Manchester City 3-2 Chelsea

City make early statement

August 12, 2012
By Richard Jolly, Villa Park
(Archive)
Briefly, Chelsea may have dreamed of Barcelona and of staging a repeat of their finest hour and a half. The omens were there. A man down against a champion side following a defender's recklessness, with Ramires dropping into defence to compensate, with a goal from Fernando Torres, they could sense another improbable triumph.

Then reality, in the shape of Manchester City, intervened. This time ageing limbs proved inadequate to halt the tide of attacks. This time indiscipline came at a cost. ...

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