City are the top flight’s highest scorers with 43 goals from their 22 matches, 10 of which have come courtesy of leading goalscorer Aguero.
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West Ham remained sixth, six points behind Tottenham, which occupies the fourth Champions League place.
“If you are the Manchester City manager than the pressure comes with the territory”, Bilic added. The Sky Blues received a boost last weekend with both Arsenal and Leicester City dropping points to Stoke and Aston Villa respectively.
When asked about that on Friday, Pellegrini admitted “at the end of the season you never know what will happen with anyone”, while stressing how important it was for all players to “think in the present” rather than about the future. They’ll be without Diafra Sakho as he continues to recover from a thigh injury that has kept him out for the last few months.
“Kolarov has a muscle injury in his calf – not very big”. That makes the game more open.
The Hammers have made headlines this season with their away form beating Manchester City, Liverpool, and Arsenal all away from home, but they’ve only lost twice at home this season. A draw was a fair result; a West Ham win would not have been unfair.
The post again came to West Ham’s rescue in the second half with Fabian Delph rifling in a 55th-minute effort after being set up by a cute Aguero flick. As both teams went into the halftime break deadlocked at 1-1, West Ham looked the stronger team moving on.
MOAN OF THE MATCH The West Ham fans” song for Payet, to the tune of “Achy Breaky Heart’, is so catchy you’ll find yourself humming it for days.
“I think that our mentality is to be an attacking team”. His 53 chances created leads the team by a large margin, with the second most being Aaron Cresswell with 26.
“They took the game to us early on and played well”.
“On the negative side for City, Vincent Kompany has been a huge miss for them”. If anyone in that team can be clinical it’s Sergio Aguero.
– Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) January 23, 2016Aguero will win city the League – Chukwudi (@M_Chuks) January 23, 2016Tonight’s brace puts Aguero only 4 goals behind Premier League top scorer Jamie Vardy – despite missing 30% of City’s league games so far.
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Slaven Bilic has hailed Manchester City as the best team in England but the West Ham manager is optimistic his team can beat the Barclays Premier League heavyweights for the second time this season.
