Five reasons for City fans to believe they can topple Chelsea.
With the gap now just five points between Manchester City and leaders Chelsea, here are five reasons to believe the Premier League champions can still retain their crown this season…
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Man City transfer news
1) Yaya Toure is back
Some of City’s worst form of the season coincided with the hugely influential Yaya Toure heading off to the African Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast. Now that he’s back, he will surely add the craft and quality the club needs from the middle of the park.
2) Sergio Aguero fitness boost
Plagued by injuries for so much of the season, there are signs now that Sergio Aguero is getting back to full fitness and form. The Argentine is definitely a player who can make a difference in a title race and one feels he and Toure at their best will make this team a totally different prospect.
3) Wilfried Bony lift
With Aguero so isolated this season due to unconvincing form from the likes of Edin Dzeko and Stevan Jovetic, the signing of Wilfried Bony, who finally made his debut this weekend, could relieve the pressure on the Argentine and also give the team some much-needed quality in attack and a new dimension to their play.
4) Chelsea starting to crack?
Chelsea will be hugely disappointed to have drawn at home to relegation strugglers Burnley yesterday and they generally look far less convincing than they did at the start of the season. Since losing to Newcastle United, the Blues have also been thrashed by Tottenham Hotspur and stunned by Bradford in the FA Cup.
5) They’ve done it before
Five points won’t seem like a huge gap for City to bridge after their amazing comeback from eight points behind back in 2011/12. City also faced real adversity last season as Liverpool’s amazing end-of-season form threatened to see them take the title, but they held their nerve and have that know-how of champions that some of this current Chelsea side won’t have, having changed much of their personnel since their last title win in 2009/10.