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Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini and Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers reflect on the Reds defeating the Premier League champions after a penalty shootout in a pre-season friendly in New York on Wednesday.

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SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Pellegrini, Manchester City manager (On City's performance against Liverpool):

"Well about the performance of the team, I'm very happy. I think we had a very good game - it very useful game. It was a good pace for both teams. I think we played better than Liverpool especially in the first 45 minutes, nil-to-nil was not exactly what happened in the first half. In the second half I think we continued to play very well. Joe Hart had two or three very good saves, but we also missed a lot of goals especially when we at 1-1. And finally there was the penalties. Well, it can happen. One team must win by penalties and this day it was Liverpool."

SOUNDBITE (English) Brendan Rodgers, Liverpool manager (On pre-season games):

"Again it's more about the football fitness than anything. I think we play two different formations tonight, in the first half we played a 4-4-2 diamond which refreshed the players from some of the work we had last season. And at times we worked it well and at other times there are other areas we can work on, but it's good to see it in this environment. And then in the second half to got more to a 4-3-3 and then we changed it with twenty minutes to go to a 4-2-3-1. So I think it's really just about the physical fitness of the players and reintroduce them to the technical element of the game..."