early in the second half but
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altered his plans at the last to bring on Patrick Vieira. His decision to keep
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the forward warming up into the last 10 minutes drew Tevez's wrath - the
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striker exchanging words with the Italian as he walked past - though when he
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was brought on, after 82 minutes, it was with a beaming smile.
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Later he said: "When you have a target and get it, it is very important for
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your job. But I am happy for the supporters and the club first of all."
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"I don't know what he said," revealed Mancini, who also clashed with his
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totemic forward at Bolton earlier this season.
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"I was concentrating on the game. I did not hear anything. I just told him to
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warm up. It was difficult to give him 30 minutes in this game, because we
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suffered for 25 minutes in the second half."
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His assessment was echoed by Harry Redknapp, the Spurs manager in bullish form
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despite watching his side take their record since the high point of their
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Champions League adventure - winning 1-0 against AC Milan at the San Siro - to
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just one win in 13 games.
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That collapse looks increasingly likely to cost Redknapp's side any chance
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even of the Europa League next season, but he insists this should be
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remembered as one of the club's best campaigns in many years.
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"It's sad, isn't it, nine points from 10 games. I'm suicidal," he joked. "We
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have had a great season overall - the best Tottenham have had in God knows how
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many years - and people who know football know we have played well, but we
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have not had the luck.
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"If you look last year we finished three points above Manchester City and they
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went out and spent £130 million to get above us, and yet there is not much
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between the teams. If [Gareth] Bale had not got injured, it would have been
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very, very close."
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One of the happiest spectators at Eastlands last night was Stoke manager Tony
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Pulis. His side will defintely be playing in the Europa League next season
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because FA Cup final opponents City have qualified for the Champions League.
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