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It would be recalled that Chelsea football club were held to a 2-2 draw in their first game of the new Barclays Premier League season by Swansea City.  This also led to altercation between the coach and the team’s medical department. However, the club is hoping to put that disappointment behind them as they face man city in their second game of the premier league at the Ethiad stadium. Yes, Chelsea Football Club are playing away to Manchester City and lots of predictions have been coming on regarding this match as it promises to be highly pulsating.

It is no news that Chelsea football club is the defending champions of the EPL and the result of today’s match will have some bearing on how well Chelsea would be able to defend their last season’s title. Whatever the outcome of today’s match is, Chelsea Football Club has got to tighten their seat belt, since indications of last week’s match is enough to show there are no minions in the English Premier League.

Manchester City had a better story to tell in their last week’s match in comparison with Chelsea. While Chelsea had a difficult time with their opponent and could only mange a draw, Manchester City on the other hand had their ways against their opponent, West Bromwich Albion. It can therefore be said that Manchester City would be the more comfortable of the duo in today’s match with 2 points separating the two of them.

However, the table may turn against Manchester City if they ever take Chelsea for granted considering the already wounded and therefore desperate state the later is in prior to today’s match. The altercation between Jose Mourinho and the medical staff of the club is still fresh in the mind as the coach has refused to apologize to them for the way he treated them during the Swansea City encounter. It would be recalled that the coach had branded his medical staff members as being naïve. It is hoped that the issue would not get in the way of success for the coach in today’s match.     

If Chelsea loses today’s match, they would be a whooping 5 points behind Manchester City, who also happened to be their major rival during last season of the English Premier League. The club is therefore expected to put all effort in place to ensure such defeat never occurred.

Manchester city’s coach, Manuel Pellegrini is expected to have prepared his team ahead of today’s match and Mourinho is expected to have prepared his team also to do the near impossible in today’s match. It therefore promises to be an exciting game and something worthy to look forward to.

A number of factors are expected to determine how today’s match would pan out, one of them being the fitness of Sergio Aguero, considering his loss of sharpness in the week one match against West Brom in which he came off the bench compared to impressive performance last season and in the recently concluded Copa America where he starred for Argentina.    The combination between David Silva and Yaya Toure is expected to also turn the table in favor of Manchester City in today’s match.

By Anthony Olawale Ojo