Manchester City: The front runner for the English Premier League title this season…
Manchester City is an English football club and is currently one of the best club in the league alongside Chelsea. Talking about the ability of the club the current season’s record speaks for itself wherein they have scored at an average of 2.65 goals in every match they have played. The main reason behind this success is its squad, if you look at blues line up its full of match winners. Starting from the back they have the best goal keeper in England in Joe Hart even though he has been criticized for some time now he is the best in the current lot and has proved it several times. Manchester City has one of the formidable defence line-up in the league. It is filled with the best like Vincent Kompany, Aleksandar Kolorov, Joleon Lescott, Pablo Zabaleta, and Gael Clichy. These players are world class and they are one of the difficult defensive backs to penetrate. With Yaya Toure, James Milner, Samir Nasri, David Silva Jesus Navas in the midfield making a star studded midfield which could attack as well as defend according to the situation. Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko, Alvaro Negrado Steven Jovetic can always be a night mare for the opponents as these players can create and score a goal even from an acute angles which may seem impossible. With such a world class team it is evident that Manchester City has the talent in its squad which has the ability to perform and win the league. Along with it a coach like Manuel Pellegrini is an apt combination for Manchester city. Pellegrini’s rich experience of the game bring in a lot both on and off the field to the players as well as the club. If you see the career of Pelligrini he has experience of managing world class club all across Europe.
With such a formidable team along with the master mind of Pelligrini we do expect Manchester City to win the league. If you look at the performance of the team this season the results speaks for itself. Till date City have played 26 games out of which they have won 18 of them with an whooping goals per match ratio of 2.65 which is huge and is the best for any other team in the league this season. They have maintained a 38% clean sheet this season. When we analyse the game statistics for City they have created a whopping 47% on target chances and 39% off target chances. This numbers highlights the ability of the squad to attach aggressively and score. Along with aggression the team has maintained discipline in the entire season which is one of the factor for its success. They have not conceded even a single red card this season. The fouls pre match ratio is 10.77 which is one among the lowest in the entire league. All these stats gives us a good idea about the dominant force of city.
Along with this if you see the performance of city except the games against Chelsea they are able to score and win consistently. They are maintaining a good record both in home and away games. All these factors just shows the quality of Manchester City as a team has achieved this season. Only time will tell us whether Manchester City would be lucky this time around.
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