Manuel Pellegrini insists Manchester City can win Champions League ahead of crucial CSKA Moscow clash Liverpool's 2005 Champions League triumph in Istanbul followed a difficult group campaign in which they progressed as runners-up to Monaco with 10 points - the same number achieved by Milan in their 2006-07 campaign. Jose Mourinho's Inter offer the greatest encouragement for Pellegrini and City, however. They beat Bayern in the final in 2010 after claiming just nine points in the group stages. So for Pellegrini, the prospect of Vincent Kompany lifting the Champions League trophy in Berlin at the end of the season remains a genuine one. "Of course, our target is always to try and win the Champions League," Pellegrini said. We must put in our mind that we are able to do it and that we have a good squad capable of doing it. Maybe there are five or six squads better than our squad, or at the same level as our squad that also want to do it, but with a winning mentality and an ambitious mind, you must always think you can do it. I think we have time to prove it and I don't think we lack confidence to do it - last year, we were the club that qualified with the joint biggest amount of points, with 15 points. What happened this year in the three games of Champions League, we have time to address it and I am sure we are going to address it. City must first address a recent run of form in which they have won just two of their past eight home games in the Champions League if they are to justify Pellegrini's optimism. But with the club expecting a 46,000 sell-out following a two-for-one ticket sale initiative, the team can at least expect the vocal backing of a full stadium, although one fans" group has urged supporters to turn their backs in the Uefa anthem prior to kick-off in protest at CSKA breaching the stadium closure imposed by Uefa for last month's clash between the clubs in Moscow. "It is a very important game, but it is not a death match," Pellegrini said. Until mathematics say otherwise, you can continue. But we must win this game because we have just two points with three games to play and it is very important to have more points. We will consider it not a final game, but a very important game. I think this group will be decided in the last game in Italy against Roma. We are going to try to win our two games at home and see what the other teams do, but I am sure this will be decided in the last game.