Goals
from Sergio Agüero, Vincent Kompany and Fernandinho were enough to seal an
emphatic 3-0 victory for Manchester City over Chelsea
Manchester
City continued a strong start to the Premier League season with a thoroughly
convincing 3-0 victory against reigning champions Chelsea at the Etihad
Stadium.
Restored
to the starting XI, Sergio Aguero looked short of sharpness as he missed early
chances before finally burying one midway through the first half.
Chelsea’s
distance behind a dominant City side was underlined by the substitution of
captain John Terry at half-time but it brought no significant upturn in their
fortunes and Vincent Kompany scored for the second consecutive game with a
near-post header to settle it for Manuel Pellegrini’s side.
With the
Blues tamed, Fernandinho added insult to injury in the 84th minute as he
finished off a vibrant team move by firing a clean shot through a crowded
penalty box.
Asmir
Begovic came into the Chelsea starting XI for the suspended Thibaut Courtois as
one of two changes to the side who drew 2-2 with Swansea City last time out and
the former Stoke City goalkeeper was called into action inside the opening
minute when Aguero – in for Wilfried Bony as City’s only alteration – was sent
clean through on goal by David Silva. The Argentine failed to find a way past
Begovic and Jesus Navas drilled wide from the rebound.
Begovic
was making a promising start to his full Chelsea debut and got down brilliantly
to his left to keep out another Aguero strike on 16 minutes, before pulling off
an almost identical save from the same man a minute later.
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