{"id":2244,"date":"2014-02-27T08:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2014-02-27T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:41:45","slug":"we-could-have-won-mancini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/premiership\/we-could-have-won-mancini\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221;Pressure On Chelsea&#8221; Drogba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\"><strong>Roberto Mancini felt that Galatasaray could take confidence from the way they played in the second half after battling back to draw 1-1 with Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fernando Torres netted an early away goal for Chelsea at the Turk Telecom Stadium and Mancini was forced into a tactical change after just 31 minutes, replacing forward Izet Hajrovic with Yekta Kurtulus to shore up the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Aurelien Chedjou equalised in the second half to leave the last-16 tie delicately poised, and the Galatasaray boss was relieved that his substitution helped stem the tide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We conceded three or four counter-attacks and they scored. In the second half we played very well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe in the first half we went too deep and played with fear probably, but I am happy for the second half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every attack we lost four players in the first 20 minutes and we conceded a counter-attack every time, which is impossible against Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We needed another midfielder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having drawn level after 64 minutes, Galatasaray had chances to score again and Mancini was disappointed in the end not to win the game.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Yes, we probably deserved to score another goal. In the second half we played very well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I think 1-1 is a good result and we have another game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got a lot of confidence in the second half. We had too much respect for Chelsea in the first half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Didier Drogba believes the pressure is on Chelsea to perform at Stamford Bridge following their 1-1 draw in Turkey.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Mancini felt that Galatasaray could take confidence from the way they played in the second half after battling back to draw 1-1 with Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League. Fernando Torres netted an early away goal for Chelsea at the Turk Telecom Stadium and Mancini was forced into a tactical change after just 31 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}