Roberto Mancini warns Mario Balotelli to be on best behaviour

Published: 16 Feb 2012 - 09:09:35

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Mario Balotelli has been pleaded with by Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini, as he is set to come face-to-face with the referee who sent him off in last year's Europa League competition. The Italian striker was dismissed for a high kung-fu kick at Dynamo Kiev's Goran Popov, as City crashed out of the tournament. Mancini's side play Porto on Thursday night in the Europa League, with Balotelli returning from a four game Premier League absence after a domestic ban for stamping on Scott Parker.

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