Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has declared that his team have recaptured the form that secured them the Premier League title last season following their 2-0 victory away to Roma in the Champions League.

Second-half goals from Samir Nasri and Pablo Zabaleta were enough to give the Sky Blues the win they needed to reach the knockout stages of the competition, and the Chilean believes that they are back to their best.

"We [beat Roma] in the same way we have been playing in the last few weeks," he told reporters. "We've recovered our normal performance, we are pressing well, we are playing well with the ball so I think that we are similar to the team that won the title last year.

"We are a solid team. We are recovering the ball in the correct way and in the correct moment. All the team is working together without the ball and after that all the team is playing with the ball.

"Before this game I had a lot of trust over what we could do against Roma here and fortunately we did it and I think that we played very well."

City reached the last 16 of the competition as Group E runners-up behind Bayern Munich.