Maresca refuses to apologise for City’s Anfield party: “What do you want us to do?”

Enzo Maresca has no regrets about Manchester City’s celebrations at Anfield. If anything, the Italian cannot understand why anyone expected them to behave differently after a statement 3-0 victory over Liverpool.City's players celebrated wildly at the final whistle, while their travelling supporters filled the away end with inflatable bananas in a defiant display amid the storm surrounding the club's alleged financial breaches.The reaction drew criticism, with City facing the prospect of severe sanctions over accusations that they artificially inflated sponsorship income by more than £850 million. ##LINKED_NEWS_69805##But when the subject was raised ahead of Wednesday's Champions League meeting with Paris Saint-Germain, Maresca's response was blunt."Criticised for what?" he asked.Once the question was explained, the City boss doubled down."We won 0-3 at Anfield, what do you want us to do? And even if it was 0-1, it was exactly the same," he said."We are here today to win tomorrow's game. We work every day to win games. It's the only thing we can be focused on. We were so, so, so happy inside the pitch, and you cannot imagine inside the changing room."##LINKED_NEWS_69835##For Maresca, the noise surrounding City has not seeped into the dressing room. He insisted that neither the uncertainty over the club's situation nor the criticism directed at them had distracted his players from their football.He did, however, concede that the past few weeks may have been harder on the supporters, who have had to endure taunts from rival fans over the allegations."It probably has been tougher for our fans than for the players or for me," Maresca said."If I am an Arsenal fan or a Manchester United fan and you are a City fan, I can tell you, 'Hey, my friend, you cheat', or this kind of thing."22.00: (2.25) Man.City (3.60) PSG (3.05)Still, the Italian returned to the same point: winning at Anfield is no small achievement, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the club."We were very happy celebrating the three points because we know how difficult it is at Anfield away. So that's why we were very happy.”