Clash of Rivals

Clash of Rivals

Chelsea ended Manchester City's perfect home record in the English Premiere League with a win of 1-0 at Etihad Stadium.

This weeks derby was held on Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England with Manchester City being hosts. On Monday, February 3, 2014, Manchester City had a derby match against yet powerful Chelsea FC with Jose Mourinho on the bench. This was 24th week of English Premiere League. Stadium was full with mostly Manchester City fans, but still Chelsea fans were loud enough to overcome Manchester City's cheering. Time of the match was at 8 pm, with the famous English Premiere League referee Mike Dean.

The goal which ultimately settled the match came in 32nd minute after threatening Chelsea attack looked to have broken down. Ramires, playing for Chelsea, was blocked by Vincent Kompany after Hazard had cut the ball back from the right, but somehow ball rolled to Chelsea's back Branislav Ivanovic who thundered the ball into the low right corner, where Hart was helpless. The visitors, Chelsea were very unlucky to double their lead just before the half time where, this time, Hazard found the space on the left. His cross got to Samuel Eto'o, but the Cameron striker was unlucky, only hitting the bar. In the second half Chelsea had some very good chances, and one of the was Nemanja Matic's beautiful shot from the outside of the box where he hit the post. Mourinho's plan in limiting Manchester City's chances was successful, he, once again proved who is the best coach alive.  

"I think we played fantastic," Mourinho told Sky Sports after the game. "Against a fantastic team to play the way we did I think is amazing. 

"The best team in Premiere League we beat the twice and especially today we were fantastic. They had couple of chances to score but we had the better chances to kill the game and the players played with fantastic spirit," Mourinho added.

"While they had the ball we were very humble and very ready to work defensively and when we had the ball we were trying to play and we played really well" 

This was the lead that Chelsea deserved after limiting helpless Manchester City to a few chances in the first half. Chelsea is the first team to beat Manchester City twice in one season, and last Everton was successful in doing that in 2010-2011 season. Most efficient player in Chelsea was Eden Hazard with 76%  completed passes.  

Sources:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/03/sport/football/football-man-city-chelsea-premier-league/

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25908324