Manchester City, Arsenal and PSG all earn league wins

A lack of pace has long been a problem with the Chelsea FC defence, but one that has been largely covered – partly due to sound defensive positioning, but also due to the Blues’ pressing in midfield which has denied opposition the time and space to thread balls through to strikers playing off shoulder of the last defender. We worked all week with referee Martin Atkinson to come up with a ruse which would help Fernandinho look like a world class player.

In the first heavyweight showdown of the season, Chelsea was overwhelmed Sunday in a 3-0 loss at Manchester City that could have a lasting psychological effect among the two title favorites.

But Chelsea were unable to find a way back into the game as Ramires had a goal disallowed for offside and Eden Hazard was denied by Joe Hart in the second half.

Mourinho replaced Terry with Kurt Zouma for the second half – the first time that he has substituted his captain in the Premier League – and Ramires thought that he had pulled Chelsea level five minutes in but the linesman raised his flag for a marginal offside as the Brazilian obliviously wheeled off in celebration.

“I don’t know if you asked questions to Rafa Benitez, Andre Villas-Boas, Roberto Di Matteo, to the ones that never played him“, Mourinho said.

Pellegrini has consistently refused to comment on reports linking City with Wolfsburg’s Kevin de Bruyne and similarly batted away fresh rumours of a move for Valencia defender Nicolas Otamendi.

After going stop once or twice, Aguero acclaimed his becomes the commencing XI by wriggling by means of Chelsea’s justification to attain a 31st-minute garage door opener before Kompany and Fernandinho made their game app protected overdue on. “I do not talk about it”. “We were punished for our mistakes for the second and third goal”.

“The point was not to bring John out but to bring Zouma in. I want to have my fastest player on the pitch and not on the bench”.

And the Portuguese’s worst fears were realised in the 31st minute when Aguero and Yaya Toure exchanged passes on the edge of the box – the former tying up Gary Cahill in knots and guiding a low effort beyond Begovic into the bottom-left corner.

He said: “It has no relation with the result but it has a relation with the rules and the rules say minute one or minute 90, it was a red card“.