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Manuel Pellegrini refused to call time on Manchester Citys title challenge, despite seeing his side held to a goalless draw by Norwich. Yusmeiro Petit Jersey . Pellegrini had admitted the visitors would need nine wins from their remaining 10 games for a chance at Premier League glory but Alex Neils relegation-threatened side went closest at Carrow Road as Patrick Bamford hit the crossbar in the first half.Manchester City - who have not won back-to-back league games since October - are now nine points behind leaders Leicester, who host Newcastle on Monday Night Football, but Pellegrini vowed to fight on until the numbers no longer add up.  Every time you drop points it can be more difficult, but that will not change my mind [about the title], Pellegrini said.If you mathematically have a chance to do it, you must always think you can do it. Sergio Aguero reacts to a missed chance in the first half If you ask me before the first game of the season what we must do, we must try to win all the games and we continue with the same mentality.And at the end of the season well see how many points we can have and in which position well be.The visitors failed to register a shot on target in the second half, having dominated the early stages of the game, and Pellegrini bemoaned his sides failure to create space in the final third. Norwich 0-0 Man City Manchester Citys Premier League title bid continued to stutter Im disappointed because of course we wanted the three points, he told Sky Sports. From the first minute of the game we were trying to be aggressive with the ball and without the ball.I feel we had a very good attitude throughout the game, we were very concentrated on our defensive movement, but we couldnt create the space.We had a lot of possession but couldnt create clear space to score. Aguero touched the ball in the area just four times at Carrow Road Manchester City had 66 per cent of possession in the game, but striker Sergio Aguero touched the ball in the box just four times, while Wilfried Bony did not register a single touch in the area before being substituted in the 58th minute.Pellegrini recognised his sides failure to convert possession into chances, and described his players as static in the opposition third. Alex Neil felt that he couldnt have asked for any more effort from his Norwich side I think it is one thing to have possession and another thing is to make the movements in the last third of the pitch. Today we were a little bit static in front so couldnt make the space, he added.We started with two centre-forwards because we knew we were going to have a lot of possession.After that we tried to do it with the wings with Raheem and Fernandinho. But it was exactly the same. 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MOBILE, Ala. -- Cole Garvin threw for 241 yards and three touchdowns in place of injured starter Dallas Davis, and South Alabama beat No. 19 San Diego State 42-24 on Saturday night.A sophomore who transferred from Marshall, Garvin threw touchdown passes of 37 yards to Kevin Kutchera, 79 yards to tight end Gerald Everett, and 6 yards to Josh McGee.We had a great week of practice, Garvin said. I was nervous until I got on the field. I mean, I havent played in three years. But we had a great game plan and my receivers made some great, great catches.San Diego States Donnel Pumphrey ran for 156 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries. He broke 100 yards rushing for the 25th time and went over 5,000 yards to become the Mountain Wests career leader.Jaguars coach Joey Jones said the plan was to keep Pumphrey hemmed in.Our defense believes in themselves, Jones said. We had a plan to keep him off the perimeter and they played their tails off tonight.It was a back and forth for most of the game, with the teams trading scores into the fourth quarter.But after South Alabama (3-2) took a 28-24 lead on Garvins strike to McGee in the left corner of thhe end zone with 11:58 left, a bad punt snap on the Aztecs next possession set up South Alabama at the San Diego State 3 and Dami Ayola took it in from there for a 35-24 bulge. Walt Weiss Athletics Jersey. Regular long snapper Turner Bernard went out early in the game, forcing freshman Mark Ellis into duty.It got worse for the Aztecs (3-1) on the ensuing drive when South Alabamas Devon Earl returned a fumble 80 yards for a touchdown to seal it with 4:17 to go.South Alabamas other score came on Tyreis Thomas pinballing 12-yard run. On Everetts TD, he outraced the secondary the final 45 yards down the left sideline to the end zone.San Diego State scored on Rashaad Pennys 15-yard run, Pumphreys 7-yarder, John Baron IIs field goal, a short TD pass from Christian Chapman to Kahale Warring, and a 2-point conversion throw to David Wells.San Diego State fell to 0-2 all-time against South Alabama, and the Aztecs are now 13-6-1 against the Sun Belt Conference.UP NEXTSAN DIEGO STATE: Hosts UNLV next week.SOUTH ALABAMA: Off next week. ' ' '