Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini insists his team can still retain their Premier League title despite falling nine points behind Manchester United. City were held 2-2 by Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, wasting the opportunity to reduce the deficit at the top of the table to seven points in the wake of United&rsquo;s 1-0 victory at Fulham 24 hours earlier. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/feb/sergio-dharmu.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 420px;" /> Man City&rsquo;s Sergio Aguero is tackled by Liverpool&rsquo;s Steven Gerrard (in red) during their EPL tie in Manchester on Monday. pics/afp, getty images Ultimately, after goals from Liverpool&rsquo;s Daniel Sturridge and Steven Gerrard, City, who had led through Edin Dzeko, required a spectacular individual effort from Sergio Aguero 12 minutes from time to collect a point. But despite the mounting odds, Mancini remained defiant, citing last season when City won the league so memorably by recovering an eight-point disadvantage over the final six games. &ldquo;The championship is not over, absolutely not, because of last season and also two years ago,&rdquo; said Mancini. &ldquo;Chelsea were nine points behind and they were only two points behind when they went to United in the final week. I don&rsquo;t think it is finished. There is room for mistakes. I think we probably need to win all of our games, but that can happen sometimes. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m disappointed because we didn&rsquo;t play well. Liverpool played better first half. Today we didn&rsquo;t play well. The last month we played well in all the games. Today we were so nervous, I don&#39;t know why. &ldquo;I think that, like last year, we recovered eight points in six games. I don&rsquo;t know why this cannot happen this year. The season is long, three months to go, and United have to play FA Cup and Champions League. We are confident.&rdquo; Despite the fact that Dzeko and Aguero both scored goals &mdash; the latter one of genius &mdash; Mancini was critical of his strike force. &ldquo;Very few players could have scored that,&rdquo; said Mancini of the equaliser. &ldquo;It was a fantastic goal. But Sergio and Edin should play better. Today we didn&rsquo;t play well.&rdquo; City received some inadvertent good news on the day of the game, however, when they learned that they will soon be re-joined by influential midfield player Yaya Toure after his country, the Ivory Coast, were knocked out of the African Cup of Nations at the quarter-final stage by Nigeria. For Liverpool, the highlight of a fine afternoon was the performance of Sturridge who, despite suffering a first half thigh injury which may rule him out of England&rsquo;s midweek friendly with Brazil, was in inspired form against his old club. Sturridge aid: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve not been here very long, it&rsquo;s my first few games and I&rsquo;ve lacked fitness. But I feel sharp in playing and training, more like myself. There&rsquo;s more to come from me.&rdquo; Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers was upbeat. &ldquo;That was an outstanding performance, absolutely brilliant,&rdquo; he said. Gerrard is England&rsquo;s player of the year Steven Gerrard was on Sunday named England&rsquo;s player of the year for 2012 after winning over 40 percent of a fans&rsquo; vote, the FA announced. The 32-year-old Liverpool star edged out Danny Welbeck and Ashley Cole to clinch the award. &ldquo;I still feel fresh, looking forward to the next game as much as my debut,&rdquo; said the England captain.

Manager believes his team can overcome nine-point deficit and beat leaders Man Utd to EPL crown after Sergio Aguero's brilliance ensures 2-2 draw against Liverpool on Monday

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