Manuel Pellegrini eager to take three points against Chelsea

We are speaking about 38 matches – 38 matches is an eternity, a marathon that started last weekend and ends in around 10 months.

How Jose Mourinho must long for the days last season when Chelsea was being goaded for being “boring”.

“With the whole season in mind, what matters the most is that I get in top form and don’t take any risks”.

Chelsea are 7/4 in the draw-no-bet market and an excellent 11/1 to win 1-0.

Let’s take a brief look at all the games ahead of us.

However, the Brazilian started against Swansea and scored in their first game of the season, but may miss their second against Manchester City.

City looked impressive in their 3-0 opening victory at West Brom, with Yaya Toure and new £49million signing Raheem Sterling excellent at The Hawthorns. At the final whistle, with a City victory against United, Mangnall was delighted.

So have City and Chelsea ever met this early in the season before? “I hope he can continue from Monday because he played very well”, the Chilean said.

The Spaniard needs to be prolific in front of goal, though, if he is to net for the first time this season. It is expected that this game will bring us a couple of goals.

Instead, he’ll ask his wide-men to get at Arsenal’s full-backs, likely again to be Mathieu Debuchy and Nacho Monreal despite Hector Bellerin’s return to fitness, although it’s unclear who they’ll be trying to feed with Glenn Murray coveted by Bournemouth and both Connor Wickham and Patrick Bamford still bedding in. In the 1936-37 season there were two tied games.

Manuel Pellegrini’s team have developed a habit of winning the title and then failing to defend it. That’s what happened last time out, when they allowed Chelsea to run away with the Premier League. He’s done it in only 19 games in charge too. City, overall have outscored their opponents also by a total of 103 goals to 77.

“Here he will play David Silva, Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure, with players that will make him improve in a lot of ways”.

He said she didn’t “understand the game” because she went on the pitch to treat Eden Hazard late on and Carneiro has now been banned from match-day activities and generally sidelined by the club just for doing her job. In fact, when Nasri scores for City against Chelsea, City always wins!