Manchester City are favourites to win the Premier League and I wouldn’t bet against them.
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I tipped Chelsea at the start of the season and I am still in with a shout.
But the way things are at the minute you would be foolish to back against City with the amount of goals they are scoring.
With their squad anything is possible and my money would now be on them claiming a League and Cup double.
They’ve netted an incredible 106 goals in all competitions this season with 63 scored in the Premier League.
Yaya Toure has got 14 goals this season from midfield and he’s their fourth top scorer!
It’s phenomenal – absolutely incredible.
If he did that at 99 per cent of the other clubs I’m guessing he would be their top goalscorer.
But at City they’ve got Alvaro Negredo on 23 goals and Sergio Aguero on 22 each, with Edin Dzeko on 16.
They have just thumped West Ham 9-0 on aggregate in the Capital One Cup to set-up a Wembley showdown with Sunderland.
And it’s all down to the mentality of manager Manuel Pellegrini and the quality of the players he’s got at his disposal.
It’s the coach’s philosophy – he just wants to keep going forward and not sit on a one or two-goal lead as Jose Mourinho might do at Chelsea.
Pellegrini wants to batter teams and he’s got the players to do it and that’s a pretty potent combination.
They must be a nightmare to defend against at the Etihad Stadium and I just feel for some teams that have to go there.
City are just so difficult to stop. They have got so many difficult angles they can attack you from – so many quality players who can damage you.
And they have been doing this without Aguero, who has only just come back from injury.
They were playing for a few weeks without their most potent striker and they have still been incredible in front of goal.
Fair play to Arsenal, though, for chipping away at getting results. They are still in the lead and haven’t yet been caught.
The Gunners are certainly digging in and it’s going to be a fantastic end to the season.
Chelsea have got an abundance of ability in their squad, too, and it was good to see Samuel Eto’o get his hat-trick against Manchester United.
Liverpool are dangerous with their SAS strike force in Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge, who have netted 18 goals between them in nine league games.
They are only eight points off the top but they’ve got three big teams Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea in front of them who won’t slip up many times.
So for me the Premier League title is probably reduced to a three-horse race with free-scoring City in the driving seat.
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