Manchester City host holders Bayern Munich in the Champions League with striker Edin Dzeko enjoying a new lease of life that he says is down to the club bringing in a manager who backs his players rather than criticising them.
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City appointed Manuel Pellegrini in June to replace the sacked Roberto Mancini, who was popular with fans for ending the club's 35-year trophy drought but prone to public condemnation of players who had not performed well.
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Dzeko was one of those to feel the biting tongue of Mancini and increasingly found himself out of favour.
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Even when the Bosnian did play, he seemed to lack the spark that made him such a potent force for VfL Wolfsburg before his 2011 move to City.
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However, reassuring words from Pellegrini who quickly said that the striker was central to his plans, seem to have done the trick.