Chelsea 2 Manchester City 4: match report

By Jeremy Wilson at Stamford Bridge Published: 2:48PM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

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No handshake from Wayne Bridge and no points for Chelsea. All in all, it was a indeed a miserable afternoon for John Terry.

This 4-2 better opposite Manchester City was additionally Chelseas initial home loss of the deteriorate and a outcome that leaves both Manchester United and Arsenal in reach of the Premier League leaders with usually 10 matches remaining.

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As expected, Bridge followed up his preference to have himself taken for England preference by really publicly refusing to shake up the out-stretched palm of Terry, his former Chelsea team-mate.

The ex-England captain, who was sporting a new Mohican-style hair-style, looked entirely unmotivated and was positively not addressing any of the wider issues in a set of programme records that contained the common confidence about Chelseas chances this deteriorate of winning 3 trophies.

After the play of the non-handshake, the opening half-an-hour was mostly abandoned of incident. Chelsea were in all in control, but could usually conform a flurry of half-chances for both Florent Malouda and Didier Drogba from that Shay Given, the Manchester City goalkeeper, went untested.

With Fabio Capello and his partner Franco Baldini seeking on, Bridge was mostly means to retard out the booing and broach the sort of plain opening both in counterclaim and conflict that has done him Ashley Coles England student over majority of the past decade.

The big chance, though, was for Joe Cole, who proposed in his elite on all sides at the tip of the Chelsea solid and insincere a flourishing change as the first-half unfolded. In the 42nd minute, he delivered a pleasant defence-splitting pass with the outward of foot from that Frank Lampard put Chelsea ahead.

Manchester City had combined zero and looked in risk of descending serve at the behind of prior to equalising on the cadence of half-time in the majority astonishing of circumstances. Bridge had thumped a carefree round brazen that John Obi-Mikel attempted to head behind to Terry, usually for Carlos Tevez to intercept.

He afterwards incited inside Ricardo Carvalho and scuffed a shot that carried only sufficient energy to leap over Henrique Hilario and in to the Chelsea goal.

It was formidable to suppose Petr Cech surrender from a identical incident and, inside of mins of the re-start, Manchester City took the lead following serve controversial defending. This time it was Craig Bellamy who picked up the round in space and, with Mikel subsidy off, his pointed shot crept past the out-stretched palm of Hilario.

In conditions of the Terry-Bridge sub-plot, the closest thing to a flash-point occurred mid by the second-half when Tevez, who had formerly done a really open arrangement of a Team Bridge T-shirt, squared up to the Chelsea captain after the dual players had tangled in the chastisement area.

Chelsea pushed brazen in poke of an equaliser but looked increasingly exposed on the counter-attack. Bellamy longed for one glorious possibility prior to Gareth Barry got the wrong side of the Chelsea counterclaim and was brought down by Juliano Belletti.

There was no counsel try to outing Barry, but the former Barcelona defender had obviously got the wrong side of his competition and left arbitrate Mike Dean with small choice but to twirl a red card. From the ensuing penalty, Tevez shot over Hilario.

Michael Ballack afterwards utterly lost his fortify and, carrying formerly been requisitioned for dissent, he went true by Tevez with a awful plea that annoyed an unavoidable second yellow card.

As he left the pitch, Carlo Ancelotti utterly abandoned the Germany midfielder. With Chelsea down to nine-men and horribly exposed, Manchester City scored their fourth following an glorious inter-change of flitting in between Tevez and

Shaun Wright-Phillips that was accomplished by Bellamy. Even a late chastisement from Lampard could not green what had been a honeyed afternoon for Manchester City and, majority notably, Wayne Bridge.