Inexperience no prob for Rob

Roberto MANCINI claims there is no reason why Manchester City's lack of Champions League experience should count against them if they manage to qualify.

City are on course for a top-four finish in the Barclays Premier League this term which will hand them the chance to take on Europe's elite in 2011-12.

It would be the club's first appearance in the Champions League, but Mancini, whose side sit at 0-0 ahead of the second leg of their Europa League clash with against Aris Salonika at Eastlands tonight, said: "When you play in the Champions League for the first time, maybe you can have problems, but when I played for Sampdoria 20 years ago we got to the final (of the old European Cup) the first time we qualified."