Manchester City continued on their quest to constantly annoy the ‘big boys’ and their dominance today as they dispatched a poor Aston Villa side 4-0. I am sure all the pundits not used to seeing sky blue at the summit of the Premiership will look more towards it being a case of Aston Villas poor defence rather than City’s slick attack being the reason for the victory today. Credit is seldom given to the Blue side of Manchester.
In truth it was both, Villa were poor when it came to repelling the City attack and more often than not it was a stray pass from us that broke down our attack rather than decisive tackling from the Villa back line. However, you still have to score, and despite having Tevez on the bench we still scored four without reply. That deserves credit from pundits in itself, considering most of them said we could only score through Tevez.
Even when City were three or four goals up you still witnessed players tracking back and chasing to win balls. Agbonglahor was limited to two or three runs into Kompany and Downing and co were almost non participants. In fact 4-0 is somewhat of an injustice to City and I feel that if the game was not in the busy Christmas schedule of thick and fast games then maybe City would not have eased off toward the end.
Job well done by Mancinis men and despite the fact we may not be top at the end of the day, with United playing later today and Arsenal tomorrow, the fact still remains is that we are still very much in the mix, and that is going to continue to annoy and frustrate a lot of people.
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