Having made his Villa Park switch permanent, Sinclair warned his teammates of the ample quality in City’s ranks.
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It ended a dire run of seven successive defeats for the Premier League’s bottom club which saw Tim Sherwood’s brief reign terminated.
This is a match City should win easily. He is City’s second highest scorer in the Premier League and is sixth in chances created in the team.
New Villa manager Remi Garde will have his work cut out to turn things around here for Aston Villa as they have been bad this season.
“They’re at the bottom, they have a new manager, so they have the motivation not to be relegated”.
Diego Forlan: Has Jose Mourinho lost the Chelsea dressing room? There were 45 minutes where they were the better team and I think the only difference was that we were more unsafe; they didn’t get many chances really. Nine out of ten of games like this you may lose on the counter attack.
Fabian Delph responded a few moments later for City with a superb strike from outside the box that just missed the target, and the referee then signalled for full-time with teams locked at 0-0.
Delph initially rejected the chance to join City before producing a dramatic U-turn and signing for £8million.
Quotes from Delph that angered Villa fans following his departure. “What is normal is I will have the final say”.
But Garde produced a well-drilled solid unit after just four days’ training which delighted Villa’s players and fans.
“I am pleased for the players because they have worked hard today and they had worked very well since the beginning of the week”, the former Arsenal and France midfielder added.
“He is a professional player and he is playing with us”. With the likes of Sergio Aguero and David Silva out, Sterling has been one of the players that has stepped up in their absence to keep them top of the table.
And he insisted he is already considering his options for the January transfer window. And after that I’l be firing and ready to go for City.
“We have finished this part of the season very well”. In January we will have played more than 10 games.
“Bony has a hamstring injury and we will see on Monday how long he will be”.
And Garde said he will favour a possession-based style with his new team.
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Garde said: “I will have to ask the goalkeeping coach how he taught him to do that!”
