Mancini confident of City stay

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is confident he will keep his job because of his side’s recent excellent form.

Having beaten West Bromwich Albion and Norwich City 4-0 and 6-1 respectively in their last two outings, City have revived their fortunes and still have an outside chance of securing their first Premier League title.

Trailing Manchester United by five points, Mancini’s men travel to bottom club Wolves on Sunday, after Sir Alex Ferguson’s side host Everton.

Mancini’s contract at the Etihad has one year left to run, but he is only focused on the club’s remaining fixtures.

“At the moment I am concentrating on the last four games and after this we can talk about the future,” Mancini told The Observer.

“I am confident that I will continue to do this job next year. I don’t think we have any problems because I think we have done a good job and we have to play another four games.”

The 47-year-old denied that City’s failure to strengthen in January had any bearing on their faltering title bid.

“No, I think there are some moments every year that will be difficult moments, like we had Kompany, Lescott, Aguero, we had all of those injured at the same moment (in recent weeks). We had a problem with this.

“But United have more players and different moments of injuries but every team has injuries. When you have important players injured at key moments (it is difficult).”

Mancini has claimed that the title race is over in his mind, and the Italian reinstated his belief that United will lift the Premier League trophy for a second successive year.

“We have four games (left) that are very difficult and United have three, well four because one is against us, so three easy games.

“For this reason I think that we don’t have a chance (of winning the Premier League title).”