Saturday, 17 January 2015

Premier League Preview: Champions Manchester City take on Arsenal.


Match Preview: With these two teams having a bit of tense history between each other, this fixture will certainly be a belter. Arsenal will be heavily relying on their star man of the season, Alexis Sanchez, to do the deeds against the Champions. The Chilean maestro has been involved in more Premier League goals then any other player this season, 19. Racking up a total of 12 goals and 7 assists. In comes City's genius though, David Silva, who has been prolific for City whilst their main strikers have all been absent in their previous matches. It will be throughly entertaining to watch these two magicians work their magic tommorow.
Alexis Sanchez has been in outstanding form for Arsenal this season.

Although it is obvious that both teams can put the ball in the back of the net, it is also quite evident that they are condeding goals too. Both Arsenal and City have only had one clean sheet in their last five matches, which shows that tommorow's fixture could be a goal fest. The chance of this is also enhanced by the return of Sergio Aguero, who now looks to be fully fit so this means he could feature from the start tommorow. The Argentinian has been out for 6 weeks, but he is still 2nd top goalscorer in the Premier League. This just shows how lethal Aguero is infront of goal and he could really cause Arsenal some problems tommorow, like he did in this fixture last year when Arsenal were humilated 6-2 by the Champions.

Prediciton: Don't get me wrong, Sanchez has been single-handly winning Arsenal games all season, but I don't think that this will be the case tommorow. Yes, City's defence may not as been as strong as it has been in previous times, but what they don't have in defensive power, they make up for in the attack. Unbeaten in their last 12 matches, City certainly look the favourites for this match up. I think that Aguero and Silva will have too much pace and skill for the somewhat 'dodgy' Mertesacker and this will be the downfall to Arsenal's loss. I am going for a 3-1 win to City in this fixture, which is only a fraction to what the result was last year!




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