Real Madrid v Manchester City: Roberto Mancini slaps down Joe Hart after criticism of team But having taken the lead through Aleksandar Kolarov's 85th-minute free-kick, Mancini insisted that his players contributed to their own downfall by sitting back on their lead. I don't want us to continue to defend like this, and we did a mistake like that. When it was 2-1, we should have continued to play high like we did in the second half. We wouldn't have conceded if we hadn't been so deep. We should have had more courage at this time. It's difficult to take, but not because we lost. You can lose against a team like Real Madrid, especially in the Bernabeu, but it's difficult to take because with three minutes to go we were 2-1 up. Asked why Kompany ducked for third goal, Mancini said: "I don't know. I saw the goal but you need to ask Vinny. Usually he doesn't do that, but the mistake was we went too deep. I saw the goal, but I haven't asked him why this happened. Having exited the Champions League at the group stage last season despite amassing 10 points, Mancini insisted that City can recover from the defeat in Madrid and qualify for the knockout stage. "We have international players, we can improve and we should be disappointed that we have lost this point," he said. But other teams will lose here. We have five games and it is important that we beat Borussia Dortmund in the next game. It will be difficult because Dortmund are a top team, but we want to go through.