The Blues may be struggling in their last couple of fixtures, but they'll be expecting to prove themselves against the worst
side in the league at the moment.
Bellerin is finally a structural first team member, and I feel like he should start against the
weaker sides in the league and cup matches.
The 23 year - old has scored 27 goals in his 34 outings this term, including goals against all the
big sides in the league.
They've looked every bit like a struggling side in recent weeks, and now they're facing a hugely creative attack from one of the
top sides in the league.
Things are not going well at the Bridge and this is one tough game against high flying Marco Silva's Watford who can beat any top
side in the league on their day.
City saw off their Champions League away tie against Basel with rather ease and they are well clear at the top of the table in premier league so we expect Guardiola to start with a full strength
side in the league cup final.
Admittedly, Liverpool's defensive shape for the opening 37 minutes was hardly archetypal, but when playing against the best
attacking side in the league at home, I'd be surprised to find anyone who thought Agüero, Jesus, Silva and De Bruyme were not going to cause Liverpool problems.
Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kiev are proving their worth in the Champions League this year, but there are a couple of other very good
sides in that league as well, and they played each other on Saturday.
I thought we were very poor in defence, the
bottom side in the league carved us over many times, it was only their lack of finishing that made us look better than we were.
Tottenham Hotspur, who recently picked up an impressive 3 - 2 win over London rivals West Ham are the
only side in the league not to have lost a single game, but sit at the fifth position, five points clear of sixth placed Manchester United.
Liverpool had barely scraped past the worst
traveling side in the league with two fairly lucky goals and all Liverpool fans were just thankful for the three points.
Good news for Bolton fans is that their side has been scoring goals again but they are leaking just as many at the back and are still the only
side in the league not to have kept a clean sheet this season.
'' we should not have expected anything different from Palace, because if they'd attempted to play football against the most technically
gifted side in the league they would have been reduced to dust.»
Having dropped five points to David Moyes» West Ham, the Blues have failed to assert themselves against the
worst sides in the league.
And then the fall again like they did against Watford, and then you see them trying to press Man City, one of the best
passing sides in the league.
In this sense, although it'd be difficult to ever rule Rangers out, being one of the
strongest sides in the league, currently sitting in 3rd, and having gone unbeaten in 7, its hard to see them taking more than a point even on home soil with all things considered.
Louis van Gaal's side braved the cold to get an early Christmas present at Southampton, somehow claiming all three points in a lacklustre performance but proved themselves to be one of the
toughest sides in league.
Arsene Wenger has kept to his policy of playing his second (or third) string
Arsenal side in the League Cup, and so I am not in the slightest bit surprised that he has named this XI tonight.
Juventus have had the chance to do one of two things while playing a club that is definitely considered one of the
provincial sides in the league — either keep pace with Napoli or, at least on a temporary basis, move into first place.
However his club won't be taking any decision against the manager for his outburst meted out to their record signing who transfer set a new domestic record in terms of transfer between
Slovenian sides in the league.
Marshalled on the field by Vieira, Arsenal's undefeated 2003 — 04 team, «The Invincibles,» went undefeated in league play, and is still considered among the best
sides in league history.
The former treble winner has created a chance every 42 minutes for the
Turkish side in the league and one every 65 minutes in the Champions League.
Roberto Di Matteo's men have not faced any of the
major sides in their league games so far and were held 0 - 0 in their last away game at QPR before struggling to beat Stoke 1 - 0 at Stamford Bridge.
If they were German we'd be talking about how much gegenpressing they were doing, but in England the best they get is being labelled the
fittest side in the league.
We need to watch for West Brom on set pieces as they are possibly the
tallest side in the league, and try to use this to their advantage.
A nervy win over an impressive looking
Chesterfield side in the League Cup highlighted the deficiencies within the squad, and although United picked up a hard earned and extremely valuable point at Leicester City on Sunday, there was a worrying lack of penetration in the attacking areas.
During the 90's, when Alex Ferguson started to knock «Liverpool right off their f*cking perch», fans consoled themselves with their ’18 championship titles» making them the most
successful side in the league's history.