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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini speaks to substitute Mario Balotelli wear during their Champions League defeat at Ajax. Roberto Mancini has not only presided over an unsatisfactory run of results in Europe, but his judgment has also come into question with an unusual frequency wear . Roberto Mancini is streetwise enough to know what happens next. However galling the vast majority of Manchester City fans find it, whatever it says about the impatience of the modern game, this is a tough business and the Italian cannot automatically be guaranteed a fifth season should his team miss out on "the miracle" he talked about before leaving Amsterdam and the scene of one of his lowest moments as manager wear . Not quite the lowest but, equally, not far off. Carlos Tevez mutiny on the touchline at Bayern Munich still has to be the nadir. There was the 0-0 draw at home to Birmingham City in his first season when an unpopular substitution prompted fans to turn on him, and the turbulent defeat at Arsenal in April that left them eight points behind Manchester United wear , seemingly out of the title race and with an open acceptance at the club that he might pay with his job. Yet what happened against Ajax on Wednesday certainly makes the top five. With one point from three games, it will not even be straightforward for City to qualify for the Europa League now, never mind the knockout stages of the Champions League, the competition the Abu Dhabi United Group craves the most. Mancini's position in May then becomes a legitimate talking point wear . He would have to retain the title if his job prospects were not to recede dramatically. The mere suggestion will be unpopular, but this is the pressure under which a manager exists at this level. Everything we have come to know about the club's owner, Sheikh Mansour, and the more hands-on chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, indicates they are not trigger-happy, but men of this wealth are not renowned for their tolerance when key employees fail to deliver what is expected of them wear . Mancini has not only presided over an unsatisfactory run of results in Europe, but his judgment has also come into question with an unusual frequency. He is yet to settle on his best formation this season, or offer a reasonable explanation about why he is making so many experimental changes. Against Ajax, he tried out three different systems. James Milner played central midfield, right wing and wing-back. Sergio Aguero, one of the best strikers in the business, started on the left and then moved into the centre. Micah Richards and Gael Clichy wear played as full-backs then centre-halves. Samir Nasri began on the right wing and finished on the left. Yaya Touré was first an advanced midfielder, then a holding one. An argument can be made that players should not be restricted to one role, but wholesale changes will always disturb a team's rhythm. In total, there were only two outfield players – Vincent Kompany and Edin Dzeko wear – who played the entire match in the same position. It was as tactically naive as City have looked in the Mancini era and, behind the scenes, Richards is not the only player to have reservations about the need for change, particularly when it comes to experimenting with a three-man defence. The deterioration in the team's defending is certainly not what Mancini must have envisaged after employing a new coach, Angelo Gregucci, in the summer to work specifically on this part of the team. Gregucci was Mancini's assistant at Fiorentina in 2001 wear . Since then, the 48-year-old has managed eight different Italian teams but had only one spell in Serie A, where he lasted barely five weeks at Lecce. He was sacked by Reggina in April, only three months after taking the job, and does not speak English, meaning Mancini quite often has had to translate for him on the training ground. City's three fixtures in the Champions League so far have seen the opposition accumulate a total of 72 shots which contrasts with 85 in their eight Premier League games. "Last season we were so good, not conceding many goals," Joleon Lescott wear said. "We got a lot of plaudits so it's only fair that we get criticism now because we are conceding more goals." The defender himself had a particularly difficult time against Ajax, badly caught out when Niklas Moisander headed the second goal for the Dutch champions. "As a team," Lescott wear added, "we are not overly enthusiastic about the way things are going." He did not elaborate whether he meant results or tactics, but quite possibly both. The problem for Mancini is that he has never taken a team past the quarter-finals of the Champions League and already has lost one job because of it. Then, like now, he had financial backing in the shape of Massimo Moratti 600m outlay at Internazionale.