Manchester City vs. Everton

After two impressive efforts against West Bromwich and Chelsea, City travelled to Goodison Park to extend their 100% record start of the season. Pellegrini kept the same starting XI on the field as he did against Chelsea the previous week.

The first half is underway at a rapid pace and it is City who holds the baton. Aguero kept stressing Everton in the penalty area, and it resulted in some really good chances. Aguero forced Howard to make several impressive saves in the Everton goal and Silva conjured a chance for Sterling which Sterling unfortunately missed.

City's back line was not entirely comfortable with the speed Everton came at them with will and both Mangala and Fernandinho gets yellow cards because of some less well-timed tackles. Lukaku is a constant threat and and he managed to score but the goal was correctly flagged for offside.

0-0 at halftime.

The second half begins as intense as the first ended and the game keeps on going back and forth although City has most of the ball. Eventually City scores and it is Sterling who is behind it. After making it into Everton's penalty area with speed from the flank he passed to an overlapping Kolarov who shoots from a low angle to make it 1-0 for City 60th minute.

After the goal it is still mostly City who dominates but while the City takes it easy and does not stress, it becomes all the more intense when Everton has the ball. Occasionally they put a little pressure on City and after a miss by Hart on a corner Everton almost scores.

They didn't get any other chance to score and in the 88th minute Yaya, and Nasri offered the fans some footballing candy when Yaya bends the ball into the penalty area and Nasri scores easily with careless a lob over Howard and into the top corner and it's 2-0 to City. In summary, a good performance by City.

Nicolas Otamendi is a Citizen

Manchester City confirmed their third purchase this Thursday of the club's summer in 2015. The Argentine center-back Nicolas Otamendi has been bought from Valencia. Otamendi is a name that have been seen and heard all summer during the silly-season soap opera. Now it turns out that Otamendi instead choose light blue before red and thus he becomes a Manchester City player.

During the last season Manuel Pellegrini and Manchester City had big problems at back. The fans shouted for reinforcements, preferably at fullback as Kolarov and Sagna aren't youngsters anymore.

The executives negotiated a good deal and the other clubs that were interested Otamendi were set aside. Otamendi choose Manchester City and the expected transfer feet is 28.5 million pounds.

Otamendi was named one of La liga`s best central defenders last season. Manuel Pellegrini says he was the number one defender in La Liga last year. Nicolas Otamendi, who was born February 12, 1988 in Buenos Aires has previously played for Porto, which may be considered to be the club where he blossomed into a world class player.

With the purchase of Otamendi the competition gets significantly tougher for Manchester City's defenders. The club is currently sitting on Kompany, Mangala, Demichelis, Otamendi, and Denayer. Rumors say that Denayer is set to be loaned out, or, as it has been speculated in the media today, that Demichelis would move back to Argentina.


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