Manchester City hope to get to bottom of Vincent Kompany’s calf problems

At the halfway point of the season City are third with 36 points, three behind Leicester – with whom they drew on Tuesday – and the leaders, Arsenal.

Manuel Pellegrini suggested Manchester City will not make any signings in the January transfer window as he declared they already have a “complete squad”. Always the best position is to be top of the table and in a normal season the amount of points we have would not be enough.

Manchester City, who have not won away in the league since September, went close through Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Otamendi.

That allowed Arsenal to take over as pacesetters from Leicester, though only on goal difference.

Manchester City is preparing for their match against Watford on Saturday. After the last match, one of my kids, Paulo, was crying because we lost in the last minute and I found very quickly 10 reasons to be happy with Watford. “I think we are going to win the title if we don’t depend on just one player”. At the same stage last season, they were bottom of the league and now they are second and well embroiled in a title fight. Christian Fuchs turned away from De Bruyne and delivered a lovely cross from the left which just eluded Jamie Vardy and Marc Albrighton in the six-yard box.

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He added: “We are in a good position”.

Last weekend’s 4-1 home victory over Sunderland was entirely predictable and expected given their opposition’s woes, while the midweek stalemate at fellow high-fliers Leicester was acceptable, if not entirely satisfactory for Hart. Unlikely as it would seem, a Spurs title win wouldn’t go down too badly with the neutrals, given the way Mauricio Pochettino has moulded the side with youngsters leading the way.

LEICESTER CITY captain Wes Morgan lauded his side’s defiant defensive display after they recorded their fourth clean sheet of the Barclays Premier League campaign.

For Guus Hiddink and Chelsea, it is a day-by-day approach as he mentions: ‘You see how it is, all the big teams are losing points as well.