Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini was disappointed the English Premier League champions failed to even qualify for the Europa League after their 1-0 loss against Borussia Dortmund in their final Champions League group match on Tuesday.

Manchester City’s abject display against a second string Borussia Dortmund side – who topped the group while the English cham-pions finished bottom – saw them become the first English side to finish a Champions League group stage with just three points and without a victory.

“Getting into the Europa Lea-gue was our target,” said Mancini, who in his two previous seasons guided City to first the FA Cup and then last term the Premier League title.

“We wanted to win but to win we needed to score. We are not in the Europa League and for this we should be disappointed.

“We were in a tough qualifying group but if you make mistakes in early games as we did you will not qualify.”

City keeper Joe Hart said it was the same old story for his team, and he doesn’t know the answer to the problem.

“There was a hunger to win, and if that meant Europa League then great,” said Hart, who made a series of great saves on Tuesday.

“But we have got bigger issues than that.

“We were up against a weakened team and we had to win... we have only got ourselves to blame that we are not through.”

With their European season over, City will now focus entirely on defending their Premier League crown with the huge Manchester derby against leaders United next up on Sunday.