PREVIEW: MATCH OF THE WEEK. CRUCIAL FIXTURE AWAITS FOR MOURINHO AND PELLEGRINI
Chelsea and Manchester city will be looking to carry their good form from champions league to premier league as both big heads will be locking their horns at Stamford bridge. It’s going to be a crucial fixture for both teams as there is only a point difference between two teams in premier league standings.
Chelsea is in a great form beating Schalke by a 3 goal difference on their home soil. Jose Mourinho will be particularly happy with the performance of Torres as the striker started to show the glimpses of Liverpool. He was all over pitch against Schalke pressing the defenders and playing beautiful one-two’s with midfielders particularly Hazard. He was good in air winning headers and showed some defensive skills too, winning ball a couple of times. Mourinho will be expecting Torres to continue his form as lack of form of strikers became main head ache for the manager. Chelsea had no worries in other fields as their midfield of Oscar, schurrle, Hazard, Ramires all are in fine form. Mourinho has no defensive worries too as terry, ivanovic, Cahill made Chelsea as one of the best defensive team in premier league. Mourinho will be determined to beat a big team after losing to Everton and sharing points with Spurs. His tactics going to be interesting as his defensive play against united received a lot of criticism.
Meanwhile Manchester city will be looking to be registering their second away win as they started to play more effectively in attack. Manuel pellegrini will be hoping his team continues to play attacking game which secured their first away win of season against west ham united. The attack of aguero, silva, Nasri, toure against of the strong defense of Chelsea will be interesting to watch. Aguero is back to his fitness and scored twice in champions league. Nasri, who is getting more chances will be looking to impress the manager while the likes of toure and silva provides much required pace in the attack. Defense will be main concern for the manager as city kept only 3 clean sheets in this season premier league and absence of kompany is still hurting city.
A win for city will take them two points ahead of Chelsea and they should be at their best to overcome defense of Chelsea.
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