Thursday, 16 January 2014

The Menace Called Manchester City

The annihilation of confidence; the wrath of a roaring host - Introducing the menace called Manchester City. Its no brainier since the start of the 2013/14 season of Manchester City's determination to rack up all available silverware in any competition they participated in. Emirates Cup (if they participated)-they'll like to win that; UEFA cup and champions league (if a club could enter in for both), they'll like to win that too. This could further be confirmed following Manuel Pellegrini's first set of statements since taking charge from the ousted former coach, Roberto Mancini (who had only the season before then won the premiership ahead of Manchester united in the most dramatic fashion possible in the premier league history). Call it revenge; call it determination; call it a bid for return on investment; call it anything you may like - but so far, teams that had gone to Manchester City for any duel do not leave without a truck load of goals.

Aguero celebrating his goal making it 4-0

So far, the blue side of Manchester has scored a whooping 99 goals this season way more than most teams right now. Their most notorious victory thus far would be the astonishing annihilation of Arsenal some few weeks back in a match that ended 6-3. The thing of concern to several other clubs is that ... The goals seem to come from everybody! - from the Central Forwards, to the defensive midfielders, to the Wingers... Even the Defenders are scoring too! Worthy of note is that Sergio Aguero has been under the knife for a couple of weeks now ... And still has his name of the top 5 goal scorers in the EPL. He scored within 50 seconds of coming on the pitch in the 5-0 drubbing of Blackburn Rovers Whether they'll be able to maintain this form or not when they face Barcelona in a couple of weeks time in the UEFA champions league group of 16 stage, time will tell. But it would be very interesting to see Yaya Toure, the current African Footballer of the year and the clubs pivotal maestro, meet with his former team mates once again since leaving them in 2010 and Manuel Pellegrini relive his days of the La liga but with some amazing talents in blue this time around.

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