The Battle of the Billionaires-FT ManCity 0- 1 Chelsea

The match of the EPL, the big Monday Night Football finally came and went; and Chelsea were better off for it, whereas City lost records on the night. Chelsea became the first team this season to leave with any points whatsoever, so and also stopped them from scoring at home in 62 matches.

Coming from the all-attack minded City; now what really happened?

Jose Mourinho's tactics really paid off; everyone expected Chelsea to park the bus; and they did park it , but this time it wasn't just parking the bus, but also they made good use of their counter attacks.

Parking the Chelsea bus

Hazard played a class of football Mou had always expected him too; he completed at least 11 take-ons, the same amount as the entire City team. How's that for Hazard? Pretty impressive.

Now it looks like Chelsea is gradually showing signs of snatching this League title from Arsenal? Or is it too early to say so? But Mou thinks differently, here's what he said " Two horses and a little horse (Chelsea), that still needs milk and learns how to jump. Next season we race."

Ivanovic celebrating his goal(the only goal scored)

Now where did City get it wrong? Could it be because Aguero was injured? But hey there's Negredo and Dzeko and we have Toure who always loves to score when he has the chance. So what really went wrong?

I guess Pellegrini did not see this coming from Mou- The Special One: He added attack to parking the bus in a special way.

The Special One celebrating

Now this makes everyone think they can have a chance at City's hide when they meet next especially in the Etihad.  This is actually the 'weakest' team selection that City has lined up since the start of the season in terms firepower. This might look like a temporal setback for them as their next 6 matches are all against teams at the bottom half of the table Norwich(away), Sunderland(home), Stoke (home) and Aston Villa(home).

Mourinho's Chelsea has once again proven to be one with a dynamic selection. In a match that gave no room for complacency, imagine starting Matic ahead of Mikel and we all saw what he did( Can anyone tell me why Mikel was smiling when he was to come in). This turned out to be a true test of life after the departure of Juan Mata, it would really be interesting to see how things shape up from here on till the end of the season.

Also does this take the expectancy from watching the Barca vs City game? Will it be a route by Barca? Or will we get what we still expected; a spectacle of a match by 2 attacking sides... February 18th is not too far away.