Grouping Blogger posts for blogs monitored via Google Analytics - google-analytics

I'm trying to exploit the content grouping feature provided by Google Analytics for a blog hosted by Google Blogger.
The blog has been correctly set to be monitored by using Google Analytics (GA). GA provides 3 ways of grouping but in my case only the grouping by tracking code option seems to be the correct one. As far as I can see inspecting a blog page, by putting into the template the GA include
<b:include data='blog' name='google-analytics'/>
I correctly get the following JavaScript ga.js snippet into the page
<script type='text/javascript'>
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'XXXXXXXXXXX']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script');
ga.type = 'text/javascript';
ga.async = true;
ga.src = (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ?
'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
The problem is that I've no way to add the required call to set the group as required.
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-40265412-2']);
_gaq.push(['_setPageGroup', 1, 'My Group Name']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
Any idea in which way this can be implemented?
Thanks in advance

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