That ManCity v Chelsea game

[Karl]

No cheap goals or tantrums, just skill under pressure - this is the closest the English game has been to emulating brilliant Bayern


By Jeff Powell

PUBLISHED: 18:00 EST, 6 February 2014 | UPDATED: 18:33 EST, 6 February 2014


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz2sn7yOW6B

[Karl]

No cheap goals or tantrums, just skill under pressure - this is the closest the English game has been to emulating brilliant Bayern


By Jeff Powell

PUBLISHED: 18:00 EST, 6 February 2014 | UPDATED: 18:33 EST, 6 February 2014


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz2sn7yOW6B

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The giants of the Bundesliga now demand that all outfield players be fully engaged for the full 90 minutes, be they on or off the ball.

No breathers. No resting. No ball-watching. No matter how talented you may be. No mentally switching off, either.

John Terry revealed that Jose Mourinho had spent two days briefing his Chelsea players in dense detail on how to negate City’s strengths and exploit weaknesses which few other teams had even detected so far this season.

Yet one moment’s loss of focus by a single player could have undermined Monday night’s entire operation.

City were not gifted that opportuity. Yet while Chelsea and their manager rightly reaped the plaudits for the momentous victory which has set the stage for a thrillingly close title race, the blue side of Manchester made a stunning contribution, also.

Manuel Pellegrini engaged Mourinho in the cut and thrust of a tactical battle on the grand scale.

Whether City would have won had Sergio Aguero and Fernandinho been fit is not the central issue. Mourinho out-manoeuvred Pellegrini on this occasion.


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[Karl]

TOP OF THE WORLD players

No breathers. No resting. No ball-watching. No matter how talented you may be. No mentally switching off, either.

Totally engaged - in attack and on defense!