**** Chelsea V Manchester City Official Match Preview****

[Breks]

Chelsea V Manchester City
Stamford Bridge
Kickoff 4pm 27/10/2013

I've wrote many things over the years but this is the first time I have turned my hand to writing a match preview, so please be kind.

It's Chalk V Cheese as these titans of the English Football do battle for the first time this season.

Mr Mourinho and Mr Pellegrini Couldn't be anymore different. The self professed special one is arrogant but the darling of the media. The other a quiet likable character with a lot of respect throughout the footballing world.
Mourinho has tried with the mind games but showing his class Pellegrini has not taken the bait. So what of the history between these two men. During there time in La liga they met 5 times with Mourinho gaining 3 victories to Pellegrini's 1, the other fixture being a 1-1 draw. Worryingly for all Manchester City fans, Real Madrid under Mourinho handed 2 heavy defeats to Malaga under Pellegrini. 6-2 at home on 8/5/2013 and 7-0 at home on 3/3/2011. However this is a different league and 2 different teams.
Pellegrini likes to play a fast paced attacking style of football. In Contrast Mourinho likes to play a more defensive a direct style.

City and Chelsea have met each other 139 times, Chelsea winning 55,Manchester city 47 wins and 37 draws. More recently though the last 5 meetings between these 2 clubs have resulted in 4 wins to City and 1 draw. Both clubs have been tipped as potential league winners and both clubs have yet to begin to fire on all cylinders. Millions of pounds of talent will be on display on Sunday but will this 1 game decide the destiny of the Premier league title? Absolutely not.

Both teams can be scored against and with like's of David Luiz who models himself on sideshow Bob, the likes of Aguero, Negredo, David Silva must be confident about being able to produce more than 1 goal. Likewise for Chelsea if Javi "slow Motion" Garcia plays, Chelsea will also be confident about exposing this weakness in City's back 4. One key feature of this match will be that Chelsea do not posses a striker that could score 20-30 league goals a season. City on the other-hand possess the outstanding Sergio Aguero who is definitely capable of bagging himself 30 league goals. Both teams have very strong midfields. Oscar and Eden Hazard are capable of winning the game for Chelsea. Likewise Silva, Toure and Aguero are well capable of winning the game for City.

I see plenty of goals in this fixture due to the firepower both teams have and each teams defensive weaknesses. However the fact that Sergio Aguero is on fire and David Silva is once again showing why City fans refer to him as Merlin, I see City just edging this one. I'm hoping to see plenty of fist pumping from Pellegrini and not a lot of Mourinho sliding around on his knees in his Hugo Boss suit. This is going to be a serious test for both teams and a serious test of both sets of fans nerves. I'm going to be brave and say City win this 3-2.


CHELSEA
GOALKEEPERS
•Petr Cech
•Mark Schwarzer
•Henrique Hilario
•Jamal Blackman



DEFENDERS
•Kenneth Omeruo
•Andreas Christensen
•Nathan Ake
•Ryan Bertrand
•Ashley Cole
•Branislav Ivanovic
•Tomas Kalas
•John Terry
•Gary Cahill
•Alex Davey
•Cesar Azpilicueta
•David Luiz



MIDFIELDERS
•Lamisha Musonda
•Kevin de Bruyne
•Marco van Ginkel
•Frank Lampard
•Adam Nditi
•Jeremie Boga
•John Swift
•Ruben Loftus-Cheek
•Tika Musonda
•Isak Ssewankambo
•Oscar
•John Obi Mikel
•Michael Essien
•Ramires
•Willian
•Eden Hazard
•Juan Mata
•Lewis Baker
•Billy Clifford



FORWARDS
•Isaiah Brown
•Alex Kiwomya
•Samuel Eto'o
•Fernando Torres
•Islam Feruz
•Demba Ba
•Chike Kandi
•Andre Schurrle


MANCHESTER CITY
GOALKEEPERS
Joe Hart (ENG)
Costel Pantilimon (ROM)
Richard Wright (ENG)

DEFENDERS
Dedryck Boyata (BEL)
Matija Nastasic (SRB)
Aleksandar Kolarov (SRB)
Vincent Kompany (BEL)
Gael Clichy (FRA)
Joleon Lescott (ENG)
Martin Demichelis (ARG)
Micah Richards (ENG)
Pablo Zabaleta (ARG)

MIDFIELDERS
Fernandinho (BRA)
Gareth Barry* (ENG)
Jesus Navas (ESP)
James Milner (ENG)
Samir Nasri (FRA)
Jack Rodwell (ENG)
David Silva (ESP)
Javi Garcia (ESP)
Scott Sinclair* (ENG)
Yaya Toure (CIV)

STRIKERS
Edin Dzeko (BIH)
Sergio Aguero (ARG)
Stevan Jovetic (MNE)
Alvaro Negredo (SPA)
John Guidetti (SWE)

[Beefymcfc]

Cheers mate, not bad for a 1st attempt.

[Herb]

The routine and detailed stats woven with the spice of supposition and garnished with a vision of Pellegrini's pumping fist and Maureen on her knees in the mud. A very tasty information breakfast from the Breks and much enjoyed, thank you.

[mr_nool]

That was a good read Breks! Well in!

[nottsblue]

Very pleasing read

[Moonchesteri]

Yep. Always enjoy reading these before the game

[Beefymcfc]

I do hope your prediction comes off but if it goes like that every Blue will be shitting bricks.

[Biamp]

Good read! Keep up the good work.

[Cit.revenge]

Do we know is Garcia again at the back?

[mr_nool]

Do we know is Garcia again at the back?

I think he and Ferna will play as defensive midfielders with Yaya in a freer midfield role. I quite like it!

[Breks]

Thanks guys. It was a bit of a rush job to be honest. Garcia starts in midfield and Demichellis at cb.