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Manchester City take on Leeds in the fifth round of the cup and City manager Roberto Mancini vows to not understimate their Championship rivals.

After falling 12 points behind leaders Manchester United in their bid to retain their Barclays Premier League crown, the knockout competition appears to represent City's most realistic hope of silverware.

Mancini may have rubbished suggestions he could face the sack if beaten by the Championship outfit in their fifth-round tie, but he remains aware of the game's importance.

After starting the season with such high hopes in the Premier League and Champions League, he is anxious to ensure the campaign does not disintegrate.

The Italian said: "We play with the best team. I will do some changes because I have two or three players injured but after that, I will play with the best team."

Mancini was angry and heavily critical of his players after the dismal 3-1 defeat at St Mary's Stadium, which gave United the opportunity to tighten their control of the title race.

 


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Starting XIs: Chelsea vs Brentford

Chelsea: Cech; Ivan, Cahill, Terry, Cole; D Luiz, Lamps; Oscar, Mata, Moses; Ba

Subs:Turnbull, Azpilicueta, Bertrand, Ramires, Benayoun, Hazard, Torres

Brentford: Moore; Logan, Dean, Craig, Bidwell; Douglas; Forshaw, Diagouraga, Adeyemi, Donaldson; Trotta

Subs: Lee, Hodson, Barron, Reeves, Saunders, Forrester, Hayes

Man City vs Leeds

Man City:  Zabaleta, Kolo Toure, Nastasic, Kolarov, Yaya Toure, Garcia, Milner, Tevez, Silva, Aguero

Subs: Hart, Lescott, Clichy, Maicon, Rodwell, Nasri, Dzeko

Leeds: Ashdown, Byram, Lees, Peltier, Warnock, White, Brown, Austin, Varney, Diouf, McCormack

Subs: Kenny, Hall, Morison, Habibou, Tonge, Norris, Pearce

Huddersfield vs Wigan

Huddersfield:  Smithies, Woods, Gerrard, P. Clarke, Hunt, Arfield, Clayton, Atkinson, Scannell, Danns, Lee

Subs: Bennett, Dixon, Norwood, Novak, Gobern, Vaughan, Lynch

Wigan: Robles, Kone, Gomez, McManaman, McArthur, Espinoza, Fyvie, Stam, Golobart, Figueroa, Scharner

Subs: Al Habsi, Boyce, Beausejour, McCarthy, Maloney, Di Santo, Henriquez


The City boss expects much more from his side and remains at a loss to explain the below-par display against a team battling against relegation.

He said: "I said I was disappointed with them because they played a bad game. I don't think a team like us can play a game like this.

We can lose when the team we play perform better than us, but not like this because a team like us should be trying to score, score, score.

"We did very, very badly. We didn't play as a team, we didn't fight for every ball. Sometimes it is impossible to win all the games because we are a better team.

"Sometimes it is important to fight because we can win 1-0 - not because we played better. It is impossible to play all of the games better than your opponents."

In the late kick off, Huddersfield host Wigan at the Galpharm Stadium.

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