Tuesday 15 September 2015 19:20, UK
Captain Vincent Kompany says Manchester City are hungry for success and determined to deliver in the Champions League this season.
City have won their opening five Premier League matches without conceding a goal and have not lost since going down 4-2 in their final pre-season friendly at Stuttgart on August 1.
They are desperate to carry their momentum into the Champions League, in which they have never previously progressed beyond the last 16, and they host last season's runners-up Juventus on Tuesday.
Kompany said: "There is nobody who left the Champions League satisfied last year.
"Okay, we came against the best team in the world in Barcelona, and I guess that made it a little bit easier to understand, but that is not what we want.
"We don't want to go out to the strongest teams but to compete with them and at least beat them on a regular basis.
Tomorrow is a game everyone is going to be up for.
"Everything has been so bright and so good so far but, as people have been saying for the last three or four years, as long as we don't perform and show our quality in the Champions League, as we have in the Premier League, there will always be something left behind that leaves us unsatisfied."
Unlike City, Juventus have not started this campaign well, with the Serie A champions managing a draw and two defeats from their opening three league matches.
Kompany added: "It is a really important game for us. We have been looking forward to the start of the competition since the disappointing game in Barcelona. Tomorrow is a game everyone is going to be up for."
In mitigation, in each of their past four Champions League seasons, City have been drawn in tough groups and again they face a difficult task, with their Group D also including Borussia Monchengladbach and Europa League winners Sevilla.
City have spent close to £160m on new signings over the summer in a bid to make a greater impact, with £103m going on just two players in Kevin De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling.
Kompany thinks the squad could prove the best since he joined the club.
He said: "Early signs would say so but experience would teach you to be careful on those kind of statements. We will see."
City's optimism is tempered slightly by the loss of star striker Sergio Aguero, who has not recovered from a knee injury in a late challenge from Crystal Palace's Scott Dann at the weekend, although David Silva and Sterling are both fit to return.
Chelsea's early-season struggles have commanded headlines but Kompany would not get drawn into writing them off, when speaking to the media with Pellegrini about City's home Premier League match on Saturday against West Ham.
He said: "It is irrelevant what they are doing. The biggest mistake that could be made is to think it will be a league between Chelsea and City. That is not the case at all. Other teams will come back during the season. The best thing is to focus just on ourselves."
