Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini insists Vincent Kompany’s season is not over.
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City sit third in the table halfway through the season, trailing leading duo Arsenal and Leicester City by three points.
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Manuel Pellegrini believes Manchester City’s problematic away form will be solved once his players’ finishing improves, with his team having taken three points from the last 18 available on the road. Also, the Foxes have away games at Spurs, Arsenal and Manchester City in 2016 which could determine where they finish the season.
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The Cherries have pulled three-points clear of the Premier League drop-zone as a outcome and face a Leicester side who they held to a 1-1 draw when the sides met at Dean Court back in August.
With their title credential under the microscope after defeat at Liverpool on Boxing Day, Leicester responded with a typically hard-working performance and were a match for City.
With newly-promoted Watford now up to eighth, Pellegrini said: “Maybe at the beginning of the season it can be a surprise, the same as Leicester”. On the opposite side Chelsea is sitting 19 points behind the leaders and 15 points behind Champions League berth… the second half of the season seems to a be a very long way for them.
Odion Ighalo became the first Watford player to score in six successive top-flight league games when he netted in their last match versus Spurs.
City have lost five matches already, yet a feeling persists they are still very much in with a chance of reclaiming the Premier League trophy given the points tally needed to win the title in May is likely to be lower than usual.
“They are a very unsafe team”. They haven’t won in six away league games. “It is very nice, we want more and are ambitious and have a strong mentality in the dressing room”.
“As always I said that we are not going to close the window but we are not really thinking of any special players to bring in”, added the Chilean.
Last weekend’s 4-1 home victory over Sunderland was entirely predictable and expected given their opposition’s woes, while the midweek stalemate at fellow high-fliers Leicester was acceptable, if not entirely satisfactory for Hart.
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“If you can’t win it’s important not to lose and we were solid against a hard team”.
