Under-fire Chelsea boss Mourinho saw the troubled champions secure only their third league victory this season, while Raheem Sterling’s first-half hattrick kept Manchester City top of the table with a 5-1 rout of Bournemouth.
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Bony said: “This is a good chance for me and it started to work, so let’s hope it carries on like this”.
“Maybe we don’t have the experience like the others but we play really well together and the more games we get, the better we will do”. Even more unbelievable, he scored all three goals in the first half.
“I am happy because we changed (Sterling’s) position and played him in the middle, with Bony in front of him”, added Pellegrini.
But after City manager Manuel Pellegrini mentioned it in a press conference this week as he spoke about Bony’s various injury and illness problems, the 26-year-old has admitted he did have the condition. Kevin De Bruyne, switched from the centre to the left, was very unlucky not to find a goal for himself, while the timing and weight of his pass to set Sterling clear for his second goal was sublime.
City skipper Vincent Kompany remained on the bench against Bournemouth, with Pellegrini saying the defender was not yet ready to return despite playing for Belgium last Tuesday.
Stand-in Adam Federici was at fault for two of City’s goals, dropping a simple cross at the feet of Bony, who pounced to score the first goal of a double. I don’t think he’s a striker in the way that Kun (Aguero) or (Wilfried) Bony is.
Much as it was against Newcastle before the global break, when Aguero scored five in a 6-1 win, this was a day for the Premier League leaders to fill their boots.
Bournemouth were two goals down before the 11-minute mark, having had a strong penalty claim rejected when Nicolas Otamendi’s sliding challenge connected with Dan Gosling rather than the ball.
Fernandinho – 8: One of City’s most consistent performers this season and did not put a foot wrong with another clinical display.
Howe has agreed an extension to his current contract that will keep him at the club until 2020 and his immediate task is to overcome the absence of Tommy Elphick, the centre-back and club captain, who has been ruled out for ten weeks after undergoing ankle surgery.
“We made quite a few individual errors”.
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Howe said: “Artur was complaining of discomfort in his thigh so we had to get Feds ready which was not ideal as he had little time to prepare”.
