Manchester City vs Chelsea: Preview, Projected Lineup, Prediction and TV Schedule
February 4, 2014 1:30 AM IST
Etihad Stadium — Manchester
Referee: M. Dean
Manchester City is in the finest home form in the home football currently and they haven’t lost any match at the home in this season. It will be tough work for Chelsea FC to collect a point from their although they have Jose Mourinho standing in their touch line.
Chelsea vs Man City: Preview
Chelsea will be 5 points behind Man City and Arsenal if they fail to collect points today and it will be tough for them to challenge a domestic total for this year. The clash can also be defined as the most lethal attack vs walls. These two teams will be playing against each other in the same venue after 12 days in FA Cup fixture.
When these two teams met last time in the premier league at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea defeated City by 2-1 after Fernando Torres sparkle in the match.
Only Torres and Van Ginkel are absent from the away side due to ongoing injury while Aguero, Nasri and Garcia are sidelined from the host.
Mohamed Salah might get a debut in this match as Jose Mourinho would love to counter against the big teams. Chelsea drew their last match 0-0 against West Ham at home despite attempting on goals for 39 times.
What Jose Mourinho said ahead of the match.” We are not going to change our philosophy. We are going in a certain direction and just because we are playing a certain opponent doesn’t mean we are going to change that.”
Time: 8 p.m. GMT/3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT
TV: NBC Sports Network, NBC Sports Live Extra (US); Sky Sports 1/HD, Sky Sports 3D, Sky Go, BBC One, NOW TV (UK)
Prediction: Looking at the form of the both team and the form of the players plus different advantages we predict score to be 1-1.
City XI: Hart; Zabaleta, Kompany, Demichelis, Kolarov; Navas, Toure, Fernandinho, Silva; Dzeko, Negredo.
Chelsea XI: Cech; Cole, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Oscar, Matic, Ramires; Willian, Eto’o, Hazard.
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