City eye the big prize

 City eye the big prize

CAPTAIN Vincent Kompany claims Manchester City are hungry for success and determined to deliver in the Champions League.


City have begun the season emphatically by winning their opening five Barclays Premier League matches without conceding a goal.

They want to carry that momentum into the Champions League, in which they have never previously progressed beyond the last 16.

They begin their latest challenge tonight with a testing visit from last season’s runners-up, Juventus.

Kompany said: “Nobody left the Champions League satisfied last year. We came against the best team in the world in Barcelona, and I guess that made it a little bit easier to understand, but that is not what we want.

“We don’t want to go out to the strongest teams, but to compete with them and at least beat them regularly. Everything has been so bright so far but, as people have been saying for the last three or four years, as long as we don’t perform and show our quality in the Champions League, as we have in the Premier League, there will always be something left behind that leaves us unsatisfied. This is a really important game for us.”