City shorten for title after showing six appeal
Manchester City have scored 15 goals and conceded none in their last three games, including their midweek Champions League match against Feyenoord. However, the team looks better settled defensively. He rewarded his manager’s faith at Vicarage Road on Saturday afternoon, when the Argentina worldwide grabbed a hat-trick in City’s 6-0 victory. They have a world-class goalkeeper, good centre-back pairing, wonderful defensive midfielder and a goal-scoring striker. Pace and energy are required components for a team looking to challenge for the title.
Brook was a blunt Yorkshireman who was so committed to the City cause he didn’t miss a game for 11 seasons after joining from Barnsley in 1928. They have showed certain weaknesses against both Stoke and Everton.
This is not a two-horse race.
Even with BT’s exclusive European football coverage, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are still being shown more often on Sky and this is reflected in the number of live fixtures between the so-called “Big Six”.
“I feel as important as I did last season”, he said.
Chelsea remains third on the table behind the Manchesters.
If you are a Tottenham Hotspur supporter at the moment, you will probably be tearing your hair out watching them as they just can not win at their new home of Wembley Stadium in the league. They will have to learn to beat teams that come to Wembley and park the bus; creative players like Christian Erikson and Heung Min Son hold the keys.
Guardiola, of course, has lifted Spanish La Liga titles and the German Bundesliga but the English Premier League has its unique quirks late on in a season and Mourinho’s experience of three titles with Chelsea may help United over the line. Tottenham will probably wake up soon, but their strongest attribute last season is gone – White Hart Lane.
Chelsea will travel to Stoke on Saturday [23 September] having been able to rest many of their first-team regulars in the easy victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.
“They wanted to score more and they are the kind of team that likes to keep the ball and every time they came forward they tried to score”.
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