In the last outing at Anfield, Blackpool
claimed the biggest scalp of their club’s history with a 2-1 victory over
Liverpool. Ian Holloway’s team,
everybody’s favourite to go straight down this season, have given a good
account of themselves in their first season in the Premiership. Although they
were thumped 6-0 by Arsenal and 4-0 by Chelsea, they also have a 1-0 victory
over Newcastle and the impressive win at Anfield to show after 7 matches. More
surprisingly, Blackpool in now sitting in 8th place in the league
and the manager will be hoping for the fairytale to continue.
Luke Varney who was Man of the Match
against Liverpool and scored the second goal will be looking to continue his
good form against Manchester City.
For all the riches that Manchester City
possesses, they have not shown the form that everybody expected them to. However,
Roberto Mancini’s side seems to have turned the corner after a poor start to
the season with back to back victories in the last two matches. The 1-0 victory
over champions Chelsea was followed with a 2-1 win against Newcastle. The
Citizens are now up to second place in the league, only three points behind
Chelsea.
The injury setbacks that City suffered earlier in the season seems to have passed with players like Jerome Boateng and Joleon Lescott back in defense although Alexander Kolarov is still out. Nigel de Jong who has been at the criticized heavily for this tackle on Hatem Ben Arfa in the last match is expected to keep his place in the squad while Adam Johnson will probably start in place of James Milner after scoring the winning goal against Newcastle
This being Blackpool’s first season in the
Premiership, both teams have not met each other in the first tier of English
club football. It would take another mighty effort from Ian Holloway’s boys to
come out with a result in this match but I wouldn’t be surprised if they do.
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