Buzz Lightyear
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Buzz still pondering why Ozil ducking the ball in an offside position is not interfering with play, when the ever valiant Sunderland rock up in town with Big Sam at the helm you know it is going to be a backs to the wall and hunt the key. Costel Pants was also coming back home, Vinnie Kompany and Zabaleta together with Fernando had joined the fit list.
Everything was rosy in the Etihad Stadium apart from the weather which has battered and bruised the North West for some weeks now, but it didn't take City long to find the key with the clock ticking onto 12 minutes gone and a yellow in his back pocket for hitting the turf by himself with no help from the opposition, rises above everyone in the area to nod in the first past Mannone on his recall to the side as Pants is relegated to the bench, a good job too as City rampage all over Sunderland in the first half with Goals from Toure and Bony.
Second half De Bruyne caps an excellent display to get one himself and just after Subbing the big man Yaya for Delph, Silva is tripped in the area and Bony steps up to shove it over the bar. Sunderland get one back from Borini making it 4-1 and that is where the scoring stops.
Kompany came on as a sub and suffered an a recurrence of the injury that has kept him out for several games, the hopeful appearances of Zabaleta and Fernando would have to wait as neither of them made the bench and I assume Manuel Pellegrini intended to bring on Aguero to get some more minutes into his legs had not been thawted by Kompany's injury.
54,523 turned out for the Boxing day match and had an entertaining day FT City 4 - 1 Sunderland. Goals Sterling, Toure, Bony, De Bruyne (Bony missed penalty)
Pellegrini ' referring to VK4 Yes it is his Calf, He has trained normally and it is difficult to understand, but we need to understand why this happened.'
'No-one wins the Title in December and it does not mean that we will beat Leicester easily, but we have to play those teams around us and it is important that we continue to play like this kind of performance.
Sam Allardice ' We tried to start slowly and be more resilient' The only way you can do that is not to concede an early goal.'
Everything was rosy in the Etihad Stadium apart from the weather which has battered and bruised the North West for some weeks now, but it didn't take City long to find the key with the clock ticking onto 12 minutes gone and a yellow in his back pocket for hitting the turf by himself with no help from the opposition, rises above everyone in the area to nod in the first past Mannone on his recall to the side as Pants is relegated to the bench, a good job too as City rampage all over Sunderland in the first half with Goals from Toure and Bony.
Second half De Bruyne caps an excellent display to get one himself and just after Subbing the big man Yaya for Delph, Silva is tripped in the area and Bony steps up to shove it over the bar. Sunderland get one back from Borini making it 4-1 and that is where the scoring stops.
Kompany came on as a sub and suffered an a recurrence of the injury that has kept him out for several games, the hopeful appearances of Zabaleta and Fernando would have to wait as neither of them made the bench and I assume Manuel Pellegrini intended to bring on Aguero to get some more minutes into his legs had not been thawted by Kompany's injury.
54,523 turned out for the Boxing day match and had an entertaining day FT City 4 - 1 Sunderland. Goals Sterling, Toure, Bony, De Bruyne (Bony missed penalty)
Pellegrini ' referring to VK4 Yes it is his Calf, He has trained normally and it is difficult to understand, but we need to understand why this happened.'
'No-one wins the Title in December and it does not mean that we will beat Leicester easily, but we have to play those teams around us and it is important that we continue to play like this kind of performance.
Sam Allardice ' We tried to start slowly and be more resilient' The only way you can do that is not to concede an early goal.'
