Poor night for Mancini as Tevez infuriates the City, once again.

Manchester City's Champions League hopes were dealt a blow last night as they were completely outclassed in Munich by a Bayern side that recorded their tenth straight victory of the season in all competitions without conceding in any of those fixtures. The result, combined with Napoli's win that leaves Man City 3rd in Group A, was overshadowed by another example of Carlos Tevez's complete lack of professionalism with the Argentine reportedly refusing to take to the field with City 2-0 down and searching for a way back into the game.

Tevez has since denied Mancini's comments that he refused to warm up and then enter the field of play but the footage from television tells a different story on a night where Edin Dzeko had already stormed off of the pitch after being subbed for Nigel De Jong. It is believed that Tevez was incensed that he was not replacing Dzeko at the time and that the Dutch holding midfielder was preferred with City 2-0 down and in search of goals. This was a baffling substitution at the time but one that Mancini defended in front of the Sky cameras as one he had to make to ensure that City did not concede a 3rd. Mancini also stated that his idea was to hold the game at 2-0 and bring Tevez on shortly afterwards to try and get a way back into a game that was drifting away from them.

Tevez, still in search of a move away from Manchester, may well have found his way out and it will be interesting to see how he is punished for his behaviour. After all, fining a player on more than £200,000 a week is no sort of punishment and terminating the contract of someone who obviously wants to leave the club will only be serving the player's selfishness. And, if Mancini decides to hold onto a player so happy to undermine his management, he will have a poisonous thorn amongst his squad. It may be time for City to cut their losses and get rid of Tevez but, with 3 months before the next transfer window, they do say that time's a healer. 

Man City did start very brightly and could've had two penalties in the first half but Bayern's clinical finishing and superior movement in and around the box was far too much for Man City to deal with. Kolo Toure started in the place of Joleon Lescott and the Ivory Cost international looked every bit the player playing only his second competitive football match in 6 months following his ban for failing a drugs test. The same could be said of Gareth Barry who was again bypassed in City's central midfield but the former Aston Villa man has actually featured in eight of City's ten games in all competitions so far this season.

In amongst all the controversy, strange tactics and the brilliance of City's opposition you must spare a thought for Joe Hart who was excellent on the night and will be peeved that both Bayern goals resulted from great saves of his. The first goal of the night for Mario Gomez came after Franck Ribery cut inside from the left and was given too much space by Yaya Toure to get a shot away that Hart could only parry at the feet of Thomas Muller who will be wondering how he didn't open the scoring himself. Hart immediately dived further to his left to stop Muller's shot but couldn't deny Gomez at the first time of asking as the Bayern front line queued up to open the scoring for the German giants.

The second came in similar fashion just before half time as Toni Kroos swung in a free-kick from the left hand side. Daniel Van Buyten got ahead of Gareth Barry at the near post to send the ball towards the bottom corner, only for Hart to get down well and save. Gomez again pounced on the loose ball and stabbed the ball past Hart to give Bayern a two-goal lead before half-time. Numerous saves from Hart in the second half kept the score at 2-0 as Bayern showed their class and Manchester City rarely threatening.