Manchester: Manuel Pellegrini believes Manchester City are in far better form to take on Barcelona in this season's Champions League than they were when they lost to the same opponents in the competition 12 months ago.


Manuel Pellegrini 

The Catalan club visit the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday for the first leg of the last-16 tie, a repeat of last season's two-legged meeting from which Barca emerged as 4-1 aggregate winners and City had players sent off in each game.