Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini stands by his decision to leave Roque Santa Cruz out of his Europa League squad list.
Mancini spoke about their striker injury problems being a "big problem", one that has been exacerbated by his decision to exclude Roque Santa Cruz from his official 25-man squad in favour of the academy graduate Shaleum Logan.
"When we made that decision we could never have known that we lose two strikers in one week," Mancini said when asked whether, in hindsight, Santa Cruz's omission might have been a mistake. "We had to include four homegrown players on the list and that meant someone had to miss out. Unfortunately that means we now have only Carlos and Jô and that is a problem for us."
