Manchester City will face Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday anxious to secure victory after defeat to Juventus in their Group D opener a fortnight ago prompted fresh scrutiny of their European credentials.
Despite excelling on the home front, City have continually floundered on the continent, failing to progress beyond the last 16 in four previous Champions League campaigns. But Mananger Manuel Pellegrini insisted that progress had been made in Europe since his appointment in 2013.
The Chilean born manager said: "I don't think we have failed in Europe. In the last two years we have qualified for the next stage and then we lost against the best team in the world, Barcelona.
We have beaten Bayern Munich twice. "Last year were in a complicated situation and we won our last two games.
So we know how to do it. We just lost a game against Juventus, which was a strange game. "Now we are trying in the next five games to qualify for the next stage of Europe."
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